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1lilithcat
May 22, 2007, 1:16 pm

Since all books arouse (or should arouse) some sort of emotion, let's confine ourselves to those where an emotion is referenced in the title.

My five:

Twelve Terrors of Christmasby John Updike
Unhappy Far-Off Things, by Lord Dunsany
Joy in the Morning, by P.G. Wodehouse
Il tormento e l'estasi: Il romanza di Michelangelo, by Irving Stone (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

(Sorry, having a hard time with touchstones today!)

3philosojerk
May 22, 2007, 1:54 pm

the emotions: outline of a theory by jean-paul sartre (i can't get that touchstone to come up right to save my life)
the path to love by deepak chopra
black coffee blues by henry rollins
a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
the art of happiness by the dalai lama

4AnneBoleyn
May 22, 2007, 2:26 pm

-Figure of Hate by Bernard Knight

-Songs of Love Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the 6th Dalai Lama By Paul Williams

-The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

-Misery by Stephen King

-Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

5jenknox
May 22, 2007, 2:41 pm

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

A Dangerous Mourning from Anne Perry

Vanity Fair by Thackeray

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

6Thwaite
May 22, 2007, 4:06 pm

the Battle of Life: a Love Story, by Charles Dickens (no touchstone for the book)

the Pilgrim of Hate, by Ellis Peters; book 10 in the Brother Cadfael series

Diamond: the History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair, by Matthew Hart (no touchstone for the book)

Cat Spitting Mad, by Shirley Rousseau Murphy; book 6 in the Joe Grey series

State of Fear, by Michael Crichton

9Seajack
May 22, 2007, 6:51 pm

I Hate Myself and Want to Die by Tom Reynolds

Food and Loathing by Betsy Lerner

Love, Lies and Liquor by M. C. Beaton

Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

12aviddiva
May 30, 2007, 12:38 am

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell
Nerve by Dick Francis
A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury
Twelve Angry Men

14tropics
Jun 30, 2007, 10:39 pm

I Think I'm Hopeless, But I Could Be Wrong - J. Perino
Out Of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence - Geof Dyer
When Neitzsche Wept - Irvin Yalom
Woman Of A Calm Heart -Ruth Eiting
Shame - Salman Rushdie

15tropics
Jun 30, 2007, 10:45 pm

The Happy Isles Of Oceania - Paul Theroux
The Debt To Pleasure - John Lanchester
Give Sorrow Words - Maryse Holder
Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell
Touch The Happy Isles - Quentin Crewe

16tropics
Jun 30, 2007, 10:53 pm

17tropics
Jun 30, 2007, 10:59 pm

18tropics
Jun 30, 2007, 11:10 pm

19marell
Jul 1, 2007, 10:21 pm

The Angry Hills by Leon Uris

Little Gloria, Happy at Last by Barbara Goldsmith

The Lonely Hunter - a Biography of Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr

The Agony of the Leaves - The Ecstacy of My Life with Tea by Helen Gustafson

Mother Love by Domini Taylor