Jung's Revenge: Word Association # 4

Five places you have visited, with the name of an author or work that is somehow associated with that place.

London: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Osaka: Shogun by James Clavell

Kyoto: The Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima

San Francisco: Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

Los Angeles: L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

NEXT: When bad books happen to good authors--5 books you disliked by authors you generally like.

San Francisco: HOWL by Allen Ginsberg
Madrid: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Domincan Republic: In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Paris: Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Lima: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

Wild, huh? Loved those places, loved those books.

LOL, almost every author I've read has had at least 1 sour grape (King had 2):

The Return - Bentley Little - This book is truly attrocious
The Last Oracle - James Rollins
Misery - Stephen King
Sleep in Heavenly Peace - M William Phelps
The Dead Zone - Stephen King

Next: 5 books that take place in the United States by 5 different American authors such that the primary setting of the book is in a different state than the state of the author's primary residence.

For example, Stephen King is from Maine. To use a Stephen King novel, it would need to be one that takes place in one of the 49 states not called "Maine".

1. MacKinlay Kantor home state: Iowa
bk. in Missouri: Missouri Bittersweet
(non-fiction).

2. Sinclair Lewis home state: Minnesota bk. in "Winnemac": Babbitt
(the fictional "Winnemac" was probably intended to suggest a composite of
Wisconsin and Minnesota; in other novels he went ahead and used Minnesotaʻs real name.

3. Robert Penn Warren home state: Kentucky bk. in Louisiana: All the Kingʻs Men

4. Gerald Warner Brace native of Connecticut, long term Massachusetts resident; bk. in Vermont: The Wayward Pilgrims

5. Norman Mailer
New York native and resident of there and other Eastern sites; bk. in Texas and Alaska:
Why Are We in Vietnam? (despite the title, Vietnam is not even mentioned until the final paragraph!)

Authors from 5 different countries, whose
surnames begin with a letter earlier in the
alphabet than the country name.
Countries should start with FIVE DIFFERENT letters; in personal names, any letter meeting the above rule is okay.
Example: Russia/ Valentin KATAEV
R>K. Zimbabwe/Doris Lessing Z>L (or just about any one you can think of).

Roberto Ampuero - Chile
Anne Bronte - Great Britain
Roald Dahl - Wales
John Hart - United States
V. S. Naipaul - Trinidad

Next: five authors who created well drawn characters, not necessarily all protagonists but somewhat significant, of the opposite sex from the author. Name the author, character, and book if possible.

1. Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
2. Gen Watanabe in Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
3. Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair (and its sequels) by Jasper Fforde
4. Nick in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Next: Five languages whose English names are monosyllabic (e.g., French, Greek).

1. Cree
2. Welsh
3. Dutch
4. Czech
5. Basque

Next: Five examples of fictional classics where an edifice features prominently in the storyline but is not necessarily mentioned in the title. What is the name of the edifice?

For example: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne features the Old Pyncheon House, sometimes referred to as the Pyncheon Mansion.

1. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, an underground cult classic that prominently features the Pentagon (as a building rather than as a government entity)
2. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, culminating in Howard Roark's creation of the fictional Wynand Building
3. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser, whose title character builds the Grand Cosmo, a fantastical 19-story emporium that's a universe unto itself
4. The Cave by Jose Saramago, in which a vast, invitation-only complex known as "the Center" evokes Kafka's Castle but is mocked by the discovery of what appears to be Plato's Cave
5. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, whose haunting title building is infinite (or is it?) and filled, indistinguishably, by every piece of truth and nonsense

Next: Five famous writers whose surnames are anagrams of English words (e.g., Wallace Stegner - regents). Bonus points if the first and last names can each be anagrammed to make English words (e.g., Marcel Proust - calmer stupor).

1. Jason Elam - Male (Yes, he wrote 4 books after playing Football)

2. Alison Gaylin - Laying

3. Brad Thor - Roth (A type of IRA)

4. Oliver North - Thorn

5. Patrick Lee - Eel

Next: Name 5 authors whose initials are a well known acronym for something else.

Example: Michelle Davidson Argyle - Missile Defense Agency (Or Muscular Dystrophy Association - MDA)

1. Percy Bysshe Shelley - PBS - Public Broadcasting System
2. David Foster Wallace - DFW - Dallas Ft. Worth
3. Edgar Allan Poe - EAP - Employee Assistance Program
4. Shirley Ann Grau - SAG - Screen Actors Guild
5. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - NVG - night-vision goggles

Next: Five pairs of famous people whose surnames are synonyms or antonyms, such as Howard Fast-Amanda Quick or Patrick White-Hugo Black. The list can mix synonyms and antonyms.

Marjorie Yourt HILL & Rodney DALE

Marian MOUNTAIN & Jacques VALLEE

Paul DULL & VIBRANT
(V. is a Catalan author; no first name (or is it no last name?) given.)

Edwin G. BORING & EXCITING Cartoon
Bible Stories
(Sorry, I had to use a corporate, not a human "author" on this one.)

Maggie BLACK & William H. WHYTE

NEXT: 5 UNread UNfavorites
(Based on Dick Williamsʻs famous
critique: "I DIDNʻT read it, and Iʻm AGAINST it!"):

Five books that you RESOLVED NEVER to read -- on very little evidence: a short, trashing review, or just that the title was something
you wouldnʻt be caught dead reading.
If no such come to mind, reverse the process: 5 that you DID immediately resolve to read, also for no rational reaon.
All titles are eligible whether you finally did
relent and read them or not.

1. Accident by Danielle Steel - I saw a 61-year-old man reading this, I wouldn't be caught dead reading any of her trashy novels.

2. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - Uhm, I read Red Mars, I'll pass on Blue and Green.

3. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb - Or any of her other books. I don't read "Romance gone Mystery" authors. J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts in disguise.

4. Swimsuit by James Patterson - I don't read authors that manufacture a book a week. (Ok, that might be stretching it, but you get what I'm saying). He's also so overrated.

5. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - I've officially gotten off the "Classics" bandwagon. I enjoyed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 7th grade, and thought maybe Classics were where I should go. I couldn't get more than 25% of the way in to The Swiss Family Robinson, Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or any other besides Tom Sawyer which I only finished because it was for a book report. I realized that the Verne book was the exception, not the rule, so I only read 1970 to today now.

Next: Following a similar theme, but going with books you've already read, list 5 books that, for you, would make the following a true statement if you filled the blank with a book in your list:

"I'd rather have had a root canal than to have read _______________"

For example, in my case, I'd rather have had a root canal than to have read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Thriller, would you like to suggest another one?

Man, nobody can think of 5 books that just really were that bad?

Ok, try this one:

Name 5 books you witnessed a person reading that you had previously read and the location you witnessed each one (i.e. On the bus, in the airport, in the library, etc).

That's a tough one because I don't use public transportation much these days. That's a good candidate for seeing people reading. However, last night, while getting my car worked on, I saw a lady reading a book I've read, so I think I can still come up with a list.

1. the aforementioned lady, a fellow captive, reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, at Crown Honda
2. my mother, reading Gaudy Night, on a recent visit to my parents' home in Maryland
3. a member of my book club, finishing up State of Wonder, in the meeting room at the library just before we discussed it
4. a poor first-year grad student, groaning her way through Lawrence Kohlberg's collected papers on moral development, in an apartment in Columbus. I have watched her read many, many books, lying beside me in bed, in the 36 years since.
5. my son, reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear to our one-year old granddaughter, for whom we bought it as a first-birthday present (choosing it over Go the F**k to Sleep)

;-)

Next: five authors by whom you've read just one work, even though they have published several or many. Not because you have just discovered them; for some reason you just haven't gotten around to picking up another.

1. David Lynn Golemon
2. Ted Bell (And in his case, 1 is all I will be reading by him)
3. Chet Nicholson
4. Edward Humes
5. Tom Clancy

Next: Name 5 authors that you either have read, or have a true interest in reading, whose first and last initials form a chain reaction where the last initial of the first is the first intial of the second, the last intial of the second is the first initial of the third, etc.

For example, speaking as a chess player: Christian Bauer - Boris Avrukh - Angus Dunnington - David Vigorito - Victor Korchnoi

fantasy/SF edition: Peter Beagle - Brian Jacques - John Kessel - Kate Wilhelm - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Next - same again, authors from a different genre.

Genre: Poetry

Decimus Maximus Ausonius
> Arthur Hugh Clough >
Carl Sandburg >
Samuel Taylor Coleridge >
Charlotte Bronte*

*** **** ***** *** ** **
NEXT: Charactersʻ initials:
Characters, ,other than title characters, who share AT LEAST ONE INITIAL with their author.
Excluded, e.g. TOM Sawyer
by Mark TWAIN (title character)
Eligible: e.g. Becky THATCHER in TWAINʻs
Tom Sawyer

* * ** * ** ** ** ** **

*As far as I know the 3 (and perhaps all 4) Brontes wrote at least SOME poetry.
Judging from Wilhelm > Miller in 18, I guess itʻs all right for #5 to be further back in the alphabet than # 4.

H: Nelson Humboldt - James Hynes, The Lecturer's Tale
J: John Yossarian - Joseph Heller, Catch-22
M: Marco Alisdair - Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
R: Howard Roark - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
S: Saleem Sinai - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Next: Five famous writers, paired with five famous people other than writers, who have the same initials. (For example, Jane Austen and Johnny Appleseed, or Edgar Allan Poe and Elvis Aron Presley.)

Presidential edition:

Gene Wolfe - George Washington
Jane Austen - John Adams
John Gardner - James Garfield
Gilbert Chesterton - Grover Cleveland
Wilkie Collins - William Clinton

Actors edition:

Michael Malone - Marilyn Monroe
Jasper Fforde - Jane Fonda
Clyde Edgerton - Clint Eastwood
Diane Setterfield - David Strathairn
Joseph Campbell - John Cleese

Next: five books that you have read more than three times

". . .you have read more than 3 times" (21)

1. Tao teh Ching by Lao Tzu

2. Gospel of Luke by Bible. N. T.

3. Gospel of John by Bible N. T.

4. Genesis by Bible O. T.

5. Catullus, 63, and 64*

* #5 is Catullusʻs 2 longest poems, and is about the length of a single one of the#1-4 items. (1-4 are officially "books", relatively short though they are.)
I canʻt think of anything Iʻve sat down and said "Hereʻs...(title) for the 3rd time." (and very few for the second, either). Iʻve probably read these 5 items closer to TWENTY-THREE times than to 3.

NEXT: "No, not THAT one!"
Similar names of celebrities (authors or other), e.g.
NOT George Santayana, philosopher BUT Giorgio de Santillana,
philosopher. The second one of the pair need not be a "Household Word", but you should identify him/her.
Pairs of identical names are also eligible -- with a brief
identification of the lesser known one. e.g. NOT John Gardner the ultra-literary novelist, BUT John Gardner the thriller novelist.
Number of pairs: 5; Total number of names: 10 (counting repeats)

1) Not Bob Barker (Price is right host), but Bob Parker (Former Mayor of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand)

2) Not Dennis Hopper (Dead Actor), but Dennis Harper (Founder of "Generation YES")

3) Not Charles Barkley (Former NBA Player), but Gnarls Barkley (Rap/R&B duet, Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green, best known for the single "Crazy")

4) Not Ms. Albright (Former Speaker of the House), but Ms. Albright (Sunday School Teacher on the Simpsons)

5) Not Luigi (Super Mario Brothers), but Luigi (Italian restaurant proprietor on a 4/28/1994 episode of the Simpsons)

Next: Name 5 celebrities that are the same astrological sign as yourself, identifying the sign.

For example, if I (ThrillerFan) were to answer this, I'm a Taurus, so I'd need to find 5 Celebrity Tauruses.

"My" sign: Taurus (late April--Early and mid- May)
5 Celebrity Tauruses (23)

William Shakespeare actor, poet, dramatist (b. April, 1564)

James Monroe U. S. President 1817-1825

James Buchanan diplomat, U. S. President 1857 --1861

Ulysses S. Grant General, U. S. President, 1869--1877

Harry S Truman Senator, Vice-President (1945)
and President 1945--1953

NEXT: 5 fiction or non-fiction Titles in 5 different genres;
with 5 DIFFERENT INITIAL LETTERS, skipping at least one letter between postings. Example: Poetry: A: Atalanta in Calydon
(Swinburne) > Novel C: The Caine Mutiny (Wouk) . . .

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (general fiction)
The Grass Harp (short stories)
The Last Child (mystery)
The Shadow of the Torturer (science fiction)
A Wizard of Earthsea (fantasy)

next: five books with whose protagonists you identify somewhat, for any reason. Say as much as you feel like about each.

Middlemarch - protagonist's Protestant sentiments too harrowing
The Road from Courain - the mother
The Great Santini - the father
The Poisonwood Bible - the father
The Prince of Tides - a family hiding its secrets

all situations I thought only I had experienced, and fortunately have long gone from my current life (Getting older has so many good things about it.)

next: five books you have read at least two times and would read again. Can say as much as you want about them.

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold A book about moving on from failure. The hero of this book (middle of a saga), Miles Vorkosigan, is a truly amazing hero with a lot of physical difficulties. This book is probably best if you know the character a bit from previous novels in the series.

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein. Maybe I won't read this again until I have a grandchild the right age. Maybe. My favorite of the Heinlein juveniles.

Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald. Comfort food for my heart, I guess. I think it is C.S. Lewis who praised MacDonald for being able to write good people in a way that made them sound as interesting as they are.

Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander. My favorite of the Prydain series, which I've read over and over. Look forward to reading this with grandchildren some day.

Dragon Singer by Anne McCaffrey. Another great coming of age novel. Will share with grandchildren. Or any children I get to be with that are the right age.

Next: Five books you would enjoy reading out loud to someone.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce

2. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

3. Gospel of Luke in the original Greek

4. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (Selections)

5. The Collected Poems of Pabo Neruda Selections)

(1) is the only one that I actually have read aloud:
it was to a blind, retired Social Worker. Of the
many books I read to her, it may have been
the only fiction. Her main interests were
sociology, politics, and linguistics. But I think we both equally enjoyed the reading of this one.

On (2), I'm not a born speaker of the
Yorkshire dialect, in which the hero Billy
converses, but then neither was he.
His parents spoke Standard English,
but he taught himself the dialect, and
spoke it mostly to people of his
grandparents generation.

On (5) my daughter and I did make a
recording of one of Neruda's long poems
ca. 1985, with her reading the Spanish
original and me a translation.

NEXT: authors by syllables; Name FIVE
authors (fiction OR non-friction) in this order:

1. 1-syllable surname

2. 2-syllable surname

3. 3-syllable surname

4. 4-syllable surname

5. Back to One-Syllable; OR 5 or more syllables

1. Marcel Proust

2. Beryl Markham

3. Marguerite Yourcenar

4. Peter Bogdanovich

5. Julia Glass

NEXT:

Ten books whose titles or authors' name contain "wood."

1. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
2. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
4. There Shall Be No Night by Robert Sherwood
5. The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
6. All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
7. The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
8. A History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson
9. The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
10. Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

NEXT: Five familiar three-word phrases of the form "X and Y," such that either the first word in each phrase rhymes, or the last word in each phrase rhymes. (As an example of the former: rock and roll, block and tackle, shock and awe, lock and load, cock and bull.)

1. Ceiling and Floor
2. Standard and Poor (S&P 500 - Stock Market)
3. Mantle and Core (Earth)
4. Clinton and Gore (Former Pres/VP Duo)
5. Pimp and Whore

NEXT: 5 songs that hit #1 on any chart for at least one week that have no refrain (a.k.a Chorus)

Example: Bette Midler's "The Rose" - Hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles in 1983, and "The Rose" has no refrain.

Hey, I though this was supposed to be about Literature--

". . .I thought this was supposed to be about Literature--"
Me too, but it might have been wishful thinking. I don't have access to the original rules, and I don't even
know why it's named
"Jung's Revenge. . ."; or who originated it. I think it's a continuation of a previous thread of a different name.

I felt good about seeing that someone was able to
answer the musical topic
that ThrillerFan posed, and was disappointed that it was
a comment --even one that I agree with. (Because I was eager to get on to another topic.) I haven't followed the ranking of songs since the old radio Hit Parade of the 1940s, so I couldn't get near this topic (31); I'd be just guessing if I named
a "song that hit # 1").

32&33: I tracked down the original thread and it looks like the game started as just random word associations with no literature connection.

The clearest statement of rules I've found is in the second thread: State a category. The next person lists 5 words or phrases that relate to the category, then state the next category.

The "Jung's Revenge" was added to the second thread (I'm guessing as a joke) and has been attached ever since.

Hope that helps!

FYI - I haven't seen the original thread, but I've seen some really wacked out categories that going the music route isn't all that off topic, but of course, the group this is in is "Off Topic", as I seem to recall. Also, music is written, just like books are. In some ways, music and poetry are one in the same thing, only once is read and the other is sung.

I think you're right, Thrillerfan, that music is all right for this thread.

Maybe you should re-post your challenge, Thrillerfan, so that it can be picked up more clearly after this discussion.

NEXT: 5 songs that hit #1 on any chart for at least one week that have no refrain (a.k.a Chorus)

Example: Bette Midler's "The Rose" - Hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles in 1983, and "The Rose" has no refrain.

1. "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, #1 on both U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and U.S. Billboard Hot Country & Western, 1960
2. "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" by Johnny Cash, #1 on U.S. Billboard Hot Country, 1958
3. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Billy Hayes, #1 on U.S. Billboard Best Sellers, 1955
4. "My Next Thirty Years" by Tim McGraw, #1 on U.S. Billboard Hot Country, 2000-2001
5. "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck" by Kip Moore, #1 on U.S. Billboard Hot Country, 2012

Surprisingly, "Farmer's Daughter" by Rodney Atkins never went higher than #5, though it received hourly airplay and went platinum.

NEXT: Five well-known writers who were born in countries other than the ones with which they're primarily associated. (For example, Italo Calvino was Italian but born in Cuba.)

1. Bernard Cornwell, born London, best known for novels about Napoleonic Wars, particularly the Sharpe series set in the Peninsular War.

2. H Rider Haggard , born in Norfolk, England, most famous for adventure novels set in Africa.

3. Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British novelist.

4. Christopher Isherwood born in Cheshire, England. Books set in Germany, most famously Goodbye to Berlin. His fictional character Sally Bowles is the central character in Cabaret.

5. Ngaio Marsh, born in Christchurch, New Zealand. Kown primarily for her creation Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police, London.

Next:
Five principal characters from fiction with a colour in their name which is not in the title of the book. Can be first name, surname, or nickname. Might even be spelled differently, but sounds like the colour.
List the colour and the book, e.g. Scarlett O' Hara in Gone with the Wind, Moe Greene from The Godfather, etc. But not, e.g., Black Bartlemy as he appears in the title.

I could think of only one applicable novel; had to use 3 short stories and one play.
I don't regard "red-headed" in #2 as being a name or nickname. In 3,
the color appears only in a chapter heading; in 4,5 in a short story title, but not in the title of a whole book.

1. "Blackmouth" a Gypsy, supporting role in Arden's
Live like Pigs

2. "Reddy" Ray in The Red-headed Outfield and Other
Stories by Zane Grey

3. "Mr. Blue" in A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley

4. "Mr. Green" in The Collected Stories of Saul Bellow

5. "Red" an aging sea captain in The Best Stories of Somerset Maugham. (His nickname is finally revealed, to the surprise of nobody, in the classic, supposedly "surprise-ending" story: "Red."

NEXT: Nicknames of CELEBRITIES, ANY FIELD
alphabetical by the nickname: skipping at least one letter between entries, give the full name of each.:

e.g. 1, 2 B > D: George Herman "BABE" Ruth > Joe "DUCKY" Medwick

1. William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter III - baseball manager who revived the fortunes of the New York Yankees in the early 1990s
2. John "the Duke" Wayne, who needs no introduction
3. Ernest "Papa" Hemingway - not to be confused with Joseph "Papa" Haydn
4. Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter - country singer and actor; father of actor John Ritter (not to be confused with Tex Schramm, founding president of the Dallas Cowboys, whose honest-to-goodness first name was Texas)
5. Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell - U.S. four-star general in Asia during World War II

Dishonorable mention: Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson - child beauty pageant contestant and star of a reality TV show. I'd never heard of this until I encountered the phrase "Honey Boo Boo" in three contexts in the space of a week, including last week's "30 Rock," prompting me to look up what he/she/it might be and why it was suddenly so topical. I'm still disappointed it wasn't some kind of dessert recipe.

NEXT: Five signs of the literary apocalypse--real, hypothetical, or any combination thereof. (As a real example: the fact that the top three spots on the New York Times bestseller list were recently held by the Shades of Grey trilogy, which originated as Twilight fan fiction.)

It's been a week, so here's a new challenge. Consider the apocalypse postponed.

NEXT: Five writers whose first and last names begin with the same letter, such as Harry Harrison and Susan Sontag. (The initial letter needn't be the same from one writer to the next.)

Alfred L. Anderson
--geological writer

Eliot Engel --critic

David Drake
sf, alternate pasts

Chuck Chitwood thriller writer

Jack Jones one of several
writers of that name; the one I'm thinking of is a
Welsh novelist.

Michael Millgate critic; expert on Hardy and Faulkner

NEXT:
Next RE-read:

If your life depended on* reading 5 books you've already read --but they can be of your own choice --
which 5 would be on your list of 5?

*This is REALLY hypothetical!

In no particular order:

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

Next: 5 books that you would rather die than have to re-read.

There were 6 that were REALLY THAT BAD that I couldn't curb it to 5!

1. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
2. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (and ironically, my daughter's name is Rebecca - The book still sucks royal a$$)
4. Othello by William Shakespeare - Enough is Enough with the stupid Shakespeare Tragedies. Maybe if my school ever read his comedies, I'd view him different, but after Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth, Othello pushed me over the edge!
5. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ("The Joy Yuck Club" would be more accurate!)
6. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - God help anybody that's forced to read this trash!

Next: 5 books you've read that you would never in a million years want to see your child of the same sex (whether you have a child or not) reading before he or she is 18! (i.e. If you are a woman, that would be your daughter, if you are a man, that would be your son)

1. anything by Ayn Rand
e.g. Atlas Shrugged; though I doubt that being 18+ would solve what is wrong with Rand

2. anything by H. P. Lovecraft e.g. Tales --more because I would consider it a waste of
time than for any moral reasons.

3. Sometimes you just Gotta Laugh** -- or otherRush Limbaugh title.
--for about the same reasons as for Rand -- which I get the ldea will be obvious to anyone who regularly reads the literary/political/economic threads in L T.

4. Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book a classic waste of time item, even though not quite as obnoxious as Rand or Limbaugh. I think he was of my grandparents'* generation and had already had his "15 minutes of being world-famous" by my parents' time.

5. Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia". ANother waste of time; the best I can say for it is that it's comparatively short.

NEXT 5 books that include in the title one or more of the following:

1.An INDEFINITE article
(for English: a, an; but any language is allowed.)

or...
2. A verb in the PAST tense
or . . .
3. A verb in the FUTURE tense.
*************
(Definite articles and present tense verbs are allowed but only if the title ALSO has
#1, #2, or #3 of the above.

** True enough, as far as it goes, and not a bad title
--if it is meant to be s elf-descriptive.

*My grandfather (1862--1940) received a Harvard
degree in mathematics
in 1884. I never saw a
Hubbard item among his books, thank God

A Confederacy of Dunces
A Canticle for Leibowitz
An Acceptable Time
Tell Me a Riddle
A Bed by the Window

As Roland probably intended, I observed that there are many more titles with "the" than there are with indefinite articles.

I didn't supply any titles with past or future verb forms, so let's let that be the next item.

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
What Katie Did by Susan Coolidge
We Will Prevail: President George W. Bush on War, Terrorism and Freedom
When the snow comes, they will take you away by Eric Newby

Next: book titles with infinitive verb forms, other than "to do". e.g. "1001 things to do before Xmas" is not permitted.

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
To Serve and Submit by Susan Wright
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield

NEXT: 5 non-fantasy novels that are 1000+ pages long.

Just to clarify, it says non-fantasy, not non-fiction. I also assume it means straight Fantasy, and not Horror, so Horror counts I'm assuming. Therefore:

1) Gai-Jin (James Clavell - 1104)
2) Sho Gun (James Clavell - 1010)
3) Noble House (James Clavell - 1152)
4) The Stand (Stephen King)
5) It (Stephen King - 1090)

Next: 5 books written by 5 different authors that are dead, and have been dead for less than 10 years (i.e. All 5 authors were still alive on 12/14/2002).

NOTE: Just for clarification, the book itself could be written before 12/14/2002, just the date of death of the author has to be from 12/14/2002 to 12/14/2012.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Myra Brekinridge by Gore Vidal
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

NEXT: 5 authors whose first book was published before they were 30.

1. Thomas Chatterton I don't know the title of his earliest, but ALL of his works were published before the age of 18; he was a suicide at age 17.

2. Ernest Hemingway The Sun also Rises pub. when he was about 24.

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise when he was about 26.

4. James T.Farrell Young Lonigan
the first novel of his Studs Lonigan Trilogy when he was about 28

5. John Updike: The Poorhouse Fair at about 27 (This novel is futuristic but not science fiction; it is one of the few novels taking place in a NEAR future of that time (1974), which Updike lived to see as a PAST of some 3 decades. He also placed a novel in the NEAR PAST: The Witches of Eastwick, taking place a decade or
so back into the past of that time.

NEXT: "SHOULD or DID become movies" 3-2:

FIve favorite novels, or dramas, 3 of which became well-known movies, and 2 of which did NOT, although you wish they would. (Or the "should haves" can be 3 and the actual movies 2)

Did:

The English Patient
Sense and Sensibility
To Kill a Mockingbird

Wish they would:

A Confederacy of Dunces
The Last Child

next: same question, no duplicating my list.

Did:

Pet Sematary
The Shining
Christine

Wish they would:

Term Limits
Subterranean

Next: Aside from Subterranean, already mentioned above, name 5 books that take place underground. Note: In a body of water is NOT underground. Underground would mean below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, for example, so "20,000 Leagues ..." is no good. Of course, it doesn't have to be under a major body of water. It could be under land.

".. .. .take place underground" *

1. Journey to the Underground World
by Lin Carter

2. The Island under the Earth
by Avram Davidson

3. City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare

4. Alices Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll

5. Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

* 1.2: Counting on the title to confirm 1, and 2 as
authentic subterranean.
3. I have a high school age reader's word for it that this
takes place underground.
4. is an early (or the original?) title of Alice in Wonderland

NEXT:
5 books that you're pretty sure have NOT been made into movies, with a short note on whether or not you WISH they were. The note can be favorable or unfavorable--anything from "I really miss the movie of this!" to
"A movie make would be a huge waste of time."

As the "NEXT" of 57 has gone nearly a month without being played on, Iʻm changing it: NEXT:

Meeting Authors (in fact or fantasy)

Of writers you have never met:* the FIVE that
you most regret never having met.

(Or, to put it more positively: the FIVE that you would most like to have met.)
Eligible are: of course all deceased writers (regardless of chronological possibility);
AND all your older or younger living contemporaries, if
ever meeting them is unlikely.

1. Stephen King

2. Bentley Little

3. Michael Crichton

4. Edgar Alan Poe

5. Jacob Aagaard (Lives too far away)

Next: 5 books you've read that dragged out so far that you came to the conclusion that a book with half as many pages would have been more than enough to get the point of the story across.

.

Welcome to LibraryThing, Hapthorne!

On second look at #60 in this thread, it seems you were playing on
#58, not on #59? (" Iʻve met (Matthew
Hughes) once. . ." --answering my "would most like to have met" topic (58).

Heh, I was going to ask:
Did you mean, Hapthorne, that, in ANY book by one of those five authors (60), "half as many pages would have been more than enough would have been more than enough to get his point across" ? (59)

And where is the next topic?

.

Uhm, he answered off of 58, Nobody answered 59. Therefore, 62 should be ignored. 59 still needs to be answered.

Current Category: 5 books you've read that dragged out so far that you came to the conclusion that a book with half as many pages would have been more than enough to get the point of the story across.

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Bible by Asst.

Feast of Crows by George R. R. Martin

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper

Everyone has heard, "the book was better" after watching a movie, but can you name 5 movies you thought were better than the book they were based on

1. Peyton Place
screenplay by Fred Guiol with Grace Metalious as consultant
based on the Metalious novel ca. 1955

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939) screenplay by Edgar Allan Wolf & Florence Ryerson and others(?)* based on the 1900
L. Frank Baum novel.

3. Giant (1956)
based on the Edna Ferber novel.

4. The Third Man screen playAND novel by Graham Greene
(screenplay FIRST, and novel version later, I think was the
sequence .)

5. Force of Evil
screenplay by Abraham Polonsky (who was also the director) and Ira Wolfert;
based on Wolfertʻs Tuckerʻs People

* e. g. LT has Noel Langley as "Author" of one edition of the
screenplay.

NEXT:
FIVE political* novels from
5 different countries


*free-wheeling on defining "political" -- can be revolutionary, satirical, neo-conservative or what you will.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (Chile)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung (China)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (America)

NEXT: Five novels set largely in a period other than 1913 to 2013. Please list at least three different authors.

War and Peace by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi Russia in the European Napoleonic era

The Pit by Frank Norris
--Chicago, late 19th c.

Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding early 18th c., or (some critics say) the Restoration (1660s-70s)

The Bostonians by Henry James a Confederate Civil War vet in
Boston of the 1870s.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville whaling in the
1840s (?) or earlier. (H. M., writing ca. 1851, says "never mind exactly how long ago".

NEXT: FIVE narrators: novelists, playwrights, or (narrative poets whose
name begins with the same letter as one of their titles,
OR a well-known setting of theirs. Settings may be real or fictional names. Authorsʻ first OR last names are ok.

Example: Melville>
Mississippi RIver in his The Confidence Man, set on a Mississipii river boat. and its fictional setting.

The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J. P. Donleavy

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Next: Five books with song titles associated with them, possibly from the film of the book.

e.g. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote, Moon River

Several days have passed with no reponse:
I thought that there must be quite a few, prompted by
Wizard of Oz mentioned above which gave, among others, Over The rainbow.
Then there's Cabaret, based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood.
And there must be something from such as Les Miserables, or Phantom of the Opera.
But I can't think of any more.

So time to set an alternative?

Books which have been filmed, in which there is a direction in the title.

e.g. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

West Side Story by Irving Shulman
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The harp in the South by Ruth Park
East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood
South Riding by Winifred Holtby

But a couple of these are only TV series rather than movies!

Next: five book titles mentioning a flower

The Tale of the Rose: the Love Story behind The Little Prince by Consuelo De Saint Exupery

The Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet

Goddess of the Rose
by P. C. Cast

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

In the Beauty of the Lilies
by John Updike

NEXT: Five books (fiction or non-fiction) with the name of a college or pro sports team in them.

The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
The Teutonic KNIGHTS by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Where EAGLES dare by Alistair Maclean
An unkindness of RAVENS by Ruth Rendell
The Berenstain BEARS and the week at Grandma's by Stan Berenstain

Next five books with a tree in the title (5 different trees)

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Monkey Puzzle Tree* by Elizabeth Nickson
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

* This is an actual species of tree, not just a whimsical book title.

NEXT: Five cities which have changed their names. A real change, not a nickname or a standardization of spelling over time. Change of language is okay, though.

For example, Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul (not Constantinople).

City name changes: (New name in caps)

Fort Dearborn, Northwest Territory, U. S. > CHICAGO, IL

East Chelmsford, MA > LOWELL, MA

Charlestown Village, Mass. Bay Colony > WOBURN, MA*

Edo, Japan > TOKYO

Christiana, Norway > OSLO

*@rolandperkins's native town; small in population but it does have city, not town, government.

NEXT: FIVE of your favorite short quotations (poetry, fiction, drama, popular non-fiction).
in ALPHABETIC order by key-word)**

**Choose your own key-word. Capitalize it. e.g.:
the A-quote:
" 'Twas the eighteenth of APRIL
in '75 . . ."

A Burdock—clawed my Gown—Not Burdock's—BLAME—But mine—Who went too near The Burdock's Den—-Emily Dickinson, A Burdock Clawed my Gown

There is no frigate like a BOOK To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. -Emily Dickinson, A Book

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of MOOD And saved some part Of a day I had rued. -Robert Frost, Dust of Snow

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less TRAVELED by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost, The Road not Taken

I dwell in a lonely house I know That VANISHED many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, and a cellar in which the daylight falls, And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. -Robert Frost, Ghost House

NEXT: FIVE places that don't exist you'd like to visit from books and book that it was from from

ex.
Hogwarts- Harry Potter

Discworld -- Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Brakebills -- The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Dreaming -- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Bookworld -- Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series

Camelot -- T. H. White's The Once and Future King

NEXT: 5 rock bands that were founded before 1975.

1) Beatles

2) Beach Boys

3) Monkees

4) Rolling Stones

5) Cream

Next: 5 music groups/bands vocalized by a woman whose debut album came in the 21st century (2001-onward). Only the vocalist must be female, the rest doesn't matter, but can't be a solo-artist like Norah Jones. Must be groups.

1. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Lead vocalist: Karen O
First album: Self-titled, 2001

2. She and Him
Lead vocalist: Zooey Deschanel
First album: Volume 1, 2008

3. The Kills
Lead vocalist: VV
First album: Keep on Your Mean Side, 2003

4. The Long Blondes
Lead vocalist: Kate Jackson
First album: Weekend Without Makeup, 2006

5. The Dresden Dolls
Lead vocalist: Amanda Palmer
First album: A Is for Accident, 2003

Next: First five albums you remember owning, the format (LP, cassette tape, CD, wax cylinder, electronic format), and whether it ended up being a good buy.

Most of what I had in the early days were 45s/singles. Albums didn't start for me until my teenage years.

1. Agent Provocateur (Foreigner) - Cassette - Eh, listened to it occasionally
2. The Best of Starship (Starship) - Cassette - Again, eh, ok.
3. Heart in Motion (Amy Grant) - Cassette - Yes, but that was the early 90s of course
4. Cracked Rear View (Hootie and the Blowfish) - Cassette - Listened to it in college all the time
5. Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Cranberries) - CD - Again, was ok, my taste for music was screwed up until 1995. Then I started fitting in with the others.

Next: Name the 5 most overplayed songs on the radio. They are so overplayed that even if you heard it today, you couldn't listen to it again! (Celine Dion - Sit back down, right now!)

1. Somebody that I used to Know, Gotye
2. Call me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepson
3. Just The way you are, Bruno Mars
4. Hey Ho, The Lumineers
5. What Makes you Beautiful, One Direction

NEXT: Favorite Fantasy Foods and book

1. Subtraction stew, The Phantom Tollbooth.

" 'Yes, it was delicious, wasn't it?' agreed the pleased Dodecahedron. 'It's the specialty of the kingdom -- subtraction stew.' . . . 'FAMINE!' roared the anguished Humbug, who suddenly realized that that was exactly what he had eaten twenty-three bowls of."

2. Lunch-box tree, Ozma of Oz.

"One tree was quite full of square paper boxes, which grew in clusters on all the limbs, and upon the biggest and ripest boxes the word 'Lunch' could be read, in neat raised letters. This tree seemed to bear all the year around, for there were lunch-box blossoms on some of the branches, and on others tiny little lunch-boxes that were as yet quite green, and evidently not fit to eat until they had grown bigger. The leaves of this tree were all paper napkins . . . Inside she found, nicely wrapped in white papers, a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle, a slice of new cheese and an apple. "

3. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

" 'You want to be careful with those,' Ron warned Harry. 'When they say every flavor, they mean *every* flavor -- you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe . . . Bleaaargh -- see? Sprouts.' "

4. Eatable marshmallow pillows, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"Grandpa Joe and Charlie were half running and half walking to keep up with Mr Wonka, but they were able to read what it said on quite a few of the doors as they hurried by. EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS, it said on one. 'Marshmallow pillows are terrific!' shouted Mr Wonka as he dashed by. 'They'll be all the rage when I get them into the shops! No time to go in, though! No time to go in!' "

5. Drink Me, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"She found a little bottle . . . and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters. 'No, I’ll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it’s marked 'poison' or not;’ . . . However, this bottle was *not* marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it; and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off."

NEXT: Five novels (or works of music) you added to your reading list because they were referenced within another book. Excluding books within the same series, and academic citations.

I can only think of 3:
1. The author Charles Garvice who I'd never heard of till I read Arnold Bennett's brilliant Riceyman Steps, a novel set in a used book store; Garvice was a bestselling author in the early 20th century and his books are mentioned more than once, so I've downloaded The Woman's Way onto my Kindle to read this year...

2. I read Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown many years ago after it was mentioned on Educating Rita by Willy Russell.

3. The Wide Wide World by Susan Warner mentioned in one of my favourite books as a child What Katy did

Excellent! Next topic?

Five (fiction) books with a different species of fish in each title

Sand Sharks by Margaret Maron
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
Cape Cod Noir by David Ulin

NEXT: Five well-known recipes named after a person or place, and the person or place they were named after.

Lamingtons: named for the Gov General of Queensland 1896-1901
Eggs Benedict: EITHER named for Pope Benedict XIII (an illness caused him to eat a lot of eggs) OR Lemuel Benedict, a retired broker, in 1894
Melba Toast: named after opera star Nellie Melba who ate it during an illness in 1897
Earl Grey tea: named after the British prime minister of 1830s
Baloney sausage: derives from city of Bologna

NEXT: Five works of fiction each featuring name of a different African country

Congo Dawn by Jeanette Windle
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
The Gabon Virus by Paul McCusker
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan

NEXT: Five great pop songs of the last ten years, from at least three different artists.

Right, forget that.

NEXT: Five graphic novels, and whether you have read or want to read them.

the best I can come up with is:

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L.James - no I haven't read it nor do I want to

Something called "The Diary of A flea" (which isn't on Librarything but I promise you it existed!) - lent to me many years ago by a boyfriend - meant to be racy but soon became very repetitive!

The Rabbit series by John Updike - some of the best writing I've ever come across - but I've never lent it to my Mother!

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek -read earlier this year as part of my plan to read some Nobel prize winners. Well written but very odd and wouldn't read again.

struggling with the last: I read Nip the Buds, shoot the kids by Kenzaburo Oe, also this year, which has a horrible scene of teenagers being forced to bury a load of diseased cattle.

This excludes various World War 2 based works I've read over the years which are largely autobiographical.

NEXT: I'm going to re-post your question as I'm curious to see others' graphic novels!

I know nothing about graphic novels. I hadn't logged in for over 2 weeks, otherwise I'd have gotten kittycatpurr's #87, which I'll answer here for completeness:

1. "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne
2. "Don't Tell Me" - Avril Lavigne
3. "When You're Gone" - Avril Lavigne
4. "Hips Don't Lie" - Shakira
5. "Friday I'll Be Over You" - Allison Iraheta

If it weren't for the 3-artist restriction, I could go on to eternity: "Keep Holding On", "The Best Damn Thing", "I Don't Have To Try", "Everything Back But You", "Runaway", "Forgotten", "Nobody's Home", "Take Me Away", "Girlfriend", "Fall To Pieces", "Freak Out", "What the Hell", "Push", "He Wasn't", "Smile", "Contagious", etc, the list is endless!

Take away the 10-year restriction, as it's been 10 1/2 now, and you can throw in "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "Mobile", "Unwanted", "Tomorrow", "Anything But Ordinary", "My World", "Nobody's Fool", "Too Much to Ask", etc.

I think you got the gyst of who I'd pay top dollar to see! :-)

NEXT: See Post 89 for the next category!

Itʻs getting hard to figure WHOSE "Next" is up at the plate now.

I guess the current one is 89 -- which refers us back to 88!

Iʻm reminded of the old baseball trick question:
"If a batter is caught batting out of his place in the batting order, does the umpire call him "Out!"
The obvious" answer is "Yes".
The real answer is "No."
The umpire doesnʻt declare "HIM" out, he declares the batter who should have batted in that spot "Out!".

Name 5 novels, each title featuring a different French town

The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry

Calais by Kathleen Winsor

The Moneylender of Toulouse by Alan Gordon

The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby

The Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle

Next: 5 novels featuring a different European town, each in a different country, excluding France which has just been done.

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
The Princess of Celle by Jean Plaidy
When Shlemiel went to Warsaw and other stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann

Next: 5 novels each featuring a different S American country

The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
Brazil by John Updike
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos
The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson

Next: 5 novels set on the sea (on, not under).

Rites of Passage by William Golding
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lord Jim byJoseph Conrad
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea by Jules Verne
The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad

Next: 5 novels whose titles each feature a different insect

>97 starbox: Whilst some of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea might be set on the sea, isn't the general setting, "Under the Sea"?. Which is at odds with the stated requirement, "on, not under".

5 novels. . .a different insect:

Flies from the Amber
by Wil McCarthy

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner

The Glass Bees by Ernst Juenger

A Severed Wasp
by Madeleine LʻEngle

Tarzan and the Ant Men
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

NEXT: FIVE books with a name in the title OTHER THAN an ordinary 2-word name --the usual first name/last name combination.

Thus, Youngblood Hawke
and Tom Sawyer are ineligible. Arabella is eligible.

ONE-WORD names whether first name only, or last name only are eligible. Also eligible are names of 3 or more words. Fiction or non-fiction is o.k. The name may be the whole title or part of the title.

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Claudine at School by Colette
Beatrix by Honore de Balzac
Zoe by Geraldine Jewsbury
Hester by Margaret Oliphant

NEXT: As I've only done female names, next person to do 5 male names (see #100 for details)

1. The World According to Garp by John Irving
2. Maurice by E. M. Forster
3. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
4. Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
5. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P. G. Wodehouse

NEXT: 5 songs about 5 different cities.

April in Paris
New York, New York
Chicago
I Belong to Glasgow
London Pride

Next: 5 songs about journeys, however loosely interpreted.

I'm leaving on a jet plane
Daddy's taking us to the Zoo tomorrow
It's a long way to Tipperary
We three kings of Orient are
Sailing

Next: 5 novels with title of Mr (or Mrs/ Miss) plus surname eg Mr Skeffington

Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther

Next: 5 novels each with a different person's title, excluding Mr, Mrs or Miss. e.g. Rev., General, Doctor, (Doctor Zhivago), etc.

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Admiral Hornblower by C. S. Forester

Commodore by Patrick O'Brian

The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles

Master and Commmander by Patrick O' Brien

NEXT 5 NON-FICTIONS with ONE and ONLY ONE
name in the title, alternating between FEMININE name
and MASCULINE name; so, a total
of 3 fem. and 2 masc. names.

example: Eligible: 1. Liz (f.) 2. Elvis (m.) . . . . .
INeligible: Ross and Tom --contains TWO names.

Helen by Maria Edgeworth
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Cindie by Jean Devanny
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Celia by E.H. Young

NEXT: 5 novels with a full first AND surname eg Hetty Dorval

Roderick Hudson
by Henry James

Bethel Merriday by Sinclair Lewis

Gideon Planish by Sinclair Lewis

Max Jamison by Wilfred Sheed

Martin Eden by Jack London

NEXT 5 FICTIONS (Drama Novel or Long Poem) with a trade or profession in the title.
(Can be the whole title or part of the title).

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Sky Fisherman: A Novel by Craig Lesley

The Blacksmith by Jenny Maxwell

The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

Next: 5 fictions with a bird in the title.

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Jenny Wren by E.H. Young
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
The Vow on the Heron by Jean Plaidy

Next; 5 fictions with a reptile or amphibian in title

The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne
The Lizard's Bite by David Hewson
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee

Next: 5 fictions (Drama, Novel or Long Poem) with a part of a plant (not a whole plant) in the title.

e.g. Not allowed: The Daffodil Mystery. Allowed: Hidden Roots

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
Batman: to Stalk a Specter by Simon Hawk
Little Elephant's Trunk by Hazel Lincoln
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Next: 5 fictions with an insect in the title

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman

Next: 5 fictions with an item of anatomy in the title. e.g. The Fist of God

A House and its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dwarf's Blood by Edith Olivier
Their Eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Fairy Leapt upon my Knee by Bea Howe
One pair of feet by Monica Dickens

Next: 5 fictions each featuring an item of kitchen equipment

Hopalong Cassidy and the Rustlers of West Fork by Louis L'Amour
Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
The Mixer by Edgar Wallace
The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Next: 5 fictions with an item of clothing in the title.

Without my Cloak by Kate O'Brien
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
The Black Velvet Gown by Catherine Cookson
The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
Sock Monkey rides again by Cece Bell

Next: 5 fictions featuring a fierce animal

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
by Bernard Waber

"The Tyger"*
by William Blake

The Leopard
by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

King Condor of the Andes#
(no author found)#

Ask the Name of the Lion
by Ralph Allen

*Counting poems as fictions here no matter how true they
are. In a comin gpost Iʻm plannin g to count them as NON-fictions --the way Dewey and Lib. of Congress
do --no matter how imaginative.

# I read this, a juvenile or YA, long before I was an adult; it was probably published in the 1930s or -40s. Iʻve never seen a condor; Iʻm assuming theyʻre fierce.

NEXT: 5 NON-FICTIONS of any genre except History, that mention a NATIONALITY in the title or in a well-known quote.
-- counnting poems, songs. natural and social sciences, religion, essays, drama, philosophy
as non-fiction.
Examples: Havelok the Dane (long Middle English poem); Hamlet, prince of Denmark (drama)

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy
An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser

NEXT: 5 fictions featuring an illness OR a person with an illness eg 'The Consumptive'

On 118 >121 starbox:

Great choice of nationalities, but they are all novels, and the rules (118) asked
for NON-fictions.
So, I think the play at this point should still be on 118, not on 121

sorry! try again
Turning Japanese: song by The Vapors
Dane-Geld : poem by Rudyard Kipling
On the Belgian Expatriation: poem by Thomas Hardy
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors by Ann Paludan
Sicilian Cookery by Eufemia Azzolina Pupella

NEXT: as stated in #121

"...Featuring an illness or a person with an illness" (121)

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (tuberculosis)

Judgement Day by James T. Farrell (alcoholism)

Philoctetes by Sophocles
tr. by Roland F. Perkins, Seamus Heaney et mult. al.
(snake bite, leading to permanent disability)*

A Fanʻs Notes by Frederick Exley (alcoholism)

The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward (mental illness)

NEXT: 5 FICTIONS with legal term(s) in the title OTHER THAN
"Law" or "Lawyer"
e.g. NOT eligible: By Love Possessed (Legalistic, but no legal term in the title).
The Law; a novel (excluded term)

*Heaney translates this with the title The Cure at Troy; the actual cure is only foreseen not
described.

The judge by Rebecca West
The Trial by Charlotte Yonge
Courts of love by Jean Plaidy
The Lion of justice by Jean Plaidy
Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo

NB I was thinking of actual illnesses for the above: came up with

Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn
Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kiss for the Leper by Francois Mauriac
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
Love in a Cold climate by Nancy Mitford

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a month in the title

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Snow In April by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Door to December by Dean Koontz

Next: 5 fictions with an alcoholic drink in the title

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Next: 5 fictions featuring an address (street/ square etc) eg Chatterton Square

Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael Chabon
Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball by Joe Peta
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Park Lane by Frances Osborne

And, of course
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

NEXT: 5 fiction books with a different mythological creature in the title

The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
When the Siren Wailed by Noel Streatfeild
Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz
Phoenix Generation by Henry Williamson
The Centaur by John Updike

Next: 5 fictional works with a precious (or semi-precious) stone in the title

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Next: 5 fictions with a different rank of soldier in each title

Different rank of soldier in each title>
// corporal; captain //
The Corporal in charge of Taking Care of Captain OʻMalley

// lieutenant //
The French Lieutenantʻs Woman by John Fowles

// colonel //
No one Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

//general //
The General by Alan Sillitoe

NEXT: Your 5 favorite OPENING LINES of a book --
Fiction OR Non-Fiction. If you donʻt remember the exact wording, an approximation that catches the gist of it is all right.
Name the book and author.

Well here are 5 books with pretty good first lines, off the top of my head:

1)Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns

"It was in the middle of a snowstorm I was born, Palmer's brother's wedding night, Palmer went to the wedding and got snowbound, and when he arrived very late in the morning he had to bury my packing under the wallnut tree, he always had to do this when we were born - six times in all, and none of us died, Mary said Granny used to give us manna to eat and that's why we didn't, but manna is stuff in the bible, perhaps they have it in places like Fortnham & Mason, but I've never seen it, or maybe Jews shops. "(sic)

2)Gone to Earth by Mary Webb - not a fan of her work after reading the dreadful The House in Dormer Forest last year, but it sure is unusual.

"Small feckless clouds were hurried across the vast untroubled sky - shepherdless, futile, imponderable - and were torn to fragments on the fangs of the mountains, so ending their ephemeral adventures with nothing of their fugitive existence left but a few tears."

3)Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

"On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." (sic)

4)Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - my 'desert island book', funniest book I've ever read.

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once."

5) Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess - haven't read it, but have come across the first line and nothing I have can top it:

" It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the Archbishop had come to see me."

Good openings.

Awaiting the "NEXT". (133)

NEXT: continuing the opening lines question in #132 as I'd be interested to see what other people come up with.

Also am stressed as cat's just brought ANOTHER mouse in so can't come up with anything else! (It's under freezer at the moment. I can move freezer, but the mouse just moves with it... Cat caught it under the TV stand, I think there's a whole tribe of escapee mice under our furniture! My mother had one behind her piano and used to feed it grapes!)

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

2. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or Spanish Plague which occured in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

3. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were.

4. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

5. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

"You do an awfully good impression of yourself."

NEXT: Let's go with 5 favorite last lines this time.

Favorite Last Lines

"Getting into a brawl, rather than let the bodies (of those who died in the Great Plague) be abandoned." / "Rixantes potius quam corpora desererentur."*
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

ʻThe "Rachel" . . . only found another orphan.ʻ Herman Melville: Moby Dick

"He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small,
For the great God created us,
And loves them one and all."
-- Samuel Coleridge: The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

"Something further may follow of this masquerade".
The Confidence Man: his Masquerade by Herman Melville

". . . and the midnight message of Paul Revere". -- Henry W. Longfellow: The Landlordʻs Tale: Paul Revereʻs Ride

*This is the last line of the poem as we know it, but it is probably unfinished and has no intended last line.

NEXT: Just as "First Lines" was continued for a second round, Iʻd like to take a chance on continuing this topic (Favorite Last Lines) for one more round, (even though I realize that people
remember them much less often than first lines.

1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

2. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come to

3. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

"Well, I would like to make another trip," he said, jumping to his feet, "but I really don't know when I'll have the time. There's so much to do right here."

4. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

So, if you should see my son, tell him I say hello, be good, that I am thinking of him and that I know he's watching over me somewhere, and not to worry: that he can always find me here, whenever he wants, right here, my arms held out and waiting, in the pages, behind the covers, at the end of Lunar Park.

5. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Vetinari sighed. "You have to admire a man who really believes in freedom of choice," he said, looking at the open doorway. "Sadly, he did not believe in angels."

NEXT: 5 fictional diseases

I guess nobody could think of any fictional diseases.

NEW NEXT: 5 novels set in Asia by 5 different authors.

The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

These are all set in India, so
next: 5 novels set in Asia, excluding India, by 5 different authors.

Jamilia by Chinghiz Aitmatov
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Next: 5 novels set in Italy by different authors

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Watteau in Venice by Philippe Sollers
The Silent Gondoliers by William Goldman
1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

These all are set (at least partially) in Venice, so
next: 5 novels set in Italy (but not Venice) by different authors

The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello
The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia
The Garden of the Finzi Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Honest Souls by Grazia Deledda

Next: 5 novels, different authors, set in Scandinavia

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (Norway)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Iceland)
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg (Sweden)
The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna (Finland)
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (Denmark)

NEXT: Five murder mysteries, set in five different countries.

5 murder mysteries set in 5 different countries:

Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon (Netherlands)

Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
by Georges Simenon (France)

Think of a Number
by Anders Bodelsen
(Denmark)

Andean Express
by Juan Recacoechea
(Bolivia / Chile*

Political Suicide
(U K)
by Robert Barnard

*takes place on a train crossing the Bolivia/Chile border.

NEXT: FIVE works in 5 DIFFERENT GENRES, by 5 different authors -- in alphabetical order. But next post doesnʻt have to be THE NEXT letter. Example:
A C-author> (2) a G-author>
(3) an L author > (4) an N author> (5) an S author

Unless I'm misunderstanding this, in essence, this is basically just 5 books in 5 different genres, and then list them alphabetically by author. Therefore:

1) A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton (Mystery)
2) Pet Sematary - Stephen King (Horror)
3) Murder in the Heartland - M William Phelps (True Crime)
4) Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (Sci-Fi)
5) Accident - Danielle Steele (Romance)

NEXT: 5 books by 5 different authors where the total number of letters used in the 5 titles combined is under 25. All books must contain at least 2 letters in the title.

Emma by Jane Austen (4)
Mr Fox by Barbara Comyns (5)
Fenny by Lettice Cooper (5)
Jack by Alphonse Daudet (4)
Her by Hilda Doolittle (3)

Next: 5 fictions whose titles are in the form of a question

Why are we in Vietnam?
by Norman Mailer

Can you Forgive her? by Anthony Trollope

Wheres Spot? by Eric Hill

Who was that Monolith I Saw you with?
by Michael Goodwin

Who was that Masked Woman?
by Noretta Koertge

NEXT: 5 Fictions of which the first word in the title is either (1) a preposition other
than "In" or (2) an interjection.
Examples: OF the Farm by John Updike; ZOTZ! by Walter Karig

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Alas poor lady by Rachel Ferguson
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Right ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor

Next: 5 fictions whose first word in title is a pronoun (different in each)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Next: Titles of fictional works which include ordinal numbers, i.e. first, second, third, tenth, etc.

The third Miss Symons by F M Mayor
Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman
First Love and other Novellas by Samuel Beckett
A Second Home by Honore de Balzac
The twelfth Hour by Ada Leverson

Next: 5 fictions each with a day of week in title

Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
Blue Monday: A Novel by Nicci French
On Fridays We Dance: A Memoir by Pat Buysse
Saturday by Ian McEwan
A Month of Sundays: A Novel by John Updike

NEXT: Five fictions with a female name in the title, i.e Emma

Helen by Maria Edgeworth
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
Jemima by Oriel Malet
Belinda by Rhoda Broughton
Deborah by Esther Kreitman

NB Query re: touchstones. Sometimes a book title won't be listed (eg Helen in the above list, altho' it definitely exists - you can find it listed under the author's works.) Is there some way of pulling up further lists of titles ?

NEXT: 5 fictions each featuring a dairy product in the title (It's late and I'm uninspired!)

French Milk by Lucy Knisley
Fried Butter by Abe Opincar
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty

NEXT: Five novels (not children's fiction) with non-photographic illustrations, and the name of the illustrator if available. These are novels (primarily text) with illustrations, not illustrated novels (primarly panels of art).

Seven brothers by Aleksis Kivi illustrated by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Lavengro by George Borrow " " William sewell
East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood (1903 edition, illustrator's name not given)
The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill engravings by John Lawrence
A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy illustrated by Patricia Ludlow

Next: 5 fictions each with a different 'creature you might find in Fairyland' in the title

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
Giant by Edna Ferber
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin

NEXT: Five works of fiction read and taught in English as classics but originally written in a language other than English. Five different authors.

The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Candide by Voltaire

NEXT: Five fictions written in English with titles containing the names ancient gods/goddesses

Helen by Maria Edgeworth
Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cassandra by Christa Wolf

Next: 5 fictions each including an accepted shortened form of given name in title

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Carrie by Stephen King
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Rob Roy by Walter Scott

NEXT: Five different types of wine from five different countries.

Riesling - Germany
Chardonnay- France
Tokay - Hungary
Cava - Spain
Sangiovese - Italy

NEXT : What else but 5 different cheeses from 5 different countries?

Parmigiano Reggiano - Italy
Feta - Greece
Brie - France
Cheddar - England
Emmental (Swiss) - Switzerland

NEXT: Five fictions with the name of a food in the title Cloudy with a Chance of MEATBALLS

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Nuts in May by Richard Gordon

Next: Five fictions with a reference to a text in the title, e.g. The Aspern Papers by Henry James

The Sigma Protocol
by Robert Ludlum

The Chancellor Manuscript
by Robert Ludlum

The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker

The Pogo Papers
by Walt Kelley

Maltese Manuscript
by Joanne Dobson

NEXT: Five books (fiction or non-fiction_ with an objet dʻart, or rare artifact in the title.

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Next: 5 Fictions with a wheeled form of transport (i.e. not boats, planes etc.) in the title.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Next: 5 fictions with different forms of water transport in the title

The Ship by C. S. Forester
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs

Next: 5 fictions with a musical reference or topic in the title

Winter Sonata by Dorothy Edwards
Saraband by Eliot Bliss
A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Keynotes and Discords by George Egerton

Next: 5 fictions, title of each including something you might buy in a stationer's shop

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
The Ink Truck by William J. Kennedy
The Paper Men by William Golding
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

Next: 5 fictions with a musical instrument in the title

The Piano Teacher: A Novel by Janice Y. K. Lee
The Exile's Violin by R.S. Hunter
Night of the Silent Drums by John Lorenzo Anderson
Devil's Trumpet by Mary Freeman
The Flute Keeper by Ashley Setzer

NEXT: Five fictions set in Europe in the 1900s

5 Fictions set in Europe in the 1900s

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler --Russia
1930s

The Lamb / LʻAgneau
by Francois Mauriac -- France 1950s (?)

Billiards at Half-past Nine /
Billard am Halb Zehn
by Heinrich Boll --West Germany 1950s

La Volpe e le Camellie / The Fox and the Camelias
by Ignazio Silone --Ticino Canton of Switzerland 1960s

Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
France (mostly non-French characters) 1920s

FIVE fictions set in a country
other than the authorʻs native country. Example Portrait of
a Lady by Henry James
England, by U.S.* author

*HJ changed to British nationality ca. 1916 -- long
after the writing of "Portrait".

The Man who would be King - set in India, by (British) Rudyard Kipling
Paul et Virginie - set in Mauritius, by (French) Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Fateless - set in Buchenwald, Germany by (Hungarian) Imre Kertesz
The Swiss Family Robinson- set on a desert island by (Swiss) Johann David Wyss
Where Angels fear to tread - set in Italy, by (British) E.M. Forster

Next: 5 fictions each including name of a metallic element in title

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow

Copper Canyon
by Richard D. Fisher

The Pot of Gold*
by Plautus

King Georgeʻs Head was Made of Lead
by F. N. Monjo

*using the English title, as the Latin title "Aulularia" does not clearly mention a metal.

YOUR 5 favorite HISTORICAL FICTIONS: (story-poems, dramas, short stories, as well as novels are eligible.)

An Episode under the Terror by Honore de Balzac - an extremely atmospheric tale, set on a snowy night in Paris, just after the Revolution
I Claudius by Robert Graves - makes real characters of the Roman emperors
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens - set in the Gordon riots
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue - based around a true life murder by a young woman in 1700s Wales
The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric - the 'life story' of a bridge in Serbia, from its construction by Turkish invaders, events of the local population over the years, right up to World War I. Incredibly vivid and compelling writing

NEXT: 5 fictions each featuring a non-metallic element in title (I hope this can be done!)

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough
The Carbon Murder by Camille Minichino
Iodine by Haven Kimmel
Radon Daughters by Iain Sinclair

NEXT: 5 fictions containing a vegetable in the title.

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Carrot Top by Jules Renard
The Cucumber Man by David Nobbs
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a different spice in title (not herbs; we'll do them next time!)

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
Penny and Pepper by Jeanne Betancourt
Cinnamon Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke
The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian

Next: List 5 books, fiction or not, by 5 different authors that feature a chess piece in the title, but the book itself has nothing to do with chess strategy (i.e. No listing chess books). Use 5 of the 6 pieces to form your list (i.e. No Repeating the same piece).

Note: The pieces, for those that don't know, are the King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, and Pawn

The Knight of Cheerful Countenance by Molly Keane
Death comes for the ArchBishop by Willa Cather
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Iron King by Maurice Druon
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett

Next: 5 fictions, each title featuring a different herb

Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert
Tarragon Island by Nikki Tate
Basil by Wilkie Collins
Poison Parsley by Anna Clarke
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

Next: 5 fictions with a different posessive pronoun in each title

Wasp, Where is Thy Sting? by Florence King
My next Bride by Kay Boyle
Blow Your House Down by Pat Barker
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Next: 5 fictions, each title containing a ten-letter word (Proper nouns not included)

The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Happy Highwayman by Leslie Charteris
Millennium People by J. G. Ballard

Next: 5 fictions with a different emotion in each title

A Long and HAPPY Life by Reynolds Price
The Many Lives and Secret SORROWS of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
The MELANCHOLY Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
Super SAD True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
A Streetcar Named DESIRE by Tennessee Williams

NEXT: 5 fictions with an article of clothing in the title

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
by James T. Farrell

Max's Dragon Shirt
by Rosemary Wells

George Washington's Socks

The Shoes of the Fisherman
by Morris West

The Poison Belt
by Arthur Conan Doyle

NEXT: FIVE books (fiction or non-fiction) that are not
primarily about sports, that have a sports term in the title
e.g. Favor the Runner
by RIchard Kennedy

The Kite RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
Ready PLAYER One: A Novel by Ernest Cline
Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's CHAMPION by Elizabeth Chadwick
Ender's GAME by Orson Scott Card
A TOURNAMENT of Murders by Paul Doherty

NEXT: Five fictions each with a different African animal in the title

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The Dung Beetle Banditsby Reynolds
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring a noun describing someone from a specific city eg The Lonely Londoners

The New Yorkers by Hortense Calisher

The Bostonians by Henry James

The Paris Prodigal by ALan Gordon

Dubliners by James Joyce

THe Muscovite by Allison MacLeod

NEXT: 5 fictions* that are primarily about ONE ETHNIC group and DO NOT mention the group's name in the title (A different group for each of the
five). Examples: French Alsatians: Le Ble qui Leve / The Rising Wheat by Rene Bazin
Icelanders: Independent People by Halldor Laxness

*Dramas, short stories and long poems, as well as novels are
eligible.

Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul - the Indian community in Trinidad
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - the early Lithuanian immigrants to Chicago
The Appointment by Herta Muller - Romanians living under Ceaucescu
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - Haitian community during war with neighbouring Dominica
Honest Souls by Grazia Deledda - set in 19th century Sardinia

Next: 5 fictions with an 11 letter word in title (proper nouns not allowed)

Weathercock by Glen Duncan
How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin
The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan
The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carré
The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

Next: 5 fictions with a mathematical term or concept in the title

Boy Minus Girl by Richard Uhlig
The Calculus Affair by Herge
Tables: a novel by Rita Rudner
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy

Next: 5 fictions with a 12 letter word in title (names not allowed)

The Aerodynamics of Pork by Patrick Gale
Pomp and Circumstance by Noël Coward
Subterranean by James Rollins
The Transfigured Hart by Jane Yolen
Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

Next: 5 fictions with something to do with weather or climate in the title.

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
Blue Skies by Helen Hodgman
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
The Day it Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury

Next: 5 fictions with a SOUND in the title

Ring for Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Bang by Norah McClintock
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
Death Rattle by Terry C. Johnston
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Next: 5 fictions, each with a word relating to one of the five senses (all different) in the title.

The Smell of Good Mud by Lauren Zuniga
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

NEXT: Five fictions with a part of the body in the title

The Hand of Mary Constable by Paul Gallico
Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein
The Devil's Elbow by Gladys Mitchell
Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken
Eve's Rib by Bryn Chandler

NEXT: Five fictions with an expression of goodwill upon meeting or departure in the title.

Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Welcome Strangers by Mary Hocking
So long, see you tomorrow by William Maxwell
Good Evening, Mrs Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes

Next: 5 fictions with a native British mammal in title

A Fox Under My Cloak by Henry Williamson
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
The Story of a Red Deer by J. W. Fortescue
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

Next: 5 fictions with a rock (not semi-precious or gem stones) or geological feature in the title.

The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Glitter of Mica by Jessie Kesson
Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K Hamilton
Granite Baby by Lynne Bertrand
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel H awthorne

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a family member in title eg Great Uncle Dracula

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev

V Chaloupce Struce Toma */ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cousine Bette by Honore' de Balzac

Travels with my Aunt
by Graham Greene

*Czech translation of Uncle Toms Cabin which I owned for many years, but it didn't survive the many movings.

NEXT: FIVE fictions* with abstractions in
the title. Titles with anything cocrete in the title not eligible, no matter how abstract the
book's contents are.
e.g. INELIGIBLE: The Grapes of Wrath
("wrath"is abstract, but "grapes" isn't.)

*Novels, short stories, dramas, and narrative poems are eligiblle

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville West
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Idle Thoughts by Jerome K Jerome

Next: 5 fictions with the name of the young of any animal in title eg Kitten's First Full Moon

The Black Stallionʻs Sulky Colt
by Walter Farley

The Cub in the Cupboard
By Ben Baglio

Cliffordʻs Kitten
by Norman Bridwell

Pal Joey by John O Hara

A Penguin Pup for Pinkerton
by Steven Kellogg

NEXT 5 AUTHORS from
any part of the world except
the Western Hemisphere; surnames
beginning with 5 different initial letters. AND from 5 different countries (repeated letter is ok on the countries.