Alphabet of Books You've Read, Part 7

1) Post the title of a book that you have read, beginning with the next letter of the alphabet after the initial letter of the previous post.

2) Articles "a", "an" and "the" and their other language counterparts should be ignored.

3) X, Y, and/or Z may be skipped, but please wait at least a few hours in case someone else has a title with one of those letters.

4) Try not to repeat the same title within a single thread.

Last play of the previous thread was:

Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi, played by @jacqueline065

Next title should begin with A.

Agamemnon by Aeschylus ed. by various;
tr. by R.. Browning and various.

NEXT: B

Blessings by Sheneska Jackson

Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

3054. Dear James, by Jon Hassler (read 20 Feb 1998)

My favorite Hassler novel

Easter Parade by Eloise greenfield

4873. The Fiery Trial Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (read 23 Oct 2011) (Pulitzer History prize in 2011) (Bancroft Prize in 2011)

The Greeks and the Irrational
by E. R. Dodds

1489. He Sent Two: The Story of the Beginning of the School Sisters of St. Francis, by Sister M. Francis Borgia, O.S.F. (read 30 June 1978)

interstellar Pig by William Sleator

1269. The Jesuits: A History, by Christopher Hollis (read 1 Apr 1974)

The Kid Who Ran For President by Dan Gutman

3780. Long Goodbye The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan, by William H. Colby (read 4 Aug. 2003)

"Most Recent Missal in Latin"
by Various (L T Thread)

Nine from Eight by Sidney Lanier

4977. Official and Confidential The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, by Anthony Summers (read 20 Nov 2012)

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising / DIe Plebaer Proben den Aufstand
by Gunther Grass

Quinnie Blue by Dinah Johnson

482. Remembrance of Things Past (Vol. Two) Cities of the Plain; The Captive; The Sweet Cheat Gone; The Past Recaptured, by Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrief & Frederick A. Blossom (read 7 Aug 1955)

So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish by Douglas Adams

1201. The Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas, by Andre Maurois translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins (read 7 Dec 1972)

Upgrade U by Ni-Ni Simone

2861. Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War 1914-1918, by Laurence Moyer (read 14 Apr 1996)

The Wallace
by Nigel Tranter

1386. Xingu and Other Stories, by Edith Wharton (read 18 Apr 1976)

Yellow Bird and Me by Joyce Hansen

1980. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest, by K. Jack Bauer (read 23 Feb 1986)

Ajeemah and His Son by James berry

1505. The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke, by Raymond E. Brown, S.S. (read 20 Feb 1979)

Crystal by Walter Dean Myers

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

514. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria: A Biography, by Joseph Redlich (read 15 June 1957)

Fasti / Roman Calendar# by Ovid

Not only read, but did a verse translation of it, 2011.

# This or "Holidays" is the literal meaning, but translations have been leaving the title in Latin.

1871. George Frisbie Hoar and the Half-Breed Republicans, by Richard E. Welch, Jr. (read 20 Oct 1984)

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

If Ducks Carried Guns, and other ifabilities by Mick Stevens

1811. The Jewel in the Crown a novel by Paul Scott (read 20 Nov 1983)

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater

4178. North Toward Home, by Willie Morris (read 18 June 2006)

Ocean's Eleven

740. Pio Nono: A Study in European Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, by E. E. Y. Hales (read 28 June 1963)

Queen Bee by Chynna Clugston- Major

1509. Robert Kennedy and His Times Volume II, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (read 2 Apr 1979) (National Book Award biography prize for 1979)

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret mahy

1520. The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Mystery, by Douglas Woodruff (read 11 June 1979) (Book of the Year)

Unbelievable: the Life, Death, and Afterlife
of the Notorious B. I. G.
by Cheo Hodari Coker

4385. Voices From the Third Reich An Oral History, by Johannes Steinhoff; Peter Pechel; Dennis Showalter (read 21 Nov 2007)

The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses
by C. S. Lewis

skipping X

3265. The Year 1000 What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millenium An Englishman's World, by Robert Lacey - Danny Danziger (read 7 Nov 1999)

Zami by Audre Lorde

Art of the Ancient Near East:
Egypt, Sumer, Levant, Persia, Assyria

by Seton Lloyd

382. The Best Known Works of Henrik Ibsen (includes Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People, The League of Youth, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, and Pillars of Society) (read 9 Jun 1951)

Crochet For Today by Leisure Arts

2598. The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors, by Bernard A. Weisberger (read 24 Apr 1994)

Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Guide to Greece (in Greek and English): vol. 2: Southern Greece
by Pausanias

2725. The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945, by Bernard T. Fitzpatrick with John A. Sweeter III (read 1 Apr 1995)

Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts

Jayd's Legacy by L. Divine

324. Kristin Lavransdatter The Bridal Wreath The Mistress of Husaby The Cross, by Sigrid Undset (read 24 Apr 1947) (Book of the Year)

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Miss Silver's Past by Josef Škvorecký

4441. New England: Indian Summer 1865-1915, by Van Wyck Brooks (read 19 May 2008)

The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

The Presidential Fact Book
by Joseph Nathan Kane

3787. QB VII, by Leon Uris (read 21 Aug 2003)

rebel by Francine Paschal

1809. Sword of Honour The Final Version of the Novels Men at Arms (1952) Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and The End of the Battle (1962), by Evelyn Waugh (read 13 Nov 1983)

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker

The Victim by Saul Bellow

1403. Washington Wife: Journal of Ellen Maury Slayden from 1897-1919 (read 21 Aug 1976)

skipping X

The Young Che: Memories of
Che Guevara
by Ernesto Guevara Lynch

1741. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom, by Glenn Tucker (read 25 Sep 1982)

NEXT: A

Asianic Elements in Greek Civilization by Sir William Mitchell

(Yes,, the 1st word is "AsiANic", not "Asian" or "AsiATic". This is a case where "Try Again" didnʻt work
in the matter of getting the title into blue. But usually a 2nd try has worked).

1717. The British Empire Before the American Revolution Volume IV: Zones of International Friction North America, South of the Great Lakes Region 1748-1754, by Lawrence Henry Gipson (read 23 May 1982)

Count on Calico Cat by Donald Charles

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be - Farley Mowat (read in recent years)

1788. The Emergence of Lincoln Volume II Prologue to Civil War 1859-1861, by Allan Nevins (read 17 Jul 1983)

Flight To Arras - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (read 2008)

The Gallic War / De Bello Gallico
by Caius Julius Caesar

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Investigating the Unexplained by Paul Roland

1811. The Jewel in the Crown a novel by Paul Scott (read 20 Nov 1983)

Keesha's House by Helen Frost

Listen for the Singing by Jean Little

Money, Color, & Sex in Hawaiʻi Politics
by Chad Blair

3229. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945 Revised Edtion, by William Sheridan Allen (read 14 Aug 1999)

Olympian Odes
by Pindar
(has been ed. by John Sandys et al.; tr. by Richmond Lattimore et al.

668.Philip II, by William Thomas Walsh (read 20 Aug 1961)

Queen of Harlem by Brain Keith Jackson

2156. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877, by Eric Foner (read 6 Aug 1988) (Bancroft Prize in 1989) (Parkman Prize for 1989)

Scent to her Grave by India Ink

Target Patton: the Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton by Robert Wilcox

4994. The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett (read 22 Jan 2013)

hoping I havenʻt used it too recently in this thread:

the great: Victory by Joseph Conrad

1709. Walter Lippmann and the American Century, by Ronald Steel (read 26 Apr 1982) (National Book Award biography prize in 1982) (National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction award for 1980) (Bancroft Prize in 1981)

skipping X

Youth by Joseph Conrad

843. The Zimmermann Telegram, by Barbara W. Tuchman (read 20 Mar 1966)

I was going to skip Z but I suspect this title has not been used in this Part 7

Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby

Beyond the Pawpaw Trees by Palmer Brown

Chiaroscuro by Grazia Deledda

4462. Dubuque on the Mississippi 1788-1988, by William E. Wilkie (read 25 Jul 2008)

Earl Scruggs and Friends cd
by Earl Scruggs et al.

3529. The Fallen A photographic journey through the war cemeteries and memorials of the Great War, 1914-18, by John Garfield (read 18 Jan 2002)

The Gospel of Zarathustra
Attributed to Zoroaster
ed. and tr. by Duncan Greenlees

1107. Her Privates We, by Private 19022 (Frederic Manning) (read 21 Mar 1971)

Inventing Politics: a new Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom
by Juri Mykkanen

1100. John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis (read 21 Dec 1970) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1950)

Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik

Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi:
the Fables and Folklore of a Strange People
by King David Kalakaua

The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha Christie

Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau

206. Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held in Chicago, Ill., July 7th,8th,9th,10th, and 11th, 1896, Reported by Edward B. Dickinson (read 26 Aug 1945)

P

The Pattern In The Carpet by Margaret Drabble

Q

The Quest by Wilbur Smith

Next: R

Renoir: a Master of Impressionism
by Gerhard Gruitrooy

NEXT: S

Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence

NEXT: T

1608. The Theses Were Not Posted: Luther Between Reform and Reformation, by Erwin Iserloh English translation by Jared Wicks, S.J. (read 28 Dec 1980)

Universe by Robert Dinwiddle

NEXT: W

I think V is next:

2861. Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War 1914-1918, by Laurence Moyer (read 14 Apr 1996)

Now, the next is W

William- an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

The X'ed-Out X-Ray(A to Z Mysteries) by Ron Ray

NEXT: Z

3583. The Years of Lyndon Johnson Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro (read 27 May 2002) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 2003) (National Book Award nonfiction prize for 2002)

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Next: B

2097. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, by Leon F. Litwack (read 6 Sep 1987) (Pulitzer History prize in 1980) (National Book Award history prize in 1981) (Parkman Prize for 1980)

NEXT: C

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

Next: E

2533. England A History of British Progress from the Early Ages to the Present Day, by Cyril E. Robinson (read 16 Sep 1993)

NEXT: F

Fire in the blood by Irene Nemirovsky

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Hotel - Arthur Hailey

Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott

Jo's Boys-Louisa May Alcott

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Love Child -Edith Olivier

The Murderer - Georges Simenon

1504. No Man Knows my History: The Life of Joseph Smith The Mormon Prophet Second Edition Revised and Enlarged, by Fawn M. Brodie (read 10 Feb 1979)

NEXT: O

On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan

Possession - A S Byatt

The Quiet Girl - Peter Hoeg

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

That which was lost by Francois Mauriac

The United States of Arugula:How We Became A Gourmet Nation -David Kamp

Violence in America - Raymond B. Flannery

163. Woodrow Wilson The Unforgettable Figure Who Has Returned to Haunt Us, by Gerald W. Johnson (read 23 Nov 1944)

Timely, since yesterday was the 100th anniversary of his first inauguration--as I am sure all of you recalled yesterday.

NEXT; X or Y

Sons and Lovers- D H Lawrence

Next: Z

Skoobdo, how does #154 play on #153? What game were you thinking of?

Somepme should play on #153. I can't, since I should not play on my own post.

The Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon

(Inspector Maigret Mysteries)

Z for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien

The Anatomy of Deception - Lawrence Goldstone

Boldness Be My Boldness-Richard Pape

The Colorado Kid
by Stephen King

Dawn's Early Light by Elswyth Thane

Twilight-Stephanie Meyer

Playing off 161- 162 did not play off 161

Expiration Date - Duane Swierczynski

1163. Frederick the Great: A Biography, by Ludwig Reiners translated and adapted from the German by Lawrence P. R. Wilson (read 15 May 1972)

Golden Miles by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History- Hampton Sides

King Rat -James Clavell

Playing on 167.

Into the Dream by William Sleator

Japanese Inn a Reconstruction of the Past - Oliver Statler

On "My Favorites" list.

Knowing God-J I Packer

Next: L

Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder- Sigurdardottir, Yrsa

//M//

4996. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor (read 26 Jan 2013)

North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell

Next: O

The other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Possession-A S Byatt

Next: Q

Quotations from Chairman Mao
by Mao Tse-Tung

NEXT: R

Riding The Iron Rooster-Paul Theroux

NEXT: S

The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
by Eviatar Zerubavel

A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley

Next: U

4075. The Unquiet Western Front Britain's Role in Literature and History, by Brian Bond (read 19 Sep 2005)

NEXT: V

The Various Haunts of Men -Susan Hill (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels)

Without knowing Mr Walkley by Edith Olivier

To skip: X; Y; Z ( no entries after 24 hours )

Yes, Mama by Helen Forrester

Zuleika Dobson-Max Beerbohm

1658. The Antipope (Peter de Luna, 1342-1423) A study in obstinacy, by Alex Glasfurd (read 27 Aug 1981)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

The Children by Edith Wharton

Delphi and its History
by Pierre Amandry

Emma-Jane Austen

First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

The Godfather-Mario Puzo

He Who Fears the Wolf - Karin Fossum (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)

The Iron King by Maurice Druon

1705. Japan's Longest Day, Compiled by The Pacific War Research Society (read 11 Apr 1982)

The Killing of the Tinkers: Ken Bruen

The Lord of the Ring- J R R Tolkien

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell

430. Oedipus Myth and Complex: A Review of Psychoanalytic Theory, by Patrick Mullahy (read 4 May 1952)

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

I think we tied on P !
Queen in waiting by Jean Plaidy

Ohh Yea, we did

The Rattle-Rat- Wetering, Janwillem Van De (Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery)

Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan

Trip Of The Tongue: Cross-Country Travels In Search Of America's Languages - Elizabeth Little (read 2013)

The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall

Vandover and the Brute
by Frank Norris

Women In Love- D H Lawrence

Next: X

A Xylophone for X-ray fish by Liza Charlesworth

154. Yankee From Olympus Justice Holmes and His Family, by Catherine Drinker Bowen (read 9 July 1944)

Zen and the Art of Murder - Elizabeth Cosin (A Zen Moses Mystery)

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