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6jacqueline065
No Certain Rest by Jim Lehrer
8rolandperkins
// s //
Savonarola o la Rivoluzione di Dio /* Savonarola, or Godʻs Revolution
by Ivan Cloulas
last letter: o or n
*literal translation of the title; not guaranteeing that there is any English version
Savonarola o la Rivoluzione di Dio /* Savonarola, or Godʻs Revolution
by Ivan Cloulas
last letter: o or n
*literal translation of the title; not guaranteeing that there is any English version
11hemlokgang
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
22Schmerguls
1189. The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, by Winston S. Churchill (read 9 Oct 1972)
I am reading William Manchester's biography of Churchill (now that the final volume has been published) so have recently revisited the events related in this book.
I am reading William Manchester's biography of Churchill (now that the final volume has been published) so have recently revisited the events related in this book.
26Schmerguls
2466. Education Before Verdun, by Arnold Zweig Translated from the German by Eric Sutton (read 11 Oct 1992)
27hemlokgang
Nowhere Man by Rebecca York
29Schmerguls
4683. The Next Pope After Pope Benedict XVI, by Anura Guruge (read 12 Mar 2010)
A very timely book. I would say the last letter is H but if you feel it is I you might be right.
A very timely book. I would say the last letter is H but if you feel it is I you might be right.
31rolandperkins
". . .the last letter is H . . ." (29)
I vote yes. That it looks like an I is only an accident of
ancient Roman orthography.
I vote yes. That it looks like an I is only an accident of
ancient Roman orthography.
35Schmerguls
2728. Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition, by Norman H. Clark (read 6 Apr 1995)
39Boobalack
Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
by Bill Adler Jr.
by Bill Adler Jr.
40Schmerguls
2025. Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts, by Joseph Klaits (read 11 Oct 1986)
Best book I have read on the witch crze in Europe
Best book I have read on the witch crze in Europe
53SylviaC
I Would Rather Be a Turnip by Vera and Bill Cleaver
60starbox
Tono Bungay by H G Wells
61hemlokgang
The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares
62Schmerguls
1620. Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times, by James R. Mellow (read 11 Mar 1981) (National Book Award biography prize for 1983)
64rolandperkins
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
66Schmerguls
4305. The Race Beat The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (read 26 Apr 2007) (Pulitzer History prize in 2007)
70hemlokgang
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
80rolandperkins
World so Wide by Sinclair Lewis
83Schmerguls
2147. Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev, by Anthony D'Agostino (read 8 May 1988)
An unusual last letter, I think,
An unusual last letter, I think,
87Schmerguls
2914. The Seven Wonders of the World: A History of the Modern Imagination, by John & Elizabeth Romer (read 4 Oct 1996)
88hemlokgang
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character by Charles J. Sykes
90kellijean13
Ethan Frome by Edith Warton
97Schmerguls
2238. Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald (read 18 Oct 1989) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1988)
103starbox
Knitted Toys by Jean Greenhowe
107Schmerguls
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)
111hemlokgang
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
112Schmerguls
1072. The Three Popes: An Account of the Great Schism, by Marzieh Gail (read 6 Sep 1970)
A timely listing, now that Gregoruy XII has gotten all that publicity as the last Pope to resign before Benedict XVI.
A timely listing, now that Gregoruy XII has gotten all that publicity as the last Pope to resign before Benedict XVI.
116Schmerguls
3045. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry (read 16 Jan 1998) (Parkman Prize for 1998)
129hemlokgang
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
138starbox
Nip the buds, shoot the kids by Kenzaburo Oe}
139skoobdo
South of the Border,West of the Sun-Haruki Murakami
141Schmerguls
Wrong game, Denice. Playing on #139:
4420. The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin (read 19 Mar 2008)
4420. The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin (read 19 Mar 2008)
150hemlokgang
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
152skoobdo
Leave it to Psmith- P G Wodehouse
160Schmerguls
Playing on #152, which nobody has played on that I can see (also coincidentally on #159)
1058. Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (read 5 July 1970) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1970)
1058. Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (read 5 July 1970) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1970)
162starbox
Every day byDavid Leviathan
163Literate.Ninja
Y: a novel by Marjorie Celona
167Boobalack
//Oops. Sorry, Schmeguls. I must have been asleep at the keyboard. ;-} //
Rich Man, Poor Man
by Irwin Shaw
Rich Man, Poor Man
by Irwin Shaw
168skoobdo
Norwegian Wood-Haruki Murakami
169rolandperkins
"A Deep in the Sleep"
by Walt Kelly
by Walt Kelly
171hemlokgang
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
174Schmerguls
4524. Neither Black Nor White Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States, by Carl N. Degler (read 11 Jan 2009) (Pulitzer History prize in 1972) (Bancroft Prize in 1972)
175Denise54
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842- Nathaniel Philbrick
177bookwoman247
"O" would be the last letter of >175 Denise54:, from 1842 .. . "two".
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
184Denise54
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869- Stephen E. Ambrose
//E//
//E//
187Denise54
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective - Kate Summerscale
191starbox
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
194rolandperkins
Marxist Leadership in
the U. S.: Revolutionary Continuity; Birth of Communist Movement 1918-1922
by Farrell Dobbs
last letter: o
the U. S.: Revolutionary Continuity; Birth of Communist Movement 1918-1922
by Farrell Dobbs
last letter: o
195hemlokgang
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
198skoobdo
Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier
202skoobdo
The Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane
214Schmerguls
3243. The Yorkist Age: Daily Life during the Wars of the Roses, by Paul Murray Kendall (read 12 Sep 1999)
218skoobdo
The Yellow Admiral -Patrick O'Brian
220starbox
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens - read last year
227starbox
Elizabeth Costello by J M Coetzee
229Schmerguls
3220. Smith Wildman Brookhart: Iowa's Renegade Republican, by George William McDaniel (read 17 Jul 1999)
231starbox
The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
233skoobdo
Love In Tne Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
234rolandperkins
Shouldn't 233 begin with
D (from "...CumberlanD"
of 232) ?
D (from "...CumberlanD"
of 232) ?
235SylviaC
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
260skoobdo
A Space Odyssey-Arthur C Clarke
263Schmerguls
1390. Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times, by Paul Horgan (read 1 May 1976) (Pulitzer History prize in 1976)
265starbox
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
271Boobalack
Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations
by Peter Bogdanovich
by Peter Bogdanovich
280Schmerguls
playing on #277 (I don't udnerstand #278 and #279.)
2652. Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, by Joseph E. Persico (read 1 Oct 1994)
2652. Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, by Joseph E. Persico (read 1 Oct 1994)
282starbox
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
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