Alphabet of Books You've Read, Part 8

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:

Zen and the Art of Murder by Elizabeth Cosin, played by @Denise54

Next title should begin with A.

Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Centaur by John Updike

Dessa Rose by Sherley A Williams

East of Eden-John Steinbeck

1647. From Castlereagh to Gladstone 1815-1885, by Derek Beales (read 23 July 1981)

Germinal by Emile Zola

Herodotus with an English Translation
by Herodotus (Greek text, Ionic dialect, with a tr. by A. P. Godley)

The Illustrated Man-Ray Bradbury

Next: J

2473. July 1914 The Long Debate, 1918-1990, by John W. Langdon (read 14 Nov 1992)

NEXT: K

A Kid for two farthings by Wolf Mankowitz (read 2012)

Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy - finished 3/3/2013

Mr Weston's Good Wine by T.F. Powys

Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell

Next: O

Ovid III: Metapmorphoses I-VIII with an Enlgish Translation by Frank Justus Miller
NEXT: P

759. Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy (read 21 Dec 1963) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1953)

NEXT: Q

Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

NEXT: R

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

Chinese holocaust during the Japanese's Occupation in Mainland
China during the 1930's era. Interesting to read.Well documental.

Next: S

Sanditon by Jane Austen

NEXT: T

A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

319. The Uniform of Glory, by Percival Christopher Wren (read 29 Mar 1947)

NEXT: V

The Village by Ivan Bunin read earlier this year

The Woman In White-Wilkie Collins

Next: X, Y, Z

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

NEXT: y OR z OR a

Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts- read in 2009

4539. Zlata's Diary A Child's Life in Sarajevo, by Zlata Filipovic translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric (read 22 Feb 2009)

NEXT: A

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

next B

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - 2/10/2013

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry - 1/11/2013

419. The Enormous Room, by E. E. Cummings (read 17 Mar 1952)

Frost in May by Antonia White

1361. George Eliot: A Biography, by Gordon S. Haight (read 15 Oct 1975)(James Tait Black Memorial biography prize for 1968)

Helen by Maria Edgeworth

I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith

NEXT: J

Joe DiMaggio: the Heroʻs Life
by Richard Ben Cramer

Kane and Abel-Jeffrey Archer

376. Lady into Fox, by David Garnett (read 30 Jul 1950)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1922)

An unforgettable book.

The Manchester Marriage and other stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

1893. The New Men, by C. P. Snow (read 20 Dec 1984)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1954)

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

The Quest-Wilbur Smith

Riders from Long Pines
by Ralph Cotton

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 true story of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey read 2012

The Unquiet by John Connolly

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

When I Was Young-Raymond Massey

NEXT: X, Y, Z

// Y //

You Know me, Al
by Ring Lardner

Zoo by James Patterson

Articles on Tolstoy
by Vladimir I. Lenin

Bleak House-Charles Dickens

Next: C

1527. Chateaubriand: A Biography Volume I (1768-93) The Longed-For Tempests, by George D. Painter (read 11 July 1979)(James Tait Black Memorial biography prize for 1977)

NEXT: D

Doktor Glass by Thomas Brennan - novel, steampunk, finished 1/19/2013

3204. The Eighth Day, by Thornton Wilder (read 5 Jun 1999) (National Book Award arts and letters prize for 1967)

NEXT: F

Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

386. The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (read 5 Jul 1951)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1929)

NEXT: H

The Hidden Life of Deer: Lessons from the Natural World by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

394. I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, by Monica Baldwin (read 19 Nov 1951)

NEXT: J

Jade Tiger by Jenn Reese - novel, Fantasy, 3/24/2013

Kidnapped-Robert Louis Stevenson

2759. Louis XVII: The Unsolved Mystery, by H. G. Francq (read 17 Jun 1995)

NEXT: M

The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton

Nowhere to Run by C. J. Box

Oliver's Story-Erich Segal

Next: P

Die Plebaer proben den AUfstand / The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising
by Bertolt Brecht

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Rabbit Redux by John Updike

Sula by Toni Morrison

3484. the time of the doves a novel by Merce Rodoreda Translated by Donald H. Rosenthal (read 6 Sep 2001)

The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann

Next: V

Vanitas by S. P. Somtow

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Next: X ; Y ; Z

skipping X

4700. You Know These Lines! A Bibliography of the Most Quoted Verses in American Poetry, by Merle Johnson (read 24 Apr 2010)

NEXT; Z OR A

Adam Bede by George Eliot

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

We are not even giving a chance to the hard letters...

Calculated in Death by J. D. Robb - novel, SF/romance, 3/5/2013

Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 by Christopher Collier

1935. Empire of the Sun A Novel by J. G. Ballard (read 11 Jul 1985)(Co-winner of James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1984)

I have two titles which start with X and I have used them so often I am sick of them--that's why I skipped X but I agree I should have waited at least 24 hours for others eager to use their X starting title

NEXT: F

From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman

I had another Z title but I didn't get back in time. Maybe next time.

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

4933. Heaven and Hell The War Diary of a German Paratrooper, by Martin Poppel translated from the German by Dr. Louise Willmot (read 11 Jun 2012)

NEXT: I

Indelible by Karin Slaughter

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth , William McKinley and me by E.L. Konigsburg (many years ago!)

2517. Knaves, Fools and Heroes In Europe Between the Wars, by Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (read 11 Jul 1993)

NEXT: L

Love and Will by Rollo May

My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong

Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens

1443. Obermann Selections From Letters To a Friend (Volume One), by Etienne Pivert de Senancour Chosen and translated by Jessie Peabody Frothingham (read 6 Apr 1977)

NEXT: P

Phineas Finn by AnthonyTrollope (read about 6 years ago when I read all the 'Pallisers' novels)

5009. Queen Victoria's Children, by John Van der Kiste (read 26 Mar 2013)

At least I know I've not used this previously because I never use a title I have not read in full

The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck, read a zillion years ago

Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola - read a couple of times; was less good on the second reading!

Unlocking the Air, a collection of short stories by Ursula K LeGuin. Read a couple of years ago. Not her best.

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby

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

NEXT; X, and if after a reasonable time there is no play, then Y

The Zolta Configuration by David Quammen

Agnes by Peter stamm read last year

5004. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain (read 11 Mar 2013) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2012)

Read an article yesterday speculating on the Pulitzer fiction winner--to be announced on Monday at 3 PM EDT, and this was mentioned as a possible winner. Since I read all such winners, if it wins I have one less book to read.

Castleview by Gene Wolfe. Read several times since 1998.

Drop City by T. C. Boyle.

Read in 2009, after a friend gave it to me.

The Ersatz Elevator- Lemony Snicket

Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss

The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia by Robert Suggs

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

1484. Jefferson the President: Second Term 1805-1809 Jefferson and His Time Volume Five, by Dumas Malone (read 23 Apr 1978) (Pulitzer History prize in 1975)

NEXT: K

Keep the Aspidistra flying by George Orwell read many years ago

The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

read July 2011

Natural and Other Stories about Contemprary Hawaiians
by Leialoha Apo Perkins

2987. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack N. Rakove (read 7 Jun 1997) (Pulitzer History prize in 1997)

NEXT: P

Percy Jackson and the Lighning Thief by Rick Riodan

The Quantum World
by John Polkinghorne

NEXT: R

894. Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott (read 3 Mar 1967)

NEXT: S

Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide - re-read this year after 'doing' it at school 35 years ago

A Tale of Two Cities by the Chuckster. Read in 1969 or '70.

3705. Ulysses, by James Joyce (read 26 Feb 2003)

NEXT: V

virago Book of Love and Loss by Georgina Hammick read 1997

What if they find us? Kathy Clarke

Skipping X

3274. Young Thomas Hardy - Thomas Hardy's Later Years, by Robert Gittings (read 4 Dec 1999)(Thomas Hardy's Later Years: James Tait Black Memorial biography prize for 1978)

NEXT: Z or A

Skipping Z

The Appointment by Herta Muller - read earlier this year; spine chilling but very subtle novel set in Ceaucescu's Romania

The Best of Robert Benchley: 72 timeless Stories of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy illus. by Peter Arno (et al.)

NEXT: C

1588. Cyrus Clay Carpenter and Iowa Politics 1859-1898, by Mildred Throne (read 25 Sep 1980)

NEXT: D

Demian by Hermann Hesse - currently reading

Everville by Clive Barker

Next: F

2302. Fishbait: The Memoirs of the Congressional Doorkeeper, by William "Fishbait" Miller As told to Frances Spatz Leighton (read 2 Jul 1990)

NEXT: G

The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun - read recently, lovely book

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Next: I

1392. The Impending Crisis 1848-1861, by David M. Potter Completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher (read 15 May 1976) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer History prize in 1977)

"Book of the Year" means it was the best book I read in 1976.

NEXT: J

The Jungle Book, read numerous times since 1960 or so.

Kleopatra by Karen Essex

Lucifer with a Book
by John Horne Burns

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

804. Northanger Abbey & Persuasion by Jane Austen (read 18 May 1965)

NEXT: O

Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton

Pillion Riders by Elizabeth Russell Taylor - read last year

Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling

Ruling Chiefs of Hawai'i
by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau

1749. The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, by Steven Runciman (read 7 Nov 1982) (Book of the Year)

NEXT: T

The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy

Under Witch Moon by Maria E. Schneider

The Village by Ivan Bunin - read this year

4425. The Wreck of the Medusa The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century, by Jonathan Miles (read 2 Apr 2008)

NEXT: X or Y

The Xander Years, Volume 1 by Keith R. A. DeCandido

Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk

2246. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Defender of Liberty and Law, by Donald L. Smith (read 11 Nov 1989)

NEXT: A

Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

5018. Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley (read 26 Apr 2013)

NEXT: D

Dodger by Terry Pratchett

1388. Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R. W. B. Lewis (read 20 Apr 1976) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1976) (National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction award for 1975) (Bancroft Prize in 1976)

NEXT; F

Faceless Killers, the first Kurt Wallander mystery by Henning Mankell, read 2010

The Go-Between, by Hartley, L.P., read in 2011

2191. Haworth Parsonage: A Picture of the Bronte Family, by Isabel C. Clarke (read 27 Feb 1989)

NEXT: I

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Jennie Gerhardt by Theodor Dreiser

Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe: A.D. 700--1100
by P. H. Sawyer

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin - read 2008

Night Blooming by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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)

NEXT: P

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

5009. Queen Victoria's Children, by John Van der Kiste (read 26 Mar 2013)

NEXT: R

Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - just started

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon by Nick Trout

Up the Trail from Texas by J. Frank Dobie - one of the few books that I still have from childhood.

4614. The Vertigo Years Europe, 1900-1914, by Philipp Blom (read 2 Sep 2009)

NEXT: W

We think the World of You by J R Ackerley - read earlier this year

X Files Book of the Unexplained Volume 1 by Jane Goldman

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna read last year

4539. Zlata's Diary A Child's Life in Sarajevo, by Zlata Filipovic translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric (read 22 Feb 2009)

NEXT; A

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Bernice bobs her hair and other stories by F Scott Fitzgerald

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford

Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers

Fire by Sebastian Junger

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News by Drew Curtis

322. Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann (read 13 Apr 1947)

NEXT: K

Killing Floor by Lee Child

1736. Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1890's, edited by Joyce G. Williams - J. Eric Smithburn - M. Jeanne Peterson (read 2 Aug 1982)

NEXT: M

The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo Da Vinci ed. by
Jean Paul Richter

NEXT: O

One More Day by Mitch Albom (read 2/10/08)

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

NEXT: Q

Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A. E. Moorat

//it'd help if I knew my alphabet ;) //

Room by Emma Donoghue (read 11-20-10)

Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

741.Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, by Francis Russell (read 30 June 1963)

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

3210. Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (read 21 Jun 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1984)

Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

(assuming X, Y OR Z
is next, and skipping X):

The Yoga of Jesus
by Paramahansa Yogananda

Next Z or A

Ann Veronica by HG Wells

5024. A Blaze of Glory A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, by Jeff Shaara (read 13 May 2013)

How's that for being right up to the present?

NEXT: C

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew (read Jul 2, 2011)

Encyclopedia of Major
League Baseball: American League Team Histories
by Peter Bjarkman

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming

2451. A German Odyssey The Journal of a German Prisoner of War by Helmut Horner Translated and Edited by Allan Kent Powell (read 15 June 1992)

NEXT: H

Honest Souls by Grazia Deledda

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs (read Apr 7, 2009)

The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

5002. The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill Defender of the Realm 1940-1965, by William Manchester and Paul Reid (read 7 Mar 2013)

NEXT: M

The Master of Sunnybank: A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune by Irving Litvag

Night Work by Laurie R. King

Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

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

NEXT: R

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

Sylvia's lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America by Jon T. Coleman

395. The Woman of Rome, by Alberto Moravia (read 25 Nov 1951)

NEXT: X, Y, Z, or A

Young Mrs. Savage by D. E. Stevenson

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