Use the last letter of previous posting to start your title - Part 28

How to play: Enter a book title which begins with the last letter of the previous entry. Ignore articles such as "A", "An" & "The". Please check your entry when you post it and try and use an original title (you can check conversations to see if a book has been used before). Use Touchstones where possible.

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic-Tom Holland

Cathy come Home by Jeremy Sandford

The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon (just finished it)

Last entry should begin with E (final letter of Cathy come home)

Playing on #1:

3455. Enemy at the Gates The Battle for Stalingrad, by William Craig (read 14 Jun 2001)

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (didn't see the 2nd part of #1)

Your Heart Belongs to Me
by Dean Koontz

The End by Lemony Snicket

Playing on #6, the last correct entry:

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

some might think this a kind of racy title?

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

//Oops! I did it again. (#7) Sorry.//

Exodus
by Leon Uris

Sutton by J. R. Moehringer (am reading now, is very good)

3413. The Nightingale's Song, by Robert Timberg (read 3 Mar 2001)

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark read 2006

Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
by William Faulkner

4649.Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America, by Adam Cohen (read 9 Dec 2009)

The Antipope by Robert Rankin

Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles

Under the Hill by Aubrey Beardsley

The Last Stand: A Novel About George Armstrong Custer and the Indians of the Plains
by Edwin P. Hoyt

Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell

rascals in paradise by james michener read in dec 2011

(this is any book title we can think of, or only books we've read?)

Eating my Words: An Appetite for Life by Mimi Sheraton (just finished)...Elisa, think could be either

Elisa, so do I.

Elephant Song
by Wilbur Smith

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

**this book made me laugh out loud!

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

There is a rule which indicates one should tell if and when s/he read the book. To me it seems kind of meaningless to go to a library website catalog and copy a book title--but I suppose this game is pretty meaningless anyway, though I usually try to list a book I wouldn't mind people pay attention to or read.

1376. Good-Bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War, by Rayne Kruger (read 29 Dec 1975)

I always post books I have read but don't usually remember when I read them. I think that's a suggestion, rather than a rule.

The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
by Edward Rutherfurd

For me, I have either read it or it lies in wait in Mt. TBR.

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

I think the last lettter in #29 is A so I am playing on that:

995. Asquith: Portrait of a Man and an Era, by Roy Jenkins (read 22 Jan 1969) (Book of the Year)

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin (read recently, loved it)

the novel by james michener, which i'll be reading as soon as i finish the book i'm currently on. (thanks for the help with the rules!)

Last Run
by Leonard B. Scott

Lady Addle Remembers: Being the Memoirs of Lady Addle of Eigg by Mary Dunn - read a few years back, quite amusing spoof memoir of Victorian aristocracy

Oh whoops, a tie: #34 got in first!

not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography edited by rebecca whisnant and christine clark. read june 2010

edited to fix touchstone

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (couple of years ago, when in my J D phase)

the girl with no shadow by joanne harris, also coming up on my tbr list

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

the fountainhead by ayn rand, my most favorite book. don't hate me, it's not for the philosophy.

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (MANY years ago)

5030. English Creek, by Ivan Doig (read 4 Jun 2013)

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Mistress of the Revolution by Catherine Delors

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

ender's game by orson scott card

Empire Falls by Richard Russo (read when first came out)

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner read 2006

midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (read years ago)

Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth
by Cedric H. Whitman*

*Knew author.

The Havana Room by Colin Harrison (great murder mystery)

The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

gone, baby, gone by dennis lehane; the first of his that i read

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo

3694. Lanterns on the Levee Recollections of a Planter's Son, by William Alexander Percy (read 7 Feb 2003)

The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

morgan's passing by anne tyler, read a month or two ago

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (a truly original theme)

The Expats by Chris Pavone

The Sun Also Rises by

Ernest Hemingway

3109. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, by Gary Kinder (read 9 Sep 1998)

another country by james baldwin, read first in 2000 or 2001 and it changed my life

The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch (also liked the movie....also really liked #66, 'Another Country')

You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

Easy by Tammara Webber

3770. The Yemassee, by William Gilmore Simms (read 20 July 2003)

The titles I have starting with Y have been used so many times I always hate to see a Y ending.

easter rising: a memoir of roots and rebellion by michael patrick macdonald read in march of this year

Neighborhood Watch
by Cammie McGovern

House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (loved that book)

sure of you by armistead maupin

75....? Playing off #74......

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

The Easter Parade: A Novel by

Richard Yates

Easter Island by Jennifer Venderbes

Dixie City Jam
by James Lee Burke

The Mad Ship by

Robin Hobb

Playing off #77, the last letter of the complete title as posted being L:

1940. London and the Great Fire, by John E. N. Hearsey (read 19 Aug 1985)

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

runaway by alice munro

Yesterday's Sun by Amanda Brooke

Nowhere Land by K A Applegate

Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
by Michio Kaku

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

174. Laura, by Vera Caspary (read 5 Feb 1945)

about schmidt by louis begley (read july 2011 and not recommended)

The Tax Inspector by

Peter Carey

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Sad Cypress by

Agatha Christie

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

Desperation by

Stephen King

2550. Nelson W. Aldrich A Leader in American Politics, by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson (read 7 Nov 1993)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

by Douglas Adams

Horowitz: His Life and Music
by Harold C. Schonberg

The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Stryon (loved it)

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

The English Patient by

Michael Ondaatje

4980. The Third Reich at War, by Richard J. Evans (read 2 Dec 2012)

Roman Blood by Steven Saylor

a dance with dragons by george rr martin

The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters (very disturbing book...if you like cats, DO NOT READ)

strip tease by carl hiaasen

Ergo by Jakov Lind

o jerusalem! by larry collins

1204. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (read 23 Dec 1972)

Orlando by Virginia Woolf (years ago)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay - read last year

Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

The Sinful Priest by Emile Zola

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson

The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy - read 2001

the running man by stephen king/richard bachman

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

youngblood hawke by herman wouk

Electra by Sophocles

artemis fowl by eoin colfer

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly

eagle strike by anthony horowitz

Eon by Greg Bear

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)

The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum

lullaby by chuck palahniuk

// y //

Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by his Father
by Ernesto Guevara Lynch

running with scissors by augusten burroughs

Sweetbitter Love
by Sappho
tr. by Willis Barnstone

Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Standpoint
by Edwin E. Moise

tough guys don't dance by normal mailer

Everyman Remembers
by Ernest Rhys

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

1763. Right-Hand Glove Uplifted: A Biography of Archbishop Michael Heiss, by Sister M. Mileta Ludwig, F.S.P.A. (read 30 Jan 1983)

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Going, Going, Gone! the Disappearing Art of the Trade in Major League Baseball
by Fran Zimniuch

the left hand of darkness by ursula leguin

Solo by Jack Higgins

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen

The Devil's Dictionary by

Ambrose Bierce

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)

The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins

david copper field by charles dickens; read in maybe 2003

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (sorry, just saw the movie)

The Execution of Private Slovik
by William Bradford Huie

kaaterskill falls by allegra goodman; read before i kept track

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

4941. The Years of Lyndon Johnson The Passage of Power, by Robert A. Caro (read 10 Jul 2012) (National Book Critics Circle biograpy award for 2012)

Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb

naked by david sedaris; read oct 2009

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

4464. The Dyess Story The Eye-Witness Account of the Death March From Bataan and the Narrative of Experiences in Japanese Prison Camps and of Eventual Escape, by Lt. Col. Wm. E. Dyess Edited, with a biographical introduction, by Charles Leavelle (read 27 Jul 2008)

Can't get Touchstone to include the subtitle, but the last letter of the entire title is E

The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan

dolores claiborne by stephen king; read before i was keeping track

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (read long ago...had to dig for that one...Elisa, #158 is one of my favorite Stephen King's)

you only live twice by ian fleming

(gemma - there are very few of his books that i haven't really liked. people don't give him enough credit; he's such a good writer!)

Even Their Names by Linda Bartnik

** on my TBR list

1973. The Seed and the Glory: The Career of Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, O.P., on the Mid-American Frontier, by Mary Ellen Evans (read 20 Jan 1986)

runaway ralph by beverly clear

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (great book, made into a great movie, 'The Haunting'...the first one)

Exodus
by Leon Uris

silas marner by george eliot

Raintree County by Ross Lockridge (years ago, made into a movie with Elizabeth Taylor, which I own)

Gemma, the full title o the book as listed on the title page is:

4213. Raintree County...which had no boundaries in time and space, where lurked musical and strange names and mythical and lost peoples, and which was itself only a name musical and strange, by Ross Lockridge, Jr. (read 25 Sep 2006)

but playing on the title as you list it:

567. Young Mr. Newman, by Maisie Ward (read 8 Feb 1959)

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian

#168, well I've only known it as Raintree County!!...thanks for accepting it....#169, I really disliked that C B book...maybe he should leave the spooky genre to Steven King

S is for Silent by Sue Grafton

tender is the night by f scott fitzgerald; read a few weeks ago

A Thousand Splendid Suns\
by Khaled Hosseini

the street lawyer by john grisham

4294. A Royal Affair George III and His Scandalous Siblings, by Stella Tillyard (read 4 Apr 2007)

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy

Notorious Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger Nabbed in California
by Associated Press

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

Roland, is #177 a book? And "Associated Press" an author of the book??

But, assuming #177 is a book, and therefore playing on #178:

3116. Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, by Ron Rosenbaum (read 1 Oct 1998)

Leading with My Heart: My Life
by Virginia Kelley

3688. Edward the First, by Professor T. F. Tout (read 28 Jan 2003)

tales of the city by armistead maupin; read sept 2011

The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Year We Left Home
by Jean Thompson

east of eden by john steinbeck; read before i kept track, around 1996 or 1997

Now by Morris Gleitzman

Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte

Something Happened by

Joseph Heller

2460. Dreadnought Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, by Robert K. Massie (read 7 Sep 1992) (Book of the Year)

The reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - read last year

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee; most recently reread last year

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - read 2000

affinity by sarah waters; read oct 2009

Your Lover Just Called by John Updike - read about 2000

The Dragon Queen
by Alice Borchardt

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

New York by Edward Rutherford

4550. Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific by Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl translated by F. H. Lyon (read 26 Mar 2009)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford - read 2003

The Dragon Reborn
by Robert Jordan

I think #196 should have started with "Y". So playing off #195.......

Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You are right, hemlokgang, and I should not have played on #196. Playing on #202:

3872. Do Cats Think? Notes of a cat-watcher, by Paul Corey (read 5 Apr 2004)

Reading New York by John Tytell

The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini