Jung's Revenge: Word Association # 5

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.
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S Vikram Seth India
K Yasunari Kawabata Japan
A Chingiz Aitmatov Kyrgyzstan
H Mohsin Hamid Pakistan
M Ma Jian China

Next: 5 fictions featuring a reflexive pronoun (myself etc) in title

Revive the game.

OK: 5 fictions featuring a kind of toy in the title

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Room at the Top by John Braine
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Teddy Bear by Georges Simenon
Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury

Next: 5 fictions with a landscape feature in the title.

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llwellyn

My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon

Next: Name The Titles Of Opera featuring these characters:
1) Tamino , a prince Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2) Ramfis, high priest of Egypt Guiseppe Verdi
3) Goro, a marriage broker Giacomo Puccini
4) Hobson,a carrier and village constable Benjamin Britten
5) Bartolo, a doctor Gioacchino Rossini

Give the titles in English.

1. The Magic Flute
2. Aida
3. Madame Butterfly
4. Peter Grimes
5. The Barber of Seville

NEXT: 5 works written in Middle English, excluding The Canterbury Tales.

The House of Fame by
Geoffrey Chaucer

Confessio Amantis
by John Gower

Piers Ploughman by
William Langland

Havelok the Dane
(Anonymous)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Anonymous)

NEXT: Alphabetical order by author, with no repeats of an initial letter: 5 literary or historical works by 5 different authors in 5 centuries: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st.
Centuries can be out of order, provided all 5 of the above are included.

Message No. 6: All answers correct.

". . . 6: all answers are correct."

Thanks, @silverfish999. Are you going to set the "NEXT"?

No need. "Next" is set in #7, which correctly followed #6.

Negative.

The "NEXT" is set in *7

Some of the other threads have gotten me all mixed up on who does set the
NEXT" (and when)!
You are right, @jbbarret. I did already set it in #7. I meant to ask @silverfish if he or she was solving &7, not ask about setting
the "NEXT".

Quiz set in Message 7-

Still in Play Mode

17th - C - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
18th - D - Daniel Defoe - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
19th - E - George Eliot - Middlemarch
20th - F - E M Forster - A Passage to India
21st - G - John Grisham - Bleachers

Next: 5 works of fiction by different authors, each with a different aspect or body of water in the title, excluding the word "water" itself even as part of the word (so "Watership Down" would not be allowed).

e.g. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway

The Lake House by James Patterson
Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell
Still Glides the Stream by Flora Thompson
The Devil's pool by George Sand
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

NEXT: 5 fictions each featuring a meal in title eg: Absinthe for Elevenses by Wendy Perriam

Breakfast at Tiffanyʻs
by Truman Capote

Tea with Mussolini
(screenplay?) by
Franco Zefferelli

Naked Lunch by
William Burroughs

The Secret Supper; a novel
by Javier Sierra

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler

NEXT: 5 Fictions WITH
a food in the title and WITHOUT any name of a meal.

Ah! Roland, you beat me to it while I was composing my list. Four of them the same as yours. The only difference was I had Tea with Mr Rochester by Francis Towers.

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P. G. Wodehouse
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles by Beatrix Potter
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

NEXT: 5 fictions each with a financial item in the title.

The Mint by T.E. Lawrence
Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney
A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
Doctor on Loan by Marion Lennox

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a type of currency in the title

Ten Guineas on Love
by Alice Thornton

Green Grow the Dollars
by Emma Lathen

The Twelve Pound Look
by James M. Barrie

A Fine of Two Hundred Francs by Elsa Triolet

Swords, and Crowns, and Rings
by Ruth Park

NEXT: Your FIVE Favorite Persons in History --
all countries, all fields of endeavors welcome. They donʻt have to be celebrities;
in fact the less celebrated the better.
5 is just a minimum; feel free to post as many (or as few, if it was my listing) as
25.

I'll take a stab at this...

1. I, Claudius by Robert Graves {Augustus Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Emperor of Rome from 10 BC to 54 AD}

2. The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault {Alexander the Great}

3. The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

4. Dorothy Parker Stories by Dorothy Parker

5. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

These aren't all nonfiction but they all have the name of a real person in the title.

I set the next theme, right? I will start off with an easy one - 5 works of historical fiction, each with a different color in the title

The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Goddess of the Green Room by Jean Plaidy
The Golden Warrior by Hope Muntz
The King's Grey Mare by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian

Next: 5 fictions each with name of a river in title

5 English rivers:

The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages by Robert Fossier
Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

Next: 5 more fictions each with name of a river, other than UK rivers, in title.

And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton
The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver

>29 starbox: starbox, you need to set the next theme

Sorry: 5 fictions each featuring name of one of the world's great lakes

Lord St. Claire's Angel
by Donna Simpson

"Up in Michigan"
by Ernest Hemingway

Superior Women
by Alice Adams

The Ring Buster: a storyof the Erie Canal
by Eric Kimmel

Wrong Turn at Tahoe
by Franck Khalfoun

NEXT: Five Fictions that have
a Nation's name or a U.S. state's
name in the title. Second named
MUST BORDER ON the 1st named,
3rd named border on the 2nd, and
so on. e.g. ...Pennsylvania >
. . . West Virginia > Ohio. . .
Indiana... >. . . Illinois. (The
name may come anywhere in
the title.)

A Texas Sky by Lori wick
Oklahoma Sweetheart by Carolyn Davidson
Kansas in August by Patrick Gale
Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal
The Princesses of Iowa by M. Molly Backes

wonderful game - needed my atlas for that!
Let's continue it with adjoining countries next time.

My Life in France by Julia Child
Asterix in Switzerland by René Goscinny
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
Under The Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria by Joan Haslip

but not all of these are fiction - is that acceptable?

"not all . . . .are fiction -- is that acceptable?" (33)

Acceptable to me.

I did say "5 fictions" in the rules (32), on the grounds that allowing non-fictions would make it too easy --
would bring in text books,
popular travel books, etc. In general, though, I donʻt like having a "Fiction Only" rule in these literary games. The "Vanna" game used to be the only one that had that rule. Now, some of the newer ones,also.
So, I would say go ahead and set the "NEXT".

OK, 5 books each with a different mode of transportation in the title

The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and a Gun
by Sebastien Japrisot

The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck

Der Zug war Punktlich / The Train was on Time
by Henrich Boll

Airplane

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

NEXT: 5 authors of 5 different nationalities, with one title each.

3 from the letters A - L (AUTHORSʻ SURNAMES)
and 2 from the
letters M - Z.*
The TITLES should start with a letter in the Opposite HALF of the alphabet from the authorʻs name.

*I realize that M-Z has more letters than A - L. (But it also has more "hard letters"). I was going by where the halfway point comes in my own collections.

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby - England
Honore Balzac - Ursule Mirouet - France
Dezso Kostolanyi - Skylark - Hungary

John Steinbeck - East of Eden - USA
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks - Germany

Next: as I'm off on hols to Germany in a couple of days, 5 fictions each featuring a German town in title

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood - Berlin
Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo - Munich
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie - Frankfurt
Silence in Hanover Close by Anne Perry - Hanover
The Bremen Town Musicians by The Brothers Grimm - Bremen

Have a good trip! :)

Next: 5 fictions each with a different type of tree in the title

Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines
by Louis LʻAmour

Desire under the Elms
by Eugene OʻNeill

Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson

Berlin Poplars
by Anne Ragde

The House by the Medlar Tree
by Giuseppe Verga

NEXT: 5 Author/Title pairs
in alphabetical order with
the initial of the TITLE the same as of the authorʻs SURNAME. Start anywhere in the alphabet, but SKIP at least 3 letters between entries.
E.g. 1. a D-author, with a D-title: Charles DICKENS:
DOMBEY and Son. Then (2): exclude E, F, and G; the
next author should start with
H or any later letter.

Atwood Margaret - Alias Grace
English Isobel - Every Eye
Lampedusa Giuseppe - The Leopard
Plaidy Jean - Princess of Celle
Twain Mark - Tom Sawyer

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring name of a book of the Old Testament in title

Exodus: Exodus by Leon Uris

Judges: The Judges of the Secret Court
by David Stacton

Kings: Kings Row*
by Henry Bellaman

Shemoth/ Names: The Names# by Don De Lillo

Song of Songs
which is Solomon's: Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison

Chronicles: The Chronicles of Clovis
by Saki

NEXT: 5 Fiction titles in which "FORBIDDEN
LETTERS" are thr rule, as in the "Vanna" Game
The Forbidden letters of (2) are all the initial letters of (1)
All initial letters of (2) are Forbidden in (3) etc.

Forbidden letters of (1) are: E, M and R

*I'm pretty sure the "Kings" of this
title is a plural, not a
possessive singular (King's).
After all, Touchstones has no
trouble with it, which they would
have with the apostrophe of
the possessive.

# "Shemoth", meaning "Names" is
the Hebrew title of Exodus.
Since I used "Exodus" twice under
2 titles, I'm giving 6 titles
instead of 5.

Clarification requested! The first book title is supposed to be for a work of fiction and cannot contain the letters E, M, or R - is that right?

42>43

Clarification:
Yes, the 1st book should be fiction and NOT contain
E, M, or R. The others (which should also be fiction) get their "Forbidden letters" from the initial letters of each word in the previous title.

August Folly by Angela Thirkell (no E, M, R)
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart (no A, F)
Summer Half by Angela Thirkell (no I, T)
Going, Going, Gone by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (no S, H)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (no G)

These are books I read between 8/28/2012 - 9/15/2012

Next: 5 books each having a different type of dance in the title

Orlando Bloom has Ruined Everything: a FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend

The Last Waltz
by Nancy Zaroulis

Last Tango in Paris
by Robert Alley

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Rumba on the River: a History of the popular Music of the two Congos
by Gary Stewart

NEXT: Five fictions with a
Nation, State or Province
in the title:
ALPHABETIC order, starting anywhere BUT SKIPPING at least 3 letters before the initial of the next entry.
example: The S -name >
the W name > the A -name
the E name > the I name

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
Indiana by George Sand
The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes
Rhode Island Blues by Fay Weldon
Virginia by Ellen Glasgow

I've only used states, so next game as detailed in #46, but countries only

England Made me by Graham Greene
skipping E, F, G, H>

Iceland's Bells
by Halldor Laxness
skipping J, K, L >

The Mauritius Command
by Patrick O'Brien
skipping N, O, P, Q, R>

A Dream in Spain by Barbara Cartland
skipping T, U, V>

Catrin in Wales by Mabel E. Allan

NEXT: Make a list of authentic little-used MIDDLE NAMES
(or abandoned FIRST names) by matching
the numbered 1-word names with the 5 of the 10 items identified by letter

1. Arlington

A. George "Babe" Ruth

2. Delano

B. George Bush (2nd Bush presidency)

3. Horatio

C. Albert Johnston, Confederate general

4. John

D. Franklin Roosevelt

5. Wilson

E. Calvin Coolidge

F. Rutherford Hayes

G. Spangler Brugh (aka Robert Taylor)

H. Ronald Reagan

I. Hubert Humphrey

J. Frances Keyes, novelist

I had these in 2 columns on
a public computer. Returned home and found they had
been relegated to a very narrow screen. So I had to list them vertically.
The A - J items contain 5 unmatched full names and
5 matches with the
1 - 5 items

Spangler ARLINGTON Brugh

Franklin DELANO Roosevelt

Hubert HORATIO Humphrey

JOHN Calvin Coolidge

Ronald WILSON Reagan

NEXT: Five novels about movies/movie making.

1. Hollywood by Charles Bukowski

2. Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins

3. The Comedy Writer by Peter Farrelly

4. Laughing Gas by P G wodehouse

5. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal

Next: Five fiction book titles/authors about United States of American's Civil War/Slavery background stories.

The "NEXT" of 51 appears to have been too difficult, so I am changing it to:

NEXT:
FIVE fictions with a U. S. setting, at least one being in 3 different centuries: 19th c., 20th c.,
and 21st c.

(e. g. 3 that are 20th and one each of 19th and 21st, etc., is okay -- or any other combination as long as there is at least one for 19th, 20th and 21st.)

21st century:
1) The Selected Works of TS Spivet by Reif Larsen
2) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

20th century
3) A death in the Family by James Agee
4) Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

19th century
5) The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce

Next; 5 fictions, each featuring a word you might find in a knitting pattern!

As there are no knitters out there, I'll attempt this one

Eve's Rib by Bryn Chandler
Spaniel in a Stocking by Ben M Baglio
My Lady's Garter by Jacques Futrelle
Cable Car Murder by Elizabeth Atwood Taylor
The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion by Carolyn Keene

(Rib, Stocking, Garter, Cable and Moss stitch respectively)

NEXT: 5 fictions each with a Greek or Roman god/ goddess in title

Flora* Segunda
by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Challenge to Venus
by Charles Morgan

Juno and the Paycock
by Sean O' Casey

Minerva Wakes
by Holly Lisle

Cybele by Joyce Carol Oates

*A not-too-celebrated goddess even by the Romans;
she appears in the Fasti of
Ovid and in not many other sources.

NEXT:
FIVE titles (ficition OR non-fiction)* with alternating
masculline and feminine names somewhere IN the title (does NOT have to be the first word).
Alphabetical first letters, skipping at least 2 letters from the last initial used:
e.g.
... Beth 2. Eddie . . .
3. . . . Helen . . .
4. . . .Ken 5. . . .Nora . . .

*Non-Fiction: EXCLUDING biographies, which might make it too easy.

Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery

I am David by Anne Holm

Hester by Margaret Oliphant

Phinehas Finn by Anthony Trollope

Zoe: The History of Two Lives by Geraldine Jewsbury

Next: 5 fictions each featuring an English county in title

Wild Grows the Heather in Devon
by Michael Phillips

Sussex Gorse
by Sheila Kaye-Smith

A Dorset Girl
by Janet Woods

The Yorkshire Pudding Club
by Milly Johnson

The Hampshire Hoyden
by Millicent Martin

NEXT:
FIVE common* masculine# forenames that have NEVER been a
U. S. president's name nor a British monarch's name.

*"Common": e.g. "Vortigern" and "Cadwallader" would not be eligible. Nor Biblical nor
Classical Greco-ROman names.
Birth forenames that were
dropped for political life are
eligible (there were at least 2 such U. S. cases.)

#Not allowing feminine names, because that would make it too easy, since all U. S. presidents and
all but 2 British monarchs
since 1066 have been males.

Good question! Thought Alan would be a dead cert till I checked it out and found it was a presidential name!

Bernard
Derek
Ernest
Gary
Kevin

Next: 5 countries of the world whose final 2 letters don't include a vowel or 'y'

Denmark
New Zealand
Egypt
Luxembourg
Bangladesh

Next: 5 countries of the world whose first 2 letters don't include a vowel.

Czech Republic
Slovakia
Myanmar
Greece
Thailand

Next: 5 fictional detectives created before 1940.

C. Auguste Dupin (1841)
Franklin Blake (1868)
Sherlock Holmes (1887)
Sexton Blake (1893)
Hercule Poirot (1920)

Next: 5 fictional spies, secret agents, or similar, created before 1940.

Ashenden; or: the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham

The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad


The Great Impersonation
by E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers

The Thirty-nine Steps
by John Buchan

a 6th, in case one of the above did not get under the
1940 deadline wire:
Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad

NEXT: 5 named fictional or dramatic characters*
(other than a TITLE NAME)
of 5 different nationalities
showing the ODD-NUMBERED
letters of the alphabet in their first initial )forename OR surname)
E.G. "Antonio" (Italian) of The Merchant of Venice is eligible; "Darius" (Iranian) of The Persians NOT eligible
(D: FOURTH, so EVEN-numbered letter.)

MEURSAULT (9 letters) in The Outsider by Albert Camus - ALGERIA
FAGIN (5 letters) in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - ENGLAND
VALJEAN (7 letters) in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - FRANCE
LUO (3 letters) in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie - CHINA
AHMAD (5 letters) in Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz - EGYPT

NEXT: same question (#63) but featuring female characters only this time

>63 starbox: Is that what Roland was asking for? I understood that the first letter of the name was to be even-numbered in the alphabet, so F, L, and V (being 6th, 12th, and 22nd) would not count. Certainly the number of letters in Roland's example are 7 for the acceptable answer and 6 for not acceptable.
Now I'm confused.

My rule (in 62) was ambiguous: I didn't mean to say anything about number of letter IN the
name -- only whether its INITIAL was odd- or -even numbered in the alphabet. So, you're right, @jbarrett, (63>64)
that the F, L and V initials are NOT eligible. "Meursault
. . .>Valjean also violates the
"5 different nationalities" rule unless you count Meursault as Algerian, not French; I see now that @starbox did say "ALGERIAN"
but that definition would make Camus himself Algerian, which he is rarely counted as.

(I paid no attention to the number of letters in my examples, because of not thinking that number of letters had anything to do with rules.)

I don't see anything, reading it over, that would
make total number of letters
significant. But I have put in a disclaimer about that and have re-written the rule to say ". . .
each showing an odd-numbered letter of the alphabet as its INITIAL(forename OR surname. . . ."

A: Gustav von Aschenbach - Death in Venice -German
G: Tonya Gromeko - Doctor Zhivago - Russian
M: Mathieu - The Age of Reason - French
Q: Queequeg - Moby-Dick - Polynesian
S: Halvard Solness - The Master Builder - Norwegian

NEXT: As suggested by Starbox in #63, the same question but featuring female characters only.

"Atossa" The Persians* Iranian

'Carrie" Sister Carrie U. S.

"Elizabeth Bennett" Pride and Prejudice U. K.

"Io" Prometheus Bound
Greek

"Molly Tweedy Bloom" Uysses Irish

*Though the play is Greek (Aeschylus), the character is Iranian.

NEXT: FIVE Character List,
@starbox style, as in 63 above: all odd number of letters or* all even number of letters, all male or* all female.

*Announce which it is: all odd OR all even; all f. OR
all m.

Changing the "NEXT" of this thread:

List FIVE presidents, monarchs or other chiefs of State, masc. or fem.
alphabetically.
Start anywhere in the alphabet but skip at least one INITIAL letter between each post and the next.
e.g. if the C-name is Christina, Queen f Sweden,
the NEXT can begin with
E or any later letter, e.g. Elizabeth II . . .

Bhumibol Adulyadej - King of Thailand
Harald V - King of Norway
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck - king of Bhutan
Margarethe II - Queen of Denmark
Willem-Alexander - King of Netherlands

NEXT: as in #68 except not monarchs but only presidents / chiefs of state

Charles DeGaulle President of France, 1958--1970

Millard Fillmore U.S. President, early 1850s, having previoiusly been deceased Pes. Zachary Taylor's running mate. California entered the Union during his tenure.

Johnson: name of 2 U. S. presidents: Andrew 04/1865
-- 03/1869 and Lyndon B.
11/1963--01/1969

Sejanus strong man* in
Roman princeps Tiberius's
government

Francisco "Pancho" Villa
de facto President of Mexico,
(but not universally recognized), 2nd decade of the 20th c.
oddly, he was assassinated in 1920 AFTER having reached a modus vivendi with his succesors.

*Sejanus was strictly speaking by modern standards a de facto Chief of Government, while Tiberius was Chief of State, but the two titles hadn't been invented yet.

NEXT: FIVE writers, any nationality, who are better
known for some other field of endeavour than for their writng. Name the better-known field. E. g. Jim Bouton baseball; Richard Burton acting. (no alphabetic order requirements here. )

Winston Churchill - better known as Britain's wartime prime minister although he won Nobel Prize for literature
Madonna - pop star who has also published children's books
Queen Victoria - long serving British monarch who published her Highland journals
Nelson Mandela - famous for his political achievements but he's also written several books
Neil Armstrong - astronaut who also had books published

Next: 5 novels each featuring a breed of dog in title

Mongrel
by K. Z. Snow

Scotty and the Mysterious Message by Betty Swinford

The Labrador Fiasco
by Margaret Atwood

Terrier of the Lost Mines
by Brad Strickland

In Cuba, I was a German Shepherd
by Ana Menendez

FIVE fictions (novel, short stories, drama or long poem)
mentioning a mammal in the title;
with 5 different initial letters (title), and EXCLUDING
human beings, dogs, and cats.

Poor Cow by Nell Dunn
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Lady into Fox by David Garnett
His Monkey Wife by John Collier
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

NEXT:
Question as in #72 but this time with a bird in the title.
(Sorry, Roland, I'm lacking in inspiration, and you think up such good questions!)

The First Eagle
by Tony Hillerman

Goshawk Squadron
by Derek Robinson

Murder Among the OWLS
by Bill Crider

The Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
by Minnesota Crime Wave

Wild Geese: Selected Poems
by Mary Oliver

To Fyrfly:
74
/
What is the "NEXT" ?

(oops ... sorry)

Next: 5 books with a light source in the title

Flashlight by Betsy James
The sign of the twisted candles by Carolyn Keene
Fire by Kristen Cashore
star by Danielle Steel
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Next: 5 titles with a musical instrument in the title

The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Fourth Side of the Triangle by Ellery Queen
Poems of Banjo Paterson by A. B. Paterson

Next: 5 novels with a musical note, or musical notation term, in the title.

Aria da Capo: a Play in One Act by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dead in D Minor
by David Crossman

Murder in C Major
by Sara Hoskinson Frommer

Murder in E Minor
by

The G-String Murders
by Gypsy Rose Lee

NEXT: FIVE fictions (novel, short story, drama or long poem are all all right)
dealing with 5 different professions, with the profession being shown in the title; e.g. Art>Baseball>
Dance>Music> Rodeo.
(No alphabetic order requirements)

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll

Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer

Next: 5 fictional murders, or other crimes, with an emotion in the title.

I overlooked the "murder or other crimes" requirement when I listed # 1-5. Adding
3 titles now to make up for
the Sayers title's (5) and the Lee title's (2) being crimeless (unless you think the title Garbage Delight is aesthetically criminal enough.)

1. (Anxiety) Anxious Pleasures: a novel after Kafka
by Lance Olsen

1a. (Anger) A Kind of Anger
by Eric Ambler

2. (Delight) Garbage Delight
by Dennis Lee
2a. (Delight) Rogues Delight
by Elizabeth Jackson

3. (Eagerness): "Eager's Nephew" by Helen Fox

4. (Fear): What Lies hidden: a novel of old Cape Fear
by Dewey Lambdin

5. (Zeal): The Zeal of Thy House by Dorothy Sayers
5a. (Spite): In Spite of Thunder by John DIckson Carr

FIVE main characters* of 5 different
historical novels; with 5 different initials (forename OR surname initial)

*If a real name is used by the author, it's all right, e.g. Julius Caesar under his own name in Wilder's The Ides of March, as long as the whole book is fiction: real or fictional names.

Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy - Marie Antoinette
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - Thomas Cromwell
The Golden warrior by Hope Muntz - William I
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory - Anne Boleyn
The Iron king by Maurice Druon - Philip the Fair (Capet)

NEXT: 5 fictions each featuring EITHER a word associated with Christmas OR
(if you're bored with the whole thing) a word associated with spring

Un Natale# in Giallo /"A Christmas in Yellow"*

Buon Natale#, Charley Brown!
by Charles Schulz (Tr. from the English)

Deck the Halls
by Mary Higgins Clark

Christmas Books
by Charles Dickens

Politically Correct Holiday Stories by James F. Garner

#Natale: = Eng. Christmas, Fr. Noel, and Sp. Navidad

*Not guaranteeing that this one has any English translation.

NEXT: (changing it from one which didnʻt get played on in about 6 weeks)

Long> Short in Titles:

List 5 titles, fiction or non-fiction in descendiing order
of length:
1. 6 words or more

2. 5 words

3. 4 words

4. 3 words

5. 2 words OR 1 word

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

1) (6+) For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
2) (5) The Mirror and the Lamp by WB Maxwell
3) (4) Tartarin on the Alps by Alphonse Daudet
4) (3) Under The Yoke by Ivan Minchov Vazov
5) (2) Watch and Ward by Henry James
(1) Botchan by Soseki Natsume

all off my backlog of free kindle downloads!

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring a name of a place mentioned in the Bible in title (not books about religion necessarily)

The Little Girl at Capernaum
by Enid Blyton

Live from Golgotha*
by Gore Vidal

Jericho
by DirkBogarde

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

Come Nineveh, come Tyre
by Allen Drury
6 place names for the price of 5.

NEXT: FIVE fiction titles that
include a Biblical PERSONAL NAME.

*Just citing, not recommending. (This is the only Vidal title that disappointed me, not because of his anti-Christian attitude (I was prepared for that) but because the book was nʻt a
success from his own point of view. He just, as we used to say in New England, "wasnʻt DOING what he was doing".)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
Deborah by Esther Kreitman
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

NEXT: 5 fictions, the title of each to contain one word of 4+ letters made from an anagram of the letters in the name of a random author:
ALPHONSE DAUDET

- - FROM an anagram OF the letters in . . . "Alphonse Daudet" (87)

Is this requiring a complete anagram -- 14 letters, all of them found in "Alphonse Daudet"?

Closest I can come to it is a 19 letter title, that uses 12* of the 14 letters of "Alphonse Daudet" the lower case ones, below) and 7 new letters (the upper case ones, below).
/
"K a u a I
phone d I R e C t o R Y"

(Other than "phone" I couldnʻt think of a 4+ or even a 4-letter word - - always short one letter of beiing found in "Alphonse Daudet".)

*all but the
2nd d
and the s.

No, I just meant any 4+ letter word formed out of those letters eg you could have

seal: The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White

then assuming "Kauaʻi phone book is ok:

4+ letter words
1. phone 4. alph
2. audio 5. letʻs
3. dude

1.Kauaʻi PHONE book
2. Mastering AUDIO: the art and the science by Bob Katz
3. DUDE, whereʻs my country? by Michael Moore
4. ALPH A-2 Agents in Animals Sedation: Analgia and Anesthesia
5. LETʻS Study Greek
by Clarence Hale

Never before realized how
hard it is to get an I-less
key word into a title; ("Alphonse Daudet" has all the other vowels)!

NEXT: 5 words in which the first initial of the title and
the initial of the authorʻs nationality follow alphabetical order: e.g. if "Armenian-American"* is your first nationality and your first title is MY Name is Aram, then your second title can be no
lower in the alphabet than N.

*Wonʻt get too strict about what you call a nationality: e.g. Albert Camus may be called French or Algerian.

France: The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Germany: Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Hungary: Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
Ireland: Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Japan: House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring the surname of a British prime minister in title, whether as a name or (in some cases) as a common noun

Hound on the HEATH
by Ben Baglio

WELLINGTON Square
by Tessa Krailling


WALPOLE
by Syd Hoff

Jeremy THATCHER, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Coville

The Complete father BROWN
Stories by G. K. Chesterton

NEXT: FIVE Fictions with a title containing the name of someone famous for ANYTHING BUT politics: the arts, show business, sports, etc.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Page Turner by David Leavitt
The Electric Michaelangelo by Sarah Hall
Rosie Hogarth by Alexander Baron
The High Constable by Maan Meyers

as I've stuck to artists, next question is to repeat last question, ( using anyone famous not in art or politics)

"anyone famous NOT in art or politics

Ruth and the Green Book
by Calvin Ramsey

What Next, Andy Capp?
by Reg Smythe

Doctor Cobb's Game
by R. V. Cassill

London; a novel
by Edward Rutherfurd

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
by Liz Jensen

celebrities: 1. George H. "Babe" Ruth --baseball
2. Al Capp cartoonist, writer
3.. Tyrus R. "Ty" Cobb -- baseball
4. Jack London, writer
5. Joe Louis, boxing

NEXT: 5 FICTION titles that have at
least one of the following:

A PAST or FUTURE tense of a verb (no present tenses allowed

A time expression OTHER THAN the name of a
month or day of the week. ("Tomorrow, yesterday,
etc. are eligible)

A personal name (forename or surname)
OTHER THAN those where the name
is the whole title. e.g. Which way to Mecca, JACK?
is eligible; Martin Eden is NOT eligible.

(Thanks for clarification on names, as I'd never heard of Cobb or Capp!)

All verb tenses:
We didn't mean to go to sea by Arthur Ransome
The gods will have blood by Anatole France
The Brontes went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple
The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend-Warner

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a verb in the present continuous form

Risking it all by Ann Granger

Cat Running
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Case of the Daring Divorcee
by Erle Stanley Gardner

The Widening Gyre
by Robert B. Parker

Telling Tales
by Nadine Gordimer

NEXT: Match these SUB-titles with their AUTHOR* (Giving the title is optional.)

1. Charles Dickens
2. Herman Melville
3. William Shakespeare
4. William M. Thackeray
5. John Erskine

A. :his Masquerade
B. ,or: What you Will
C. :a novel without a hero
D. :Enough of his Life to Explain his reputation
E. . . .in staves

* I thought matching them
with the main title would
be too easy. D: "in staves"
may not be strictly speaking a
subtitle but just the (rarely used) last 2 words of the main title.

This is very difficult. So - not looking - I think :
Dickens: c
Melville: d (sounds like it might go with Ishmael - I've only heard of Moby Dick by him)
Shakespeare: b (this sounds familiar)
Thackeray: a
Erskine: e (never heard of this author)

Very good question!

On rethinking it, Iʻm deciding it was too difficult (97), and you should set the "NEXT" for having made a good try.

Only Shakespeare >". . .or what you will" is right. (Twelfth Night)

":his masquerade" does sound Thackerayan to me,
come to think of it, but it was Melvilleʻs The Confidence Man. . . " while WMTʻs was ":a novel w/out a hero",
and Dickensʻs was the admittedly obscure "...in Staves" (from the full title of
A Christmas Carol.
Erskine was perhaps overly obscure, too. His was
"Enough of her/his Life to
explain his/her reputation"; he used this subtitle with the appropriate possessive pronoun in several novels,
e.g "Galahad. . .", "Helen of Troy. . .".

OK, Next: 5 further subtitles of books:

John Galsworthy
Henry Fielding
W. Somerset Maugham
H G Wells
Maria Edgeworth

1) An Hibernian Tale
2) The History of a Foundling
3) The Skeleton in the Cupboard
4) A Modern comedy
5) A Grotesque Romance

1) a Hib. Tale > EDGEWORTH

2. Hist. of
a Foundling > FIELDING
3. Skel. in
the Cupb. > MAUGHAM
4. a Mod Comedy > GALSWORTHY
5. Grot. Romance> WELLS

NEXT: Five authors of 5 different nationalities, each followed by one title of hers/his. The title must be Further on in the alphabet, with at least with one letter skipped after the authorsʻ surname-initial. E.G.: If Author (1) is
CAMUS, the initial of the title must be
between E and Z; A--D are ineligible.

Five out of five - well done!

FLAUBERT Gustave: Madame Bovary - France
LAGERLOF Selma: The Saga of Gosta Berling - Sweden
MORAVIA Alberto: Two Women - Italy
MANTEL Hilary: Wolf Hall - UK
FRANKLIN Miles : My Brilliant career - Australia

Next: 5 fictions, title of each beginning and ending on the same letter

The Strange Countess
by Edgar Wallace S > s

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
A > a

Orinoco by Dan Pollock
O > o

Nowhere Man by Alexander Herman
N > n

The Edge of Nowhere
by Elzabeth George
E > e

NEXT: 5 Books with at least one repetition of a word within the title.. Total words in title must be less than 12 words, if fiction; less than 9 words, if non-fiction.

as As Far As Jane's Grandmother's by Edith Olivier
she She Knew She was Right by Ivy Litvinov
another Another Time, Another Place by Jessie Kesson
tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and tomorrow by M Barnard-Eldershaw
son My Son, My son by Howard Spring

Next: 5 fictions, each starting with one vowel and finishing with another.

A > O "Asturias y Cuba en torno al Noventa y Ocho"#
by Jorge Liria

A > O Alice and Aldo
by Alison Lester

A > E Alex and the Ironic Gentleman; or: the Wigpowder Treasure
by Adrienne Kress

E > O El Enano*
by Per Lagerkvist

A > E Albert of Adelaide
by Howard Anderson

#In Spanish; the
title = "(Miguel) Asturias in view of
"The (18)98 (Generation)", but not guaranteeing that there is any English translation.

*Tr. from the Swedish: Lagerkvistsʻ Dvaergen / The Dwarf

FIVE authors each with a different initial letter of the
surname FOLLOWED by
one book title each in which the bookʻs initial must be
in the OTHER HALF of the ALPHABET. E.g., if the author is Dickens (1st half of alphabet) the title cannot begin with A - L.
Defining the "halves":
FIRST half = A - L;
SECOND half: M - Z

the Comedienne by Reymont Wladyslaw
the Buccaneers by Wharton Edith
Germinal by Zola Emile
Angel by Taylor Elizabeth
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim Elizabeth

Next: As I've stuck to second half of alphabet for authors, repeat using first half. And different letters for both book titles and authors

Authors- -FIRSt half of alph. only: (A - -L):
D > F> G > H > I

TItles -- SECOND Half only:
N > S > U> V> W

Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby

Faulkner: Sartoris

Gregory: Visions and Beliefs
in the West of Ireland

Halper: Union Square

Ives: Wayfaring Stranger
(assuming there is no "Fiction Only" rule).

NEXT: FIVE TITLES, fiction or non fiction in which at least 2 letters appear more than once: Name the letters; then one of them AND another letter (your choice) must appear more than once in the next entry. E.g.
If (1) is David copperfielD:
D & E. Then (2)
could be "MitzIʻs world: sEEk and dIscover more than
150 detaIls. . .": E & I

1) T & O

The rOad TO wanTing by Wendy Law-Yone

2) O & G

The saGa Of GOsta berling by Selma Lagerlof

3) G & M

Good MorninG Midnight by Jean rhys

4) M & A

AniMAl farM by George Orwell

5) A & B

BecAuse it is Bitter And because it is my heart by Joyce Carol oates

will post this so I dont lose it; it's dinnertime so will come back later when I've thought of next question...

> > > > >

Sorry, forgot all about this!

NEXT:

5 fictions each featuring 1 (or more) stand-alone letters of alphabet in title. Could be character's initials or whatever...

I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy
Dial F For Frankenstein by Arthur C. Clarke
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas

Next: 5 fictions with double letters at least twice in the title, but not necessarily in one word,
e.g. Millennium People by J. G. Ballard which has double L and double N.

1. ee; oo Seers Blood
by Doranna Durgin

2. oo; ee Blood Seers
by Robert W. Walker

3 .LL; OO Othello: the Moor of Venice
by William Shakespeare

4. ee; ee The Adventure of the Peerless Peer
by Philip Joseʻ Farmer

5. ee; ss Green Darkness
by Anya Seton

NEXT: 5 famous quotations or old sayings evoked by at least one word of the last
10 titles listed> #111, and #113.

e.g. from #5 of 113: Green
"Itʻs become traditional for the Green to be on top."
--* Bill Russell. ca. 1968.

*Source of the quote is not required, if the saying is well known:
e.g. (from 1 or 2 of 113: Blood:
"Blood is thicker than water"
- - Gore Vidal, ca. 2000
but also countless others.

You can't get blood out of a stone ― old saying.

The end justifies the means ― old saying.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” ― Truman Capote

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them." ― Aldous Huxley

Next: 5 fictions whose title is suggested or inspired by an old saying or proverb.

e.g. Justified Means by Chautona Havig (from "The end justifies the means")

To Spite Her Face: A Mystery Novel by Hildegarde Dolson
Like Father Like son by Hunter s Fulghum
Accidents will happen by Julian Rathbone
A House Divided by Pearl s Buck
Red Sky at morning by Richard Bradford

Next:
5 fictions featuring the imperative verb form in the title. eg Guard your Daughters by Diana Tutton

1. Kiss me, Stupid: a screenplay
by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

2. Watch out! A Giant!
by Eric Carle

3. Fight for Life
by Laurie Halse Anderson

4. Watch for me on the Mountain
by Forrest Carter

5. Beware, the Snowman
by R. L. Stine

NEXT: FIVE titles, Fiction or Non-Fiction, using TWO of the same initials as the above titles. Use 5 different pairs of initials.
Example: initials: K; M (from #1, above):
Does a Kangaroo have a Mother, too?
by Eric Carle

Repeats of an initial are ok, but not repeats of a whole pair.

K, S (from 1): The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

O, A (from 2): Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

F, L (from 3): First Light by Peter Ackroyd

W, M (from 4): The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces by James Thurber

B, S (from 5): By the Open Sea by August Strindberg

118: Good. (Even includes an Ackroyd that I had not heard of before.)
What is the "NEXT"?

Next: 5 fictions where the title includes a word from those listed in #117 & #118. The repeated words must be other than "the", "and" or "of". Titles not to be repetitions of ant already listed in this thread.
e.g. The Old Man of the Sea (includes "sea" from line 5 of #118.

1) //mountain// Go tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
2) //watch// Watch and Ward by Henry James
3) //sonata// Winter Sonata by Dorothy Edwards
4)//life// One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
5) //kiss// Kiss for the Leper by Francois Mauriac

Next: 5 fictions, each of which feature the future tense in title eg I Will not serve

"No pasaran: They Shall Not Pass: a Story of the Battle of
Madrid" by Upton Sinclair

I will Fear No Evil
by Robert Heinlein

*Placebo Effect
by Gary Russell

I Will Repay
by Emmuska Orczy

Will the Soviet Union Survive
until 1984?
by Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik**

*Though a noun or adjective in English, "placebo" is, in Latin, a
verb, 1st person future,
meaning "I will be pleasant"

** Futuristic non-fiction, the title meaning will it last "until about 15 years from now?" His "now" was ca. 1969

NEXT:
5 Titles, fiction or non-fiction,
OF 3 OR MORE WORDS,
that DO NOT contain a verb.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher stowe
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R L Stevenson
Miss Buncle's Book by D E Stevenson
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel

Next: Let's try jbarret's question from #120 again, this time using the 10 titles in posts #122 & #123
Next: 5 fictions where the title includes a word from those listed in #122 & #123. The repeated words must be other than "the", "and" or "of". Titles not to be repetitions of ant already listed in this thread.
e.g. The Old Man of the Sea (includes "sea" from line 5 of #118.

Catch that Pass!
by Matthew Christopher
- - from 122 #1

The Hyde Park Murders
by Robin Paige
- - from 123 #3

"Ninaʻs Book"
by Eugene Burdick
- - from 123 #4

"Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut"
by J. D. Salinger
- - from 123 #1

Thanksgiving Mice
by Bethany Roberts
- - from 123 #2

NEXT:
The 9 and the 17:
FIVE title, fiction OR non-fiction that have an
FIRST initial using the one of the 9 eligible initials of this post (124), which are:
B C H M N P
U T W

One-word titles: no further
requirements.
Two or more word titles; SECOND word must start with one of the other 17
letters of the alphabet (NOT the above 9) e.g. Union Square is ok Nothing To Pay: NOT ok, because second word starts with one
of the above 9

No repeats of a previously-used first initial.

Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca west
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
Phoenix Fled by Attia Hosain
The Vicar's Daughter by E H Young
Not so Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith

Next: 5 fictions that feature the name of a game (not sport) in title ...kids' game, card game whatever...

Chinese Checkers
by Mario Bellatin

Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig

Hopscotch
by Julio Crotazar

Checkers and Dot
by J. Torres

Jack Knife
by Virginia Baker

NEXT: FIVE fictions or
popular* non-fictions that
contain the name of a
traditional ELEMENT, Chinese, or Greek"
The traditional elelments are: Air, EARTH, FIRE Metal,
WATER, and Wood
(Metal and Wood are absent from the Greek 4, and Air is absent from the Chinese 5)

*Popular: (Textbooks and
technical treatises are
excluded)

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

Next: 5 fictions, each title containing the name of a kind of grain that might be cultivated to eat...

1.The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. S and other

2. Urashima Taro and other Japanese Children Stories
by F. Sakade

3. The Rising Wheat/ Le Ble Qui Leve
by Rene Bazin

4. The Wind that Shakes the Barley; a novel of the life and loves of Robert Burns
by James Barke

5. Kandoo Kangaroo Hops into Homeschool
by Susan Ratner

NEXT: 5 Titles, fiction or non-fiction, that have a word from
a title of this post (129)

e.g. (from #4): Gone with the WIND

1) The Rising Tide by Molly Keane //rising// (No 3)
2) The Life and loves of a She-Devil by Fay weldon //loves// (No 4)
3) Later Short Stories (Oxford's world's Classics) by Anthony trollope //stories// (No 2)
4) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame //wind// (No 4)
5) Gay Lord Robert by Jean Plaidy //Robert// (no 4)

Next: 5 fictions, the title of each of which incorporates the name of a famous author. Not biography OF that author. eg:

What the Dickens!

Cervantes Street
by Jaime Manrique

Wife to Mr. Milton
by Robert Graves (a novel)

Brother Hugo and the Bear
by Kathryne Beebe

These Twain
by Arnold Bennett

Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story
by Rachel Kadish

NEXT: See Below (131)

NEXT: 5 FICTIONS or non-biographical non-fictions
by authors of the 4 different nationalities* of the Above (#130).

*(Counting "Tolstoy Lied" as Russian, the 4 nationalities are U. K. (2x), U. S., Russian and Spanish.
One nationality to be used twice

Spanish: 1) The Dead Command by Vicente Blasco Ibanez
" 2)Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Russian 3) Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
USA 4) We have always lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson * just finished - brilliant!
UK 5)Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Next : 5 fictions, title of each containing both at least 1 male & at least 1 female forename eg Milly and Olly

Romeo and Juliet
by william Shakespeare

Romiette and Julio
by Sharon Draper

Joan and Peter
by H. G. Wells

Lila and Ethan Forever and
Always by Jessica Sorensen

Spence and Lila
by Bobbie Ann Mason
NEXT:

FIVE books in the genres:
1. Mystery or Detective 2.Thriller 3. Romance or Love Story 4. Drama: tragedy or comedy 5.Science Fiction or Fantasy
- - in any order, but one
and only one of each genre
and skip at least 2 letters
before the next 1st initial in the title.
E.g. if Pierre is the
romance/love entry and is #4,
next entry cannot begin with Q or R; must begin with S
or later in the alphabet.

1) (Drama: Tragedy) Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
2) (Sci-Fi) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
3) (Thriller) The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
4) (Detective) The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
5) (Love) The Woman's Way by Charles Garvice

Next: as above, categories this time, in no specific order are:

1) Humorous novel
2) Novel featuring an animal
3) Classic kids' novel
4) Historic fiction
5) Dystopian novel

(Animal) Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

(Humor) Gullibleʻs Travels, Etc.
by Ring Lardner

(Historical) Lydia Bailey
by Kenneth Roberts

(Classic Kidsʻ) Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

(Dystopian) We by Eugenii Zamiatin

NEXT:
5 Fictions in any FIVE of the
10 genres of 133--134, limiting yourself to TWO
initial letters, of your own choice: 3 starting with one letter, and 2 with the other.

e.g.: If I and M are the chosen letters:
"Animal", Humor", and "Mystery"
could start with M,
and "Historical" and "Sci-Fi." could start with I.

1. (Mystery) - A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
2. (Humorous Novel) - Apeshit by Carlton Mellick
3. (Thriller) - Act of Treason by Vince Flynn
4. (Classic Kid's Novel) - Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
5. (Novel Featuring an Animal) - Cujo by Stephen King

Next:

5 works of fiction that you find extremely grotesque (a.k.a. Sick).

This is very difficult! I've read quite a bit but am rarely shocked

1) The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek is a truly warped and horrible novel
2) the first chapter of Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric (where someone is impaled) - rest of novel is beautiful
3) Red Sorghum by Mo Yan - extremely visceral; I had to give up where someone's ear had been cut off and was flapping on plate
4) Diary of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo is very haunting
5) Struggling for a 5th - maybe Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

NEXT
This is a good question - will keep it going to see what other readers find grotesque...

1. Anhelli by Juliusz Slowacki

2. The Ticket that Exploded
by William Burroughs

3. Castaway
by James Gould Cozzens

4. Life after Life
by Kate Atkinson

5. Nephelai / The Clouds by Aristophanes

1. Reminded of this by #2
of 137, which I remembered
as a crucifixion rather than an impalement. In Anhelli
Polish revolutionaries decide to crucify two irreconcilable rival activists of their own group: whichever one survives the longest, his
leadership will be followed.
Both die before anyone notes which died first.

2. Attracted to this one mainly by the title, but the plot doesnʻt live up to the
promise (?) of the title; have tried it 4 or 5 times and found
it to be just a slapdash science fiction.

3. "Mr. Lecky" (no first name given) is "cast away" on a
"desert island",becoming a sort of 1930s Robinson Crusoe. Only, his "desert island" is a huge urban
department store. How he got there is not explained,
and you have to realize that just walking out the door or waiting till the store re-opens (itʻs not going to) is not an option; hence Castaway has been put in the fantasy genre.

4. Atkinsonʻs take on reincarnation as the same old self is probably well known in LT.

5. Though I love satire and parody, I have doubts about this attack on Socrates by an Athenian contemporary.
Like Ben Jonsonʻs The Alchemist, it ends with the
whole place being burned down.

NEXT: The long and Short of Titles:
Name your 5 favorite
ultra-long and ultra-short
titles. Suggesting: 3 LONG
and 2 SHORT; OR 3 SHORT and 2 LONG.

Long: has to start with
1) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - one of those books you so get into , that you have withdrawal symptoms when it ends.
2) Is a trilogy cheating? If not, The Saga of the Century Trilogy: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night and Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West
*also the Rabbit series by John Updike and Pallisers by Anthony Trollope
3)Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

short books tend to have more of a struggle to impact on the reader, but I would definitely recommend
4) So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
5) The Love Child by Edith Olivier

NEXT:
Sorry to be a drip by re-using same question, but am curious to see other readers' great reads...

Long:

1. It by Stephen King (Over 1000 pages, very small print)
2. Needful Things by Stephen King (About 750 pages, again very small print)

Short:

3. Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III
4. "The Man In the Thick Black Spectacles" by D. Harlan Wilson (A short story from the collection The Bizarro Starter Kit: Orange - One of those "so stupid it's hilarious" stories
5. The Menstruating Mall by Carlton Mellick III

Next: 5 Satirical books or short stories. In other words, books or short stories where the main plot is a satire on something in society, like big business politics, overpaid athletes, negative aspects about sports, etc.

1. "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq."
by Edgar Allan Poe

2. You Know Me, Al; a busherʻs letters
by Ring Lardner

3. The Satires of Juvenal
by Juvenal, with a tr. by


4. A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift

5. "An open Letter to Melvil Dewey" by Charles McIsaac

1. A satire on the content/lack of content of 1st half of 19th c. literary magazines.

2. the "busher" of the sub-title is more politely called a
(major league baseball) "Rookie". A classic treatment
of the type of player who is
good but not as good as he thinks he is.

3. Satirizing Roman life and cutting across all social classes; the author prudently claims that heʻs talking about an earlier generation --
not the present (which was ca. 110 A.D., an era which has a pretty good reputation among historians.

4. The best known in literary history of these 5. "Modest" is of course said sarcastically,
but this is the kind of satire that, to be effective, has to be recited with a completely "straight face".
No smiles at your own jokes, nudges, or winks allowed.

5. Unpublished, Iʻm afraid.
it is by the most intelligent of
the many librarians who were
my boss at one time or another. Posing as an attempt to explain the "Brave New World" of modern (1960s) librarians to the founder of "Library Science"
(fl. 1870s -- 1920s) and the Dewey Decimal System. It satirizes them, linguistically and operationally - -
their jargon and (il?)logic.

NEXT:
Name FIVE authors from
5 different countries, ficiton or non-fiction: each with
"forbidden letters" (as in
the "Vanna" thread).
E. G. 1. has the forbidden letters E, A, and P (from the initials of AUthor 1 (Above);
#2 has the forbidden letters L and R, from Ring Lardner
(#2, above), etc.

1) E A P : Iris Murdoch - Britain
2) L R: Seamus Heaney - Ireland
3) J : Halldor Laxness - Iceland
4) J S : Emile Zola - France
5) C M : Edith Wharton - USA

Next: 5 fictions each including the Christian name of any Pope

1. Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare

2. "Paulʻs Case" by Willa Cather

3. Martin Eden
by Jack London

4. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

5. Alexanderʻs Bridge
by Willa Cather
Popes referred to, above
/
1. Julius II: not too famed in the spiritual realm; noted as a patron of Michelangelo
2. Paul VI: progressed with the still controversial Vatican II Council that
his predeccessor John XXIII
(d. 1963) had called.

3. Martin V: 15th c. pope

4. Benedict XV pope during World War I; successor was
Pius XI

5. Alexander VI: Renaissance pope, predecessor of Julius II ; had great diplomatic and imperialist skills; admired by Macchiavelli; reputed father of Cesare Borgia and often called "the Borgia pope"

NEXT: FIVE male authors with the
first name of a UK monarch
OR a U. S. president,
but they must be of a nationality OTHER THAN U.K. or U. S. No repeats of a name.
e.g. such common names as "Joseph", "Lawrence", "Robert",* "Albert"* are INeligible. Eligible are many others from "Arthur" to "Zachary".

*Some Roberts were kings of Scotland, but not of the UK.
*Several have been called "Albert" within the royal family, but none reigned under that name.

1) Martin Andersen Nexo - Danish author of 'Pelle the Conqueror' (U S President Martin van Buren)

2) Thomas Mann - German author of 'Buddenbrooks' (U S President thomas Jefferson)

3) James Joyce - Irish author of 'Dubliners' (U S President James Madison)

4) Harry Mulisch - Netherlands author, shortlisted for 2007 Booker Prize International (U S President Harry S truman)

5)John Maxwell Coetzee - S. African author of 'Disgrace'
U S President John Adams)

(Had intended to answer this using UK kings. But realised that as there's only been a UK since 1707, so names like Charles etc wouldn't count.

So for next question, repeat using name of any English king (those before 1066 also valid).

1. Arthur Schopenhauer --Germany (legendary (and
i m o) historical king Arcturus>Arthur)
ca. 5th c.

2. Stephen> Stefan Zweig
Austria, 20th c. (medieval
king; The First, but no subsequent takers of the name, so he is not usually given a number.)

3. Edward > Edouard Douwes Dekker Netherlands>Indonesia
(Edward VII, reigning some
centuries after Edward VI, was the son of Victoria and the grandfather of Edward VIII and George VI

4. Henry* Montherlant
France
(8 Henrys from the 12th to the 16 th c.)

5. George > Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Greece
(Six Georges, from early 18th c. to post WW II. George VI
was brother of Edward VIII and father of Elizabeth II.

*HenrY: Sic (not HenrI, though so pronounced);
some French families were
anti-Napoleonic and partial to the forenames common among N.ʻs British enemies.

NEXT:
Reversing the "no UK, no US" Rule:
Use FIVE of the 10 forenames in 144 and 145,
but this time for a writer who
IS of US or UK nationality.
(The "Male Only" Rule (143) is being waived here. Thus, e.g. George Eliot (but not George Sand) is eligible.)

1) Arthur Miller
2) Henry James
3) James Agee
4) John Buchan
5) Stephen King

Next: 5 fictions written by women (any nationality) who share a Christian name with any English queen-consort

1. Gwyneth and the Thief
by Margaret Moore

2. Green Dolphin Street
by Elizabeth Goudge

3. Fire, Bed, and Bone
by Henrietta Branford

4. Precious Bane
by Mary Webb

5. Moon Mouse
by Adelaide Holl
Consorts of . . .
/
1. Henry VI
2. (I realize Elizabeths I and II were reigning queens, but
Henry VII and George VI
both had consorts named Elizabeth, the latter the mother of the present queen.)
3. Charles I
4. George V (she was aka
"Mae" and had a long reign as Queen Mother.)
5. William IV

NEXT:
FIVE fictions or popular non-fictions with 5 different*
first word initials that contain
a key word# from an LT thread. E.g. the D-entry may contain "Dragon..."; the J-entry may contain "Jung", etc.

*e.g. if the G entry is Green Dolphin Street, the next entry may NOT be Great Expectations.

# Excluded are articles, common prepositions and pronouns, as in most of the literary threads.

Uh...WTF???

What do you mean by a "key word# from an LT thread"???

Are you basically saying 5 books where no two start with the same letter? If you mean anything beyond that, what you have is a poor example as it clarifies nothing.

"What do you mean by a ʻkey
wordʻ from an LT thread?"
(147>148)

I should have said: "... from THE TITLE OF an LT thread";
Hence I used "Jung" (in the title of this thread) and "Dragon" (as in "Green Dragon"...) for examples.

Other possible required words
would be:
Books Challenge
Classic . . .
Reading Religion
Seventy-five (=75)
Spam
(all found in, e.g., the
"Hot Topics" menu of threads). You could put such a word being used in caps,
e.g. the G-title: GREEN Dolphin Street

HIJACKING Manhattan by Lionel Derrick
ANOTHER One Bites the Dust by Jennifer Rardin
VANNA Karenina by Frank Gannon
BRAIN Plague by Robin Cook
The WORD for world is forest by Ursula Le Guin

all words from the puzzle site

NEXT
In honour of the World Cup (hubby has been watching 3 matches a day for last couple of weeks!) 5 fictions, each featuring name of any town/ river/ region or any geographical term linked to that country.

Netherlands: province
Maigret in Holland*
by Georges Simenon

Brazil (host country and favorite): city
Flying Down to Rio (de Janeiro); screenplay

Algeria: city
Algiers; a screenplay
by John Cromwell

Belgium: city
Shoelaces and Brussels Sprouts
by Nancy Levene

Uruguay: city
The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo; a novel
by Constance Warloe
(I limited myself to teams that have been written up in the newspaper here as having played in the last 2 days.)

*"Holland" is used colloquially
in English and French for the whole country, the Netherlands, but officially, the country has several provinces and "Holland" is
is only a (partial) name of two provinces: North Holland and South Holland.

NEXT: (changed because of no play on it for some 3 weeks).
/
In honor of the Word Cup finalists:
FIVE titles, fiction or poplar non-fiction, by an Argentine or a German author.
e.g. 3 Argentine and 2 German; or 4 German
and 1 Argentine, etc.

< > > > >

ARG Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

GER Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
------Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
------Perfume by Patrick Susskind
------Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

NEXT;
5 novels by nobel-literature-winning authors. There must be at least 2 letters in alphabet between initials of titles. Thus if first novel starts with 'A', second must begin with 'D' (or after)

D Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis U. S.

G The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

P La Peste / The Plague by Albert Camus France

W The Winter of our Discontent
by John Steinbeck U. S.

Z Der Zauberberg / The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann Germany

NEXT:
Your FIVE favourite TITLES
of a Fiction or popular non-fiction work (just from loving the title alone, whether having read it or not, and regardless of what
you think of the contents.)

I love these 5 titles because when the old ladies at the bridge club see the title they freak out and try to claim it's inappropriate literature. I just laugh at them and tell them to get with the times. This is the 21st century, not the 19th. All of these are by Carlton Mellick III

1. Ultra Fuckers (Actually the name of a Japanese garage band)

2. Razor Wire Pubic Hair

3. The Baby Jesus Butt Plug

4. The Haunted Vagina

5. I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter

Next: 5 books that have some form of violence in the title (i.e. punching, shooting, stabbing, killing, etc., even if the book itself isn't violent)

1. Hitchcock: the Murderous Gaze by William Rothman

2. Rum Punch
by Elmore Leonard

3. Patrol of the Cloud Crusher by Robert Hogan

4. The Case of the Puzzled Pugilist
by Chuck Dixon

5. An Overwhelming Interference
by Edward Kuhlman

NEXT: Five Titles, fiction or *
popular non-fiction, with 5
different animal families in
them: e.g. 1. mammal
2. bird 3. reptile 4.fish
5. insect -- or others,
without a repeat.

*Excluded Non-fiction:

No specialist text-books or manuals allowed.

1) (Mammal) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
2) (Bird) The White Peacock by DH Lawrence
3) (Reptile) Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
4) (Fish) Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
5) (Insect) The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf

NEXT:

5 titles (fiction or nonfiction) each containing a word (not a name) where the first & second syllables rhyme eg 'nitwit'

#4 may be a stretch, but the first 2 syllables do make a rhyming sound (Mizz and Izz)

1. Hobo by Eddy Joe Cotton
2. Reggae Bloodlines by Stephen Davis
3. Look Inside a Tepee by Mari Schuh
4. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
5. Biography of a nit-wit by Bernadine Mayers

Next: 5 books (Doesn't have to be fiction) NOT about sports that contain the name of 5 different NFL teams within the title. That name can use the single form, like a book title with the word "Giant" or "Eagle" or "Cowboy" or "Redskin" or any of the other 28 team names in its singular form is fine, doesn't have to be plural like the typical reference to the team (i.e. New York Giants). Example: "Top 10 Secrets for Managing Credit Cards and Paying Bills Successfully" by Theresa Shea (Referencing "Bills" - Buffalo's NFL team)

1) The Colt from Snowy river by Elyne Mitchell (Indianapolis Colts)
2) Taming the Forty-niner (Being a Saucy Account of the Pleasures of the Gold Rush Days of California (SF 49ers)
3) The Southern Seahawk by Randall Peffer (Seattle Seahawks)
4) Vikings by Neil Oliver (Minnesota Vikings)
5) Jaguar Woman and the wisdom of the Butterfly tree by Lynn V Andrews (Jacksonville Jaguars)*

*this title would be an ideal answer for question #154!!

What's the difference between AFC & NFC - are they different leagues like our premier division, 1st division etc? Asked sports-mad husband who has no clue.

NEXT:
5 fictions, each featuring a 2 syllable word. This should each feature a vowel sound in alphabetical order.
eg Lady (Vowels A & E)
Feline Friends (Vowels E-I in 1st word)
Hope this is clear!

Picture This
by Joseph Heller
I > U

In Dubious BATTLE
by John Steinbeck
A > E

The HiSTORY Man
by Malcolm Bradbury
I > O

JENNIE Gerhardt
by Theodore Dreiser
E > I (The 3rd vowel, E, is phonetically silent)

Gideon PLANISH
by Sinclair Lewis
A > I

NEXT:
5 titles, fiction or non-fiction, which have at leas one 2-syllable word with
a repeated vowel in it.
E.G. The PILGRIM Hawk
I: 2x

1. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Connan Doyle

3. Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima

4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway

NEXT:
5 novels with an Asian city in the title.

Twilight in Delhi
by Ahmed Ali

Missing in Rangoon
by Christopher G. Moore

Bangkok Haunts
by John Burdett

All the Way to Lhasa: a tale from Tibet
by Barbara Helen Berger

Challenge at Changsha
by Paul Hughes

NEXT: 5 Fictions* with an
African OR South American city
in the title.

*Fictions: Drama and comedy, and also
short stories, and long poems, as well
as novels are eligible.

#159

They are what are called Conferences. The American Football Conference and National Football Conference. Each Conference has 4 divisions consisting of 4 teams each. Each conference draws 6 teams into the playoffs, top 2 seeds getting a bye the first week. Winner of each "conference" face off in the Super Bowl for the title.

#163 Thanks for the football info!

1) You can't get lost in Cape Town by Zoe Wicomb
2) Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
3) A Woman in Jerusalem by A B Yehoshua
4) The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
5) Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson

NEXT: 5 fictions, each containing an irregular plural noun (one that isnt formed by adding 's')

The Happy HippopotamI
by Bill Martin, Jr.

Dangerous AlumnI
by Laine Morgan

Men and BrethrEN
by James Gould Cozzens

ChildrEN and Others; short stories
by James Gould Cozzens

The MedicI Seal
by Teresa Breslin

Medici isn't a plural noun. It's an adjective. Is sheep irregular? Since it is the same singular and plural?

I had some doubts about "Medici" myself, @archipelagos -- not about its noun/adjective status, (165>166) but
because it isnʻt, strictly speaking, an English WORD. Itʻs a common noun in Latin, and became an Italian proper name. The Latin singular is "medicus". "MedicI" is also used without change, in English, as a proper name or an adjective. Iʻve never seen
the name used in the singular
(Medico?) in Italian or English, and rarely in Italian without the phrase "dei..." ("of the...") in front of it.
I thought of many bona fide
-i and -a plurals in English
but only four that come into
a fictional title. ( Iʻm sorry that there was a "Fiction only" rule in this round.)

I didnʻt add a "NEXT" to 165 on 08/16, because the keyboard was at that time not allowing me to write anything.
Since no one has refereed the pedantic joust between me and @archipelagos (166>167), Iʻll assume itʻs still my post:

NEXT: FIVE fictions or non-fictions of which the title
contains at least one SINGULAR, AND one PLURAL.

Re #167, I would say that 'Medici' isn't valid, because it's a name as used in this instance .

1) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
3) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
4) Indiscretions of the Queen by Jean Plaidy
5) Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien

5 fictions, the author of each should have a christian name or surname which is the name of a county in Ireland (N or S Ireland). (All different)

The Headmaster Ritual
by Taylor Antrim

The Lost Lagoon
by Reg Down

Doctor Who, Who-ology
by Cavan Scott

Gentles Holler
by Kerry Madden

Breaking Point
by Pamela Clare

(I couldn't find an author name for either
of my maternal grandparents' home-counties:
Donegal (grandmother) and Armagh
(grandfather).

NEXT: FIVE fictions or non-fictions whose
initial letters are: B, L, H, P and R
and which DO NOT HAVE: 1. (B) a verb
2. (L): a noun, 3. H): an adjective
4. (P) a personal name.
5. (R): a place name
(In other words the B-title must be
verbless, the L-title noun-less, etc.)

1) Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
2) Loving and Giving by Molly Keane
3) Half-Past Bedtime by H H Bashford
4) Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
5) Regeneration by Pat Barker

NEXT: inspired by my interest in sewing: 5 fictions, each containing a word (not a name) rhyming with 'quilt'.

Re: Ireland, I also have family from there - my great-grandfather was from Co Tyrone
Have you always lived in Hawaii? All I really know about it is girls wearing leis, the surfers (off Hawaii 5-0) and the highly entertaining Dog, the Bounty Hunter!

Full TILT by Janet Evanovich

Stone and SILT
by Harvey Chute

The Fair JILT, or The Prince of
by Aphra Behn

Kilt Dead
by Kaitlyn Dunnett

To the HILT
by Dick Francis

NEXT: SEE 173, below

(I see now that I didnʻt give
a "NEXT" to follow 172):

NEXT: FIVE fictions (including not only novels, but also, if you wish, short stories, dramas, long poems) with a DOMESTIC* ANIMAL in the title.

*NOT eligible: human
beings; and animals usually found only in the wild or in zoos, even if you know someone who has a pet one.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett

Cat among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

NEXT: FIVE fictions, all with a Caribbean island in the title. (In honour of my son and I booking a Caribbean cruise yesterday, my first vacation in fourteen years, and my first cruise. Bring on February!)

The Bahamas Murder Case
by Leslie Ford

"Encounter in Haiti"
by Herbert Gold*

The Cuban Thing; a play in two acts
by Jack Gelber

Bermuda Schwartz
by Bob Morris

Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier

NEXT: FIVE fictions with a Western hemisphere national name or national adjective in the title, excluding NORTH America.
i.e. South American, Central American and Caribbean names/adjectives are eligible.

*Classic socio-political short story of the 1950s

The Argentine Kidnapping by Bill Sheehy
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

NEXT: As I am suffering interminably with insomnia, five books with 'Sleep' (in any of its forms) seems apropos.

Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth

The Deep Sleep
by Wright Morris

"A Deep in the Sleep"
by Walt Kelly (a chapter heading in a Pogo book)

The Ten Year Nap
by Meg Wolitzer

Do Polar Bears Snooze in
Hollow Trees? a Book about Animal Hibernation
by Laura Purdie Salas

NEXT:
FIVE books (fiction or popular non-fiction) with a word in the title evoking any opposite of sleep: waking, alertness, action, etc.

Moving On: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Fast Summer Suppers by Editors of Betty Crocker
Doug Sanders': Action on the First Tee : How to Cash in on Your Favorite Sport by Doug Sanders
Anatomy for Yoga: An Illustrated Guide to Your Muscles in Action by Nicky Jenkins
exercise BALL: Fun, Safe and Effective Workouts with your Swiss Ball by Sara Rose

Good (178); please set a
"NEXT", @RENRIGHT.

I'll set one as no one else has...

5 fictions each containing a different 'fraction' (half, third, quarter...)

1. The Secret Diary of John Major, aged 47 and Three Quarters
by Private Eye

2. 8 1/2 / Otto a Mezzo by Federico Fellini,
director (and screenwriter?)

3. "Half Shot at Sunrise"
classic short comedy film of ca. 1940

4. Three Fifths of a Man
by Floyd McKissick

5. Murder in the Latin Quarter
by Cara Black

6.* A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen
by Ken Bruen
*including a 6th item because
2 and 3 used the same
fraction.

NEXT: FIVE fictions where the title includes the name of a profession or occupation,
EXCLUDING sports, politics, and show business.

Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain
The Rector's Daughter by F M Mayor
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte

Next: 5 fictions, title of each featuring something you might find in a bakery

Not by Bread Alone/ / "Nye Khlebom yedinyim"
by Vladimir Dudintsev

Sand Cake: a Frank Asch Bear Story
by Frank Asch

White Bread: a social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Cream Puff Murder
by Joanne Fluke

The Apple Turnover Murder
by Joanne Fluke

NEXT: FIVE books, fiction or non-fiction of 3- or-more-word titles: Initials of ALL words should be from either
the first half of the alphabet
(A-K) OR all from the 2nd half
(L-Z). (Ignoring articles).

e.g. NOT eligible: The Grapes of Wrath (one 1st half and 2 2nd half)
ELIGIBLE: Bread and Honey (3, 1st half).

The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: a Journey from Greece to Asia by Michael Wood
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
More Women Than Men by Ivy compton burnett

Next: 5 titles (fiction/ non fiction) of 4+ words: words to be alternatively from first half (A-L) then second half (M-Z) of alphabet. For this one, we'll count articles as normal words

so

A Year in Marrakech by Peter Mayne would be eligible

1.A Day in a Colonial Home
by Delia Prescott (A -- L)

2. "Vive la Resistance! The Nazis of the Mideast"
(title of an LT Thread)(M--Z)

2a.* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank kBaum

3. America as a Civilization
by Max Lerner ( A--L)

4. Twelve Months of Monastery Soups
by Victor-Antoine dʻAvila-Latourette (M -- Z)

5. Blue Guide: Albania & Kossovo by James Pettifer
(A--L)

*including another M--Z, since I detected an unwanted "L" (la....) in 2.

FIVE fictions the titles of which contain a word denoting something related
to house-construction, or
commonly used in a household.

Anne of green Gables by LM Montgomery
There were no Windows by Norah Hoult
Bricks and Mortar by Helen ashton
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
Raise high the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger

NEXT: 5 fictions, each title featuring something found in a garden (excluding plants)

I'm not sure what else is in a garden other than plants, but word of note. "M" is still the first half of the alphabet. M is the 13th letter of a total of 26. A thru L only constitutes 12 letters while M thru Z constitutes 14 letters.

Iʻve explained before that I get my "halves of the alphabet" from where the
halfway point comes in my own "Collections"*, not from the number of initial letters in
each half. Keep your division, and Iʻll keep mine.
Anyway, your objection doesnʻt apply to 186, since it doesnʻt say anything about halves of the alphabet.

*Currently the halfway point is late in the Jʻs! (in a listing taking over 100 pages).

Erle Stanley Gardner:*
the Case of the Real Perry Mason by Dorothy Hughes

The Adventures of Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett

Throw in the Trowel#
by Katie Collins

Trowel# and Error
by Alan Titchmarsh

Spade and Archer
by Joe Gores

*Excuse the spelling.

#Excuse the pun.

NEXT: FIVE fictions with a word in the title denoting an
profession or occupation,
EXCLUDING: politics, show business, and publishing.

#187 You see! Lots of non-plant things in a garden! (Not to mention all the 'features' like walls, fences, fountains, ponds, paths...)

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Confessions of a Window Cleaner by Timothy Lea
The School Nurse from the black Lagoon by Mike Thaler

(as we'd recently done this question in #182, I'm afraid I had to resort to touchstones for last 2!)

Next: 5 fictions, each containing name of a kind of vessel you might find on sea or river...

The Fabulous Riverboat
by Philip Jose Farmer

The Chums in Dixie: or the Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
by St. George Rathborne

Sloop of War
by Alexander Kent

In Lighter Vein*
by John Vickers

Created, the Destroyer
by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

*"at sea"...Lighter: I guess this is used only close to shore; I havenʻt seen the word outside of a
Conrad novel.

NEXT: FIVE fictions that contain the name of a LAND
vehicle.

>>>>>

Henry Reed's Think Tank by Keith Robertson
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Lowenton Clymer
The Man in the Green Jeep by Viola Palmer
Spot's Noisy Tractor by Eric hill

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a word that pertains to a book (the structure of a book or what it contains...)

PROOFS from the Book
by Martin Aigner

The PROOFS of Bahaʻuʻllahʻs
Mission
(no author given)

65 Great SPINE Chillers
ed. by Mary Danby

Awakening the SPINE: the stress-free new Yoga that works with the Body to Restore Health, Vitality, and Energy
by Vanda Scaravelli

PREFACE to Plato
by Eric Havelock*

NEXT: Five fictions, plays, or long poems that include a
name or a thing from:
the professions of Show business, politics or publishing

*Knew author.

SPEAKER for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
The Hangman's WHIP by Mignon G Eberhart
PEER Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
The PRIME MINISTER by Anthony Trollope
A PARLIAMENT of Owls by Beth Hilgartner

These all pertain to UK politics. NEXT:
As in #195, focussing on publishing/ showbiz/ US politics/

"A Municipal Report"
by O. Henry
(classic short story)

Cameraman
by Bill Gaston

The American Senator
by Anthony Trollope

The Tenor Saxophonistʻs Story by Joseph Skorecky

Outlaw and Lawmaker Australian Women Writers
Heritage. . .
by Rosa C M Praed

NEXT: FIVE fictions* with titles containing a word or
name from MUSIC, SCULPTURE or PAINTING.

*Drama and long poems are eligible, too. No bios or
text books
>> > > >

A NOTE IN MUSIC by Rosamond Lehmann
The PORTRAIT of a Lady by Henry James
The long SONG by Andrea Levy
CHIAROSCURO by Grazia Deledda
Hearing Secret HARMONIES by Anthony Powell

Next: 5 fictions each featuring a word from science or maths

A Division of the Spoils
by Paul Scott

"An Error in Chemistry"
by William Faulkner

The Physicists (a drama)
by Frederic Duerrenmatt

Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
by Lucia Maria Perillo

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol 2 (fiction anthology)
ed. by Ben Bova

NEXT: FIVE fictions or popular* non-fictions with a
word from Athletics or Show Business in the title.

*No bios or technical works.

The Loneliness of the LONG DISTANCE RUNNER by Alan Sillitoe
The Bone VAULT by Linda Fairstein
MARATHON man by William Goldman
SWIMMING Home by Deborah Levy
Rabbit, RUN by John Updike

NEXT: 5 fictions, the title of each to feature a word from the title of a work by Charles Dickens (5 different works)

Great Expectations--Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

A Christmas Carol--The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore

Bleak House--The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Martin Chuzzlewit--Martin the Warrior: A Tale from Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Pickwick Papers--The Lovecraft Papers by P. H. Cannon

Next: 5 fictions with a holiday in the title.

Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving Visitor
by Truman Capote

Patriots Day*
The Patriots Club
by Christopher Reich

Christmas
Christmas Stories
by Charles Dickens

Independence Day (July 4)
Born on the Fourth of July
by Ron Kovic

Labor Day
Labor Day (a novel)
by Joyce Maynard

*Celebrated in Massachusetts, originally on 04/19, now on the closest
Monday or Friday to 04/19

NEXT: FIVE fictions or popular non-fictions which have at least one of the 7 initials of 202 in either the authorʻs name or the title.

Th initials are C D I L P T V

C - Collette - Claudine

D - Dickens Charles - Dombey and Son

L - Lahiri Jhumpa - The Lowland

P - Proulx Annie - Postcards

T - Toibin Colm - The testament of Mary

Next: 5 fictions, each including a word for a place one might seek accommodation / and or a meal

1. Mallory Mcdonald, Baby Expert - McDonalds

2. Creepy Cafeteria - Cafeteria

3. Home for Christmas - Home

4. Diner Impossible - Diner

5. Wendy - Wendy's

Next: Five books each containing a different word in the title that is something non-edible that a baby is likely to stick in their mouth (for example - Crayons).

Girl with a Pen: Charlotte Bronte
by Elisabeth Kyle

I am a Pencil: a Teacher, his Kids
and their World of Stories
by Sam Swope

The Adventures of Harold and
the Purple Crayon
by Crockett Johnson

The Storyteller's Beads
by Jane Kurtz

Curious George Visits a Toy Store
by H. A. Rey

FIVE books in which no initial of the
author is duplicated in any initial of
of the title: using titles of 4 or more words.

e.g. Gone with the Wind,
By Margaret Mitchell would be
eligible; (no M s in the title);
I am a Pencil: A Teacher, his Kids
and their World of Stories by
Sam Swope would NOT
(an S in the title)

1. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

4. The Cat Who Played Post Office by Lilian Jackson Braun

5. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

Next: Five fiction books that each contain a different name of a car model. Note that the book doesn't need to be about cars, and the plural use is fine. Keep in mind, models (i.e. Ram, Mustang, Corvette, Jetta, etc), not brands (i.e. Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, etc). Models that are no longer made today are still valid (i.e. Dart, Cavalier, Firebird, etc.)

* Is #206 correct? 1) contains E & A 2) contains S 4) contains L

3 more answers for #205

1) What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
2) The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle by Beatrix Potter
3) The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss

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#206 - very good question by the way!

1) The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson - Hilman Imp
2) A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley - Morris Traveller
3) Secrets of a Gentleman Escort by Bronwyn Scott - Ford Escort
4) Christopher Robin gives Pooh a Party by A A Milne - Reliant Robin
5) Kung Fu Panda by Mark Osborne - Fiat Panda

NEXT: 5 fictions featuring NEGATIVE verb forms. One title each in
present eg I don't know how she does it by Allison pearson
future
past
present continuous
and the last one's up to you.

>206 ThrillerFan: - He said they can't share the same initials.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" (T, F, O, T, H, O, U) by Edgar Allan Poe (E, A, P). There is no word in the title that starts with E, A, or P.

And by the way, What Katy Did is invalid as it has to be 4 words or more in the title.

present: I donʻt Want No Retrospective
by Ed Ruscha

future:
ʻWhy wonʻt you just Tell us the Answer?"
by Bruce Lesh

past: "Why Didnʻt they Ask Evans?" by Agatha Christie

pres. con.: "Why Isnʻt God Giving Cash Awards?"
by Lorraine Peterson

imperative: "Donʻt Look Behind you"
by Lois Duncan

FIVE titles (fiction OR non-fiction) that COULD HAVE BEEN CONTRACTIONS as in
the above 5, but have avoided the contraction:

e.g.
You are not so Smart...
by David McRaney

(could have been "You ARENʻT so Smart". . .)

<>>>>

I will not serve by Eveline Mahyere
Why I am not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
Now We are Six by A A Milne
You cannot be serious by john McEnroe
I Shall not be moved by Maya Angelou

Next: 5 fictions, title of each containing at least one male and one female forename

Ozzie and Harriet vs. the Great Commision
by Don Cole

Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare

Peter and Joan
by H. G. Wells

"Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"; a screenplay*
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

*based on 2 novels by Evan Connell: Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge

NEXT: 5 Book titles that contain (1) an ANIMAL;
(2) a VEGETABLE; (3) A MINERAL** (4, 5) two more
of your choice of anim., veg. or min.

**can be defined, for game purposes, as any non-gaseous
element or compound

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Diamonds of the Night by Arnost Lustig
Glitter of Mica by Jessie Kesson
The Tin toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring a forename that is also a kind of plant

Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure
by Thea Stilton

Wild Heather
by Catherine Palmer

The House of Ivy and Sorrow
by Natalie Whipple

The Red Lily
by Anatole France

Moss Rose
by Day Taylor

NEXT: Odd Balls: FIVE fictions or popular* non-fictions with an
odd-number in the title. In sequence: e.g. 1-3-5-7-9,
or, if you wish 13 - 15 - 17 - 19 -21. etc. --always going
on to the NEXT, in sequence,
odd number.


*But Excluding mere enumerations like: "21 Short Stories. . ."

And then there was ONE by Joyce Dennys
The THREE little pigs by James Marshall
FIVE go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton
SEVEN little Australians by Ethel Turner
The NINE days queen by Karleen Bradford

NEXT: As above but with even numbers

Walden Two
by B. F. Skinner

The Four Feathers
by A. E. W. Mason

The Six Rules of Maybe
by Deb Caletti

Eight Days by Gabriel Fielding

Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie

NEXT: FIVE fictions whose titles include at least one
Masculine or Feminine personal name or pronoun
in alternating order: FEM > MASC >FEM >MASC > FEM
(OR: M > F > M > F > M)

e.g. 1. Ann Vickers
2. He Ran all the Way . . .

Joanna by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler
Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

next: (I'm very short on ideas - the question setting part is always harder than answering the previous question!

5 fictions/ non fictions, title of each includes a word describing person(s) who are not city-dwellers. hope this is do-able!

FARMER Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Good SHEPHERD by C.S. Forester (and his surname is a country profession!)
The Lone RANGER and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Piers PLOWMAN by William Langland
The CONSERVATIONIST by Nadine Gordimer

next: (I've not done this before, so forgive me, please, if my ideas have been used before.)

Five (5) fictions containing phases of the moon or other planetary bodies. Only one book by Stephenie Meyer permitted!

FIfth Quarter
by Tanya Huff

No Quarter by Tanya Huff

A Man in FULL
by Tom Wolfe

Half-moon Investigations
by Eoin Colfer

Crescent Carnival
by Frances Parkinson Keyes

NEXT: FIVE titles* with any solar system item EXCEPT lunar items.

*Fiction or popular non-fiction; no technical works

The Fellowship of the RING - J.R.R. Tolkien

The AXIS of Evil Cookbook - Gil Partington

The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the TROJAN War - Caroline Alexander

GRAVITY Falls Once Upon a Swine -Disney Book Group and Disney Storybook Art Team

SATELLITE Sam - Howard Chaykin

NEXT: I have no imagination to come up with another category. First come, first served.

Next 5 fictions, each title having name of a British animal in PLURAL in title

Wolves by* Emily Gravett

The Foxes of Harrow
by Frank Yerby

Black Foxes by Sonya Hartnett

Rabbits
by John Marsden

The Dogs of War
by Frederick Forsyth

*Am I sure this is fiction? --No, but
it does have the "Fiction" tag; the
same goes for the Marsden title.

NEXT: Five fictions or
popular# non-fictions with
the name of an CITY that is on
an ISLAND (5 different islands)
in the title -- no matter how
large or small the island.

#No text books or special reports
allowed.

101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler
London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins

Next: 5 works of fiction featuring a make or model of car in the title

Doctor DeSoto
by William Steig

Cadillac Jukebox
by James Lee Burke

Terraplane by Jack Womack

Three Churches and a Model T
by Phillip Jerome Cleveland

Bug out! What to do when its
Time to get out of Dodge
by M. T. Anderson

NEXT: FIVE filctions or popular
non-fictions all having at least
2 different vowels; and NONE
repeating the main vowel of
the previous.

e.g. if dAvId cOppErfIELd is the 1st
title, then
EIHER I or E may be called the
main vowel (each twice used, SO
the next entry must be without
E OR without I (your choice)

The House of the Mosque E
Tono Bungay O
Brideshead Revisited E
Giovanni's Room O
The Magician's Nephew

NEXT: 5 fictions, each featuring a noun preceded by an adjective pertaining to nationality.
eg The Australian Fiance

The Dutch Shoe Mystery
by Ellery Queen

The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje

The Spanish Prisoner
by Frank Gruber

The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
by Ashok Ferrey

The Danish Girl
by David Ebershoff

NEXT: FIVE European Asian or
Latin American fictions
or popular non-fictions, in which
the 1st letter (after an article) of
the title proceeds in alphabetical
order, skipping one letter
from the previous;
start anywhere in the alphabet:
e.g. C...; E. . .; G . . .; I . . .; K . . .

The Family from One end Street by Eve Garnett
A Happy Boy by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Jeremy by Hugh walpole
The Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

NEXT: As above but with American only authors

B > D> F> H> K

Ben: a Memoir, from Street Kid
to Governor
by Benjamin J. Cayetano*

Dorothy Day: selected writings
by Dorothy Day

A Fable by William Faulkner

"Heaven's my Destination"
by Thornton Wilder

Johnny Tremain
by E Forbes

*Met author.

NEXT: Authors, in the Same alphabetic sequence
(skipping one initial) as in
228 and 229: but ALPHABETIC BY
author's native country.

e.g. 1. Ishmael Kadare
(Albania)
>2 silverfish999:. Alejo Carpentier (Cuba) . . . . .
(start anywhere in the alphabet.)
(IGNORE any screen name that
appears in this post; I didn't
write it, and can't seem to
delete it.)

1. The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Hoeg (Denmark)
2. Purge by Sofi Oksanen (Finland)
3. Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (Hungary)
4. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
5. Flesh Coloured Dominoes by Zigmunds Skujins (Latvia)

Five works of fiction by authors who are each from a different country on the same continent, excluding Europe and North America; at least two of the authors to be women.

Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur - INDIA - female
The Good Children by Roopa Farooki - PAKISTAN - female
Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar - ISRAEL
Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal - TURKEY
Botchan by Soseki Natsume - JAPAN

Five works of fiction - authors from different country of same continent - first name to begin with letter from first half of alphabet (A-M), surname to begin with letter from last half (N-Z)

Dina's Book by Herbjorg Wassmo - Sweden
The last summer - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak - Russia
Heidi by Johanna Spyri - Switzerland
De muggen by Jos Vandeloo - Belgium (The mosquitoes)
De avonden : een winterverhaal by Gerard Reve - The Netherlands (The Evenings : a winter tale; 1947 . It's into translation to English at the moment. it's about : Ten days of the life of a 23-year-old office clerk in Amsterdam )

next: five books with alliteration in the title

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson

Sacred Sins
by Nora Roberts

Trashy Town by
Andrea Zimmerman

The Villainous Village
by Lemony Snicket

NEXT: FIVE fictions or popular non-fictions
WITHOUT a particular vowelʻ
#! without A

# 2 without E
# 3. without I

#4. without O
#5. wihtout U

< > > > >

1) Christine
2) Cujo
3) Salem's Lot
4) Pet Sematary
5) The Tommyknockers

All of course by Stephen King

Next: 5 books with at least two words in the title excluding articles (the title can have an article, like "the", but it doesn't count towards the 2 word minimum) where no word in the title is longer than 4 letters in length (For Example: Game Over by Joseph Locke.)

THe Man who was Not with it
by Herbert Gold

The Man Who Died
by D. H. Lawrence

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

A Time to Die
by Wilbur Smith

Go: More than A Game
by Peter Shotwell

NEXT: Five books by different authors that
contain at least one_______
1. preposition

2. Pronoun

3. Adverb

4. adjective WITH a suffix (e/g/ ending in -ary, any, -ic, etc._)

5. adjective WITHOUT a suffix.

examples: 1. WITHOUT Marx or Jesus

2. HE Ran all the Way . . . . . . . . . .

1)Over sea, under stone by Susan Cooper
2)We didn't mean to go to Sea by Arthur Ransome
3)The Bread of those Early years by Heinrich Boll
4)An Accidental Man by Iris murdoch
5)Vasco our Little Panama Cousin by Henry Lee Mitchell Pike

Next: 5 fictions, each featuring a forename in the genitive form eg

The Death of Lucy Kyte OR Lucy's Summer .
Titles like The Stories of John Cheever aren't allowed.

"Harryʻs House"
by Catherine Anholt

Harrys Game
by Gerald Seymour

The Death of Artemio Cruz
by Carlos Fuentes

The Case of Jennie Brice
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Trials of Tiffany Trott
by Isabel Wolff

NEXT: 5 titles with possessive endings or "of . . . . .ʻs"
alternating feminine and masculine names
e.g. 1. Aliceʻs........ 2. . . . of Robert
3. . . . of Celia . . . . .

Monica's choice by Flora E Berry
Henry's Cat by Stan Hayward
Anne's House of Dreams by L M Montgomery
The Song of Roland by Anonymous
The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning

Next: 5 fictions, the title of each to include a name (human or geographical) that features in a Shakespeare play

"MERCHANTS from Cathay"
by William Rose Benet

MACBETH the King by Nigel Tranter*

The HAMLET by William Faulkner

JULIET Immortal by Stacey Jay

CLEOPATRA; a screenplay (ca. 1963)

*The blurb for this says, "Forget
Shakespeare's villain . . .". It's
fiction, but claims to be closer to
the real history than WS's Macbeth

NEXT: Five book* titles, alphab. order,
skipping at least 2 letters for the
first letter of each entry.

e.g. If (1) is Anthony Adverse
(2) must skip at least B and C and begin
with D or further on in the alphabet.

*Fiction OR Non-Fiction

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
Green Mansions by W H Hudson
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

Next: 5 fictions that each feature a kind of weapon in title

This Gun for Hire*
by Graham Greene

The Pistol by James Jones

"At Swordsʻ Points"
by Andre Norton

"The Sabreʻs Edge" by Allan Madison

The RIFLE, Man!**
by Mad Magazine

*another ed. was titled A Gun for Sale

**Mad magazineʻs parody of the
classic TV series The Rifleman

NEXT: Five books, fiction or non-fiction
featuring in the title a modern weapon,
excluding near-obsolete weapons
e.g. sword, spear, etc. Weapon-names
may be repeated.

Hand grenade Practice in Peking: My part in the Cultural revolution by Frances Wood
Kalashnikovs and Zombie Cucumbers: Travels in Mozambique by Nick Middleton
Uncle Dynamite by P G Wodehouse
The Hand that first held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (Mine)
Johnny got his gun by Dalton trumbo

Next: 5 fictions each featuring an African animal in title

A Crossing of Zebras: Animal packs
in Poetry by Marjorie Maddox

Elephant walk
by Jean Craighead George

Ask the Name of the Lion
by Ralph Allen

I, Crocodile by Fred Marcellino

"Doc Cravenʻs Tribute: the Legends
of Springbok Rugby, 1889--1989"
by Daniel Hartman Craven

NEXT: Five book titles with the name(s)
of North American or European
animal(s) in the title.

The Lodge of the Lynx by Katherine Kurtz
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
The Story of the Little Mole by Werner Holzwarth
Robin Hood by William Langland

5 fictions, each containing a vertabrate from each of the the five classes, as there are:
Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals

Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale

The Frogs / Ranae / Batrakhoi
by Aristophanes

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larson

The Eagle has Landed
by Jack Higgins

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

NEXT: Five book titles by authors of
FIVE different nationalities, each one
including an animal name of any class)

UK ; The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C S Lewis
Turkey: Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
Switzerland: The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
France: The Diving bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Japan: Snow Country and Thousand Cranes by Yasunari kawabata

Next: 5 fictions with single word titles (the word can't be a name)

Triumph by Ben Bova

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Eirene / Peace by Aristophanes

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Together by Jane Simmons

NEXT: FIVE TWO-word Titles, fiction
or non-fiction, and at least THREE
should be without an article.

Watership Down by Richard Adams
Aurora Australis by Fleur Bourgonje
Kleine zielen / Little Souls by Louis Couperus
Camera obscura by Nicolaas Beets
Burning Lights by Bella Chagall

next: Five fiction titles that says something about the weather

When the Storm Breaks
by Heather Lowell

The Storm by Clive Cussler

The Flame, the Breeze, and the
Shadow by Esphyr Slobodkina

Tropical Freeze by James W. Hall

The Thaw by Ilya Ehrenburg

NEXT Five titles, fiction or non-fiction with
a directional word in them (N, E, S, W, etc.)

South of the Northeast Kingdom by David Mamet
South Southeast by Steve McCurry
Shrubs & Trees of the Southwest Deserts by Janice Bowers
Northwest of Earth by C. L. Moore
North of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton

Next: Five fiction titles with an element of the periodic table in them, the English or the Scientific (latin) name. The element may be a part of a word/name.

Oxygen by Carol Cassella

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

The Lone Ranger and the
Silver Bullet by Fran Striker

The Hydrogen Murder: a Gloria
Lamerino Mystery
by Camille Minichino

The Empty Copper Sea
by John D. MacDonald

NEXT Five fictions with an element in the
title, excluding those that contain an H or a C.

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Platinum Garden by Maki Fujita
Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt
The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes

Next: five fictions with Weights and Measures excluding an M or R

The Twelve Pound Look
by James Barrie

Dreaming under a Ton of Lizards
by Marian Michener

An Ounce of Preservation: a Guide
to the Care of Papers and
Photographs by Craig Tuttle

Lifting a Ton of Feathers: a
Womanʻs Guide to Surviving in
the Academic World
by Paula Kaplan

Treachery in the Yard: a
Nigerian Thriller
by Adimchinma Ibe

NEXT: FIVE titles, fiction or
popular* non-fiction. with an element in
the title by authors of FIVE different
nationalities

*No text books or technical treatises allowed

(happily I could use a 'c' now, all elements do contain one :-)

Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date by Robert X. Cringely (USA)
Cobalt Blue by Mary Borsky (CND)
Nickel im Wilden Westen by Achim Bröger (DLD)
A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup (GB)
Mercure by Amélie Nothomb (BEL)

Next:
Five titles about, or with main background :
five wars
in five different areas
in five different centuries

The Kaiser's Holocaust by David Olusoga - NAMIBIA - 20th Century
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge - CRIMEA - 19th century
The Golden Warrior by Hope Muntz - ENGLAND (Norman Conquest) - 11th century
The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France - FRANCE (Revolution) - 18th century
The Iliad by Homer - TURKEY (Trojan War) - 13th century BC

NEXT: 5 fictions with 3 word titles, middle word to be 'and'. Names are not allowed, nor is the obvious 'War and Peace'!

By Antietam Creek
by Don Robertson
- -independent U. S. 19th c.

The Virginians*
by William M.. Thackeray
18th c.
present day Ohio under**
British administration

The Bitter Woods
by John S. D. Eisenhower
WW II, Belgium, France
20th c.

The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar
Thessaly, Egypt, 1st c. B.C.

Lorna Doone
Communal conflict, England, 1680s

NEXT: FIVE war fictions, with a total of
at least TEN nationalities involved.
Repeats of a national name are
limited to 2

*Reading it currently

** has an episode of battles on the Virginia frontier
in what is now Ohio; Pennsylvanian and Virginian
militias and British regulars battling Canadian French
and French regulars, both sides, esp. France, having
Indian allies, ca. 1756, but written about a
century later.

Playing on >256 starbox:

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg

NEXT: Five fictions with a type of reptile in the title.

Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

Timothy; or: Notes of an Abject Reptile
by Verlyn Klinkenborg

The Serpent by Jane Gaskell

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
by Bernard Waber

The Lady with the Alligator Purse
by Nadine Bernard Westcott

NEXT: "War and Peace": TWO titles with a "Warlike"
word in the title and THREE with a "Peaceful" word
e.g. (1)> War within a War . . . (3)>The Peace

Mijn kleine oorlog = My little war by Louis Paul Boon (Bel)
Oorlog zonder vrienden by Evert Hartman (NL)
War without friends (Childrens)

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Ger/USA)

La paix du ménage by Guy de Maupassant (Fr)
= A comedy of marriage in two acts (1888) lit: Domestic Peace
Vrede op Ithaca = Béke Ithakában* , Peace on Ithaca by Sándor Márai (Hun)

*Inspired by Ulysses, made Odysseus a man of flesh and blood, the life after coming home.

Next:
5 titles that contains the title of a Newspaper, or a Daily, or a Weekly, (or evt. a Magazine)

Einstein: the Life and TIMES}
by Ronald Clark

The great GLOBE itself: a Preface to
World Affairs by William Bullitt

Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Times: Being
in part a TRANSCRIPT of the Minute Books of
Cedar Creek . . . and South River . . .
by J. P. Bell

Breaking Bread: the CATHOLIC WORKER and
the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America
by Mel Piehl

POST Office by Charles Bukowski

NEXT: FIVE titles that contain at least one word*
from the title of a serial (periodical) publication
OTHER THAN a daily newspaper. Eligible:
magazines, reviews, journals, weekly and monthly
etc.

*e.g. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is
eligible - - from Saturday Evening Post or
Saturday Review -- does not need more than
one word of the serialʻs title.

The Truth about Drugs : Facing THE BIG ISSUE of the Millennium by Patrick Dixon
The SPECTATOR Bird by Wallace Stegner
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who LOVE IT by Lynne M. Thomas
DER SPIEGEL des Cyprianus by Theodor Storm The mirror of C.
DE TIJD zelf by Harry Mulisch Time itself

All weekly's: 1-3 British, 4 German, 5 Dutch (now: HP/De Tijd)

Next:
Five titles containing a river in South America or Africa
(You may omit the word River or Rio)

La Edad DE ORO by Joseʻ Martiʻ

Death on the NILE by Agatha Christie

CONGO Song by Stuart Cloete

Into the NIGER Bend
by Jules Verne

The LIMPOPO Academy of Private
Detection
by Alexander McCall Smith

NEXT: FIVE titles by authors of five different
Nationalities, each containing a City, Town,
or Provincial name. (No names of whole countries).

Farewell Anatolia by Dido Sotiriou (Greek)
Catalunya, Espanya by Jordi Pujol (Catalan(Spanish))
The Donegal currach* by Dónal MacPolin (Irish)
Where's Wallis? **by Brian Thacker (Australian)
Vejen til Jylland by Leif Panduro (Danish) The road to Jutland

*A boat made of waterproof material over a light wood frame, traditionally propelled by means of oars or a sail
** My answer: In Switzerland
All are kind of provinces

Next:
Five titles with five different currency's, you may omit the country adjectives
and the meaning of the words may 'change' :-)

Sven Kroner: Hidden Path
by Merel Van Tilburg

The Twelve Pound Look
by James Barrie

John Dollar
by Marianne Wiggins

Two Pesos for Catalina
by Ann Kirn

The Mark of Zorro
by Johnston McCulley

NEXT: FIVE titles, each including the
name of a different country of
continent, excluding: the Western Hemisphere