Use the last letter of the previous posting to start your title Part 32

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

Last play:

Never so Few by Tom Chamales (rolandperkins)

The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 by Jim Fergus

Last letter "O".

4343. One Square Mile of Hell The Battle for Tarawa, by John Wukovits (read 20 July 2007)

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
by Elie Wiesel

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

Riceyman Steps
by Arnold Bennett

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

5032. Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, by Ivan Doig (read 9 Jun 2013)

Aeneis / The Aeneid
by Virgil* read in 1947-48; 1950-51 e q s; mostly fiction, though based on history/legend.

Last letter: S or D

The VI-- spelling is incorrect, I was assured in high school. But it is the predominant spelling in English.
Should be "VErgil", following the exact Latin sp. as in the full name"Publius VErgilius Maro".

the dead zone by stephen king, because the aeneid is the version i couldn't get through years ago

Eleanor of Aquitaine
by ALlison Weir

5087. Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall (read 15 Nov 2013) (Pulitzer History prize in 2013)

Martin Eden
by Jack London

5086. Nixon and Kissinger Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek (read 11 Nov 2013)

the red tent by anita diamond read maybe in 2003ish

1198. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (read 19 Nov 1972)

The Syringa Tree: A Novel by Pamela Gien

87. Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune (read c. 1941)

The Group by Mary McCarthy

4672. Profiles in Folly History's Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong, by Alan Axelrod (read 13 Feb 2010)

The Gods will have Blood by Anatole Franceread this year

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes - read 1995

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

3561. Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey (read 23 Mar 2002)

Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill by Jean plaidy - read 2005

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

1684. Abdication, by Brian Inglis (read 3 Jan 1982)

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - read 2008

4160. Of Long Memory Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers, by Adam Nossiter (read 11 May 2006)

The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie

1464. The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope (read 1 Oct 1977)

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Year of the Hare by Aarto paasilinna - read 2012

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - read 2013

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution
by Lucia St. Clair Robson

5092. Napoleon The Path to Power, by Philip Dwyer (read 29 Nov 2013)

Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe

The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers

Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Chiaroscuro by Grazia Deledda (read 2012)

5101. One Summer American, 1927, by Bill Bryson (read 17 Dec 2013)

last letter n as I understand the rule

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

4687. The Track of the Cat, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (read 24 Mar 2010)

Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Julius Lester

That's How it was by Maureen Duffy - read about 5 yrs ago

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet - read 2013

278. High Conquest The Story of Mountaineering, by James Ramsey Ullman (read 26 Aug 1946)

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Shiny Water
by Anna Salter

Run With the Hunted - Charles Bukowski

5078. The Devil Within Possession & Exorcism in the Christian West, by Brian P. Levack (read 25 Oct 2013)

The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri

A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy - read 2008

The Summer of the Barshinskeys
b6y Diane Pearson

Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan -read 2012

Misfortune by Wesley Stace

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer - read last year

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

The Reivers by william Faulkner

The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton - read 1995

Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis - read last year

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

3873. Europe's Last Summer Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin (read 7 Apr 2004)

last letter, per geneally accepted norm, is N

The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian - read 2012

revolutionary road by richard yates, read oct 2008 and rereading now (*love*)

Druids
by Morgan Llywelyn

sweet thursday by john steinbeck, read before i kept real track, probably in 1994

Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk

Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac - read 2001

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

3666. Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist, by Richard Rayner (read 20 Dec 2002)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

dead like you by peter james

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro- read about 4 yrs ago

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

never go back by lee child

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

3984. Race to the Pole Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (read 10 Feb 2005)

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - read last week

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Deeper
by Jeff Long

3952. Royal Charles Charles II and the Restoration, by Antonia Fraser (read 7 Nov 2004)

The Neon Bible
by John Kennedy Toole

1098. The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield (read 5 Dec 1970) (Pulitzer History prize in 1953) (Bancroft Prize in 1953)

Sycamore Row
by John Grisham

A World to Win by Upton Sinclair

2029. Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat (read 9 Nov 1986)

Fanny: a Fiction by Edmund White

No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy

Nelson Against Napoleon: From the Nile to Copenhagen ed. by Robert Gardiner

Name of the Beast
by Daniel Easterman

1072. The Three Popes: An Account of the Great Schism, by Marzieh Gail (read 6 Sep 1970)

The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War
by James Brady

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

Katherine by Anchee Min

4236. The Echo Maker, by Richard Power (read 24 Nov 2006) (National Book Award fiction prize for 2006)

Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott

The Tulip Virus by Daniëlle Hermans

Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner - just finished

rascals in paradise by james michener; read in 2012

Ember from the Sun
by Mark Canter

4799. No Surrender My Thirty-Year War, by Hiroo Onoda Translated by Charles S. Terry (read 10 Feb 2011)

Reindeer are wild too by Joan Newhouse - read in the 80s

>110 Schmerguls:: Very timely play, Schmerguls! That must have been an interesting book. It's amazing to me that any soldier could be unaware of the ending of a war.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh
by Edward F. Murphy

A History of New York by Washington Irving

You are right, Bookwoman. The book was consistently interesting. He did not believe what he was told over and over again--he thought it was American propaganda trying to trick him into giving up!

1087. Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus (read 17 Oct 1970)

Three Came Home
by Agnes Newton Keith

Ah. An extreme case of willfull ignorance.

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

4420. The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin (read 19 Mar 2008)

Then Spoke the Thunder
by Elwyn M. Chamberlain

4680. Revolution 1989 The Fall of the Soviet Empire, by Victor Sebestyen (read 4 Mar 2010)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery

Goddess of the Green Room by Jean Plaidy - read 2005

4673. Methland The Death and Life of an American Small Town, by Nick Reding (read 14 Feb 2010)

New York
by Edward Rutherfurd

The Knot of Vipers by Francois Mauriac - read when I was at school

3748. Stanton The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War, by Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman (read 27 May 2003)

The Rebels of Ireland
by Edward Rutherfurd

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Beast Within by Emile Zola - just finished re-reading

Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo

Life in a Putty Knife Factory by H. Allen Smith

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

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
by Charles Krauthammer

3809. The Silence in the Garden, by William Trevor (read 2 Oct 2003)

Nana by Emile Zola

Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk - read 2012

4417. King, Kaiser, Tsar Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War, by Catrine Clay (read 4 Mar 2008)

River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
by Wilbur Smith

450. The Thresher, by Herbert Krause (read 15 Nov 1952)

Roots by Alex Haley

The Sisterhood
by Helen Bryan

Dracula by Bram Stoker

1701. At Twelve Mr. Byng Was Shot, by Dudley Pope (read 21 Mar 1982)

East of the Sun by Julia Gregson

Native Son
by Richard Wright

Bookwoman, #145 does not correctly play on #144

Oops! No, it doesn't! What was I thinking? Sorry!

From 144: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Whalesong
by Robert Siegel

260. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (read 15 June 1946) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1932)

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman

Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 by Joyce Dennys (Last letter "O")

Outside the Perimeter
by J. Sutton

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith

5087. Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall (read 15 Nov 2013) (Pulitzer History prize in 2013)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

195. Story of a Secret State, by Jan Karski (read 20 May 1945)

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The Killing Fields by Roland Joffe

Spring by Oskar Luts - just finished

The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan

Hey, #161 does not play on #160, Hazeljune and the posters since

Playing from 160:

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton - read last year

The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith

Rainwater
by Sandra Brown

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Wiliams

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Oedipus
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler

The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett

Dancer by Colum McCann

The Relic by Douglas Preston

Crime and Punishment by Keith Baker

Table Money
by Jimmy Breslin

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

The Great Imposter by Robert Crichton

The Road Home by Rose Tremain

348. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (read 6 Sep 1948)

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

When East Meets West by David Sper

Those Across the River
by Christopher Buehlman

The Red Tent by Anita Diamont

Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Mathematics: a Humanistic Approach
by G. Joseph Wimbish

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Elephant Winter by Kim Elchin

A wonderful novel.

Playing on #183, the last correct post:

3344. No Place for a Woman A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, by Janann Sherman (read 6 Sep 2000)

Good catch, Schmerguls!

Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

Dragonwyck by Anya Seton

The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett

After the Rainbow
by Yvonne Kalman

Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Anne of Windy Willows by LM Montgomery - read late 1980s

Playing from #198

The Silver Chalice
by Thomas B. Costain

Elephant Man by Christine Sparks

132. No Other Man, by Alfred Noyes (read 25 Nov 1943)

Never on Sundays by Jason M. Steffens

Salt Dancers
by Ursula Hegi

Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien

Sugar by Dan O'Connor

3720. Richmond Burning The Last Days of the Confederate Capital, by Nelson Lankford (read 24 Mar 2003)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Night of the Wolf
by Alice Borchardt

A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey

A wonderful Australian classic.

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

Man Friday by Adrian Mitchell

977. The Year the World Went Mad, by Allen Churchill (read 15 Nov 1968)

Dynasty by Robert S. Elegant

Deleted. I'd already used the book in this thread. Sorry.

543. Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (read 31 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1931)

The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom
by Caitlin Matthews

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

Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis

A Thinking Man's Bully
by Michael Adelberg

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

1599. Sickles the Incredible, by W. A. Swanberg (read 27 Nov 1980)

I was so impressed and caught up by this biography that I went on to read 8 more books by Swanberg, most of them much appreciated.

Ebony and Ivory by Lliewelyn Powys

The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers -- already used in this thread

The Yellow House
by Patricia Falvey

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith

Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz

this much i know is true by wally lamb

Too Much Too Soon by Jacqueline Briskin

Playing on #228, the last correct post:

2086. The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer (read 20 Jun 1987) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1980)

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett read 2011

Shiny Water
by Anna Salter -- already used in this thread

The Silent Brotherhood: Inside Story of America's Anti-Government Militia
by Kevin Flynn

American Pie by Teresa Kennedy

elvenbane by andre norton

Evergreen by Belva Plain

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

The Eight
by Katherine Neville

A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute

4365. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett (read 28 Sep 2007)

Raintree County by Ross Lockridge

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

Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

The Ninth Man by John Lee

643. A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord (read 16 Mar 1961)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

2215. Alive, by Piers Paul Read (read 10 Jun 1989) (Book of the Year)

Elephant Song
By Wilbur Smith

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill

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

A Lamp in the Window by Mrs Ethel (Field) Foster

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCArthy

the Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - read 2013

26. Through the Desert by Henryk Sienkiewicz (read in 1938 or 1939)

Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell - read 2007

The Sea by John Banville

The Alienist
by Caleb Carr

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

3959. Strange Fruit Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights, by David Margolick (read 1 Dec 2004)

Secret Graces
by Kathryn Magendie

The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton

2350. Novelists in Their Youth by John Halperin (read 15 Dec 1990)

Home by Marilynne Robinson

deleted by Boo

Everville by Clive Barker

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance

4084. Nellie Taft The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (read 23 Oct 2005)

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Terra Incognita by Ruth Downie

Almost Adam
by Petru popescu

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

1007. The Red and the Black, by Marie-Henri Beyle (De Stendahl) translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrief (read 10 May 1969)

King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
by Thomas L. Friedman

King Rat by James Clavell

The Timekeeper by Emily Rodda

3998. Rubicon The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom Holland (read 17 Mar 2005)

The Cutting Edge by Darcia Helle

easter rising by michael patrick macdonald (my copy doesn't have the additional title the touchstone does)

Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith

The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

the lion's game by nelson demille

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene

Redemption
by Leon Uris

North To Alaska by Henry Hathaway

Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby - read 2012

dr. death by jonathan kellerman

Homes and Other Black Holes by Dave Barry

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - read in the 80s

3434. The Kingfish and His Realm The Life and Times of Huey P. Long, by William Ivy Hair (read 18 Apr 2001)

Gone South
by Robert McCammon

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The Enemy Within by Larry Bond

4602. Nixon and Mao The Week That Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan (read 29 Jul 2009)

Darklost by Mick Farren

Trespass by Rose Tremain a great read from 2012

The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

Song of Songs by Watchman Nee

The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlof - currently reading

The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy

4020. Napoleon & Marie Louise The Emperor's Second Wife, by Alan Palmer (read 8 May 2005)

Evergreen by Belva Plain

neverwhere by neil gaiman

Everlasting Love by Ryoko Chiba

An Empty Spoon
by Sunny Decker

Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

373. Of Time and the River A Legend of Man's Hunger in his Youth, by Thomas Wolfe (read 5 Jul 1950)

Hell Or High Water by Anne Mather

Rich Man, Poor Man
by Irwin Shaw

The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme

A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

2823. My War, by Andy Rooney (read 14 Jan 1996)

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Now Face to Face
by Karleen Koen

Evermore by Alyson Noel

Esther Waters by George Moore - read back in 80s

1079. Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather (read 20 Sep 1970)

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Ember from the Sun
by Mark Canter

Eureka
by William Diehl

Eureka Stockade by Richard Butler

playing off #327, last correct one

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - read 2008

2035. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, by Farley Mowat (read 24 Nov 1986)

The Electric Horseman by H. B. Gilmour

November 1916 (The Red Wheel II)
by Alexander Solschenizyn

I am ignoring the words in the parenthesis--is that OK?

3511. No Fond Return of Love, by Barbara Pym (read 15 Dec 2001)

eating the alphabet by lois ehlert

880. The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, by William Golding (read 26 Nov 1966)

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

1684. Abdication, by Brian Inglis (read 3 Jan 1982)

The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham

Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

4835.Ripley Under Ground, by Patricia Highsmith (read 21 Jun 2011)

don't let's go to the dogs tonight by alexandra fuller

(edited to fix touchstone)

The Tangled Web by B.J. Hoff

The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge - read 2012

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

revolutionary road by richard yates; read most recently in jan

The Ranger
by Ace Atkins

The Right of Passage by Jayge Carr

4362. The Evolution of Civilizations An Introduction to Historical Analysis, by Carroll Quigley (read 20 Sep 2007)

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

needful things by stephen king

Suspicion by Kate Brian

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

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

true detectives by jonathan kellerman

403. Scott-King's Modern Europe, by Evelyn Waugh (read 2 Jan 1952)

Eragon by

Christopher Paolini