Books that begin with "Q"

Somewhat of an odd request, but I've realized that I've not read any books (that I remember/know of) with a title that begins with "Q." I do have the book Quilts in the Tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, but I'm not sure that counts.

Anyone know of any good books beginning with "Q"? I'm not really looking for anything in particular--I'll read just about anything, fiction or non. (Oh...Titles that begin with an article like "A" or "The" are permitted.)

What about a book that begins AND ends with a q? That book is Q by Luther Blissett. It's a big postmodern novel from Italy - the authors named themselves after a minor English footballer.

Quentin's from Maeve Binchy. That came off the top of my head.

Quarantine by Jim Crace, an account of Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness that was short-listed for the Booker Prize a few years ago. Interesting take on the origins of the faith.

I have these in my catalog:

Leon Uris' QB VII
David Eddings' Queen of Sorcery
Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis

and these:

Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned
Alexander Dumas' The Queen's Necklace
Charles Palliser's The Quincunx

(if we're allowed Q books that start with 'The')

And may I just add that only 1 of the 6 author touchstones is working. What's up with THAT???!!!

My catalog offers up:

Q-in-Law - Star Trek TNG take on Romeo & Juliet
Queen of Camelot - a little overwrought but generally okay retelling of Arthurian Legend from Guinevere's POV
Quicker Than the Eye - Ray Bradbury Short Stories

Q is for Quarry by Grafton

Queen of sorcery by David Eddings

Probably loads of other Queens too - touchstone Queen give 99+ including Queen of Angels by Bear

Quicksilver by Stephenson

None of which I'd actually recommend you seek out. Queen of Angels is OK ish, if you can get it dirt cheap.

Queen of sorcery is a very cliched generic fantasy novel. Entertaining the first time you read it, but not worth buying.

Quicksilver. Not to everyone's liking, though. 'Steampunk' SF. And to really appreciate it you have to read Cryptonomicon before. Both are 900+ tomes. But if you like them you have two more 900+ page books to follow up with (Confusion and System of the World) ;-)

A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton SF
Queen of Demons by David Drake Fantasy and part of a series
Quest By Richard Ben Sapir
Quozl by Alan Dean Foster
The Quest for the Northwest Passage by Glyn Williams

Queen - Alex Haley
and Queen Lucia (which starts a series) by EF Benson

Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices by Bob McCoy
Quad by C.G. Watson
Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse

I'm surprised that I never thought of titles beginning with "Queen." There sure are quite a few!

Thank you everyone for the suggestions and recommendations so far. Thanks for indulging me...

Two I haven't seen yet:

The Queen's Fool by Gregory - historical fiction set during Elizabethan England

Queen of Darkness by Bishop - 3rd in dark fantasy series, Black Jewels Trilogy

The Quilter's Apprentice by Jenifer Chiaverini

The Queen's Bastard by Robin Mawell

Q by Quincy Jones - his autobiography.

I only have one and it's in German: Quatemberkinder by Tim Krohn

I have Q-In-Law and Q-Squared, both by Peter David.

There's a whole mess of Quantum Leap novels.

Lessee ... "quest..."

Question Quest by Piers Anthony and Piers A. Jacob : Fantasy, very sarcastic and LOTS of puns.

Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot : Interesting application of Christian ideals and old-fashioned courtship techniques to modern relationship problems. Lots of 'real letters' from people needing help with etc...

The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer, F. C. Burkitt, and W. Montgomery : Huge tome about all the 'new' (like from the '70s) bible scholarship about finding if/who Jesus was historically. Rather interesting, but gets scathing at times, and does NOT agree with trad. Christian interpretations at all. VERY LONG (and boring in places)

Quest for Lost Heroes, by David Gemmell : Drena(i)? series, 3rd in set, after Legend, and The King Beyond the Gates. Epic? Fantasy, like.. the Drizzt books, or really any other really big fantasy set. Not bad, not excellent.

The Quest of the Fair Unknown (Squire's Tales) by Gerald Morris : SO AMAZING!!! Slightly (sometimes moreso) tongue in cheek retelling of some of the more obscure elements of the Arthurian legends. All of this series is excellent, and I couldn't tell you which was best. It isn't necessary to read them in any order.

Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry : Historical Fiction/Fantasy? A Scottish girl, a streetrat, and a British? kid save a young queen and have adventures whilst teaching a moral lesson. AKA - young adult school reading literature. Still manages to be fairly enjoyable tho.

Quinine : Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World by Fiammetta Rocco : Dude. Malaria. That's all I really need to say, right?

The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes : The interesting part of this book is the debate that stems off of it = lots of scientists think that the super-longevity (talking like 1500 years here) is a complete quack, BUT, there are some others who have fairly decent studies showing(ish) that we're really only dying of stuff HAPPENING to us, and if you fix/prevent that stuff, then you don't die for a loooong time. Interesting reading either way.

So, that's some of the 'q' books I've read.

ps - i didn't even bother to try to touchstone. it hateses us, the precious does.

Checking my catalogue I have:

Quality Street by J.M. Barrie, a quaint, Victorian play

The Quest for Youth, by Jeffrey Farnol, an old British novel, (touchstones not there)

and I'm amazed, floored, flabbergasted that no one has mentioned...

Quidditch Through the Ages!!! the gripping history of the famed game we all know and love played by good ol' HP

Several cookbooks start 'Quick and easy', and Time-Life published A Quintet of Cuisines about 40 years ago.

Presumably there must be physics books starting with 'Quantum', but I'd be hard pressed to think of a better cure for insomnia.

Here are a few from my library that haven't been mentioned:

Queen Zixi of Ix by L. Frank Baum
Quest of the Seal Bearers - Book 2: The Five Jewels (I got this one free as an ARC, and never read more than a couple of pages because it doesn't seem to be very good)
The Quarters Novels Volume 1 by Tanya Huff (an omnibus edition containing Sing the Four Quarters and Fifth Quarter)

The Quiet Eye by Sylvia Shaw Judson
Queen's Play bu Dorothy Dunnett
Quatermass and the Pit by Nigel Kneale

and not really a Q to start, but I have to add
The Great Quillow by James Thurbur

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman

A few graphic novels:
Quintos by Andreas
Qumran by Pierre Makyo
Queen's day by Leela Corman (A Xeric Award winner)
Quintett by Paul Gillon
Q by Cees Heuvel
Quit Your Job by Jmes Kochalka
Quetzalcoatl by Paul Mitton
Quitter by Harvey Pekar
Quick Brown Fox by Peter Pontiac
Qui est le Chef by Quino
Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware (my favorite in this list)

Well, I could only think of Quo Vadis?, which has already been mentioned.

As for names of authors, there's always Quino. :)

From my library:
Quest of the Three Worlds by Cordwainer Smith

and a textbook (not recommended for general consumption):
Qualititative Methods in Sociolinguistics

Edited for typo in title

You might like to check out Project Gutenberg's list of titles that begin with Q.

(Hope that's not cheating!)

Quag Keep by Andre Norton
The Qualinesti by Paul Thompson
The Quartered Sea by Tanya Huff

...a handful of Queens...
Queen Euphoria
The Queen in Winter
The Queen of Darkness
the aforementioned Queen of Sorcery, Queen of the Damned

...and
The Quest Begins
Quest Crosstime
The Quotable Golfer

And a short story:
Queen of the Afternoon by Cordwainer Smith

The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
Quadrille by Marion Chesney
Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani

Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour

The Quintessential World of Darkness

You all are awesome. Thanks!

Not a book, but a "Q" tidbit: Jayne Ann Krentz is a successful author who writes under her own name as well as several pen names (I can't spell pseudonym, but that looks kinda right). When she was choosing a name for her historical romances, she noticed there were no "Q" names on the romance shelf (at the time) and so she picked "Amanda Quick" hoping to make her books stand out more. Her books are good enough that she didn't need to do this, but I thought it interesting...

In my library I have The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Questions of Gender: Perspectives and Paradoxes (why touchstone dead?), Quick Vegetarian Pleasures, Quicksilver (I liked it a lot and I don't think you need Cryptonomicon to enjoy the series), and The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth.