Reading Alphabetically

Choose a book you have read and will list them alphabetically by author. For the letter X we may have to accept a name with an X in it.

A Lantern in her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (was it supposed to be a fantasy author?)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

(#4 - I doubt it. The first book listed is not fantasy!)

Luck in the shadows by Lynn Flewelling

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Fitcher's Brides by Gregory Frost

(We are supposed to give an alphabetical list of authors, right? *wary, even though that's what everyone's done*)

The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman

Rip Van Winkle by washington Irving

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman

ETA: ack, sorry, down to J...

Lost in a good book by Jasper Fforde

Wait... alphabetical by last name, right?

:S

I'm going to pick up J since Gaiman properly should come before Hillerman and Irving

Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James

Next is "K"

THanks, Jill!

The Door to December by Dean Koontz

That's currently reading. Already read:

The Talisman by Stephen King

Waking Dream by Rhiannon Lassiter

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Oops, too late. Let's try

Od Magic by Patricia McKillip

Brasyl, by Ian Mcdonald

Ops, too late!

The design of everyday things, by Donald A Norman

Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne

The last camel died at noon by Elizabeth Peters

The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen

Believing Christ by Stephen Robinson

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth -- fantastic book. Read it (even if you don't listen to me about reading anything else!)

Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou

Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede

Why I am Not an American by Malcolm X

Pit Dragons by Jane Yolen

Full-Bodied Red by Bruce Zimmerman

Stupid touchstones.

Another round?

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

Browsing by John Barth

Murder Goes Mumming by Alisa Craig.

Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Dana

King's Dragon by Kate Elliott

Sharp Practice by John Farris

Legend by David Gemmell

The Histories by Herodotus

It shoulden't happen to a vet by James Herriot

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Portraits in Courage by John F> Kennedy

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone.

Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

The Informer By Liam OʻFlaherty

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Surrender by Amanda Quick

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Dream Finder by Roger Taylor

The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay

The Golden Globe by John Varley.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

*damn, beat me to it*

The Complete Angler by Isaak Walton

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

Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen

The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny.

The Moon by Whale light by Diane Ackerman

#57 - Wow, that conjures up a very bizarre image.

58: It is a bizarre story.

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin.

Aurian by Maggie Furey

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

I think we missed one: Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.

Geez. I'm sorry. When I did indexing (on 3x5 cards, that's how long ago it was), I kept the alphabet posted over my desk. Obviously I needed it.

If it's any consolation, Jennie, I regularly reorganise my (completely insane) reading spreadsheet and there's always a book out of place on it.

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

All back on track! (Unless someone beat me to it!)

A Widow for One Year by John Irving

Children of Men by PD James

Ulysses by James Joyce

Darn. I didn't see the J post till after I'd posted.

Carrie by Stephen King

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Devices and Desires by K.J.Parker

Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

The American Colonies and the British Empire by Carl Ubbelohde.

Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughn

To Ride Hell's Chasm by Janny Wurts

Hellenica by Xenophon

Javelinas by Lauray Yule.

My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel

Beginning the loop again, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Thoughts on the Causes of the Pesent Discontents
by Edmund Burke

The Grey King by Susan Cooper.

Booked to Die by John Dunning

Gandhiʻs Truth by Eric Erickson

The Brontes Went to Woolworth's by Rachel Ferguson

The Old Silent by Martha Grimes

The Royal Road to Romance by Halliburton*

* No, not the old vice-presidentʻs old friend

The Quiet Game by Greg Iles

Napoleon by Paul Johnson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

Starter for 10 by David Nicholls.

1984 by George Orwell

Thud! by Terry Pratchett

Balsamic Dreams by Joe Queenan

Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon.

Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas

Asterix the Gaul by Albert Uderzo (and René Goscinny)

Everybody was so Young by Amand Vaill

Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Fine. :p

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

(Philosophical Fragments) by Xenophanes

(no full-length work by him has survived, and Iʻm not sure if the above, no more and no less, can be found in one volume.)

(I used Xenophon already; not legal to use Xenophon again, is it?)

(How about next go we do Titles by the alphabet? As in, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn followed by Billy Budd?)

Works for me.

Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

American Diplomacy During the Second World War: 1941-1945 by Gaddis Smith.

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

To: Maggie 1944 (#113)

Good idea. But shuldnʻt "A Tree g. i. B" be a T, not an A?

Roland, we're on 'C.' Give it another shot.

City of Pearl by Karen Traviss

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

God's Harvard by Hanna Rosin

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss

Idoru by William Gibson.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

touchstone not working, darn

Karen Miller's Kingmaker/Kingbreaker duology

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

Magician by Raymond Feist

Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber.

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Pet Peeve by Piers Anthony

Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings

Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Triplanetary by E. E. "Doc" Smith.

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Quantico by Greg Bear.

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

the World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer

(assuming weʻre on W)

Yeah, my out of place entry was because of mental fatigue. To make up for it:

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.

no problem, StormRaven, and good X-find

Yale and the Ancient Holy Land
by Yale University Library (et al.)

A Sorcerer's Treason by Sarah Zettel

needs a title-, not author-Z?

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Assassin King by Elizabeth Haydon

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

ETA to change my go

Eddie Would Go by Stuart Holmes Coleman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Gas House McGinty by James T. Farrell

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner

Killashandra by Anne Mccaffrey

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Matriarch by Karen Traviss

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers

Orbitsville by Bob Shaw.

Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

Filling in the blanks left by #165:

Pawn of Prophecy and Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings

I had to go back a year and a half in my read list to find those.

Shardik by Richard Adams

(Now we're back on track.)

Queen of Sorcery was used in the last go round.

To replace it, I'll put in Quag Keep by Andre Norton.

Time Enough for Love by Heinlein

i'm going to hide in the corner until i master the alphabet . . .

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray

The Wizard by Gene Wolfe

Xeno by D. F Jones

Yondering by Louis L'Amour

Z by Vassillis Vassilikis

Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall by Spike Milligan

Billy Liar on the Moon by Keith Waterhouse

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

Dingo by Charles de Lint

Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks

Going Gently by David Nobbs

171 - We don't mind a little alphabet mishap jennieg. Please come back and play :o)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

In Search of England by H.V. Morton (Title touchstone misbehaving)

>185 sandragon: You're sweet, sandragon.

Jeeves and the Tie that Binds by P. G. Wodehouse (No touchstone--what's with that?) (and then it showed up anyway)

The Kult by Shaun Jeffrey

Kesrith: The Faded Sun by C.J. Cherryh.

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

Mixed Magics by Diana Wynne Jones

Nothing to Pay by Caradoc Evans

O Ye Jigs and Juleps by Virginia Cary Hudson

> 193 I loved that book when I was a girl!

The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall

Quid pro Quo by Manna Francis

Is Data Human? The metaphysics of Star Trek by Richard Hanley
Good book, btw ;-)

The Samurai by Shusako Endo

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander

Ulpian Pioneer of Human Rights by
Tony Honore

Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani

Wild Palms by William Faulkner

Xxxenophile by Phil Foglio.

Young England by Richard Faber

Zel by Donna Jo Napoli

A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony

A Stretch on the River by Richard Bissell

The Novice by Trudi Canavan

Meditation on the First Philosophy
by Rene Descartes

Quaking by Kathryn Erskine

Bernard Clare by James T. Farrell

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Hotel by Arthur Hailey

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

What me Befell: the Reminiscences of
J.J. Jusserand

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy G Kay

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

The Stars Are Ours! by Andre Norton.

The Entertainer by John Osborne

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Standing Firm by Dan Quayle

Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

ETA 2 - Damn! I'm not going to change again!

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Our own devices: how technology remakes humanity, by Edward Tenner

I give up!!! ;-)

Trinity by Leon Uris

Now You See It by Vivian Vande Velde

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon.

The only book I've read with a "Y" author:

Star Trek: Shadow Lord by Laurence Yep

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

Jhereg by Steven Brust

The Annotated Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll

Journey to the Far Pacific
by Thomas E. Dewey

Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian C. Esslemont (currently reading)

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

How the Great Religions Began
by Joseph Gaer

Holy Fools by Joanne Harris

The Reptiles and Amhibians of Tanganyika
by C.J. Ionides

A Sword from Red Ice by J V Jones

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

The Heart of the Mirage by Glenda Larke

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy

Havenstar by Glenda Noramly - one of my all time faves!

Dead Water Zone by Kenneth Oppel

The Merchants' War by Frederick Pohl

Embrace the Serpent by
Marilyn Tucker Quayle and Nancy Tucker Northcott

The Heir Apparent by Joel Rosenberg.

Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ad Edictum by Ulpian

Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne

The Ides of March by Thornton WIlder

When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong

Brair Rose by Jane Yolen

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs.

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue

Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

History of the Franks by Gregory
(of Tours)

State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy

An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry
ed. and tr. Daniel H.H. Ingalls

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

edited for spelling

The Meaning of Life by E.D. Klemke

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

Are All the Giants Dead? by Mary Norton

Famine by Liam OʻFlaherty

College Girls by Lynn Peril

Monster of God by David Quammen

August by Judith Rossner

No, David! by David Shannon

A Childʻs Christmas in Wales
b y Dylan Thomas

Tortoni Tremolo the Cursed Musician by Tomi Ungerer

The Ruins by Constantin Francois de Volney

The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West

Generational Dynamics; Forecasting Americaʻs Destiny by John J. Xenakis

Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler

Keeping the House by Ellen Baker

Spartina by John Casey

Black Heart, Ivory Bones by Ellen Datlow

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Pylon by William Faulkner

Grow lovely, growing old by Lawrence G. Green -- touchstone totally non-functioning; see my catalogue for details

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Double Axe by Robinson Jeffers

Amor se escribe con hache by Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Oops.

The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

Herrie op die ou Tremspoor by C.J. Langenhoven

or, if you prefer,

Speaking up by Bernard Levin

Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel Eliot Morison

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (do I get double points for a double N-er? N & N???? No? Ah well, LOL!

The Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Marcel Proust: a Centennial Volume
by Peter Quennell

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Revolt of Islam by Percy Shelley

The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope

Warfighting by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Araminta Station by Jack Vance

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Do the rules allow Cuckoos > Cuckooʻs

If so: One Flew over the Cuckooʻs Nest by
Ken Kesey

You're getting your games mixed up, Roland. (easy enough to do. :))We're looking for an author with an x

Sorry

(I always end up on X or Q; donʻt have an X right now)

Neither do I. We can only fake it with Xenophon for so long.

The rules say for the letter X, we may have to
accept "A NAME WITH an X IN IT."

I know. You got one? I don't.

To Glory We Steer by Kent AleXander

So we're onto Z now, right?

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

(Anyone for upping the ante and trying to have the title go from A to Z and the author from Z to A or is that a truly cruel suggestion? ^-~)

I'm going for truly cruel.

But I could offer Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen

Yendi by Steven Brust.

I know its been used before, but it is perfect for this cycle:

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.

The Wounded Hawk by Sara Douglass

A Veiled Deception by Annette Blair

321: You need an author with an "E" name.

damn. I didn't notice that part of the pattern. I started it, for heaven's sake!

When gravity fails, by Georg Alec Effinger

324: And a book with a "V" title. This one is going to be tough.

How about skipping it and going to:

The Unreasoning Mask by Philip Jose Farmer ?

Okay, then we are on:

Tales from the Nightside by Charles L. Grant.

State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy

Red, White and Blue by Susan Isaacs

Q&A: Company Law 2008 and 2009 by Stephen Judge

I'm so sad....I've actually read this...

Edited just to point out that strangely enough the touchstone hasn't heard of this! :)

The Past by Galway Kinell

Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey

No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson

's got to be a last name with an N, I'm afraid. We're going down to A with the titles and up to Z with the author name. (It's my fault. I suggested it. ^-^; )

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B Nahai

The Things they Carried by Tim OʻBrien

I think we're at L if we are going backwards

Lucky Us by Joan Silber

I think it is meant to be an L title and an O author. I'll play.

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates

Next play is K=title and P=author. Good Luck

ETA -Shanra this is not very easy

(Don't worry. I've already been called 'truly cruel' for coming up with it. My fault for coming with an A title and a Z author combined at the start of this round.)

I pass, by the by. No criteria-fitting books come to mind.

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

seems to call for a J- title and a Q-author. If only Quintilian had written "Juridica" instead of "Rhetorica"!

My standbys Queenan and Quinn arenʻt working.

A J title and a Q author, ouch!

Just Around the Corner by Tara Taylor Quinn

(Thanks to Fantastic Fiction website- never heard of the author before)

Hope that I title and R author will prove easier

ETA- wrong touchstone

I'm So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld.

H title and S author!

A Game of Hide And Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

Final report and findings of the
Safe School Initiative by U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept. of education

The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

D and W up next!

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

Child No More: a Memoir by Xaviera Hollander (cheating, I know, but as close as I could get)

Broken Dreams by William Butler Yeats

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny.

Had to go outside my library for this one:

The Blender Book by Annette Yates

Next: C title and X author

354: That was #351. We have to figure out the next sequence. I'm thinking A author and A title, like this:

Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason.

But that may be too hard when we get to things like "Q title and Q author" or "X title and X author".

Well, maybe we can just skip them?

The Book of the Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker

#355, your suggestion is even crueller than mine, but I don't see why we can't do another row of Title: A-Z Author: Z-A if that's what people want to do. The new sequence starts at 353.

This while mixing of sequences gets confusing. *cross-eyed* (I was kind of hoping we'd collectively go back to the easier route of either/or too. ^-~)

Okay, I'm confused, what the fudge is next??!!!

357: Well, I have been called an evil man. I am a lawyer after all. So:

Congo by Michael Crichton.

Dirty Beasts by Roald Dahl

*graciously gives way to evil man*

Enchanter's End Game by David Eddings

(We can be evil together then. ^-~)

Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman *prods touchstone*

ETA: Touchstones refuse to work. Noooooooo! (Have a standard linky instead.)

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

and I know this is hoggish but I once played Ionesco in a Play called

Improvisation by Eugene Ionesco

The besserwisser in me (thanks, Busifer!) wants to say that for authors who have two last names, it's the first one that counts. At least for Spanish names they do. Carlos Ruiz Zafón has been mentioned several times, and I hate to say it, but his last name is Ruiz. (Well, it's a compound last name, really, but it stills starts with an R.) Same with Gabriel García Márquez, his last name is García. ;)

John Ingerfield: And Other Stories, by Jerome K. Jerome

Heh... a palindromic book and author, of sorts... :P

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Thanks for the Spanish info, I did not know.

Loeloeraai by C.J. Langenhoven

moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

The National Health by Peter Nichols

Outlaw School by Rebecca Ore.

Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson

The Quaker Oats Whole Grain Cookbook by Quaker Oats Kitchens

Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Sojourn by R. A. Salvatore

The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and their culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Skip U ?

then

Voices & Visions by Helen Vendler (ed.)

Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts

Xerox Publishing Standards by Xerox Press (cheating again - I have NOT read this)

The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen.

Well, I've got nothing. Another game?

How about the last word in the title matches the last name of the author?

e.g. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Do single word titles count? Then:

Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany.

Extinction by Paul and Anne Erlich

The Mystery of Angelina Frood by R. Austin Freeman

Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner.

Beyond this Horizon by Robert Heinlein

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff.

He is Leader of the Opposition here in Canada and may just be our next Prime Minister. I had no idea he had written so much.

Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking By Madhur Jaffrey

The Briar King by J. Gregory Keyes.

Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone

Ignore me! Thank you StormRaven!

396: The last word of the book title doesn't start with "N".

Let's get this show back on track:

Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven.

That almost seems like cheating. Let's try:

The Book of Andre Norton by Andre Norton.

No, that's still too much like cheating to me. Okay, here's one that works:

Nymphomation by Jeff Noon.

On Acting by Laurence Olivier

Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

The Day of the Ness by Andre Norton (shouldn't one word-titles be a different game?)

The Pied Piper by Ridley Pearson

Skip Q?

The Last of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert

Edit for touchstone.

The Edge Chronicles 3: Midnight Over Santaphrax by Paul Stewart

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

I was just about to put that, calm.

Damn. I have no 'u's to play.

It was an obvious one wasn't it?

Boys R Us by Jean Ure

Babylon 5 Book #1: Voices by John Vornholt.

Master of Whitestorm by Janny Wurts

Let's skip X, shall we?!

How Many Years by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Gourmet Zombie by Paul Zindel

I haven't read it!
Time for a new thread?

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