Another Silly Game Part 29

1. Please play on the most recent correct post.

2. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.

3. The repeated word in the new title must be other than an article ("a", "an", or "the").

4. The repeated word must be spelled exactly as the word was spelled in the previous title. E.g., "prune" is not the same word as "prunes", and "loyal" is not the same word as "loyalty."

5. The repeated word must be in the title as shown on the title page of the book--not, e.g., part of the series name unless such is part of the title as shown on the title page.

6. If you have read the book it would be informative that you so indicate and tell when you read it, if you can.

7. Try to use Touchstones. Put brackets around the title and double brackets around the author. If Touchstones don't work, try using an html link.

8. A hyphenated word is one word, not two: e.g., "thunder-clouds"; and if used must be repeated in full, not in part only.

9. Please verify that no one else has posted while you were preparing your post.

My Play:
The postmaster of Ipswich : William Stevenson Fitch, antiquary and thief by Janet Ing Freeman

The Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts
by the Town of Ipswich

Vital Signs by Robin Cook

Signs and Symbols by DK Publishing

*on order from the library

Man and his Symbols by Carl G. Jung

The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais - part of a mystery/thriller series that I am following; read in 2007 I believe

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington edited and with a Foreword and Afterword by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow (read 15 Feb 2005)

a fascinating look at one of the worst Supreme Court justices of all time

The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer. Read earlier this year. A wonderful story about a boy who came of age in the company of men at the local bar owned by his uncle.

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan - on my TBR pile.

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read a long time ago

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre. Still on the TBR pile.

a fine and private place by Peter S. Beagle

*read during my PSB phase, which occurred before, and was the cause of, my belated discovery of Tolkien in the 70's.

See Here, Private Hargrove
by Marion Hargrove

The Private Patient by P. D. James

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms and Antonyms - one of the books that stays on my desk all the time.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Oxford Paperback Reference) by John Bowker

The Cosmology of the Wider World by Jeffrey Ford

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

*he used to live on our street in Berkeley, CA when i was at Cal. at 17, i thought that very wonderful. it made me feel quite worldly. one of my housemates rushed up to him in the street one day and gushed, "oh, Mr. Huxley, 1984 is one of my favorite books." needless to say, this did not sit well with Mr. Huxley.

Brave the Wild Wind by Johanna Lindsey

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. TBR pile again. Though should be read before the end of this year.

In the Name of Honour by Mukhtar Mai - read it last year, the same day I bought it at the Frankfurt Airport.

In Chancery by John Galsworthy

my favorite book in the Forsyte Saga. first read perhaps 35 years ago and many times since.

Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands
by C.S. Stewart

The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet

Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal by Alexandra Johnson - read a few years ago and reread last year. A lovely book for journal keepers or memoirists.

The Horse You Came In On by Martha Grimes

not one of my faves. listened to it a few years ago.

The Horse and his Boy
by C.S. Lewis

Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards - I read it in 2006. so good!

The Horse Goddess by Morgan Llywelyn

A Horse of Your Own by M.A. Stoneridge; a college text from half a lifetime ago.

#31 - good to know, I've been eyeing it.

Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life by Michael Korda

Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: : In which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt by Jacob Bryant

Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley; own but as yet unread.

Never mind, too slow. How about:

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Oops. maybe we should just start anew with Horse People...

OK People of the Book (sorry gang) :) by Geraldine Brooks

Companion to Charles Lamb : a guide to people and places, 1760-1847 by Claude A. Prance

A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King

The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian. Read in December 1997.

Mare Nostrum: Our Sea
by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter - in my TBR pile

The Wolf: the Ecology and Behavior of
an Endangered Species by L. David Mech

Brotherhood of the Wolf by David Farland (aka Dave Wolverton).

Edit purely for touchstones

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat.

The Twelfth of Never by Louis Nowra

Never Fear by Scott Frost

Never Sniff a Gift Fish by Patrick F. McManus

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky. Required reading here on Cape Cod.

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People by Thomas Keightley

The World According to Garp by John Irving Read years ago after seeing the movie.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. A fairly recent addition to the TBR pile.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - read it for the last time in 1999 (in Russian) and before this ~1995 in Bulgarian.

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, by Alistair Horne (read 9 June 1978) (Book of the Year)

A Savage Place by Robert B. Parker

Judge Savage by Tim Parks - from my TBR pile.

Brandeis, Lawyer and Judge in the
Modern State by Alpheus T. Mason

Judge me not by John D. MacDonald

Not to Eat, Not for Love by George Weller

novel of the 1930s; owned but not red yet

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt

The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

A Chronicle of the Last Pagans; (Revealing Antiquity) by Pierre Chuvin

The Last of the Sky Pirates by Paul Stewart

Pirates Past Noon by Mary Pope Osborne - read by my daughter about six years ago.

Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust

Past Caring by Robert Goddard. Read in December of 2002.

Caring: How Can we Love One Another?
by Morton Kelsey

Only You Can Be You: 21 Days to Making Your Life Count by Erik Rees - an early reviewer book that I'm not sure I'll ever get around to reading

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; Great book!

Under the Sangre de Cristo by Paul Horgan

Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree: The Village Blacksmith in Rural America As Evidenced by Early Smiths in Harford County, Maryland by Henry C., Jr. Peden

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, read about 15 years ago

The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton - one of my favourite books as a child

Tree Pruning by Edward F. Gilman

The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. Read when I was in college, about 30 years ago.

The Tree of Man by Patrick White

The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin

Beneath the Tree of Heaven by David Wingrove. Probably 5 or 6 years since I re-read the Chung Kuo series.

Embezzled Heaven, by Franz Werfel (read 4 Feb 1945)

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer - read in 2005

Leave her to Heaven by Ben Ames Williams

Her Majesty's Spymaster by Stephen Budiansky - next on my non-fiction TBR pile

Canaris: the Life and Death
of Hitlerʻs Spymaster by Michael Mueller

Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen

Hitlerʻs Generals by Correlli Barnett

War in a time of peace : Bush, Clinton, and the generals by David Halberstam.

Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod

Death Song by Michael McGarrity

Death Masks by Jim Butcher - read in 2006 when I read the first 6 or 7 of the series in a row...

Death Star by Michael Reaves

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb

Death of an Expert Witness by P. D. James

With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George. Read in September of 2006

No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Bicycle Hills: How One Halloween Almost Got Out of Hand by John Bibee

The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein -- have read more than once, but might be time for a re-read

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Purpose-Drive Life: What on Earth am I here For? by Rick Warren

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Polifax, Innocnet Tourist
by Dorothy Gilman

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo

Death Instinct by Bentley Little

Death of an Expert Witness by P. D. James

Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy - just purchased a couple of weeks ago

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilizaion
by Bryan Ward-Perkins

The Start of the End of it All by Carol Emshwiller

End as a Man by Calder Willingham

read long ago (in the 1950s?) Still a classic to me; one of the few books I retain from that era. The author is perhaps best known, not as he should be for his novels, but as a co-screenwriter of the movie The Graduate

I Met a Man by John Ciardi

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
by Sloan Wilson

Criminal man by Cesare Lombroso. My grandfather's book -- he was a police reporter at the end of the 19th Century.

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

The Water Method Man by John Irving; wonderful read

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

European capital, British iron, and an American dream : the story of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. No touchstone with an ampersand in the title.

The Magic Bicycle: The Story of a Bicycle That Found a Boy by John Bibee

The Magic Years:Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood by Selma Fraiberg; read it in graduate school

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, a favorite

Magic Man by Patricia Rice

Chuck Yeager, First Man to Fly Faster than Sound by Timothy Gaffney

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights
and Country Music by Paul Hemphill

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Etruscans: Beloved of the Gods
by Morgan Llewelyn

The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan by Reiko Chiba - I've had this since 1974

The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
by Ralph Lapp

Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage by Dale Peck

The House of Doctor Dee
by Peter Ackroyd

Doctor No by Ian Fleming. Read sometime in the early 60's.

A River No More: The Colorado River and the West by Philip L. Fradkin - read in 1986

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford, a childhood favorite

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker

Read for a history subject at university and really liked it.

Bowled Over:A Roll Down Memory Lane by Gideon Basker

Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett - I'm told by my daughters that this is good.

Fat City by Leonard Gardner

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson ; excellent read

The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson

The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy; loved the whole Jack Ryan series

The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John - read earlier this year. pretty good for a kids book.

White Nights by Ann Cleeves, read not too long ago

The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley

The House on Garibaldi street by Isser Harel

House of Daughters by Sarah-Kate Lynch

Daughters of Arabia by Jean Sasson

Queen Victoria's Daughters, by E. F. Benson (read 25 July 1945)

Coppers, thanks for #144--It wasn't around when I was a child, but it is an all-time favorite. One of the few books I've read twice, and I enjoyed it as much the second time as the first...

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco: Great Book!!

The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam - a random find while I was travelling which I quite enjoyed

Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country by Kathryn Lasky

The Man without a Country by E.E. Hale

The Man in my Basement by Walter Mosley

Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

Marked Man by R.A.V. Salsitz

London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

The Running Man by Stephen King

Jesus, Our Man in Glory by A.W. Tozer

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; a classic

The Invisible Country by Paul J. McAuley

The Country Girl by Clifford Odets

The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie

Above Us Only Sky by Paul Tomkins

Big Birdʻs Book about the Earth and Sky
by Golden Books

Book of Shadows by Paula Brackston

Killing The Shadows by Val McDermid. Read in August of 2002

The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

Killing for Company: The Story of a Man Addicted to Murder by Brian Masters

Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke

Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough

Adrian Mole from Minor to Major by Sue Townsend

Pure Logic and other Minor Works
by Stanley Jevons

How Ottawa Works by Eddie Goldenberg

How Harvard Rules by Jack Trumpbour

Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva

The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business by Martha Stewart

Monkey Business: the True Story of the Scopes Trial by Marvin Olasky

Piano lessons: Music, love and true adventures by Noah Adams - read a few years ago

Egyptian Language; Easy Lessons in
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
by E.A. Wallis Budge

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

long life: essays and other writings by Mary Oliver

Essays; selected; and Illustrated by Salvador Dali by Michel de Montaigne

The Best American Essays 1997 Ian Frazier ed.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 by Dave Eggers

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

The Great Crisis in American Catholic History 1895-1900, by Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C. (read 30 Sep 1961) (Book of the Year)

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard; book club read years ago

Children and Childhood in Western Society
since 1500 by Hugh Cunningham

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne*

Read this in childhood (childʻs illus. edition, and probably abridged) and didnʻt like it. I was too young to appreciate Verne.

I found it in a used magazine & book shop on a visit to Tonga. I can read French, but didnʻt read this; I donated it to the Hawaiʻi Public Library System, and they actually put it into their small non-English Language collection.

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco. On my TBR pile.

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan - just finished it the other day!

Victorian Falls Church by
The Victorian Society at Falls Church

Belle Falls by Sherri Vanderveen

A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith. Read in the early 1970's.

The Falls by Ian Rankin

Paradise Falls by Don Robertson. I'm really happy to get a chance to insert one of Robertson's books. He had been (died 2005) called the best unknown writer in America, though Paradise Falls was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and The Greatest Thing that Almost Happened was made into a movie.

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde -- part of the fun and quirky Thursday Next series.

Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

The Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage by Dale Peck

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Theodore Sturgeon

Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett; all of hers are wonderful

The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon
by Jack Bennett

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Lucky Bob, by Francis J. Finn, S.J.

(read in about 1940 or maybe early 1941--sorry I can't be more exact, but in those days I did not realize the importaance of noting the day I finished a book. The first day I noted the day finished in my roster of books read was Nov 12. 1942)

Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard.

A season on the Brink; a Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers by John Feinstein

Read this, or most of it about 1987. Read #223 sometime in the 90s, and enjoyed it much more.

Thieves' World: Storm Season by Robert Asprin et al.

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy - read in 2001 or 2002

Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman; read it a while ago

The Linnet Bird by Linda Holeman. Read in January 2009.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott - Read in about 1996.

Would love to just use Linnet by Sally Watson, but realize that's not fair.

Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on creativity
by Ray Bradbury

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich

The Art of the Short Story: Stories and Authors in Historical Context by Wendy Martin

The New Bill James Historical Baseball
Abstract by Bill James*

I donʻt own this, unfortunately, and it isnʻt the kind of book you would read from cover to cover.

I have responded to a"Questions for Bill James" thread in the NYT Online.

Baseball: A Literary Anthology by Nicholas Dawidoff

Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology by Geoffrey Miles

Hungry Gulliver; an English critical appraisal of Thomas Wolfe by Pamela Hansford Johnson.

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Made In America: An Informal History Of The English Language In The United States - Bill Bryson (read 2008)

History of the English Church and People
by Bede

Five Years On: Continuing faith journeys of those who left the church by Alan Jamieson

Currently reading (sort of - when my other books hit dull patches)

The Ring of Five Dragons
by Eric von Lustbader

Five Days in Philadelphia The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR To Save the Western World, by Charles Peters (read 29 Oct 2005)

This was really a fun book to read and its thesis is right and the result of the 1940 Convention is one of the amazingest political events of the 20th century.

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett. One of the ones I read before giving up on the Discworld books.

Japan at Your Feet: A Hiking and Walking Guide by Pete Waldorf.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig. Read in December of 2008.

History of the Wars, Secret History, and
(Justinianʻs) Buildings by Procopius

read it, --well, the 2nd of these 3 titles, anyway, (in the 90s) but not in this edition. Gave my owned ed., which was only the English, to the Public Library System.

Some Prefer Nettles, The Secret History of the Lord Musashi by Junichiro Tanizaki

Christ the Lord: the Road to Cana
by Anne Rice

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

The Road Home by Joel Rosenberg. Part of the Guardians of the Flame series read a few times but not for a couple of years now.

Eothen: Traces Of Travel Brought Home From The East - William Kinglake (read 2005)

Home is the Hunter by Helen Macinnes

Home is the Sailor by Rumer Godden

Jack London, Sailor on Horseback
by Irving Stone

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi (playing off of "on") in my TBR pile

Side excursions in history by Frank Cary.

Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt - read earlier this year

Everything You Know by Zoe Heller

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything Must Go by
+Keith Waterhouse+

Scrap Everything by Leslie Gould

Everything that Rises Must Converge
by Flannery OʻConnor

There Goes My Everything White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975, by Jason Sokol (read 26 Oct 2007)

The best part of books like this is to learn of how much has changed since those hate-filled days in the time since--for instance one of the buildings at the University of Georgia is named for the first black students there and in 1988 one of those students was the commencement speaker

There Goes the Middle East
by Alfred Lilienthal

There Goes My Baby by Lynn Johnston

The Saint Goes On by Leslie Charteris

The eve of Saint Venus by Anthony Burgess.

Eve Green by Susan Fletcher

Sir Thursday by Garth Nix

Thursday Next: First among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde - read and reread - most recently in October 2008.

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Strange Affair by Peter Robinson. Read in October 2006.

The Strange Woman by Ben Ames Williams

Witchy Woman: A Bubba Mabry P.I. Mystery by Steve Brewer - in my TBR pile

The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge
by Franklin W. Dixon

The Black Stallion Mystery by Walter Farley

Black Bartlemyʻs Treasure*

by Jeffrey Farnol

* read this at about 11 years old; fair, somewhat disappointing; didnʻt make me want to search for other Farnol novels.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott OʻDell

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Blue Dahlia: Book I of In the Garden
by Nora Roberts

American Book Collectors and Collecting by Carl Cannon

Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown

Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone

Brother Juniper's Bread Book by Peter Reinhart

Brother of the Wind; A Story of the Niagrah Frontier by Jerry Wolfert

Ill Wind by Nevada Barr

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

I was Dancing by Edwin OʻConnor

The Dancing Dodo by John Gardner

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

death and the dancing footman by Ngaio Marsh

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan

The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre. Another on the tbr pile.

Edit for ts.

The Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick

The Oxford History of Western Art by Martin Kemp

The Oxford English Dictionary Being a Corrected Re-Issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of a New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Founded Mainly on Trhe Materials Collected By the Philological Society by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray

Thaddeus Stevens: A Being Darkly Wise and Rudely Great, by Ralph Korngold (read 5 Oct 1987)

This biography is very favorable to him--too obviously so. I think a more objective approach would have better served Stevens. But I agree with much of the book, and while the defense of Stevens' effort to impeach Johnson is not convincing, much which is written on the rightness of Stevens' Reconstruction policy is convincing.

Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam

Some Materials for a Bibliography of the Official Publications of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by Paul Leicester Ford

The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett

The Continental Prophecies (from) The Illluminated Books by William Blake

The Notable Library of the Late Lucius Wilmerding - Rare XV-XIX Century Continental Literature by Parke-Bernet Galleries

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

i read this years and years ago and have absolutely no memory of it. tarsome!

Sweet Dreams, Irene by Jan Burke. Read in July, 2009.

Dreams Underfoot: The Newford Collection is another on the tbr pile.

Itʻs a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes
Collection by Bill Watterson

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

World Enough and Time
by Robert Penn Warren

World Without End by Ken Follett

End as a Man by Calder Willingham

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - read in 1996 or thereabouts

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story by Stephen King - read in 2006 or early 2007.

Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer

Gascoigne's Princely Pleasures, With the Masque, Intended to Have Been Presented Before Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in 1575 by George Gascoigne

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

A Castle on the Rhine by Caroline Farr

Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman

Night Watch on the Chesapeake by Peter Meinke
Just about the only poet I enjoy reading.

The Watch that Ends the Night
by Hugh MacLennan

The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

The Battle of Antietam: the Bloodiest
Day of Battle by Larry Hama

The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. Read earlier this year.

The High Kings by Joy Chant - lovely book bought in about 1983.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The High and the Mighty by Ernest Gann

The Life of the Thrice Noble High and Puissant Prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

Thrice Greatest Hermes by G.R.S. Mead

The Greatest Day in History How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End, by Nicholas Best (read 17 Jun 2009)

(it tells of the days from Nov 4,1918 through 11 Nov 1918. It is mainly made up of parts of memoirs and biographies which tell of those days, and quite a bit is of high interest--though I was disappointed there was no follow-up, telling what happened after Nov 11 to the various people mentioned. Some of the description of celebrations on Nov 11, 1918 was over-inclusive. The book does no analyzing--leaving it to the reader. All in all, good reading)

The Johnson Calendar or Samuel Johnson for Every Day in the Year. Being a Series of Sayings and Tales, Collected From His Life and Writings by Alexander Montgomerie Bell

Today is Samuel Johnson's 300th birthday. Happy Birthday Mr. Johnson!

The Achievement of Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate

Havenʻt read or owned this, but I did take his
(Bateʻs not Johnsonʻs) course in
English Literature of 1750-1800, commonly called "his Johnson Course").

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett

Had to search outside my library for this one, but I have read "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame" -- both about 30 years ago.

Four Dubliners: Oscar wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett
by Richard Ellman

The Letters of James Joyce by James Joyce

letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

read often and often over the last, oh, 25 years, i guess.

*edited to try to get touchstone to turn on when i submit. it won't. nerts!

Twenty Letters to a Friend
by Svetlana Aliluyeva

Letters To A Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens (read 2005)

Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel

Letters From Yellowstone by Diane Smith. Read in July of 2008.

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
by James Agee

The Curly Pyjama Letters by Michael Leunig - my favourite poet/cartoonist/social commentator. Read several times and surely due for a reread. :-)

From Algebra to Pyjama: Arabs in the
Flemish Culture* by Gunther Dauwen

* title translated from the Dutch

A philosophical discourse of earth, relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, &c. as it was presented to the Royal Society, April 29. 1675. By J. Evelyn Esq; Fellow of the said Society by John Evelyn

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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

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