Alphabet * Author game?

Ayn Rand * Atlas Shrugged

Brown, Dan * The Da Vinci Code

Cervantes – Don Quixote

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von – Der Knabe im Moor

Evanovich, Janet * One for the Money

Faulkner, William—The Sound and the Fury

Gould, Stephen J.—Ever Since Darwin

H.M Ward—Damaged

Isaac Asimov * I Robot

Jamie McGuire—Beautiful Disaster

King, Stephen—11/22/63

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim – Nathan the Wise

M Leighton—The Wild Ones

Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Antichrist

Olivia Cunning—Hot Ticket

Pirinçci, Akif – Felidae

Queen, Ellery – The eponymous mystery stories

Sidney Sheldon— I Dream of Jeannie

(You skipped “r.”)

Rouse, WHD—English translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Tolstoy, Leo—War and Peace

Uris, Leon – Exodus

Voight, Cynthia—Dicey’s Song

Whitney Gracia Williams—Mid Life Love

Xenophon – The Anabasis

Hey, there’s nobody with the letter “Y” :’(

Yeats – The Tower

Boris Yeltsin – The Midnight Diaries (A real page-turner, I am told)

Zamyatin – We

@gailcalled Where’s your “A”?

Abbi Glines—Because of Low

Chandler, Raymond—The Big Sleep

@Mimishu1995 To be fair, where’s your “B”?

Dean Koontz * Hideaway

Are we using some order of the alphabet with which I am not familiar?

@ibstubro gailcalled has already added “B”

@Seek_Kolinahr I’m getting confused too. It seems that someone messed things up :(

Abbi, Chandler, Dean.

We need an E.

we don’t care if there is a skip if it’s covered quickly!

Shall we continue?

Ella Fox—Loving Hart

Follett, Ken—Pillars of the Earth

God-The Aquarian Gospels of Jesus, the Christ

Herbert, Frank—Dune

Irving, Washinton—A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

James Patterson “Along Came a Spider”

Stu, you’re confusing me with the first name thing.

sorry, it’s in the question.

Either . Or

Nevermind, I guess it is in the rules

Ken Follett—eye of the needle

Lewis Carrol—Alice in Wonderland

Michael Moorcock—Elric of Melnibonë

Newbery, John—The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes

Hey, are Kolinahr and I the only one playing here?

^ I’m here :D

O’Clare, Lorie—Get Lucky

Peter Straub, Lost Boy, Lost Girl

Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) History of the Russian Revolution

Updike, John—The Same Door

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5

Wells, G. H—War of the World

Xavier Hollander-The Happy Hooker

Yerby, Frank—Judas, My Brother

Zindel, Paul—The Pigman

Now what do we do?
Horatio Alger—Ragged Dick?

Bradbury, Ray—The Halloween Tree
I’ve never read that book, but I’ve watched the cartoon adaption of it. It was awesome!

Carlin, George – When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Dante—Divine Comedy

Erasmus, Desiderius – The Praise of Folly

Frank, Anne – The Diary of…

Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron

So, Q no longer matters?

We shall see upon its arrival.

R and S got skipped, as well.

Quixote, Don
Russel, Bertrand
Stephen Hawking.

There, all caught up.

For authors. Anna Quindlen and Amanda Quick; insert where and when needed.

(Can we now use titles as well? This is turning out to be chaotic.)

This is Turbo’s ballroom. He’s the “decider”. Great Qs by the way!

The most confusing thing is allowing first name or last name entries.

That’s how Q, R, and S ended up getting skipped. We went from the O entry, then Peter Straub, then Tolstoy.

I agree. The format should be last names first. Better discipline and much more tidy. But once again it’s Turbo’s ballroom and we must dance to his tune.

Herodotus- The Persian Wars

Ionesco, Eugène – The Hermit

Josephus, Titus Flavius- The Jewish War

Kazanzakis – Zorba

Kerouac, Jack – On the Road

Beat ya, Packy! But Jack’s a good hit.

Livy (Titus Livius Patavinus) The History of Rome

@Espiritus_Corvus, you sure did. And I love Kazanzakis’ stuff.

Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain

Osborne, Mary Pope—Magic Tree House Series
Oh the memories

Niven, Larry- Lucifer’s Hammer

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room —Isn’t he a bloody fine writer? And what an amazing life. I read The Greek Passion and Captain Michalis while on Santorini and Mykonos one winter in the mid ‘80s. It really opened Greece to me. And when Greeks saw what I was reading, they would smile approvingly. A good thing all around. I didn’t know he was the author of The Passion of Christ until Gibson’s movie came out.—

I was just trying to give as many options as possible allowing first or last names to lead. It’s a GAME. Enjoy each other’s answers and don’t get caught up in the small stuff. If you notice a letter got skipped, you can always answer the skipped letter and then copy/paste the previous answer so it’s at the bottom of your post?

GREAT ANSWERS and some fantastic new reading material ideas here!

@Espiritus_Corvus, I know it was only a translation, but “Zorba,” the first K book I ever read, effected both my writing style and certain views about life. I now own almost every one of his books. What a writer!

Right on, @ibstubro!!!

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@Pachyderm_In_The_Room—Me too. He taught me heart without saccharin. And it’s funny, my experience reading all of Kerouac at age eighteen also affected me as to style. I fancied myself a great beat poet/writer 20 years after their scene had morphed into hippydom. One week after reading On the Road in the fall of 1970, I thumbed from St. Petersburg, Florida to San Francisco. I would have taken Moriarty’s borrowed ‘49 Hudson, but you play the cards you’re dealt. Thank god my passion for literature has taken a different form. Trying to live all your heros’ lives is exausting.

Oppenheimer, Robert—Letters and Recollections.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Peter David – Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars – The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh.

Seriously. Read it.

Quick, Matthew – The Silver Linings Playbook

@Espiritus_Corvus, be sure to see last year’s film, On the Road if you haven’t yet. It’s terrific.

Rowling, J.K. * Harry potter

Stephen King, Cujo

Was just so waiting to name him, just because.

Thoreau, Henry David – Walden

Ursula K. LeGuin – The Legend of Earthsea

Jules Verne – - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Walt Whitman * Leaves of Grass

Xue Xinran – Sky Burial

Do I get extra credit for a double-X?

One more, @Pachyderm_In_The_Room and you’ll be moderated for obscenity.

@ibstubro—An x-citing prospect.

Yeats, William Butler – Stolen Child

Zola, Émile * The Masterpiece

Aspirin, Robert – Myth-nomers and Im-perv-ections

Brei Betzold —My Misery Muse

Deaver, Jeffery * The Bone Collector

I left room for @Espiritus_Corvus to leave a C author

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room Just some thoughts on these guys.

A few nights ago I downloaded On The Road and Heart Beat (1980) (supposedly based on Carolyn Cassady’s memoir Off The Road). Carolyn is Camille in OTR, Neal’s second wife. Old Lee Bull is Burroughs (just before he heads down to Mexico City and puts a round into Joan Vollmer’s head while playing William Tell). Most of the guys in Carolyn’s book are under their own names, except Ginsberg, whom she hated. He’s nice, poetic Carlo Marx in OTR, but in Carolyn’s book he’s portrayed as a raving nutcase named Ira Steicher—probably because he was still alive at the time of publication. Been getting my Beat on down here. Audio is shot on this laptop, so when I get into town and pick up a set of earphones, I’ll watch them. I’m prepared to be disappointed, though. It’s hard enough to cram a novel into two hours of film, but these people have already become misunderstood and mythologized over the years, the Hollywood version will probably be a light parody. It will be fun to guess who is who though.

Jack spent his last days living with his mom in my town. I saw him once briefly in a cafe owned by an old Beat about a year before he died. It served really lousy coffee and there were poetry readings. You could by a little matchbox of shitty Mexican dirtweed for five bucks in the bathroom. Jack hung out at the coffee bar with Jack Daniels from under the bar in his cup, and he was usually shitfaced. I didn’t know who he was at the time. He came off as a mean, old drunk who had a special enmity for hippies. We were Commies and Queers. He was very loud about it. Just a another sot, I thought, he didn’t belong in this place. But he was an old friend of the owner’s. A few months after, the varices kicked in one night while he was passed out on his mom’s kitchen floor. He was take to St. Anthony’s hospital and they finally gave up on him after going through 26 units of blood. The doc knew who he was and went way beyond the call of duty. The death certificate and OR progress notes used to be on the net.

One boring night in ‘92, after returning from a decade in Europe, I began looking up old classmates in the local phone book. I ran across Jack Kerouac’s listing. It was his mom’s address. He had been dead for decades. He was in the book every year without fail. And then Ginsburg died and the next year Jack was gone. I think Allen was doing it.

These days, I find the women more fascinating: they were smart and interesting and not enough has been written about them, because I think these guys were just overwhelming. Vollmer was Barnard and Carolyn was Bennington. They weren’t idiots.

I really wish Neal and Jack had grown like Allen, we probably would have seen even more interesting things, like we did with Burroughs. But they got locked into it. I used to think they were the coolest guys in the world. Now, I find them a tragedy. Cassady wrote a short, hilarious paperback book The First Third around the time he was out there driving for Kesey and the Pranksters. It had a little paper 45rpm disk glued on the inside back cover. It was Cassady doing a methedrine-fueled stream of thought thing while he’s driving Further, recorded off the mic taped to his chest. Close your eyes and you could see him flipping his orange day-glo sledge on the sidewalk outside the Filmore. It was very a funny and coherent monologue, actually. And machine-gun rapid. I bought the book at Ferlinghetti’s in San Francisco and have never seen or heard of another copy since.

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Ooops.
Claudel, Paul—The Break of Noon
Ellison, Harlan—A Boy and His Dog

Where are we now?
Fleming, Ian—Dr. No

Grafton, Sue * “G” Is for Gumshoe

Hannah Howell—A Joyous Season

It’s a mess. Let’s sort them by jacket colors…starting with violet, blue, green etc.

Isherwood, Christopher—The Berlin Stories

Jackson, Mick – The Underground Man

Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal Dreams

Lindsay, Jeff – Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Maimonides (Moshe ben Maimon)- the Mishneh Torah

Neil Gaiman – Coraline

O’Neill, Eugene—Long Days Journey Into Night.

Damn. Too late to mention Rabbi Nachman after Maimonides.

Plutarch – Lives of the Roman Emperors

Quinn, Julia – When He was Wicked

Rabelais, Francois- Gargantua

Schopenhauer, Arthur- The World as Will and Representation

Twain, Mark * A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Uris, Leon- Exodus

Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollo)- De Archectectura

Winton, Tim – The Turning

Can you believe it? St Francis Xavier didn’t write one damned thing! How inconsiderate!

Well, he probably wrote his name, so you’re okay.

Wow, @Espiritus_Corvus. Thank you for all that great info. I’d love to sit in a cafe and talk with you about Jack and the gang and those days.

Xinran – Sky Burial

Yen Mah, Adeline – Falling Leaves

Zafra, Jessica * 500 People You Meet in Hell

Andrea Smith—Diamond Girl

Brown, Diane – Eight Stages of Grace

Crichton, Michael – Timeline

And because I’ve been trying all gorram day, I’m stealing D, too.

Dawkins, Richard – The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

E L James—50 Shades of Grey

F. Scott Fitzgerald * The Great Gatsby.

Gina L. Maxwell—Rules of Entanglement

Hammett, Dashiell—The Maltese Falcon

Ivins, Molly—
1. Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known
2. The Betrayal of America

James, P. D—A Mind to Murder

Kelly Elliot—Wanted

Leonard, Elmore—Freaky Deaky & Get Shorty

Molière: Le médicin malgré lui.

Nunziata, Richard—The Enlightenment of Eddie Mars
O’Connor, Flannery—A Good Man is Hard to Find

(^^ O’Connor is one of my favorite authors.)

Penelope Ward—Gemini

@gailcalled Me too. She was also hillarious: “She should have been shot every day of her life.”

Oops. I think somebody had a mother-in-law problem.

Quick, Matthew * The Silver Linings Playbook

R.L. Mathewson—A Humble Heart

Stephen King, again.

Tan, Amy—
The Kitchen God’s Wife
The Bone Setter’s Daughter
Saving Fish From Drowning

Usen, Amanda—Into the Fire

Voltaire, (Francois-Marie Arouet)- Candide

Woolf, Virginia * The Voyage Out

OK, I’ll bite:
Xu, Yihua. Empress of China (Ming Dynasty), author of The Sutra of Great Merit of the Foremost Rarity Spoken by the Buddha which the Renxiao Empress of the Great Ming Received in a Dream

Never heard of it? Shame on all of you. Now, moving right along…

Zimmerman, Lewis – EMH Mark 1

Afrika, Tatamkhulu – Bitter Eden

Bathgate, Billy * E. L. Doctorow

;-)

Caldwell, Erskine—God’s Little Acre

Doyle, Roddy – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Emily Dickinson, Poems

Flagg, Fanny – Welcome to the World Baby Girl

Gail McHugh—Pulse

Hubbard, L Ron * Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

(Use this for the next round when F comes up)

Benjamin Finkel. Curvilinear Draft Drawing Using the Force Directed Method;

Greene, Greene * The Power and the Glory

Removed by me.

Hitler, Adolf – Mein Kampf

Ibsen, Henrik—A Doll’s House

Jones, James—From Here to Eternity

Kurt Vonnegut * Slaughterhouse-Five

Lawhead, Stephen R—In the Hall of the Dragon King

Langston Hughes * Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

Michael Dibdin—The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

@ibstubro You stole my idea!
Nesin, Aziz—Out of the Way! Socialism’s Coming!

Olivia Cunning—Wicked Beat

Polybius- The Histories

Robert Frost—The Road Not Taken
Carl Sandberg—The People, Yes

What happened to Q?
Quigley, Sarah – The Conductor

Toibin, Colm – The South

Updike, John * The Witches of Eastwick

Virtue, Noel – Then Upon the Evil Season

Wally Lamb * I know This Much Is True. (My favorite book)

Xiang Yu- the Song of Gaixia

Yerby, Frank—Hail the Conquering Hero
First black American author to make a million bucks with his pen. Mentored young Alex Haley. He wrote some of the most exciting, well researched pirate stories I ever read. Ex-pat after WWII, lived in Spain where the best libraries containing documentation on the Spanish Main are. He preferred life under the Franco regime rather than put up with the racial prejudice in America. That’s pretty bad.

Zoroaster (Zarathustra) the Surahs

Anderson, Sherwood—Winesburg, Ohio & Dark Laughter
Briefly mentored Hemingway and introduced him to genius literary editor Max Perkins of Chas. Scribner and Sons. Perkins became Hemingway’s life-long editor as he was with many of the greatest writers of that generation. Anderson died while on a Caribbean cruise when the toothpick in his martini olive got stuck in his throat.

Bradley, Marion Zimmer – The Mists of Avalon

Capote, Truman—Other Voices, Other Rooms & In Cold Blood
Seminal author in Modern Southern Gothic along with Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolf, Carson McCullers, and others. From early childhood on, he was very close to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. He is the character “Dil” in Lee’s only novel. Lee was instrumental in research and editing for In Cold Blood. Like Williams, Capote had a spectacular career as a prolific author of short stories, novels, plays, and screenplays and, also like Williams, died after decades of substance abuse.

Disraeili, Benjamin-Coningsby

Edgar Allen Poe * The Raven

Fox, Catherine – Angels and Men

Golding,Sir William Gerald * Lord of the Flies

train wreck I couldn’t stop watching

Hardy, Thomas- the Return of the Native

Ian Flemming, Goldfinger

Joubert, Joseph- -Pensees “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a
question without debating it.”

Kesey, Ken

Lincoln, Abraham – the Emancipation Proclamation

Mansfield, Katherine—The Garden Party & In a German Pension
Master of the modernist short story. New Zealander, ex-pat in London, Paris, Berlin before and during WWI. Hung out with D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Gurdjieff. Died after a long struggle with TB.

Nicholas Sparks—A Walk to Remember

Orwell, George (Eric Blair)—1984
Aldous Huxley was his French teacher at Eton. Orwell’s descriptions of working in famous Parisian restaurant kitchens as a scullery boy in Down and Out in Paris and London are interesting and often hilarious. An adherent to Communism when younger, he later said in interviews that 1984 was primarily a result of his horror and disappointment in Communism after the Stalin purges of the 1930s and later the Nazi regime of the 30’s and 40’s, and was a warning and an indictment of all totalitarianism. He said from the view of the common citizenry, all totalitarianism looks the same no matter the ideology behind it.

Phillips, Susan Elizabeth—The Great Escape

Quiller-Couch, Arthur – Murder Your Darlings

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan—The Yearling, Cross Creek, The Sojourner.
Finding suburban married life stifling as a housewife and part-time writer (Songs of the Housewife), she packed it all into a Caddilac touring car and moved to backwoods Cross Creek, Florida in 1928 and, like Harriet Beecher Stowe a generation before her, started an orange grove among the crackers. She had been sending her Gothic Romance manuscripts to Max Perkins at Scribner’s, who had been returning them along with letters of encouragement. Perkins noted an immediate change in her writing after her move and urging her to write something about her new neighbors and environment, out came truthful work and her career took off. Thanks to Perkins, she became close and maintained correspondence to a few of his other clients: Margaret Mitchell, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert Frost. Crossing racial lines in Jim Crow Florida, she became close friends with Mary Mcleod Bethune and the writer Zora Neale Hurston. Depending on who you talked to, Rawlings was either a great gourmet or a great gourmand. But there is no doubt she loved food. Her homestead at Cross Creek is still maintained as she lived in it with elderly curators who knew her when they were children. They all say she was a very nice lady.

Severin, Tim – The Brendan Voyage (One of my most favourite books.)

Twain, Mark * Tom Sawyer

(If it’s a duplicate, so be it. MY QUESTION! lol My location.)

Uris, Leon ~ Exodus

van Vogt , A. E. ~ Slan

Waugh, Evelyn * Brideshead Revisited

X, Malcolm (Malcolm Little)—The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Yates, Richard * Revolutionary Road

Zinn, Howard—The People’s History of the United States

Ashley, Kristen—Law Man

Brontë, Emily * Wuthering Heights

Caesar, Gaius Julius- Commentaries

Doyle, Roddy – The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Ellison,Harlan * Strange Wine

Finkel, Benjamin—Curvilinear Draft Drawing Using the Force Directed Method

^^(You’re welcome.)

^^ An apple for the teacher.

Garvey, Marcus Mosiah – Message to the People

Hammett, Dashiell—Red Harvest & The Maltese Falcon
Hellman, Lillian—The Children’s Hour & The Little Foxes
Hammett left school at 13, worked for the Pinkertons as a strike breaker, served in the US Army Ambulance Corps during WWI, lived in Greenwich Village in the winters/Provincetown, R.I. in the summers, hung with Eugene O’Neill and others in the group of writers, musicians, and artists connected with the Province Town Players and Greenwich Village in the 1920s, and had a thirty-year affair with playwright Lillian Hellman from 1932 until his death. Hellman came from a New Orleans banking family that spent part of the year in NYC. She went to private schools and Columbia University. Both Hellman and Hammett joined the Communist Party in the 1930s, both went to Spain to report on the struggle against Franco in the Civil War, and both their careers were hurt during the Black Listing in the 1950s. Hammett became a chain-smoking, tubercular alcoholic and this eventually killed him in 1961. Hellman went on to promote left wing political causes until her death in 1984.

Ishiguro , Kazuo – The Remains of the Day

Jarry, Alfred—Caesar Antichrist, Ubu Roi, & The Supermale.
French symbolist novelist, poet, playwright. He lived at various times with Picasso, Max Jacob, Georges Braque, and Kees van Dongen at their rooms in rundown Le Bateau Lavoir & La Ruche among the goats and vineyards and windmills and crooked streets of early Montmartre north of Paris. He hung out in the Lapine Agile with Juan Gris, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Salvador Dali, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Chaim Soutine, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky, Gustave Miklos, Alexandre Altmann, Ossip Zadkine, Moise Kisling, Nina Hamnett, Fernand Léger, Blaise Cendrars, Robert Delaunay, Pinchus Kremegne, Constantin Brâncuși, Amshey Nurenberg, Diego Rivera, Marevna, Luigi Guardigli, Michel Sima, and Marc Chagall during the creative explosion perpetrated by immigrant artists to the City of Light from the late 1890s until just after WWI. They wrote, painted, acted, sang, composed music, film, photography, and architecture that made world history and changed all the mediums of their arts forever. Jarry died of tuberculosis exacerbated by drugs and alcohol in 1907.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kafka, Frans * The Metamorphosis

Lamb, Wally * Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story

Lovely story, if you’ve missed it! ^

*Franz

@ibstubro apologies for raging senility. Apparently, I can no longer switch competently from topic to topic. Feel free to visit after my jaundiced children commit me to the “home”.

Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind

Nabokov, Vladimir—Lolita

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Metamorphoses

Pietrzyk, Leslie – Pears on a Willow Tree

Quinet, Edgar—The Jesuits

Roth, Philip – The Human Stain

Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David)—To Esme with Love and Squalor (& some obscure book about a neurotic kid named Holden Caulfield).

It’s all good, @stanleybmanly. I didn’t call you out as I’ve made raging errors myself. Best to just fix and move on. :)

Thompson, Hunter S. * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas