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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
This seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. The rules: List the title of fiction books you've read from A to Z (single entry per letter, obviously), ideally with the name of the author if you can remember it. 'The' and 'An' do not count as Ts or As. The book you list must be the first one that comes into your head and must be one you've read; be it an adult title or juvenile. Try not to repeat authors - ie, Sue Grafton's A - Z series of crime novels does not make for an interesting list - but do so if it's what comes into your head. If you come up with a better or hipper alternative after your initial choice you are not allowed to change it. A tip is to pass over letters you have difficulty with in the interest of getting the titles down quickly and return to the missing titles later. Some letters may remain blank if you haven't read a book beginning with Z for instance. Okay. I'll go first, cos I'm starting this thread. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain. Blood Music - Greg Bear Candlenight - Phil Rickman Drood - Dan Simmons Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett Five Go Down to the Sea - Enid Blyton The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker Hideaway - Dean Koontz Indigo - Graham Joyce Jago - Kim Newman Koko - Peter Straub Lavondyss - Robert Holdstock Midnight Sun - Ramsey Campbell Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Priest - Ken Bruen Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice Robot Dreams - Isaac Asimov Stig of the Dump - Clive King Tricks - Ed McBain Under the Dome - Stephen King Vurt - Jeff Noon A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin X-Files: Gobblins - Charles Grant (I think) Yarrow - Charles De Lint Zodiac - Neal Stephenson Hmm. Mostly fantasy/horror. Perhaps not surprisingly. But why did Five Go Down to the Sea pop out? Probably cos it was the first all text book I read... Some real embarrassing ones up there, but that's the way it goes if you're honest. Eye of the Needle? Hideaway. Oops. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
The Oxford English Dictionary. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
That's fiction, is it? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
I love the zebra in the book's closing passages, though think it should have been introduced earlier. I'm not a big fan of aardvarks, to be honest. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.45.233 |
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers The Book of Sand - Jorge Luis Borges The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Calvino Dead Souls - Gogol Ehrengard - Isak Dinesen Fantastics and Other Fancies - Lafcadio Hearn Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James Hieroglyphics - Arthur Machen I am Legend - Richard Matheson The Jaguar Hunter - Lucius Shepard The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham Lost Places - Simon Kurt Unsworth The Mabinogion A Nest of Nightmares - Lisa Tuttle Our Lady of Darkness - Fritz Leiber Pan's Garden - Algernon Blackwood Quatermass and the Pit - Nigel Kneale The Riddle - Walter de la Mare Sub Rosa - Robert Aickman Tamsin - Peter Beagle Ugetsu Monogatari - Ueda Akinari The Valley So Low - Manly Wade Wellman Waking Nightmares - Ramsey Campbell X-Men - does that count? Yellow Book of Fairy Stories Andrew Lang (ed.) As for Z... was there a novelisation of Zoltan, Hound of Dracula? Probably not... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
A - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis B - The Beetle by Richard Marsh C - The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein D - Dracula by Bram Stoker E - Erewhon by Samuel Butler (the title flew into my mind, had to check the author) F - Foundation by Isaac Asimov G - Ghost Story by Peter Straub H - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien I - The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells J - Job : A Comedy Of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein K - The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson L - Lord Of The Flies by William Golding M - Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell N - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens O - Our Lady Of Darkness by Fritz Leiber P - The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene Q - The Quest Of The Holy Grail - Anonymous R - The Rats by James Herbert S - The Shining by Stephen King T - The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith U - The Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard V - The Vodi by John Braine W - Wilt by Tom Sharpe X - Xeno by D.F. Jones Y - The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer Z - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (never heard of her until recently, thanks Craig) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I can't think of a Y or a Q (at least 3 Z's though). I'm going to have to check at home before I can post a list. | ||
| Rosswarren (Rosswarren) Username: Rosswarren Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 217.39.69.169 |
American Gods by Neil Gaiman Buried by Mark Billingham Cujo by Stephen King Dark Half by Stephen King Endless Night by Richard Laymon Fat by Rob Grant Gerald's Game by Stephen King Hungry Hearts by Gary McMahon Imajica by Clive Barker Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Monte Casino by Sven Hassel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman One by Conrad Williams Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson Queen of the Damned by Ann Rice Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon Salems Lot by Stephen King Triptych by Karin Slaughter Under the Dome by Stephen King Virus by Sarah Langan Watchers by Dean Koontz Mr X by Peter Straub* Y I, Zombie by Al Ewing* * Best I could do :-) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Ha. I don't know if the choices that fall into our heads are telling or not. They are possibly interesting as a group subject. For instance we've had a couple of Neverwheres and Midnight Suns. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I noticed that most of my selections were either books I've read recently or memorable reads from my youth. Of those I listed, I haven't read 'Erewhon' or 'Zombie', but had read about them recently and the titles stuck in my head. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.241.37 |
AMERICAN PSYCHO - Brett Easton Ellis BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS - Kurt Vonnegut CARRIE - Stephen King DON QUIXOTE - Cerventes THE EIGHTH CIRCLE - Stanley Ellin THE FACE THAT MUST DIE - Ramsey Campbell GALAPAGOS - Kurt Vonnegut THE HOLLOW - Agatha Christie INDEMNITY ONLY - Sara Paretsky JOSEPH ANDREWS - Henry Fielding THE KRUETZER SONATA - Tolstoy LIBRA - Don DeLillo MOLL FLANDERS - Daniel DeFoe A NEST OF NIGHTMARES - Lisa Tuttle OTHELLO - Shakespeare PAMELA - Samuel Richardson Q - ? RED AS BLOOD - Tanith Lee SOLDIER IN THE MIST - Gene Wolfe THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA - Nietzsche URSUS OF ULTIMA THULE - Avram Davidson A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS - David Lindsay WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE - Shirley Jackson X - ? THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR - (DAW, basically every one of them) THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE - Ross McDonald | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 213.81.113.137 |
THE AUTON INVASION -- Terrance Dicks(If we're including series titles then the prefix 'DR WHO AND' renders this ineligible in which case I'll go for THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.) THE BIG NOWHERE - James Ellroy CONJURE WIFE - Fritz Leiber THE DEMOLISHED MAN - Alfred Bester EVERY DEAD THING - John Connolly FALLING ANGEL - William Hjortsberg GORILLA ADVENTURE - Willard Price THE HOMING PIGEONS - Robert Anton Wilson I AM LEGEND - Richard Matheson JURGEN - James Branch Cabell KILLING FLOOR - Lee Child THE LAND OF LAUGHS - Jonathan Carroll MUCHO MOJO - Joe R Lansdale THE NEON RAIN - James Lee Burke OUTER DARK - Cormac McCarthy THE PARASITE - Ramsey Campbell Q -? THE REMAINS OF THE DAY - Kazuo Ishiguro SPARES - Michael Marshall Smith TIME TO HUNT - Stephen Hunter THE UNQUIET - John Connolly VOODOO RIVER - Robert Crais THE WIDENING GYRE - Robert B Parker X - ? YOUNG MEN IN SPATS - PG Wodehouse THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE - Ross Macdonald | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
There are some comics in here, too, which I think is within the rules... THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION - JG Ballard THE BRIDGE - Iain Banks THE CEREMONIES - T.E.D Klein THE DARKEST PART OF THE WOODS - Some guy EVERVILLE - Clive Barker FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS - Gilbert Shelton GHOST STORY - Peter Straub THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND - William Hope Hodgson IT - Stephen King JAWS - Peter Benchley THE KRAKEN WAKES - John Wyndham LEGION - William Peter Blatty M NAKED LUNCH - William S. Burroughs O PREACHER - Garth Ennis Q RED SHIFT - Alan Garner SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES - Ray Bradbury THE TOOTH FAIRY - Graham Joyce UZUMAKI - Junji Ito V FOR VENDETTA - Alan Moore THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - HG Wells X Y Z And now I'm being ushered out of the house... The rest will have to wait! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
And Now the Screaming Starts - David Case Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M Miller Jr Dagon's Bell & Other Discords - Brian Lumley Emphyrio - Jack Vance First & Last Men - Olaf Stapledon Ghost Story - Peter Straub The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson I Am Legend - Richard Matheson Jem - Frederick Pohl Kwaidan - Lafcadio Hearn The Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll The Monster Club - R Chetwynd Hayes Night Shift - Stephen King The Omen - David Seltzer Plasmid - Jo Gannon The Quincunx - Charles Palliser Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith Scream & Scream Again - Peter Saxon Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti The Uncanny - William Lauder / Michel Parry The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe Way Station - Clifford D Simak The Xothic Legend Cycle - Lin Carter The Yellow Sign & Others - Robert Chambers The Zimiamvian Trilogy - E R Eddison | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
ADA, Nabokov BRIGHTON ROCK, Greene CATCH-22, Heller DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, Lowry THE END OF THE AFFAIR, Greene FRIGHTS, McCauley (ed) GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL, Wise and Fraser (ed) HOW IT IS, Beckett IT, King JUNKIE, Burroughs (as Lee) THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson LOLITA, Nabokov A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED, Christie NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH, Chase PRANCING NIGGER, Firbank Q - no THE READER IS WARNED, Dickson THE STAND, King TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Lee UNDER THE VOLCANO, Lowry V, Pynchon THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, Wells X - no, sorry YERTLE THE TURTLE, Seuss ZEN AND - no, I won't pretend I've read it | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
That's decided me: my next two books will begin with a Q or a X. That way I might get remembered on lists like this. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Adventures in Capitalism Toby Litt The Blunderer Patricia Highsmith Cold Print Um what was his name again? Death of a Murderer - Rupert Thomson The Eternal footman James Morrow The Facts of Life Graham Joyce The Golden Apples of the Sun Ray Bradbury Hadon of Ancient Opar Philip Jose Farmer If Nobody speaks of Remarkable things Jon Magregor Jack and the beanstalk The Kraken wakes John Wyndham Lets go play at the Adams cant remember the writers name The Magic Faraway tree Enid Blyton The Night of the Hunter Davis Grubb The Owl service Alan Garner The Pariah Graham Masterton Quicker than the eye Bradbury (one of only 2 Q books in my collection, the other being Quatermass which Ive not read yet. Rain Dogs - Zed Sick puppy Carl Hiassen Tide of souls Bestwick The Uglimen Mark Morris Various Haunts of Men Susan hill Wyrd sisters Terry pratchett X-files Goblins Charles Grant Ysabell Guy Gavriel kay which Ive not read but is the only Y book I own Z for Zachariah Robert C OBrien? | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Dahlgren by Samuel Delany Eye of the Beholder by ??? (Star Trek: TNG tie-in) Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. If On A Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino Justice League International volume 1 by Keith Giffen, J.M. Dematteis, Kevin Maguire, et al. The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (volumes 1-10) by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki Lord of the Flies by William Golding Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison A Prince of the Blood by Raymond Feist Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Understanding Comics by Scott MacLeod V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, et al. We, In Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line by Samuel Delany X... hmm.... I now feel my unread copy of X-Men: First Class staring daggers at me from the shelf. Young Legionary by Douglas Hill Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
And I see now I left out Q and R. Addenda: Q... I don't think I've read anything starting with Q yet. Rabid Eye: The Dream Art of Rick Veitch by Rick Veitch |