Books That Quote or Reference Other Works In The Title

Many authors are inspired by other works of literature. Sometimes, they use phrases from the original work in their very title. This is a list of works which quote other (usually canonical) works in their title. If you can, write a note/comment telling where the quote is from.

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1	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3.99 avg rating — 1,482,231 ratings score: 3,043, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2) by Ray Bradbury 3.93 avg rating — 104,621 ratings score: 2,949, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 160,499 ratings score: 2,318, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4.38 avg rating — 438,050 ratings score: 2,311, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.88 avg rating — 1,993,991 ratings score: 1,972, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 4.06 avg rating — 80,241 ratings score: 1,824, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.30 avg rating — 1,092,038 ratings score: 1,759, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3.97 avg rating — 253,172 ratings score: 1,705, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.81 avg rating — 116,532 ratings score: 1,664, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.94 avg rating — 132,155 ratings score: 1,652, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 3.91 avg rating — 23,249 ratings score: 1,571, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3.97 avg rating — 766,815 ratings score: 1,549, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 3.79 avg rating — 120,204 ratings score: 1,544, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9) by Agatha Christie 3.93 avg rating — 34,569 ratings score: 1,295, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 268,326 ratings score: 1,277, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,932 ratings score: 1,132, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.69 avg rating — 297,135 ratings score: 1,054, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 3.92 avg rating — 279,575 ratings score: 1,016, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 3.97 avg rating — 39,259 ratings score: 996, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou 4.24 avg rating — 423,967 ratings score: 990, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 3.90 avg rating — 42,740 ratings score: 812, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 1,184,986 ratings score: 805, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.07 avg rating — 546,710 ratings score: 763, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 3.67 avg rating — 11,106 ratings score: 759, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 4.06 avg rating — 59,740 ratings score: 754, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	A Separate Peace by John Knowles 3.58 avg rating — 193,352 ratings score: 714, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther 3.83 avg rating — 11,228 ratings score: 654, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham 3.77 avg rating — 6,042 ratings score: 653, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,687,010 ratings score: 617, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 3.94 avg rating — 86,508 ratings score: 607, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner 3.94 avg rating — 9,123 ratings score: 601, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 4.07 avg rating — 226,886 ratings score: 600, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 4.10 avg rating — 45,015 ratings score: 593, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth 3.99 avg rating — 20,019 ratings score: 557, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck 4.06 avg rating — 85,687 ratings score: 536, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess 3.79 avg rating — 1,090 ratings score: 534, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) by Philip Pullman (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 148,043 ratings score: 534, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron 3.98 avg rating — 24,081 ratings score: 523, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Days of Wine and Roses by Owen McCafferty 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 503, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen 3.90 avg rating — 1,969 ratings score: 481, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.11 avg rating — 53,675 ratings score: 474, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder 3.99 avg rating — 1,389 ratings score: 466, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3.72 avg rating — 139,340 ratings score: 457, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2) by P.D. James 3.80 avg rating — 6,402 ratings score: 449, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) by Dorothy L. Sayers 4.23 avg rating — 23,994 ratings score: 447, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion 4.19 avg rating — 38,890 ratings score: 443, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 4.11 avg rating — 154,182 ratings score: 437, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates 4.03 avg rating — 1,870 ratings score: 435, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Darkness Visible by William Golding 3.38 avg rating — 1,735 ratings score: 434, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter (Composer) 3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings score: 433, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson 3.95 avg rating — 11,566 ratings score: 429, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7) by Ruth Rendell 3.88 avg rating — 2,735 ratings score: 425, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury 4.08 avg rating — 8,261 ratings score: 417, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	A House Divided (House of Earth, #3) by Pearl S. Buck 3.91 avg rating — 3,770 ratings score: 387, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1) by Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 40,905 ratings score: 369, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks 3.86 avg rating — 76,199 ratings score: 368, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3.88 avg rating — 235,778 ratings score: 358, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4) by Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 32,385 ratings score: 356, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck 3.90 avg rating — 11,711 ratings score: 355, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 4.09 avg rating — 54,129 ratings score: 354, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor 4.12 avg rating — 10,556 ratings score: 348, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 3.86 avg rating — 39,389 ratings score: 348, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck 3.90 avg rating — 20,902 ratings score: 347, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton 3.85 avg rating — 3,162 ratings score: 335, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad 3.81 avg rating — 456 ratings score: 326, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis 4.05 avg rating — 52,961 ratings score: 313, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 3.96 avg rating — 20,364 ratings score: 302, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #28) by Agatha Christie 3.76 avg rating — 17,104 ratings score: 300, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson 3.87 avg rating — 6,894 ratings score: 297, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Chariots of Fire by William J. Weatherby 3.97 avg rating — 376 ratings score: 296, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	These Old Shades (Alastair-Audley, #1) by Georgette Heyer 4.09 avg rating — 16,281 ratings score: 288, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22) by Agatha Christie 3.90 avg rating — 26,499 ratings score: 285, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Uneasy Lies the Head (Tudor Saga, #1) by Jean Plaidy 3.69 avg rating — 3,573 ratings score: 277, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor 4.25 avg rating — 18,281 ratings score: 272, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 4.28 avg rating — 76,207 ratings score: 265, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser 3.92 avg rating — 1,303 ratings score: 261, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 4.26 avg rating — 868,916 ratings score: 261, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	At Heaven's Gate: Novel by Robert Penn Warren 3.43 avg rating — 75 ratings score: 247, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4) by Agatha Christie 3.77 avg rating — 16,635 ratings score: 246, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) by Josephine Tey 3.93 avg rating — 24,524 ratings score: 241, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley 3.46 avg rating — 304 ratings score: 239, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley 3.89 avg rating — 2,444 ratings score: 238, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Perchance To Dream by Robert B. Parker 3.75 avg rating — 1,332 ratings score: 233, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 3,550 ratings score: 233, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language by Richard Lederer 3.72 avg rating — 302 ratings score: 232, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 225, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	The Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman 3.72 avg rating — 1,276 ratings score: 222, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 3.98 avg rating — 5,127 ratings score: 220, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	It Was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 215, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Walking Shadow (Spenser, #21) by Robert B. Parker 3.96 avg rating — 5,222 ratings score: 201, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2) by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 109,966 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3) by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 67,550 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Fortune's Fool by Rafael Sabatini 3.75 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 194, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Lovely, Dark and Deep by Amy McNamara (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 3,083 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 33,663 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Jacob Have I Loved by Pamela Haught Stuart 3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 185, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 4.07 avg rating — 40,177 ratings score: 185, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 122,253 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector 4.04 avg rating — 4,704 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	All Our Yesterdays by Robert B. Parker 3.94 avg rating — 1,304 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Thom (new)

Nov 07, 2009 10:44AM

Have heard that over 500 titles have been taken from Hamlet alone.....and that was as of 1960 !

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message 2: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Nov 07, 2009 11:02AM

Here's a list of titles from "Hamlet":

http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/haml...

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message 3: by Ruby (new)

Nov 07, 2009 11:36AM

Wow! This is wonderful! I always felt that one could gain so much more nuance from a text if one picks up on these things! :-)

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message 4: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Nov 07, 2009 11:44AM) (new)

Nov 07, 2009 11:44AM

It's a great idea for a list!!

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message 5: by Lobstergirl (new)

Nov 08, 2009 08:02PM

I added a comment to one of my votes ("A Great Deliverance" is from the Bible) but now I can't get it to reappear.

The source of C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength:

"The title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, also known as The Monarche. The couplet in question, The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length, refers to the Tower of Babel."

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message 6: by Lobstergirl (new)

Nov 09, 2009 01:16AM

"Antic Hay" is from the opening speech in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II.

"Afer Many a Summer Dies the Swan" is from Tennyson's poem Tithonus.

"Eyeless in Gaza" is from Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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message 7: by Thom (new)

Nov 09, 2009 06:09AM

LOUSY SEARCH ENGINE( A bitch pitch): Found a title "Once more unto the breech" by Horowitz, but "no book found" when tried to put it on this list.

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message 8: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Nov 09, 2009 06:37AM

Thom, try to enter "0765802740" (the book's ISBN-10 number). That should bring it up. (I can't do it myself because I already exhausted my 100 permitted entries.)

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message 9: by Thom (new)

Nov 09, 2009 07:05AM

Themis-Athena wrote: "Thom, try to enter "0765802740" (the book's ISBN-10 number). That should bring it up. (I can't do it myself because I already exhausted my 100 permitted entries.)"

Many thanks, Themis--It worked just as you said it would.

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message 10: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (new)

Nov 09, 2009 08:50AM

Good! :)

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message 11: by Mir (new)

Dec 04, 2009 04:04PM

I tried writing the sources in where it lets you comment, but they seem to shift around when new items are added, thus becoming incorrect.

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message 12: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 24, 2010 09:09PM

Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls is from "The Duchess of Malfi:" "We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them."

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message 13: by Thom (new)

Jul 25, 2010 04:39AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls is from "The Duchess of Malfi:" "We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them.""

Echoes Gloucester's speech "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods..."

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message 14: by Lobstergirl (new)

Aug 06, 2012 09:07PM

The Longest Journey references Shelley's poem Epipsychidion:

I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is, that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion, though it is in the code
Of modern morals, and the beaten road
Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread,
Who travel to their home among the dead
By the broad highway of the world, and so
With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe,
The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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message 15: by Lobstergirl (new)

Aug 19, 2012 08:48PM

The title of Truman Capote's unfinished novel Answered Prayers comes from the St. Teresa of Avila quote: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

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message 16: by Thom (new)

Aug 20, 2012 05:56AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "The title of Truman Capote's unfinished novel Answered Prayers comes from the St. Teresa of Avila quote: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.""

brilliant

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message 17: by Lobstergirl (last edited Aug 31, 2012 04:32PM) (new)

Aug 31, 2012 04:32PM

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

The title is drawn from Percy Bysshe Shelley's quote: "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

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message 18: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jan 17, 2013 09:22PM

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst. Title comes from the Tennyson poem "In Memoriam":

Till from the garden and the wild
A fresh association blow,
And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the stranger’s child;

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bo...

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message 19: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 12, 2013 08:21PM

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes takes its title from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along the road, shading her eyes with one hand. "I see somebody now!" she exclaimed at last. "But he's coming very slowly--and what curious attitudes he goes into!" (For the Messenger kept skipping up and down, and wriggling like an eel, as he came along, with his great hands spread out like fans on each side.)

"Not at all," said the King. "He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger--and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes."

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message 20: by Thom (new)

Feb 13, 2013 02:41AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes takes its title from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along the road, shading her eyes with o..."

Brilliant.

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message 21: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 19, 2013 04:24PM

I found out today that "while Evelyn Waugh ostensibly borrowed his title A Handful of Dust from The Waste Land, Eliot himself lifted the line from John Donne...: "What's become of man's great extend and proportion, when himselfe shrinkes himselfe, and consumes himselfe to a handfull of dust?" ("Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," Meditation IV.)

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message 22: by Thom (new)

Feb 20, 2013 04:55PM

Lobstergirl wrote: "I found out today that "while Evelyn Waugh ostensibly borrowed his title A Handful of Dust from The Waste Land, Eliot himself lifted the line from John Donne...: "What's become of man's great exten..."

Well done you ! Reminds of Styron, "Set This House on Fire", another metaphysical conceit from John Donne, IMS.

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message 23: by Misfit (new)

Jul 09, 2013 02:38PM

How does #5 on this list qualify?

Isn't It Pretty To Think So?

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message 24: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:06PM

Misfit wrote: "How does #5 on this list qualify?

Isn't It Pretty To Think So?"

It doesn't. Deleted. Someone has been spamming that book onto every possible list.

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message 25: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:23PM

I left it on this one, much as it stuck in my craw to do so, because "Isn't it pretty to think so?" is a quote from The Sun Also Rises.

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message 26: by Misfit (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:23PM

Thank you.

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message 27: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:27PM

Susanna wrote: "I left it on this one, much as it stuck in my craw to do so, because "Isn't it pretty to think so?" is a quote from The Sun Also Rises."

Well in that case, the author's factotum will have to come back with his 13 sockpuppets to vote it back on.

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message 28: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:35PM

Oh, I'm sure they will.

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message 29: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 09, 2013 04:39PM

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message 30: by Thom (last edited Jul 09, 2013 06:54PM) (new)

Jul 09, 2013 05:48PM

"Isn't it pretty to think so" is among the most famous of Last Lines", my Modern American Lit prof. said "pretty" is important because it is "the wrong word"..... Anyone see how ?

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message 31: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 09, 2013 05:54PM

Not me....I've never read it.

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message 32: by Thom (new)

Jul 10, 2013 05:09AM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Not me....I've never read it."

Good time capsule. And then, there's Hemingway's prose.

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message 33: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jul 12, 2013 08:23PM

The best Hemingway novel, in my opinion.

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message 34: by Thom (new)

Jul 13, 2013 08:59AM

Susanna wrote: "The best Hemingway novel, in my opinion."

I vote for The Old Man and the Sea.

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message 35: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jul 13, 2013 11:20AM

Yech. (Worst novel, in my opinion.)

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message 36: by Thom (new)

Aug 27, 2013 04:44PM

Chacun a son gout.

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message 37: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Aug 27, 2013 08:49PM

Yup.

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message 38: by Lobstergirl (new)

Oct 10, 2013 07:51PM

The Wench Is Dead

comes from Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta."

Thou has committed -
Fornication; but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.

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message 39: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jul 11, 2014 10:14PM

The Way Through The Woods by Colin Dexter

Took his title from Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same title.

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message 40: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jan 10, 2015 11:26PM

Let the Great World Spin is taken from Alfred Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall:

Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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message 41: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 16, 2015 09:34PM

On Such a Full Sea is taken from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Brutus says:

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

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message 42: by Lobstergirl (new)

Oct 25, 2015 10:34PM

Set This House On Fire is taken from John Donne, "To the Earle of Carlile, and his Company, at Sion."

Brief excerpt:

"...by his Word, his mercies, hath applied his judgments, and shaked the house, this body, with agues and palsies, and set this house on fire, with fevers and calentures, and frighted the Master of the house, my soule, with horrors..."

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message 43: by Lobstergirl (new)

Aug 07, 2016 07:35PM

I added When Even Angels Wept: The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair--A Story Without a Hero.

The title's reference is from Measure for Measure:

Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.

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message 44: by Lobstergirl (new)

Jun 20, 2017 06:59PM

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan references the character from Pilgrim's Progress.

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message 45: by Lobstergirl (new)

Dec 01, 2018 09:31PM

From a View to a Death by Anthony Powell:

Yes I ken John Peel and Ruby too
Ranter and Royal and Bellman as true,
From the drag to the chase, from the chase to the view
From a view to the death in the morning

by John Peel.

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message 46: by Lobstergirl (new)

Oct 17, 2019 08:01PM

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara Tuchman:

From the poem "The City in the Sea" by E. A. Poe:

Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.

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message 47: by Lobstergirl (new)

Oct 27, 2019 11:23PM

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

From the poem "Tiare Tahiti" by Rupert Brooke:

Dive and double and follow after,
Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call,
With lips that fade, and human laughter
And faces individual,
Well this side of Paradise! ....
There’s little comfort in the wise.

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message 48: by Lobstergirl (new)

Nov 03, 2020 07:59PM

Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin:

From the poem "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" by Alexander Pope:

On all the line a sudden vengeance waits,
And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.

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