15.1. Follow the Leader

[Ann A]

Sarah wrote: "Another recommendation for book one: The End of Your Life Book Club - a memoir about the book club Schwalbe and his mother started during her cancer treatments. Lots of variety in the books mentioned."

I just started reading this, and was also going to suggest it for this task. There's already a book mentioned on page 4 (Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner) that I'm adding to my TBR!

[Dee]

there is also this one - The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder that could be interesting

[Janet F]

I think it was Dean Koontz in Brother Odd that mentioned Kate DiCamillo's The Tale of Despereaux and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & inspired me to read them. 2 fantastic recommendations!

[JennRenee, Moderator]

Eleanor & Parkmention quite a bit of books, graphic novels, and comics.

[Chaitra]

Just to be absolutely certain, the line "I liked to read - the Tolkien books..." can be counted as a reference to read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, right?

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Chaitra wrote: "Just to be absolutely certain, the line "I liked to read - the Tolkien books..." can be counted as a reference to read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, right?"

yes.

[Claire]

I'm going to read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

[Chaitra]

Sandy wrote: "Chaitra wrote: "Just to be absolutely certain, the line "I liked to read - the Tolkien books..." can be counted as a reference to read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, right?"

yes."

Thank you!

[Barbara ★]

I just finished The Eyre Affair and it mentions tons of authors.

Authors Listed:
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
Jonathan Swift
Byron
Keats
Poe
John Webster (The White Devil)
Francis Bacon
John Milton
William Blake
Percy Shelley
Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus)
Conan Doyle
Daniel Defoe
Dylan Thomas
Anthony Trollope

[Barbara ★]

Aunt Dimity Down Under mentions The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

[Diane L]

I just read a cozy mystery Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay. The main character is a librarian and many books/authors are mentioned.

Books
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
Watership Down
The Sea, the Sea
The Dangerous Book for Boys
The Hunger Games
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Authors
Harlan Coben
Amanda Quick
Linda Howard
C J Box
Marion Chesney
Foster Cline and Jim Fay
J. R. Ward
Charlie Huston
Truman Capote
Shel Silverstein

[Jenifer]

KSMary wrote: "I started reading The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession today and it has a TON of references to books and authors"

Ooh, I just picked this one up at the bookstore the other day. Glad to know I can fit into the challenge so easily. :)

[Dee]

I started keeping a list for Read and Buried

Authors:
Ellery Adams
Janet Bolin
Janet Evanovich
Avery Aames
Jacklyn Brady


Books:
The Brass Verdict
Devices And Desires
Dog Eat Dog
All About Eve : a Screenplay
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
McGarr and the P.M. of Belgrave Square
Polished Off
The Crossing Places
The Professional
Sixkill
Grace Interrupted
State Fair
The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder
The Teaberry Strangler
Sketch Me If You Can
Sense and Sensibility
Murder on the Orient Express
Dead Men Don't Lye
The Thin Man
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Among the Mad
Friends in High Places
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Burn
A Veiled Deception
Dead Reckoning
Dropped Dead Stitch
A Rare Murder In Princeton
The Prioress's Tale, the Tale of Sir Thopas
Warning at One
Hallowe'en Party
Spanish Dagger
Ding Dong Dead
String of Lies
Too Many Cooks

[Barbara ★]

mentions Sue Grafton and Robert Crais
mentions The Kite Runner
mentions:
V.C. Andrews
Jackie Collins
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Austen
E.M. Forster
Tom Clancy

[Deanna]

I just read Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster for another task and it references several classic books and authors in it.

These include Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Three Muskateers, Mother Goose, David Copperfield, Cinderella, Robinson Crusoe, Alice in Wonderland, Rudyard Kipling, Sherlock Holmes, Blue Beard, Ivanhoe, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Little Women, Vanity Fair, Tennyson's poems, The Portrait of a Lady, On the Trail, Shakespeare, Hamlet, the Brontes, Treasure Island, Thomas Huxley, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Samuel Pepys.

[Barbara ★]

I just finished Dare to Die by Carolyn Hart and it referenced tons of authors so I'll list them here.

mostly mystery authors
David Alexander
Eric Ambler
Raymond Arroyo
Suzanne Arruda
Nevada Barr
Carol Carnac
Dixie Cash
Henry Cecil
Lee Child
Agatha Christie
Sarah D'Almeida
Phillip DePoy
Anthony Elgin
Jimmie Ruth Evans
Carol Goodman
Sue Grafton
Edith Hamilton
Charlaine Harris
Joseph Hayes
Georgette Heyer
Naomi Hirahara
Dorothy Howell
Alex Kava
Laura Lippman
John Marquand
Archer Mayer
Ed McBain
Tim Myers
Stuart Palmer
Anne Perry
Elizabeth Peters
Nancy Pickard
Jodi Picoult
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ann Ripley
Peter Robinson
Mary Saums
Dorothy L. Sayers
Mabel Seeley
Martin Cruz Smith
Charles Todd
Heather Webber
Patricia Wentworth
Jacqueline Winspear
Richard Wormer

[Barbara ★]

by Nora Roberts talks about the following authors/books.

John Sandford
Walter Mosley
Michael Connelly
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Pride and Prejudice
The Thin Man