22. A book with alliteration in the title

[Sara]

Another great prompt for scavenger hunting. This should be fun :)

[Anabell]

Im sorry but english is my second language. Had to look this one up so for others who also doesn't know what it means.

"the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words."

Looking forward to what people come up with.

[Michelle]

First thing that came to mind was Love's Labour's Lost, but I've read that already...

[Agnieszka]

Anabell wrote: "Im sorry but english is my second language. Had to look this one up so for others who also doesn't know what it means.

"the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or ..."

Basicaly it means each word starts with the same letter (or same sounding sound) - here some examples:
Amber Allert, An Accidental Affair, Accidental Aquitance, Autumn Assassins, Backstretch Baby, Barely Breathing, Bandit Bride, Bayou Bride and so on.
If I find again some of those sounding the same but starting with different letters, I post some examples as well - though no more today I'm going offline for most of the day now :-)

You'll find more ideas in this challenge thread from last year: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Claire]

There is a great list on goodreads for this.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Ifor fantasy lovers: Robin Hobb has a few

[Reyna]

I'm going to pick from a list of books I own that I think will work for this prompt.
Before We Were Yours
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Pride and Prejudice
World Without End
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
A Room of One's Own
I Capture the Castle
Revolutionary Road
Black and Blue

[Claire]

Attention: don’t know if it will be important, but there is a difference between anaphora and alliterations http://wizznotes.com/english/figures-.... It’s the repetition of a letter we’need to find: for example: the Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice.

[Anabell]

Agnieszka wrote: "Anabell wrote: "Im sorry but english is my second language. Had to look this one up so for others who also doesn't know what it means.

"the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning..."

Okay :-) thanks for the examples and the answer. Now I know better what to look for :-)

[Cheri]

Here are some books with alliterative titles that I've read and liked. Turns out many (not all) of the the alliterative titles I have are mysteries and I don't really read that many mysteries!

Mysteries
Acqua Alta
Dressed for Death
A Mind to Murder
The Cuckoo's Calling

All other genres
The Woman Warrior
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
The Stone Sky (third book in Broken Earth series)
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Life After Life
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

[Kenya]

Debating between Harvest Home and The Raven and the Reindeer for this one...

[Christine]

Wonder Woman: Warbringer!

[Theresa]

Magpie Murders - really great read!

[Ashly]

The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
Rot & Ruin by by Jonathan Maberry

Books I loved
The Silence of Six by E.C. Myers
Beastly Bones by William Ritter (2nd book to the Jackaby series)
Gracefully Grayson by by Ami Polonsky
Livia Lone by by Barry Eisler
Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay
Strong Signal by by Megan Erickson

[Rachel]

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
The Good Girl
Angela's Ashes

[Tricia]

I have Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

[Nadine in NY]

Unauthorized Cinnamon wrote: "Wonder Woman: Warbringer!"

Oooh! I like it!! I've been having a hard time finding a book I'm excited about in this category - I think I'll read that one!!!

[Claire]

Assassin's Apprentice and Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb for fantasy fans

[Kristy]

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

[Jennifer]

A Little Life
East of Eden

[Marilyn]

Captains Courageous
Murder in Mesopotamia Hercule Poirot
Nicholas Nickleby
Rob Roy
Anne of Avonlea

[Dani]

The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
Of Mice and Men
The Two Towers
The War of the Worlds
Nicholas Nickleby

[Mel]

Green Girl
Gone Girl
The Ten Thousand Things
Wandering Wild
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
The Shell Seekers
Someone Else's Summer
The Pants Project

[Bridgette]

Brazzaville Beach
The Lupane Legacy
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Assassin's Apprentice
Killing Ruby Rose
We Were the Mulvaneys
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Dead Witch Walking
The Misremembered Man
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Christmas Carol
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Great Gatsby
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Finding Fraser
Gone Girl
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Maniac Magee
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
The Lincoln Lawyer
Paper Princess
Ella Enchanted
Blood Rose Rebellion
Stolen Songbird
Red Rising
Summer Sisters
We Were Liars
The Wonder Weeks, Leap 3

[Jill]

I think I am going to read Becoming Bonnie for this prompt.

[Michelle]

I'm going to do Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space for this one.

[Lin]

My plan was to readSix Stories next year. And it fits so good in this category.

[poshpenny]

American Assassin
The Bad Beginning
Ozma of Oz

The Wind in the Willows
Good Morning, Midnight

[Deborah]

I haven't read it so can't recommend or not, but I came across Jeffrey Archer's Tell Tale: Short Stories in my TBR list. You get alliteration in the title and the subtitle! I like to throw some short stories in that I can read throughout the year so may try this.

[Nicole]

There's a cozy mystery series by Harper Lin called Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries that uses alliteration in every title. The titles include:
Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse
Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys
Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder
Lattes, Ladyfingers, and Lies
Americanos, Apple Pies, and Art Thieves

She also has a few other series that include alliteration in some, but not all, of their titles:
Sweets & a Stabbing (Pink Cupcake Mysteries #1)
Food Festival and a Funeral (Pink Cupcake Mysteries #3)
Cold Case and Cupcakes (Pink Cupcake Mysteries #4)
Pop-Up Truck and Peril (Pink Cupcake Mysteries #5)
Killer Christmas (Emma Wild Holiday Mystery #1)
Valentine's Victim (Emma Wild Holiday Mystery #4)
Macaron Murder (Patisserie Mystery #1)
Madeleine Murder (Patisserie Mystery #7)

There is another cozy mystery series that I just found by Jamie Lee Scott called the Willa Friday Food & Wine Mysteries. The books include:
Pasta Pinot & Murder
Sushi Sauvignon & Murder
Mousse Moscato & Murder

And another cozy mystery/ghost story series that has some titles with alliteration, some without. It's called the Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries and it's by Angie Fox:
Southern Spirits (#1)
A Ghostly Gift (#1.5)
The Haunted Heist (#3)
Dog Gone Ghost (#4.5)
Sweet Tea and Spirits (#5)

Some other examples of alliteration I found are:
Christmas Beyond the Box by Josh Langston
Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
Dog Days of Voodoo by G.A. Chase
A Duty To The Dead by Charles Todd
Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
In The Market For Murder by T E Kinsey
The Jewel of Gresham Green by Lawana Blackwell
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Mad Money by Linda L. Richards
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies by J.K. Rowling
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists by J.K. Rowling
The Silver Strand by L.J. Clarkson
Snake Skin by C.J. Lyons
Split Second by Douglas E. Richards
When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards
Wisteria Witches by Angela Pepper
Wives Of War by Soraya M. Lane

[Megan]

I'm going with Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria & the Stockholm

[Trina]

I never finished it in high school and feel I really should give it another try now that i'm older and more mature. I'm going with Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice.

[Mel]

Trina wrote: "I never finished it in high school and feel I really should give it another try now that i'm older and more mature. I'm going with Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice."
I just finished Pride and Prejudice earlier today (finally!); I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)

A few more suggestions I've added to my TBR list recently that might work for this challenge, if anyone's still looking for ideas:
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Beneath the Sugar Sky
Summer Skin
Every Exquisite Thing
I Stop Somewhere
Gunslinger Girl

[Nichelle]

Here's a Goodreads link...https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

[AF]

I was wanting more than two words in the alliteration, and ohmygoodness, I get to read The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis. I've been meaning to read this for quite some time and can never fit it in to my reading line up.

[Kayla]

I realize they're kid's books, but almost any of the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events books would work if someone's looking for a quick read.

[Monica]

I'm going to read Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates.

[Cindy H.]

I’m thinking of readingBig Brother

[Dallyce]

Angela's Ashes

[Luke]

Potentials:

Daniel Deronda
I Capture the Castle
Dream of Ding Village
The Girl Who Played Go
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: The Twentieth Century
Power Politics
The Little Locksmith
Dien Cai Dau
Silent Spring
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Summer Will Show
The Empathy Exams: Essays
The Land of Little Rain

[Lilia]

Okay, I was thinking, would Crooked Kingdom be considered alliterations or Storm Siren? Or maybe Ruin and Rising or Siege and Storm?

[Ruth]

Kayla wrote: "I realize they're kid's books, but almost any of the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events books would work if someone's looking for a quick read."

I was just thinking of that too. I read all 13 of them early last year, and knocked off a bunch of prompts with them (red spine, book with pictures, author using a pseudonym, book set in a hotel...)

[Jackie]

Lilia wrote: "Okay, I was thinking, would Crooked Kingdom be considered alliterations or Storm Siren? Or maybe Ruin and Rising or Siege and Storm?"

I think all of those would count.

[Anna]

[Caitlin]

May be a little morbid but Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman is what I’m choosing for this one.

[Krissy]

I'll be reading:

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

[Dan]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage.

A truly wonderful and readable Northern English medieval poem. If you like Lord of the Rings you will probably like this. And the alliteration isn't only in the title but throughout the poem. Since Middle English as well as Old English poetry relied heavily upon alliteration, Armitage has been faithful to that.

(And this is how you should treat women.)

[Chinook]

I recently listened to the audio of Sir Gawain (Armitage translation) and I highly recommend it. They also do the original and it’s fascinating to listen and see if you think you can hear any of it - I could, sort of, but I also lived in Scotland for awhile and I think some of the slang I picked up there helped.

[Dan]

Chinook wrote: "I recently listened to the audio of Sir Gawain (Armitage translation) and I highly recommend it. They also do the original and it’s fascinating to listen and see if you think you can hear any of it..."

I did read the original years ago, but I didn't understand everything and the translation much easier going. I wonder if it'd work reading the translation while listening to the audio of the original.

[Chinook]

I think that might have made my brain explode! I don’t know if I could have tried to read the original, but listening to it with the narrator’s accent and pace, was really lovely.

[Melissa]

My book club is reading Peyton Place next month, so I am going to use that for this prompt. Fun fact - I live in Tulsa and there are 24 library locations in Tulsa County and none of them have a copy of this book. They do not have the audiobook or the electronic version either!!!