31. A book mentioned in another book

[Alicia]

I just read The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and as well as the author's list from the beginning of the chapters, there is also mention of books in characters' conversations. There is a listopia here https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Lila]

I feel like I have seen Lolita mentioned in several other books. I may tackle that one finally.

[Caitlin]

Brandyn wrote: "In Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick mentions:

The Shining
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
[book:Do Androids Dream of ..."

Thanks for the reminding me of the Philip K. Dick one!

[Rhoda]

Chrissy wrote: "I am currently reading Blind Spot by Dani Pettrey it mentions Die Trying by Lee Child.

I may read it."

I love the Jack Reacher books!! You won't regret it. I think I may reread it for the prompt.

[Alice]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower mentions a lot of books. I think there is a collection of books mentioned on Goodreads, or a google search should help.

[Kirsty]

A Gentleman in Moscow mentions quite a lot of Russian classics - books by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gorky etc.

[Kelsey]

I'm doing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea because it's heavily referenced inSphere

[Krissy]

I'll be reading:

The Shining


Which was mentioned in You.

Other books mentioned in You:
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
Charlotte's Web
Franny and Zooey
Where the Heart Is
Impossible Vacation
Desperate Characters
The Western Coast
Poor George
The Da Vinci Code
Gravity's Rainbow
Underworld
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
The Red Badge of Courage
Doctor Sleep
The Victim
The Hours
A Room of One's Own
Oliver Twist
The Lord of the Rings
American Psycho
The Prince of Tides
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
In the Lake of the Woods
A River Runs Through It
The Things They Carried
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Old School
Great Expectations
The Princess Bride
Love Story
The Corrections

[Kadeisha]

Quite a few books were mentioned in "Everything, Everything" - two of my choices are "the little prince" and "flowers for algernon"

[Melissa]

Would The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling work for this? Its mentioned in Harry Potter but I believe they are short stories..

[Chinook]

Yes, I would think so.

[Ethel]

Alta wrote: "Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is mentioned in the book The Dinner so that is what I used for this prompt this year.

I just read [book:Winter Street|2..."

The Goldfinch is absolutely brilliant! One of my favourite books ever,

[Ethel]

Cara wrote: "I found this list: http://lithub.com/the-reading-lists-h... which has 12 featured books about reading and each book has a list below itemising ALL the books referred to in ..."

Thank you! This is awesome!

[Emily]

I think I'll read something by either Vladimir Nabokov or Henry James, both those authors were discussed in a lot of detail in Reading Lolita in Tehran which I read this year

[AF]

Books mentioned in Camino Island by John Grisham (a book with a heist)

The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Fitzgerald books:
The Great Gatsby
Tender Is the Night
The Love of the Last Tycoon
The Beautiful and Damned
This Side of Paradise
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories by Philip Roth
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History by Steinbeck
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
The Convict and Other Stories by James Lee Burke
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. MacDonald
Darker Than Amber by John D MacDonald

Found another one:
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

[Maria]

Bridget Jones is obsessed with Pride and Prejudice which I have never read so now's the time!

[Mellanie]

I can't remember but I think, The Tales of Beedle The Bard is mentioned in one of the Harry Potter books, right?

[Krys]

The Passage has mentioned so far:

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
History of the Ottoman Empire by William Deans
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels by Jules Verne
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

It also mentions comics: Tales from the Crypt, Fantastic Four, Dark Knight

There's also If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino since it mentions itself in the text.

[Edie]

Until I started to do challenges, I hadn't realized how often books are mentioned in books I am reading. I am confident that there will be dozens of options (not all classics) by the time I have read a handful of books this year. The list AF put together for Camino Island (which I plan to read as my heist book) includes several books at the top of my TBR list.

[Linda]

This book mentions LOADS of other books, and it is a very entertaining read. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life

[Gabi]

The Ambassadors is mentioned in The Talented Mr. Ripley. I'm not too keen on Henry James, but since The Talented Mr Ripley is one of my all time favourites, I might give it a go.

[Laura • lauralovestoread]

Alta wrote: "Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is mentioned in the book The Dinner so that is what I used for this prompt this year.

I just read [book:Winter Street|2..."

I’m reading Winter Street now! I like the idea of reading Goldfinch too

[Laura • lauralovestoread]

The Goldfinch

[Leandra]

In one of the Cat Who books the community theater group is preparing Macbeth. Goes about as well as expected with *that play* but I'm using it as an excuse to read it. :D

[Fiona (Titch)]

Do you need to read the book 1st before you read a book that was mentioned in that book (if that makes sense)?

Someone mentioned a book called You and then said what other books was mentioned in that book. I've not read You yet (it's on my TBR list), but wondered if I needed to read that before I read any book that was mentioned in You?

[Mellanie]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Do you need to read the book 1st before you read a book that was mentioned in that book (if that makes sense)?

Someone mentioned a book called You and then said what other books was mentioned in t..."

No you don't need to read that book first. You just need to read the book that was mentioned by the other book.

[Crumb]

Oh... I was so confused by this prompt.. I think I understand it now. Can anyone confirm this so I can make sure I understand it:

This prompt wants you to read a book that is mentioned in another book?

[Nadine in NY]

Crumb wrote: "Oh... I was so confused by this prompt.. I think I understand it now. Can anyone confirm this so I can make sure I understand it:

This prompt wants you to read a book that is mentioned in another ..."

Yes. I'm going to read a Sherlock Holmes book, because in The Thirteenth Tale, she reads the entire Sherlock Holmes series, so I think any of them are fair game for this category. Also, they've probably been mentioned in lots of other books.



Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Do you need to read the book 1st before you read a book that was mentioned in that book (if that makes sense)?..."

Nope! At least, not according to me!!

( I read You this year and LOVED it, so you really should read You also!!!! I recommend the audiobook, Santino Fontana really knocks it out of the park, he is so good that I consider him essential to fully enjoying the book. But I don't think it's required by this prompt.)

[Lauren]

If you're having trouble, nonfiction books mention other books fairly often, if you want to look into some of those on your shelf. I recently read this book, which mentions many other books (and I recommend it for avid readers!). My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

[Fiona (Titch)]

Nadine wrote: "Crumb wrote: "Oh... I was so confused by this prompt.. I think I understand it now. Can anyone confirm this so I can make sure I understand it:

This prompt wants you to read a book that is mention..."

I have the audio and kindle copies, so will definitely read/listen to it for 2018 x

[Crumb]

Ethel wrote: "Cara wrote: "I found this list: http://lithub.com/the-reading-lists-h... which has 12 featured books about reading and each book has a list below itemising ALL the books re..."

That list is awesome! Thank you, Cara.. In Among Others by Jo Walton, this list says that The Magus by John Fowles is mentioned. I have been wanting to fit that into one of these prompts. I may do that.. Or of course.. Anne of Green Gables which Krystina has kindly shared is mentioned in The Passenger.

[Crumb]

A question for the group: If Anne of Green Gables is mentioned in the book The Passenger, does that mean I can read any of the Anne books in the series of Green Gables?

[Kimberlee]

Nadine wrote: "In The Thirteenth Tale, she reads the entire Sherlock Holmes series in one go, so I'm going to just read the next one in that series that I haven't read yet. I'm up to either The Memoirs of Sherloc..."

Oh my God! Finally! Someone who has read The Thirteenth Tale!!! That's a great book!

[Shelley]

I read The Geek Feminist Revolution and she talked about writing her book God's War in it. So I'm curious to actually read it on it's own now.

[Sara Grace]

I don't find this a very hard difficult challenge, especially if you read non fiction. Also I found some books in 2017 in the preface or acknowledgements in a book. Counts for me!

[Teresa]

Not going to choose yet...will probably just go with the first book mentioned in a book I read this year.

[Danielle]

Amanda wrote: "Both Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them work for this prompt and they're quick reads. I did the audiobook of Fantastic Beasts this yea..."

Love this one, I'm going with Fantastic Beasts!

[Anabell]

These books are mentioned in The Jane Austen Project

Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Ivanhoe
Persuasion
Emma
Guy Mannering Or, the Astrologer - Vol I
Waverley
Memoirs of miss Sidney Bidulph
Northanger Abbey
The Dead
Jane Eyre (Book not mentioned but refered to "Like Bertha in Rochester's Attic")
Middlemarch

[Denise]

Last year, I read Among Others, which someone else mentioned above. This book has a lot of books mentioned in it, and there's a list of that here, so I might choose from that list again.

As a side note, all of those books are from the 70s or earlier.

[Tara]

I'm going to be reading The Bad Seed which was mentioned in Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder. Small Sacrifices would be a good one for True Crime, also.

[Mooni]

I think i'll read Heart of Darkness mentioned in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe :)

[Taylor]

Reading Lolita in Tehran has so many books mentioned (it’s a work about a book club, after all). I’ll probably pick one from the list:

Baghdad Diaries by Nuha al-Radi

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Emma, Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Dean's December and More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

Shamela and Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James

In the Penal Colony and The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading and Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad

The Language Police by Diane Ravitch

The Net of Dreams by Julie Salamon

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

One Thousand and One Nights by Scheherazade

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky

Loitering with Intent and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark

Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor

A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Back When We Were Grownups and St. Maybe by Anne Tyler

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa

[Queen]

In Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, some of these books were mentioned:

The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

In the books Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley, a number of books were mentioned (the book revolves around a bookstore).. among mentioned were:

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
1984 - George Orwell
The One Safe Place - Tania Unsworth
Where Things Come Back - John Corey Whaley
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
...
...
plenty more books mentioned actually in Crowley's book.

But Cath Crowley's Words in Deep blue is also a very good read for the books dealing with grief/death prompt or bookstore prompt.

More books from books in Storied Life of Aj Fikry and Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore which btw is a good read for the bookstore prompt.

[Crumb]

I just finished Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah.. it was fantastic.. and there were a few books mentioned in it:
Hobit
The Lord of the Rings
The Thornbirds
Love Story

Hope that may help someone!

[Jess]

I want to read Dracula this year but have already chosen books for most of the prompts that it fits. I am pretty sure it must be but can someone confirm that it is mentioned in another book?

[Kerry]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo mentions these books:

pege 232 mentions these:
Kiss Me, Deadly
Famous Five Novels by Enid Blyton
Twin Mystery/ The Metro Mystery by Sivar Ahlrud
The Children of Noisy Village
Kalle Blomquist, Eva Lotte und Rasmus
Rasmus and the Vagabond
Pippi Longstocking
The Evil Empire
The Book of Hymns
Luther's Catechism
pg 279 mentions The Mermaids Singing
pg 315 mentions novel by Sara Paretsky so I think any would fit.



You Are Not A Planet & Other Stories mentions
Born in Shame
Lord of Scoundrels
The Sheik's Secret
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
The Philadelphia Experiment
Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications
Human Molecular Genetics
Nikola Tesla Biography

[Bridget]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 is all about characters who have their own books.

Van Helsing
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Invisible Man
King Solomon's Mines
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading Nina reads a book a day for one year. So there are 365 books to pick from. Bonus, if purple is your favorite color (like me :)

[Jess]

Jess wrote: "I want to read Dracula this year but have already chosen books for most of the prompts that it fits. I am pretty sure it must be but can someone confirm that it is mentioned in another book?"

It's all good, I've found this The Clockwork Scarab. One of the characters is the niece of Bram Stoker.

[SadieReadsAgain]

I'm going to read Brave New World. I assume it must be mentioned in a story somewhere, given it's status. But if not, it will definitely be mentioned in some sort of non-fiction, seeing as the prompt doesn't really specify!

[SadieReadsAgain]

Taylor wrote: "Reading Lolita in Tehran has so many books mentioned (it’s a work about a book club, after all). "

I'm reading it for another prompt, really looking forward to it.