31. A book mentioned in another book

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading Purity by Jonathan Franzen and it references Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer--in case that's on anyone's TBR list, now you can count it for this!

[Jenn]

Here is a really extensive list of books in the link. It's 12 books that have booklists in them.

http://lithub.com/the-reading-lists-h...

[Kristin]

In Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, she recommends “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker. This has been on my list forever!

[[deleted user]]

Another option brought to you by Purity by Jonathan Franzen! The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow is mentioned a few times. I don't necessarily recommend the book (I did an extensive research project on Bellow in high school, so I tired of his writing very quickly) but it's a well-known work in American literature.

[SadieReadsAgain]

Jenn wrote: "Here is a really extensive list of books in the link. It's 12 books that have booklists in them.

http://lithub.com/the-reading-lists-h..."

Fab, my choice (Brave New World) is mentioned in Among Others. I knew it would turn up somewhere!

[Erika]

Harry Potter gets mentioned in books! If you're into that kind of thing

[Anna]

If anyone is really into nonfiction, most academic history books have footnotes or endnotes, and extensive bibliographies at the end. This always points me to new reading material. :)

[Ellie]

Amanda wrote: "If you're a SF/F fan, Among Others is a great book itself, but for this prompt is also a treasure trove of other SF/F books as the protagonist is a voracious reader. There's even a w..."

I love Among Others and will probably pick something off this list unless I come across something else in a book I'm reading this year. Maybe A Canticle for Leibowitz which I've been meaning to read for a while.

[Mrs. Hahn]

I just read Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, and there are a TON of books mentioned in there. Lots of kidlit, ms, and ya, but some adult classics too.

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames
Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Baby’s Mother Goose: Pat-A-Cake
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My! by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base
Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser
I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
In the Pocket: Johnny Unitas and Me by Mike Leonetti
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The King James Bible
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe
Nancy Drew: The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
No, David! by David Shannon
Olivia by Ian Falconer
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
“The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
This Isn’t What It Looks Like by Pseudonymous Bosch
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Time magazine
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano and David Fisher
Unreal! by Paul Jennings
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Yak Who Yelled Yuck by Carol Pugliano-Martin

[Diane]

The following books are mentioned in The Stand
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
The Hobbit
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Winnie-the-Pooh
Nightwork
Watership Down
Mein Kampf

[Chase]

I finished Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century recently and ones mentioned:

Hamlet
The Communist Manifesto
Fahrenheit 451
1984
The Stranger
The Brothers Karamazov
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It Can't Happen Here
The Plot Against America
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
The Captive Mind
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Holy Bible: King James Version

and others, but that is a pretty diverse selection I would say.

[Jenni]

Am I cheating by choosing 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?...

[Kelly]

Anyone know if The Crucible was mentioned in another book? I fell like it's been mentioned in a bunch but can't find it in the lists on this site

[Susanna]

Catherynne M Valente's Palimpsest repeatedly mentions The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making .

Fun fact - the book didn't exist when Valente wrote Palimpsest and she had no intention of writing it. A few years later and there's a series of 6 books, plus a few short stories.

[willaful]

Thanks for the mention of the "pitch perfect" book -- finally one for the "book made into a movie you've seen"! Oh, and I have the first Jim Hines book on my TBR.

[willaful]

Debbie wrote: "Tam Lin by Pamela Dean mentions a ton of classics. I haven't read it in years, but I remember The Wind in the Willows and about a dozen Shakespeare plays."

An excellent book, too.

[Miranda]

I think I'm going to read The Virgin Suicides for this prompt. I recently read Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life and she mentions The Virgin Suicides many times in that book. I guess I could also go with Fahrenheit 451!

[willaful]

For those who want to read a book that mentions books for this prompt, How To Be a Heroine is fantastic. (I blogged about it here: https://willaful.wordpress.com/2017/0... .) Many of the books she writes about (not all) are children's classics, so potential for double-dipping there.

I'm thinking of reading My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, which is sure to mention a lot of books. Or come to think of it, I already noted down several intriguing books from HtBaH.

[Ellie]

Kelly wrote: "Anyone know if The Crucible was mentioned in another book? I fell like it's been mentioned in a bunch but can't find it in the lists on this site"

In Sarah Pinborough's 13 Minutes the school play is The Crucible if you think that counts.

[[deleted user]]

The Passage by Justin Cronin is mentioned in Station Eleven which I finished last week

[Amanda]

Mentioned in A Single Man: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

(A Single Man would check your LGBTQ title, too. 10/10)

[Mada]

I'm also in the Our Shared Shelf group and usually non-fiction books tend to have more book mentions than fiction ones. Off the top of my head come Hunger, by Roxanne Gay, with a lot of books mentioned along the way, and My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem, also with lots of mentions. Some of these are
The Female Eunuch (Germaine Greer),
How Fiction Works (James Wood),
Gender Trouble (Judith Butler),
Play it as it Lays (Joan Didion)
This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)

[Johanne]

Because of this prompt I started writing it down. In the 3 books I read since then, there have been mentioned 15 other books (and I'm not finished with the one that mentions a lot). So I was wondering - if you ONLY read books mentioned in books you read, how long time you could keep it up? I guess the books would get older until you had Plato, the Bible and the like, left.

[Lu]

Here are all the references in Lemmony Snicket's All the wrong questions series
http://asoue.proboards.com/thread/313...

There are a lot of books, I used The Wind in the Willows for last year prompt, but I'll probably use another from this list for this year

[Cendaquenta]

Just a question. I was planning to read one of the books Ursula K Le Guin talks about in her non-fiction collection Words Are My Matter. However, much of the material in that book is reprints of book introductions she wrote, or book reviews by her that were originally published in various newspapers and magazines. Since they've only been collected in book form after their original publication, would those reviews/introductions count for this prompt?

[Chinook]

I think so. It doesn’t specify any additional criteria than Book, so I’d go with it.

[Tess]

I finished reading Gwendy's Button Box for the book written by two authors (Stephen King and Richard Chizmar) and in the story it mentions Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

[Lindsey]

I read Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence last year, which is full of book references, so I made notes of some of the books I was interested in reading. For this challenge, I chose Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani, which I ended up loving!

[Chinook]

Deep River has so far mentioned Thérèse Desqueyroux and Moïra.

[Amy]

I bet we’ll get a lot of ideas for this prompt when we tackle the prompt involving a bookstore or library. Those kinds of books are always written by book lovers who like to “drop names.”

[poshpenny]

Cendaquenta wrote: "originally published in various newspapers and magazines. Since they've only been collected in book form after their original publication..."

So were Dickens, Conan Doyle, Christie, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky... I think you're safe.

[Heather]

Ready Player One mentions a lot of classic SF/F books. Sometimes the books are mentioned by name, but sometimes just by places or people in the book. Authors are mentioned a lot more than books. It depends how you define the prompt if that will be helpful. You can find the full list here.

[Diane]

Books mentioned in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Masqueraders
Chaos: Making a New Science

[poshpenny]

Mrs. Hahn wrote: "I just read Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, and there are a TON of books mentioned in there."

I also recently read Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and am now reading the next book, so I'll add it's book list too.

Books mentioned or referenced in
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics:

The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Anne of Green Gables
The Bad Beginning
Because of Winn-Dixie
Birdman of Alcatraz
Bleak House
Blubber
The Book Thief
The Bravest Squirrel Ever
Bridge to Terabithia
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bud, Not Buddy
The Candymakers
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlotte's Web
Criss Cross
Earl the Squirrel
Elijah of Buxton
Fahrenheit 451
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
The Fourteenth Goldfish
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Goodnight Moon
Great Expectations
Green Eggs and Ham
Gregor the Overlander
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Harriet the Spy
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Holes
The Hunger GamesIncident at Hawk's Hill
Inside Out & Back Again
It's Not Easy Being Bad
Junie B. Jones Series
The Kite Runner
A Light in the Attic
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Little Women
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
A Long Way from Chicago
The Lorax
Lord of the Flies
Maximum Ride Series
Morris the Moose
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Nothing But the Truth
The Odyssey
One Came Home
The Paper Airplane Book
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
Peter Pan
Pippi Longstocking
The Postcard
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Sound the Jubilee
Splendors and Glooms
Strega Nona
The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
A Tangle of Knots
Treasure Island
Twerp
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ungifted
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Walter the Farting Dog
Watership Down
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
Where's Waldo?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Wrinkle in Time
The Year of Billy Miller
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

[Tess]

The book The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware references Fifty Shades. It doesn't specify which book in that series so you could use any one of them to meet the criteria.

[Chinook]

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 mentions Pale Horse, Pale Rider and A Journal of the Plague Year and author John Dos Passos. And others, but hats what I can recall.

[Devon]

I'm currently reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (book made into a movie I've already seen), and she just mentioned The Awakening and The Optimist's Daughter.

[Johanne]

I just finished reading Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage (Has death taken something from you then give it back).
She cites a lot of other works about death and grieving that would fit that category, but also, of course, this category.
Duino Elegies (the tenth elegy) by Rainer Maria Rilke
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Udgående fartøj by Ursula Andkjær Olsen
Pour un tombeau d'Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé
Quelque chose noir by Jacques Roubaud
Nox by Anne Carson
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
Jan Kochanowski's tenth elegy
Butterfly Valley--A Requiem/Sommerfugledalen--Et Requiem by Inger Christensen
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Historien om en moder / The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen
Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley

[Kimberly]

I’m going with Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None”. It was mentioned in “In a Dark, Dark Wood” by one of its previous titles “Ten Little Indians”.

[Fran]

I just finished reading The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and there are TONS of book mentioned in it because he owns a book store. It was a great book. I read it in two days
Here are some
Tess D'Urbervillis
A prayer for Owen meany
I captured the castle
Late bloomer
The crucible
Anne of green gables
A little princess
The Paris wife
American wife
What feels like the world
Mobs dick
From the mixed up files of ms basil e frankweiler
The doll house
Our town
Wow- that's a lot!

[Jess]

The Goldfinch mentions

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Idiot

and others that I have forgotten

[Meredith]

There's also a Goodreads List in its Listopia section: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

[Cendaquenta]

Another question, sorry. Is it okay to use something like The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies to find a book for this prompt? It's essentially a book of book recommendations.

[Mike]

Cendaquenta wrote: "Another question, sorry. Is it okay to use something like The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies to find a book for this prompt? It's essentially a book of book recommendati..."

I don't see why not.

Is this a book? Check.
Are these other books mentioned in that book? Check.

Go for it.

[Natalie]

I read The Tales of Beedle the Bard and then realised that it technically fit this challenge! So that's one down XD

[Crumb]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara was mentioned in the book The Favorite Sister

[Diane]

The Prince and the Pauper was mentioned in A Child Called "It"

[Patricia]

Both "The Snake Pit" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" are mentioned in the book I'm reading now "Unintended Circumstances" by Stuart Woods. Bonus - they are both about mental health and both were made into movies. I've read Cuckoo's Nest - loved it.

[Storm]

I put Hamlet under this one. It’s mentioned in Sense and Sensibility

[K.]

Cornerofmadness wrote: "Jim C. Hines has a series called the Magic Ex Libris where librarians use books to do magic. So there are tons of books within a book here and it works for the prompt involving a bo..."

ACK! I'm reading the first book now and didn't even THINK of using it for that prompt! Thank you!