31. A book mentioned in another book

[VanesGirl]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings mentions

The Well of Loneliness
Look Homeward, Angel

[Milena]

VanesGirl wrote: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings mentions

The Well of Loneliness
Look Homeward, Angel"

Sorry to jump in, but I am reading it as well. Yesterday I noted down:

Jane Eyre
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[Cornerofmadness]

K. wrote: "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 t..."

Yeah this is a good one because it fits the book about a library prompt and then gives you a ton of books you can read for the other prompt. I hope you like it.

[Heather Adores Books]

The Wife by Alafair Burke mentions Flowers in the Attic

[Aimee Dars]

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin mentions:

Sula by Toni Morrison and
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

[Shannon]

I'm glad to see the suggestion of Murder on the Orient Express. I love Agatha Christie.

[VanesGirl]

Currrently reading The Diviners by Libba Bray. It mentions so far:

The House of Mirth
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Anna Karenina
The Weary Blues

[Wendy]

I'm reading To Say Nothing of the Dog (a book featuring time travel) and so far the following have been mentioned:

Three Men in a Boat
The Moonstone
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume IThe Prisoner Of Zenda
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet
Alice in Wonderland
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy L. Sayers
Das Kapital
Zuleika Dobson
The Prisoner Of Zenda
Murder in Three Acts
The Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet

[Call Me Shivi]

A Wrinkle in Time is mentioned in Wonder by RJ Palacio

[Nani]

Shivi wrote: "A Wrinkle in Time is mentioned in Wonder by RJ Palacio"

Oh thanks - might use that too!

[VanesGirl]

Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci mentions

Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent

[Rachel]

I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which was mentioned heavily in Holding Up the Universe. What a weird book, but I loved it!

[Elena]

Jenni wrote: "Am I cheating by choosing 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?..."

Of course not!!

[Candice]

If you read The Little Paris Bookshop, it counts for a book about a bookstore and lists many books inside!

[Shelley]

If any of you are fans of the Thursday Next series (The Eyre Affair), the Nursery Crime novels would work really well for this: The Big Over Easy. It's the final product of the book that was "created" in the third book.

[Marianne]

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (which I read for the bookstore prompt) mentions about 20 different books, most of them quite good.

[Amanda]

For true crime fans, I just read Grist Mill Road (for the book published in 2018 prompt) and it mentions In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
This worked great for me because I actually had the book on my nightstand and thought I'd have to return it to the library because I have already read the true crime prompt (A Stranger Beside Me).

[Wednesday]

Fannie wrote: "I'm curious about The Mysteries of Udolpho mentionned in Northanger Abbey."
The Mysteries of Udolpho isn't a great book, but it is a quick read, and fascinating as it
was the first Gothic horror novel.

[Celine]

A couple of people have mentioned Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life, which I also recommend reading, but here's a link to a list with the majority of the books mentioned in it:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Casey]

Into the Water mentions Lolita at one point.

[Celine]

Also here's a list on the author's website of the books mentioned in The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (another great book):

https://gabriellezevin.com/ajbooks/

Click on each chapter link to find the books mentioned in that chapter.

[Ellie]

Whilst I wasn't a fan of Sal, I did note a character was reading Kidnapped, Treasure Island and A Monster Calls (this one isn't named but it's pretty obvious what she's reading).

[Cornerofmadness]

I just finished The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams (which would work for the prompt set in a bookstore or library) and the protagonist uses books to help people emotionally heal so there is a crap ton of books mentioned in here. These were all the ones I wrote down and there's a wide range of genres so enjoy
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
That Chesapeake Summer by Mariah Stewart
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
Title Wave by Lorna Barrett
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Pines by Blake Crouch
Blubber by Judy Blume
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Draculaby Bram Stoker
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Elephant Manby Christine Sparks
The Hunchback of Notre-Dameby Victor Hugo
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Looking for Alaskaby John Green
Waiting for Morning by Karen Kingsbury
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Done With The Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children by Sheri McGregor
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

[Rosa]

Everything, Everything mentions Flowers for Algernon

[Leanne]

The Tales of Beedle the Bard from Harry Potter. Its short but a fun read

[Diane]

A Clockwork Orange was mentioned in Punishment.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier was mentioned in The Crow Girl.

I loved both Punishment and A Long way Gone, I'm currently reading The Crow Girl and I'm liking it, but I haven't read A Clockwork Orange so I can't recommend that one yet.

[Kim]

I read Winter Journal by Paul Auster which was mentioned in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika. I'm finding that there are lots of books mentioned in other books. That might make a good reading list also. There were a lot of books mentioned in Sorry to Disrupt the Peace.

[Rachel]

The Woman in Cabin 10 also mentions The Bell Jar.

[AF]

Books mentioned in The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah:
The Outsiders
The Lord of the Rings
Go Ask Alice
Watership Down
The Call of the Wild
Pippi Longstocking
The Fellowship of the Ring
Seward's Folly
Dune
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Thorn Birds
Childhood's End
Devil's Desire
The Flame and the Flower
Moonstruck Madness
The Stand
Interview with the Vampire
Where the Wild Things Are

[Piajensen13]

I just finished reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend for the prompt about a bookstore or library. One of the great things about books about books is you get a list of new books to read.
Here is a link to a complete list of all the books quoted or mentioned in Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend:
https://medium.com/@jamie.stuckless/a...

[Tania]

I read Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, for a book set at sea, which mentioned the following for anyone interested in nonfiction (which fits the 2015 prompt of nonfiction for your favorite prompt from that year's challenge as well):

Wilson
The First World War
The First World War: A Complete History
The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth
Raiders of the Deep
Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War
The World Crisis, 1911-1918
The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914
German Submarine War 1914-1918
Starling Of The White House: A Secret Service Man Who Guarded Presidents Wilson Through Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson: An Intimate MemoirMy Memoir
Voyage of the Deutschland: The First Merchant Submarine
The Lusitania's Last Voyage
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner

[Trish]

Finished Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for this prompt! Mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in their book list for the school year. I was so happy to read this because I missed it when I was a kid. Quidditch Through the Ages was always available in the library but this one was always checked out! Very short and humorous read for anyone wanting something under 100 pages to cross off real quick.

[Naina]

I've been keeping a list of books mentioned in the books I've read for other prompts this year so far. Thought I'd share while we're still early on in the challenge. I'll update periodically.

[Updated 10/31/18]

Books mentioned in Everything You Want Me to Be:
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Jane Eyre
- V.

Books mentioned in The Woman in Cabin 10:
- The Bell Jar

Books mentioned in The Heart's Invisible Furies:
- Kidnapped
- Five Have a Wonderful Time
- Howards End
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Borstal Boy
- The Quare Fellow: A Comedy-Drama
- The Dark
- Crime and Punishment
- The Sound and the Fury
- Catch-22
- The Story of the Night

Books mentioned in White Fur:
- John Barleycorn

Books mentioned in Swimming Between Worlds:
- Wuthering Heights

Books mentioned in Her Every Fear:
- Wolf Hall
- The Little Stranger
- Vanity Fair
- I Capture the Castle
- The Firm
- Ender's Game

Books Mentioned in The Lost Carousel of Provence
- 84, Charing Cross Road

Books Mentioned in The Wife
- Mansfield Park
- Ulysses
- Dubliners
- Oliver Twist

Books Mentioned in Tin Man
- A Year in Provence
- Amongst Women
- The Buddha of Suburbia

Books Mentioned in Lies You Never Told Me
- One Hundred Years of Solitude

Books Mentioned in All We Ever Wanted
- To Kill a Mockingbird

Books Mentioned in Fight or Flight
- To Kill a Mockingbird

Books Mentioned in Vox
- Lolita

Books Mentioned in Virgil Wander
- The Remains of the Day

Books Mentioned in Saving Meghan
- War and Peace

Books Mentioned in A Ladder to the Sky
- Wuthering Heights
- Crime and Punishment
- Howards End
- A Tale of Two Cities
- War and Peace
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Lincoln
- Burr
- The City and the Pillar
- Myra Breckinridge
- Anna Karenina
- Sentimental Education

[Anne]

I'm reading To Kill A Mockingbird for this topic! It was mentioned in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. That book mentions tons of books, so if you never came across a book mentioned in another book, I recommend you read A Perks Of Being A Wallflower!

[Jess]

I was pleased to see that Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is mentioned in The Time Traveler's Wife as I had read the former before the latter and wasn't sure where to place it.

Also, a tip for those reading on Kindle. Some books will list the books they mention in the X-Ray section.

[Emanuel]

I'm reading A Livraria dos Finais Felizes, and have a huge list of books mentioned; I'll pick one or two to read this year!

[Kathy]

Les Misérables is mentioned in the book Blood on Snow.

[Sylvia]

I would like to read Gravity’s Rainbow. It was mentioned in Gwendy’s Button Box ( my book by two authors I read ). I hear it’s huge and I’m not a fast reader.

[Diane]

Sylvia wrote: "I would like to read Gravity’s Rainbow. It was mentioned in Gwendy’s Button Box ( my book by two authors I read ). I hear it’s huge and I’m not a fast reader."

I have Gwendy's Button Box in my tbr pile. How was it? Thanks for giving me a prompt for it too.

[Cornerofmadness]

I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin for this prompt. It was mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton

[Mike]

Just started You for my Bookstore or Library prompt, and chapter 1 alone is a treasure trove of possibilities for this prompt:

Franny and Zooey
Impossible Vacation
Desperate Characters
The Western Coast
Charlotte's Web

all of which I can see myself using. I'll update as I run across more.

[Sylvia]

Diane wrote: "Sylvia wrote: "I would like to read Gravity’s Rainbow. It was mentioned in Gwendy’s Button Box ( my book by two authors I read ). I hear it’s huge and I’m not a fast reader."

I have Gwendy's Butto..."

I liked it very much. It was sweet and easy to read. Not your usual Stephen King read but the weirdness was there.

[Diane]

books mentioned in The Crow Girl
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
SCUM Manifesto
The Origin of Species

[Carolina]

I just read “The darkest minds” and it mentions “Watership down” and “Lord of the flies” :)

[Trish]

I found a few books mentioned in Booked (a middle-grade poetry book that would fulfill the "book about sports" category!):

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All the Broken Pieces
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Out of the Dust
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson books in general, and Heroes of Olympus)
Read All About It! (Dear Know-It All books in general)
If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
Planet Middle School
May B.
Catching Fire
Because of Winn-Dixie
Smile
I Will Save You
When You Reach Me
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Until We Meet Again
Peace, Locomotion
Darius & Twig
The Outsiders
P.S. Be Eleven
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy
Rhyme Schemer

[Mike]

Mike wrote: "Just started You for my Bookstore or Library prompt, and chapter 1 alone is a treasure trove of possibilities for this prompt:


Just finished chapter 14 and can add these:


Poor George
The Catcher in the Rye
The Da Vinci Code
Gravity's Rainbow
Underworld
On the Road
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
The Red Badge of Courage
Doctor Sleep
The Shining
The Victim

[Joyce]

The Queen's reading list in The Uncommon Reader includes:

My Dog Tulip

The Convergence of the Twain (Illustrated): Lines On The Loss of the Titanic

The Pursuit of Love

Love in a Cold Climate

Marcel Proust: A Biography

Portnoy's Complaint

Also in the early days of Valley of the Dolls when Neely stays in of an evening she reads Gone with the Wind

[Kim]

This prompt has been a lot of fun for me! I sort of went at it in a roundabout way, having heard about the book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis, and since Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome is one of my favorite books, I HAD to read Willis' book for my Time Travel prompt.

That still left me with finding a book to read for this prompt, but luckily, in To Say Nothing of the Dog, Willis also mentioned The Moonstone, by Wilke Collins, which I have wanted to read for ages! Coincidently, The Moonstone also happens to be a "Buddy Read" for April, in another one of my reading groups!

For a book set on a different planet, I read Have Space Suit—Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, which happens to be the place where Connie Willis first heard mention of Three Men and a Dog!

[Johanne]

Has anyone written the books down that are mentioned in mr. Penumbra's 24-hour book store (the real ones)? I listened to it on audio while mostly riding my bike so that made writing them down whilst reading difficult.

[Joyce]

The Uncommon Reader led me to read, for this category, Portnoy's Complaint, which in itself contains:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dragon Seed
The Memoirs of Casanova
Argentine Diary
Citizen Tom Paine
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Finnley Wren
On a note of triumph
General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America, 1830-1930
The Souls of Black Folk
Poor White
The Grapes of Wrath
Notes of a Native Son