31. A book mentioned in another book

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

So glad to hear that Jen! 😁

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

SOOO It turns out each post has a character limit.....

Here's a continuation of the list of books mentioned in Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

The Private Patient by P.D. James
The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield
The Public Prosecuter by Jef Geeraerts
Pulpy and Midge by Jessica Westhead
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Quincunx by Charles Palliser
Rage by Sergio Bizzio
Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester
Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry
Rimbaud by Edmund White
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins
Rome Noir by Chiara Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski
Ronald Reagan by Andrew Helfer
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
Ruins by Achy Obejas
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
Runaway by Alice Munro
Russian Journal by Andrea Lee
Sailor From Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras
The Salt-Box House by Jane de Forest Shelton
Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Seize The Day by Saul Bellow
Self's Murder by Bernhard Schlink
The Servant's Quarters by Lynn Freed
The Session by Aaron Petrovich
The Seven Deadly Sins by Angus Wilson
Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Silks by Dick Francis
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis
Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
Six Kinds of Sky by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Sixth Target by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano
The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon
Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
A Smile of Fortune by Joseph Conrad
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
Something Nasty In The Woodshed by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me by Selcuk Altun
Son of Holmes by John Lescroart
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser
Spooner by Pete Dexter
A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
Stitches by David Small
Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
The Sun Field by Heywood Broun
A Sun for the Dying by Jean-Claude Izzo
The Swap by Antony Moore
Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
Ten Poems to Set you Free by Roger Housden
A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher
The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Three Of Us by Julia Blackburn
A Toast to Tomorrow by Manning Coles
The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
To Siberia by Per Petterson
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
Towards The End Of The Morning by Michael Frayn
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate
Under The Frangipani by Mia Couto
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder by John Bellairs & Brad Strickland
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon
The Vicar of Sorrows by A.N. Wilson
Victorian Tales of Terror by Hugh Lamb
Waiting In Vain by Colin Channer
Wake by Lisa McMann
Walk The Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Weekend by Peter Cameron
What I'd Say to The Martians by Jack Handey
What I talk About when I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Where The Money Went by Kevin Canty
Where Three Roads Meet by John Barth
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Whore's Child by Richard Russo
Willfull Behaviour by Donna Leon
Will War Ever End? By Paul K. Chappell
Will Work For Drugs by Lydia Lunch
Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert & Steve Jamison
Winter Tale by Mark Helprin
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen
Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison
The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Yellow Leaves by Frederick Buechner
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Series Mentioned by Name (In order of appearance)

The Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Hardy Boys
Zack Files
Time Warp Trio
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling This Is What I was hoping for because I still need to fit Deathly Hallows in somewhere!!!! So...YAY
Foxtrot by Bill Amend (Comic)
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Comic)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
Tintin Books by Herge
Personality Development: A Practical Self-Teaching Course (1930s)
Lew Archer Series by Ross MacDonald
Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers
Racecourse Mysteries by Dick Francis
Nate The Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmot
Something Queer by Elizabeth Levy
Isabel Dalhousie Series by Alexander McCall Smith

[Johanne]

I´m currently reading Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life and I´m pretty sure someone must have mentioned it earlier in this thread, but it mentions a lot of books, and there is a GR list of titles: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Teri]

Stacey, how in the world was there room for a book in addition to all these listed books? :)

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

Teri wrote: "Stacey, how in the world was there room for a book in addition to all these listed books? :)"

There wasn't much of a book ahaha! 90% was the author giving a brief blurb about how a certain book made her see something differently or was her listing books she loved at a certain point in her life.

Also the final chapter of the book is her list of 365 Books that she had read that year (she challenged herself to read a book a day for a year).

[Teri]

To read a book a day, they either need to be really, really short books or they would have to be unemployed with no family or friends. Seems challenging for sure.

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

She said she went for books about 250-300 pages on average, that she wasnt working as her youngest of 4 boys just went back to school and she took an extra year off work (but she and her husband are both NY lawyers so...)

[Diana]

For those still looking, 2001 A Space Oddessey and War of the Worlds were both mentioned in Rise of the Rocket Girls. War of the Worlds, while a little dry, wound up being a quick read.

[Leigh]

Brene Brown mentions her previous books in her newer books.

[Brittany]

Im reading The Agony of Bun O'Keefe and these books were mentioned if anyone is still looking to fulfil this prompt:

Night
Cher: A Biography
Van Morrison: The Mystic's Music

[Tania]

Lonely Planet Naples, Pompeii & the Amalfi Coast by Cristian Bonetto mentions:

History of the Italian People by Giulano Procacci
The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals by Luigi Barzini

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith mentions:

The Story of a Bad Boy (children's book)
King Arthur and His Knights
Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Arabian Nights
The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy

[Diane]

Stacey what did you think of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading? I read it last year and although I was impressed at the amount of books she read, it wasn't what I thought it would be. Curious to know your thoughts.

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

Diane wrote: "Stacey what did you think of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading? I read it last year and although I was impressed at the amount of books she read, it wasn't wha..."

It wasn’t what I expected either honestly! I hadn’t looked into it at all really before reading but I was anticipating that I would dislike it and hoping I wouldn’t! I’m someone who has a really hard time reading most classics since anything not in modern english just can’t capture my attention very well so having Tolstoy in the title made me think oh no, I might end up hating/DNF this if it just drones on about how wonderful these classic books are that I’ll never really want to read! 😆

In the end I had no trouble reading this and in some ways I liked it more than I thought I would and in others I was more disappointed than I thought I would be (so strange to be conflicted like that)! I thought I would be disappointed at all the talk of classics but the majority of them are just mentioned in passing so I didn’t find it as boring as I thought I would and making a list of all the books it mentioned kept my interest probably more than if I had just read it. On the other hand, I would have liked to read more about the authors life experiences while taking on this huge amount of reading and not just the odd tidbit here and there (there were lots of mentions of her sister, but not very much content that otherwise really went in depth into her own thoughts I found) so in a way I was also a bit disappointed. I didn’t connect as well as I would have liked.

Ultimately, I gave it 2 stars because I just thought it was okay.

[Diane]

Stacey wrote: "Diane wrote: "Stacey what did you think of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading? I read it last year and although I was impressed at the amount of books she read,..."

I read it in December of 2015 and gave it 1 star. I really don't remember that much about it. I just know it was different from what I expected and I wasn't a fan.

[May]

I read A Simple Favor which discussed I believe strangers on a train, in search for that book at the library I came across girl on the train and mistakenly picked it up thinking it was the book. This mistake sent me on the amazing journey that is Paula Hawkins. I actually enjoyed into the water more than girl on the train, and cant wait for whatever she releases next.
Moral of story, does this count as reading a book mentioned in another book LOL

[Leigh]

Brene Brown references her older books in her newer books.

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

So I read The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton last week and it mentioned several books too so adding onto the list (in no particular order):

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Last Orders by Graham Swift
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Inventing the Abbots and Other Stories by Sue Miller
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Third Girl by Agatha Christie
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Couples by John Updike
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Love Story by Erich Segal
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

[Fannie]

I am reading Norwegian Wood right ant there is some books mentioned:

The Great Gatsby
The Centaur
The Magic Mountain
Beneath the Wheel

[Linda]

The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

This book mentions all these books:


1984
George Orwell

A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole

A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving

A Separate Peace
John Knowles

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain

The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho

Alex Cross Mysteries
(series) James Patterson

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Another Country
James Baldwin

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

The Call Of The Wild
Jack London

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web
E. B. White

The Chronicles of Narnia
(series)
C.S. Lewis

Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel

Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Doña Bárbára
Rómulo Gallegos

Dune
Frank Herbert

Fifty Shades Of Grey
(series) E. L. James

Flowers In The Attic
V.C. Andrews

Foundation
(series) Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Game of Thrones
(series) George R. R. Martin

Ghost
Jason Reynolds

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

The Giver
Lois Lowry

The Godfather
Mario Puzo

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift

The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter
(series) J.K. Rowling

Hatchet
(series) Gary Paulsen

Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

The Help
Kathryn Stockett

The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Douglas Adams

The Hunger Games
(series) Suzanne Collins

The Hunt For Red October
Tom Clancy

The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan

Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton

Left Behind
(series) Tim LaHaye and
Jerry B. Jenkins

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry

Looking for Alaska
John Green

The Lord of the Rings
(series) J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

The Martian
Andy Weir

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Mind Invaders
Dave Hunt

Moby-Dick
Herman Melville

The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

Outlander
(series) Diana Gabaldon

The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan

The Pillars of The Earth
Ken Follett

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

The Shack
William P. Young

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

The Sirens Of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut

The Stand
Stephen King

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon

Tales of The City
(series) Armistead Maupin

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

This Present Darkness
Frank. E. Peretti

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

The Twilight Saga
(series) Stephenie Meyer

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Watchers
Dean Koontz

The Wheel of Time
(series) Robert Jordan and
Brandon Sanderson

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

[Jen]

Linda wrote: "The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

This book mentions all these books:


1984
George Orwell

A Confederacy of Dunces
John Ke..."

Wow if you can't find anything in that lot you really are fussy.

[Mary Lee]

I found a link for all the books mentioned in the Thursday Next series, there is 124!
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

[Sasha]

I saw on a listopia that The Glass Castle was mentioned in another book. Does anyone know what book mentions it?

[Tracy]

I picked Eden Close by Anita Shreve, but now I can't remember what book I found it mentioned in. Maybe Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader?? Crap, now I have to go double check. Both of them are on my physical shelf.

I can't figure out which book about books I found this in, and thats going to bother me beyond words. So Im switching to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, mentioned in The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading, since I have it doubled up for a prompt I couldn't decide on. Problem solved.

[Krissy]

Anyone have a list of books that were mentioned in The Little Paris Bookshop?

[Tracy]

Krissy wrote: "Anyone have a list of books that were mentioned in The Little Paris Bookshop?"

Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

And Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

[Kerry]

Hallowe'en Party mentions Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby in chapter 17.

[Danielle]

I found a great source for this topic. I went with The Mayor of Castro Street. It is mentioned in one of my favorite books The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Reading about such a groundbreaking moment in American history and relating it to issues we currently face was surprising. I use archive.org for a lot of my reading and this is one book I'd like to own for my library.

[Britany]

Finished by Jane Austen

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Cyndy]

I read Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. It was mentioned in The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, as were a boatload of other books, Cute easy read. Several differences from the movie that made the book more interesting.

[Khalisti]

Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain is mentioned in Kafka on the Shore