14 - A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name

[Dea]

If you want to go old-school gothic fiction, Anne Rice has written about thirty novels under her real name, so that's lots of options. (She also wrote five or so erotic novels under pseudonyms, if you're feeling flexible in your interpretation.)

And since it was asked earlier, yes, rice is the common name for both Oryza sativa (Asian rice) and Oryza glaberrima (African rice). Definitely qualifies as flora!

[Nadine in NY]

Well I’ve learned something today! I’d never heard of Oryza glaberrima. Apparently it has a nutty taste, is rare (I guess it’s harder to grow?), and there is an American cultivar called Carolina Gold. If I see it, I’ll buy it to try.

[Lani]

when I Google Banana, it is considered Hawaiian flora and fauna, and I'm hapa, so I'm using Banana Yoshimoto -Hard Boiled & Hard Luck. It's also considered Flora and Fauna by Florida botanists

[Karin]

Lani wrote: "when I Google Banana, it is considered Hawaiian flora and fauna, and I'm hapa, so I'm using Banana Yoshimoto -Hard Boiled & Hard Luck. It's also considered Flora and Fauna by Florida botanists"

Of course, because it is also the banana plant (it is NOT a tree, for those who don't already know that :) It's an annual so it grows and produces fruit for only one season, then dies.

[Lynette]

do we get bonus points for flora in the title as well? :D The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest

[Paula]

Debut Author Fern Musselwhite, Windblown: A Novel

[Darja]

What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list...

[Nadine in NY]

Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."


good question! there are a few names on the list that I don't understand. I feel like I'm doing a word search puzzle and just not finding the word.

The thing about Listopias is that they are only as good as the info put into them, and ANYONE can add to them. They aren't foolproof. Sometimes people will make mistakes; if a book doesn't make sense to you for the challenge, just skip it.

(I am hoping someone will come and explain Jane Harper though! I'm also confused about Emily St John Mandel. And still wondering about Marlon James, too, tbh)

[Susanne]

"Mandel" is the German word for almond, I guess that could explain the second one.

[Nadine in NY]

Thank you!!! One mystery solved :-)

[Katy]

I looked it up and there is a marine mollusk called harp. I have no further information on that.

[Drakeryn]

Nadine wrote: "And still wondering about Marlon James, too, tbh"

Google to the rescue: apparently, there's a plant called the Marlon Oriental Lily.

https://www.hartsnursery.co.uk/Marlon...

[Nadine in NY]

Pffft- hybrids can have any name. The hybridizer just gives it a name because “Marlon” is sexier than “hybrid 23f x 64”. There’s a daylily called “Little Nadine” but that doesn’t make my name a plant.

https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/...


That said, OF COURSE we can all interpret the categories in any way that work for us!! :-) I don’t mean to be questioning people’s choices, I just get curious ...

[Sandra]

I'm already reading for the 2020 challenge and my first finished book was for this prompt. I read Far from the Tree by Robin Benway. Easily my favourite book that I read in 2019!

[Karin]

Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic flowering plant. Some people are interpeting this to mean only part of a name even if the name has nothing to do with the plant (but then, there are homonyms). I personally am going for a name where it is exactly the same as the flora or fauna even it is a homonym.

Okay, and also a marine mollusk I see now!

But the name Harper comes from the name of a job as a medieval musician playing the harp. I might use Harp if it were a name but wouldn't use Harper.

[Nadine in NY]

Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic flowering plant. Some people are interpetin..."


I've never heard of a harp plant. This must be a common name from another country? What is the botanical name? Because Google doesn't want to tell me ...

[Karin]

Nadine wrote: "Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic flowering plant. Some people ..."

**BLUSHING MADLY** wow, in my headache mode yesterday I failed to notice that the encylopedia I was looking at was for a fictional world! I had one humdinger of a migraine. This makes me nervous for the editing I did for my son for his last paper of the semester!

[L Y N N]

Karin wrote: "Nadine wrote: "Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic flowering plan..."

I am so sorry you suffered a migraine yesterday, but I am amused by this admission! Sounds exactly like something I would do! ;)

[Karin]

Lynn wrote: "Karin wrote: "Nadine wrote: "Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic ..."

I have a 15 year old piano student who enjoys my migraine mistakes--but then I do a lot of humour with him anyway (works in this instance).

[Karin]

Lynn wrote: "Karin wrote: "Nadine wrote: "Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic ..."

Although I was actually laughing and not blushing; when I was young I was more easily embarrassed than most, and now it is very hard for me to get embarrassed. PLUS, Nadine was doing exactly what I would have done--gone for the scientific data :)

[Darja]

Karin wrote: "Darja wrote: "What fauna or flora is in name JANE HARPER? It is on the list..."

It's taking only part of the name Harper. A harp plant is an autotrophic flowering plant. Some people are interpetin..."

Thanks! My mother tongue isn´t English so I couldn´t found anything. I used translator but it doesn´t know HARP.

[Errlee]

Sorry if this has been asked already but do fruits count as flora? I googled it but couldn’t really get a clear answer. Wondering if I could use Tommy Orange since I need to read There,There for this month’s book club.

[Nadine in NY]

Yes - An orange comes from an orange tree, etc. - definitely “flora.”

[Crumb]

I took this literally.. heh I thought they literally had to have either 'floral' or 'fauna' in their name. This is MUCH easier!

[Crumb]

Lynn wrote: "Debra wrote: "I interpreted this prompt differently. Picked the book Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber..."

Me too!

[Kate (KitKat07210)]

Would Sally Thorne suit this prompt? I adored The Hating Game when I read it in December, so 99 Percent Mine is high on my TBR now.

[Bloodorange]

Nadine wrote: "Tops on my TBR, though, is Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. I reallllly meant to read it this year, but never got to it."
Thanks for mentioning her! I almost forgot I have this book sitting on my to-read shelf!

[Haylithy]

Down the Rabbit Hole, Curious adventures and cautionary tales of a former playboy bunny by holly madison

Pretty sure this covers flora and fauna 😂😂

[Alta]

I have Far from the Tree by Robin Benway in my kindle. I've heard good things about this book and it fits this prompt perfectly, so I have it penciled in here.

[Melissa]

Poppy Z. Bright does horror fiction. If you are going for allowing one work to count for multiple prompts, this one can also check off the Trans or Non-Binary Author category.

[Kristin]

I chose a fiction book by Echo Heron, which could also count for the medical thriller prompt, as she is a nurse and writes both medical thrillers and non-fiction books about nurses. I recommend her nonfiction works more than the fiction, but if you're trying to double-dip, it's an easy way to do so.

[TomHServo]

Would Rex Stout count? I was thinking about reading a Nero Wolfe book for this prompt?

[Karin]

I'm going to read Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart

For any who don't know this, a hart is a kind of deer--a male red deer. (usually male deer are called bucks)

[Despina]

In the listopia link I found Katherine Arden's The Bear and The Nightingale. As I am not an English native speaker, can someone confirm that her name is somehow flora or fauna? I didn't find anything when I googled it.

[Karin]

Despina wrote: "In the listopia link I found Katherine Arden's The Bear and The Nightingale. As I am not an English native speaker, can someone confirm that her name is somehow flora or fauna? I didn't find anythi..."

Arden is a forest district in the UK, so not technically flora or fauna in and of itself AND it's only a proper noun, so it does not actually count.

[Despina]

Karin wrote: "Despina wrote: "In the listopia link I found Katherine Arden's The Bear and The Nightingale. As I am not an English native speaker, can someone confirm that her name is somehow flora or fauna? I di..."

Thanks! I'll find a different author :)

[Joanna]

I’m reading Throwing Stones by Robin Reardon for this one.

[Errlee]

Nadine wrote: "Yes - An orange comes from an orange tree, etc. - definitely “flora.”"

Ok thanks - now I feel dumb - but I thought maybe fruits would be some kind of separate category of their own :)

[Dea]

I've been eyeing the Glamourist History series by Mary Robinette Kowal. I enjoy Regency era fiction, both normal and magical (Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevemore), so I think Shades of Milk and Honey will be a good fit.

[Tori]

Trying to decide between these two books that are on my shelf:
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World by William Leach (2 fauna even though leach isn't spelled properly) or Spook: Science Takes on the Afterlife by Mary Roach

[Mary-carol]

Ok, I guess maybe I missed the point of this topic. It seems that many of you are using the flora and fauna in the title of the book, while I read it as in the author's name, ie June RedFERN. Am I confused???

[Nadine in NY]

Mary-carol wrote: "Ok, I guess maybe I missed the point of this topic. It seems that many of you are using the flora and fauna in the title of the book, while I read it as in the author's name, ie June RedFERN. Am I ..."


No, you're right, the category is to find flora or fauna in the author's name. Some people are being lenient about spelling.

[Capital Reader]

I'll be reading "No Man Knows My History" by Fawn Brodie.

[Leah]

I read the cruel prince by holly black

[Christine]

I read The Weekend for this one. Written by Charlotte Wood

[Jas]

Anything by Amanda Flower - I had her cozy mystery ready to read so I used that.

[SadieReadsAgain]

I read Binge by Tyler Oakley for this. I didn't really know who this guy was when I bought the book. I've since seen him on an episode of Drag Race and he seemed decent enough. I've still not checked out his Youtube, so all I know about him is what I read in this book, but that is still the impression that I have of him - decent, and also very funny. I actually picked this book up as the title and description lead me to believe he'd be discussing his eating disorder, which is something I'm always interested in reading about. On that point, I'll say I was a bit disappointed. There is only one section of the book where he gets into the topic and it isn't at any great depth. Not that anyone is beholden to share their deepest struggles, and I do respect that he at least chose to share some of his experiences. But this is more about the crazy life of an internet celebrity, and while it's an amusing book with some (sometimes awkward) revelations it isn't exactly a emotional read. If I'd have known who Tyler was before then I'd have probably known that, and been able to enjoy this more for what it is - fluffy, like a chat with your girls when you've all had too many cocktails (that is, if your girls were all pop-obsessed gay guys). And actually, sometimes that's the kind of read you need.

[Karin]

Has anyone mentioned the name Martin yet? It's a type of bird--there are at least 6 in North America, but only one is native in NA.

[L.]

Someone here mentioned that Paulo Coelho fit into this category so I read Brida. It took me a bit to get into it, maybe because I've been reading so many thriller novels lately, but once I got into the story I really enjoyed this book.

[Sally]

Amaryllis Fox memoir...Life Undercover