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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Oasis by Mary McCarthy


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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Frozen Orbit by Patrick Chiles


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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Silent Orchestra: Uncovering a Deadly Symphony by Erik Fosnes Hansen


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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis


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Spartacus7 | 18 comments Surely these have been mentioned:
Odyssey (Homer)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Owls Do Cry (Janet Frame)
The Odessa File (Fred Forsyth)
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
The Old Devils (Amis Kingsley)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekkov)
Etc...


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Spartacus7 | 18 comments The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of Venezuela, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates (Daniel Defoe)


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Mbuye | 3647 comments On, Off: A Novel by Colleen McCullough


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley


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Spartacus7 | 18 comments Ok, I'm going for the longest title containing an O-starting word:

Sufferings in Africa: Captain Riley's Narrative. An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the Western coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815. With an account of the sufferings of the surviving officers and crew, who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs on the coast of the African desart, or Zahahrah: And observations historical, geographical, &c. made during the travels of the author while a slave to the Arabs, and in the Empire of Morocco by James Riley, late master and supercargo (Capt James Riley)

This is a great (true) adventure classic, I think.

Nobody's going to print this on the spine or cover of a book anymore, or even on a title page. Pity.


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Mbuye | 3647 comments When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro


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Bernard Smith | 184 comments Ozymandias, by Shelley


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum


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Spartacus7 | 18 comments Mbuye wrote: "Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum" I like it. 2 for the price of 1.


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Spartacus7 wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum" I like it. 2 for the price of 1."

And what about yours, then? Observers, of, off, officers, on, or -- 6 for the price of one, that is, if I counted right.


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Spartacus7 | 18 comments Mbuye wrote: "Spartacus7 wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum" I like it. 2 for the price of 1."

And what about yours, then? Observers, of, off, officers, on, or -- 6 for the price of one, that is,..."


Haha! You counted? Let's go for density. You have 3 out of 3 - now including the "of", which, to my shame, I didn't include the first time round. You're batting 1000, as they say. Nobody can match that. Nobody.


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Spartacus7 wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Spartacus7 wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum" I like it. 2 for the price of 1."

And what about yours, then? Observers, of, off, officers, on, or -- 6 for the price of..."


😊


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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Odd Women by George Gissing


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Other People by Martin Amis


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture by Laurence Senelick


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Rosemarie | 16035 comments Mod
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Name a classic that has things relating to Hallowe'en in the title!

Arthur's Halloween by Marc Brown


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Death Makes A Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween by David J. Skal


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt


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Mbuye | 3647 comments Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury


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Mbuye | 3647 comments The Hallowed Eve by Jack Santino


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