37/38 - Two Books with the Same Title

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Two Books with the Same Title

This is a combined posting for prompts #37 and #38!

There was a similar prompt for a different challenge in the past-three books with the same title and I used Beach House:
The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
Loved this and now own all the other installments in this series to read!
The Beach House by Jane Green
A beautifully poignant book!
The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Definitely my least favorite of the three!

Goodreads Listopia to help:
Seeing Double: Same Title, Different Books by Different Authors
(Thank you, Mitchell!)

Listopia is HERE

[Chelsea]

I saw this and IMMEDIATELY thought, "I bet there's a bunch of hockey romances with the same title." And lo, I decided to read Face Off and Face Off. I bet there's more than that, too; hockey romances love a punny title, and there are only so many to go around.

Dead Silence has bunch of twin-named books too.

[SarahKat]

Last time this prompt came around I read
Ink and Bone and Ink and Bone. Both were good.

This time, I have 3 books on my TBR called Cursed, Cursed, Cursed

Also have Eve and Eve

[Jen W.]

Some ideas here:
https://bookriot.com/books-with-the-s...
https://www.flavorwire.com/376237/the...

There are also apparently a gazillion books with the title "It Had to Be You" - I had heard of one of the romance novel ones, but wow...
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=It...

If I can't find anything else, I'll probably go the Ink and Bone route.

[Erica]

Last time I read Ink and Bone as well and enjoyed the books I read. I don’t know what I’ll do next year yet.

[Karen]

Nemesis by Lindsey Davis Falco 20

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Nemesis by Agatha Christie

Tracks by Louise Erdrich


Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelgänger by Daša Drndić

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel by Patti Smith

Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro

Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry

[Grace]

I'm planning on Stephen King's The Outsider and H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider.

[Laura Ruth]

The latest Stephanie Plum mystery is Now or Never. Amazon has at least a dozen romances with that title, plus a climate change book.

The original Swedish title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo translated as "Men Who Hate Women." So I'd argue it can pair with Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates's foray into the manosphere.

[Dubhease]

Last time I read The Lying Game and The Lying Game and then I ended up reading a 6 book series.

I might do Invisible Man and The Invisible Man

[Rachel]

I’m thinking about The Idiot by Elif Batuman and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Jennifer]

Still Life and Still Life
The Foundling and The Foundling
Elsewhere and Elsewhere
Cross Stitch and Cross-Stitch (if a hyphen isn't a dealbreaker)

[Michele]

I agree with Jennifer, but I'm thinking of Motherland and Mother Land, so it's a space instead of a hyphen.

[Laura Ruth]

The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings and The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two are both about the French scandal, but there's also a gay romance, The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story.

[LeahS]

The Trees and The Trees. When this prompt came up a few years ago, I read The Hired Man and The Hired Man.

[Kaia]

If you're willing to count homophones, there's Sense and Sensibility and Scents and Sensibility by Spencer Quinn. I think Quinn's Chet series has some other punny takes on classic novels that might fit.

[Amy]

I think I'm going to read The Sentence and The Sentence. VERY intrigued by the sound of the first and I enjoyed another of the second author's books, so happy to give that one a go.

But I do really like the sound of both of the Ink and Bones!

[Shelley]

I loved the Ink and Bone combo last time.

A great combo that unfortunately I've already read is Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Both urban police mystery books with magical creatures. Wildly different vibes.

[Agatha]

A good push for me to finally read Great Expectations!

[Joanna]

I've been wanting to do a "Name's the Same" book display for ages, so here are a few titles I've collected:
Shiver, Shiver, Shiver, Shiver
Red Queen, The Red Queen
The Midnight Library, The Midnight Library
City of Bones, City of Bones
Hush, Hush, Hush, The Hush
Hush, Hush, Hush Hush, Hush-Hush, Hush Hush
Shoe Dog, Shoe Dog
Heat, Heat, Heat
Heat Wave, Heat Wave, Heat Wave
Elsewhere, Elsewhere
Far Far Away, Far Far Away
The Night Gardener, The Night Gardener, The Night Gardener
The Six, The Six

Some of those titles have more books, but this is just based on my library's collection.

[Tania]

I already have Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell on my TBR, so I think I will also pick up Say Her Name by Juno Dawson or Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott to match it.

[Deb]

I haven't picked books yet but I have come across:

Emma and Emma
Happiness for Beginners and Happiness for Beginners
Twilight and Twilight

[Ally]

I've found five books with the title Elsewhere!
by Alexis Schaitkin
by Dean Koontz
by Gabrielle Zevin (apparently named a Time Magazine Best YA book of ALL time?)
by Richard Russon
by Yan Ge

[Ally]

Joanna wrote: "I've been wanting to do a "Name's the Same" book display for ages, so here are a few titles I've collected:
Shiver, Shiver, Shiver, [book:Shiver|13547..."

You can add three more to your list for Elsewhere
one by Alexis Schaitkin, one by Yan Ge, and one by Richard Russo.

[Cathern]

Would Daydream and The Daydreams be able to count for this category?

[Jennifer]

I just stumbled on this set if you like horror:
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie

[Katy]

Cathern wrote: "Would Daydream and The Daydreams be able to count for this category?"

I think so. I suppose a purist may not. The last time they had this category, I read Invisible Man and The Invisible Man. No idea what I'm going to do this year.

[Claire]

I got super lucky this year. I am trying to read only from my TBR where possible and somehow I have The Lying Game and The Lying Game both on my list.

[Elsa]

Just discovered Along for the Ride (which I read in high school and of course loved) and Along for the Ride which looks like a fun romcom!

[Chrissy]

Last time I enjoyed Once Upon a River and Once Upon a River.

[Nadine in NY]

I've been stumbling upon quite a few recently!

There are many books with the titles:
All Through the Night (this is probably going to be my choice)
Swept Away
Begin Again
At Risk
The Art of Scandal
The Favorite/The Favorites
Son of the Morning

and (already mentioned)
Ink and Bone
City of Bones

[Andrea]

I came across this list on listchallenges that has books with the same title:

https://www.listchallenges.com/books-...

I think I'm going to use March and March: Book One for this prompt.

[Catherine]

was already on my TBR (recommended by a RL/GR friend) and has a very interesting premise.

[Catherine]

Chrissy wrote: "Last time I enjoyed Once Upon a River and Once Upon a River."

I really enjoyed both of those, too.

[Rose]

Catherine wrote: " was already on my TBR (recommended by a RL/GR friend) and has a very interesting premise."
This is what I am doing!

[Bea]

Wow! If I find it hard to tackle my two (books I own both over 500 pages, I will have a wealth of info here to pick a replacement set.

Interestingly, both of mine are 519 pages! Shaman and Shaman

[Ron]

I think I might have one (if you don't count subtitles):

Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

[Brandon]

There are some franchise books that I could reread for this prompt:

Fear Itself (Marvel comics event and Star Trek: Discovery novel)
Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn novel and Star Trek: New Frontier novel)
Grand Designs (Star Trek: SCE collection and X-Men comic series)

If anyone has some great picks with those same titles, please let me know.

[Lisa Marie]

I actually found several books with the same title on my TBR :)

Here are the books I will be choosing from:

*Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
*Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

*Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
*Remember Me by Estelle Laure

*Family Tree by Susan Wiggs
*Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky

I will be reading:

*War Brides: A Novel by Lois Battle
*War Brides by Helen Bryan

HAPPY READING!!

[Alex (Pucksandpaperbacks)]

I'm using The Cartographers!

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Cartographers by Amy Zhang

[Denise]

I’m going to read:
Sandwich
Sandwich: A Global History

Ignoring the subtitle of course

[GailW]

Agatha Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead was also published as Blood Will Tell. (Explanation here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...) I plan to match that up with Blood Will Tell by Jeanne M. Dams

[Brandon]

Gail W wrote: "Agatha Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead was also published as Blood Will Tell. (Explanation here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...) I plan ..."

If you need a backup with that same title, that was also the title of a Star Trek comic miniseries featuring the Klingons.

[Darci]

I'm going to go with:

Life After Life
Life After Life

I actually bought the one by Atkinson, thinking it was the one by McCorkle, lol.

[Heather]

Shelley wrote: "I loved the Ink and Bone combo last time.

A great combo that unfortunately I've already read is Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Bot..."

You could always read Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips OR The Night Watch by Sarah Waters OR Night Watch by Iris Johansen if you are inclined to continue your night watch trend.

Thank you for bringing this one up! I'm definitely going to read 2 of these 5 :)

[Diana]

I guess this is the year I finally get around to reading:
Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita and Mirror Mirror by Cara Delevingne or maybe Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire

[Sasha]

I'm interested in labour movement history, so I'm going to read Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism and Bread and Roses, an Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers. There are several other titles that are either the same or variations on the theme, including a cookbook!

[As You Wish]

I have had Light Years waiting on my tbr for a while, and found
Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper at the library, so that's what I'm planning. It was hard to find a second book that I was also interested in; I surprised myself by having no duplicate titles on the tbr going into this.

[Jennifer W]

Not even looking for something for this prompt, I found Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million and I already had Never Saw Me Coming on my TBR.

[Ron]

I need to rethink this prompt. Just realized I read Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars in 2024 and I don't feel like doing a re-read of it so soon.

I'll try to come up with others, hopefully either a nonfiction/fiction pairing or something else entirely.

[Jamie]

I'm reading Cat Among the Pigeons and Cat Among the Pigeons for this one.