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31. A book mentioned in another book
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In The Thirteenth Tale, she reads the entire Sherlock Holmes series in one go, so I'm going to just read the next one in that series that I haven't read yet. I'm up to either The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes or The Hound of the Baskervilles.




I think I'm going to be in the "reread a classic" camp.




I just read Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand for the "book with one of the four seasons in the title" prompt for this year, and the book The Goldfinch is mentioned. I will probably read that one for this prompt in 2018.




I ended up reading Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde this year, since it was referred to in Norman Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam. I must say that it was pretty quick: Mailer was the 4th book I read this year, and Stevenson the 7th.


Incidentally, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is a book with song lyrics in the title and by an Asian author (for the ethnicity prompt).




A Tale of Two Cities in A Tale of Two Biddies
Gone with the Wind in Gone with the Twins
Murder on the Orient Express in Mayhem
at the Orient Express
And Then There Were None in And Then There Were Nuns
The book Matilda mentions lots of books

I made a list as I read
Mentioned in Magpie Murders
Books:
Jane Eyre
Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Lady Chatterly's Lover: Novel
1984
Enduring Love
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
Lord Edgeware Dies
4:50 from Paddington
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Five Little Pigs
And Then There Were None
Hickory Dickory Dock
Death on the Nile
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Godfather
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
The Mousetrap: A Play
Referenced:
Adventure of the Abbey Grange
The Adventure of the Final Problem
Neverwhere

I used The Wind in the Willows for this year's prompt, it's mentioned in the All The Wrong Questions series. There's lots of books mentioned in that series, including Murder on the Orient Express, I know that there's a blog somewhere where someone wrote down all the books mentioned in ATWQ.


Since I'm probably not going to manage to finish the advanced section of the 2017 reading challenge I'll probably save Three Men in a Boat (referenced in Have Space Suit—Will Travel) for 2018.

I just read [book:Winter Street|2..."
Thanks!!! I've been meaning to read the Goldfinch for ages :D

The Shining
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
and probably a few others I missed.
You could stretch the definition and include books based on movies/plays she talks about working on:
Twilight
A Little Night Music
Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails

I think I am going to try to read Murder as a Fine Art, which features the real life author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater as a character.
Quick tip for any Kindle readers out there: there is actually a page that lists any books mentioned in the book you are reading. I have a Paperwhite so I don't know if it works for older Kindle versions, but if you click on the little information button next to the book title when you are in page view it will pull up a window that is titled "About the Book." It has all the basic information like the author and other books, but if you scroll to the very bottom sometimes it has a section called "Mentioned in this Book." It then has a list of all other books talked about in that book without you having to go and search for them.
Hopefully it helps out, this is a tough prompt!!
I think that doesn't show up in all Kindle files. I download a lot of Kindle books from the library, and maybe 30% of them list the books mentioned within.

If you want to take a book that's been mentioned in a book you've read, you might have read one of the books she gives lists for.


Based on that list I'm going to read The Man in the High Castle

I’d like to read the book mentioned in a book I read in 2018 again. I may plan to read The Feminine Mystique and A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, to fulfil this and the feminism prompt.

Oooo thank you. I like reading a book that's been mentioned in a book I've already read...and I'm about halfway done with ATLWCS.




Last year I read Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which was mentioned in Murder as a Fine Art (which Allie mentioned above).


I think I am going to try to read [book:Murder as a Fine Art..."
Try here for more book choice suggestions. Great resource for this topic


I may read it.


Thank you for this!!


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