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Popsugar really likes this one, we've seen it before in 2017 AND in 2018. I don't think we were doing Listopias back then, though, but there are a bunch of other Listopias out there already. (And my old spreadsheets from those years are not on my current computer so I'll have to dig out my external hard drive to look at my ideas from back then.)

What do you think you'll read?



Listopia list is Here: A Book Mentioned in Another Book

There is an entire 152 book listopia for books mentioned in the Thursday Next series

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Listopia of books from The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. There is a Part 2 also

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Knowing this prompt has been done before I picked up a copy of "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" at a used book sale ages ago in case it came up again. Only problem? I can't for the life of me remember what was the book that referenced it.
Anyone know? Apparently it's not "The Storied Life of AJ Fikry" like I thought.

I immediately thought of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante which mentions Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and a whole bunch of other books as the two girls grow and study.

But I may do The Adventures of China Iron which is a road trip book that mentions the epic that it is a sort of sideways retelling of - Martín Fierro - I have Martin Fierro as a free download from someone on the Boxall Books to Read Before you Die list - so this is all working together here.

I'm about halfway through Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books. It mentions lots of books!

Some thus far:

The Diary of a Young Girl
Beloved
The Hate U Give
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
All the Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Old Yeller
Trump: The Art of the Deal
The Complete Maus
Flowers in the Attic
It
The Giver
Speak
Gone With the Wind
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Catcher in the Rye
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Fifty Shades of Grey

Every time I come across a book mentioned in a book I think maybe I should write that down in case the prompt comes up again, but I never do. *sigh*

SarahKat wrote: "Every time I come across a book mentioned in a book I think maybe I should write that down in case the prompt comes up again, but I never do. *sigh*"

Same!

I figure if nothing else, I'll re-read an Agatha Christie. I know of at least one book that mentions every book she ever wrote. That they knew of at the time of publication, anyway. There are a few works that have been discovered or re-discovered only recently, and of course they put out new collections all the time.

These are the ones that come to my mind right now:
The Little Stranger is mentioned in The Starless Sea
Wind, Sand and Stars, The Idiot are mentioned in The Goldfinch

I'm thinking I might leave this prompt open until I actually start reading for next year. I'm hoping that some of the books I read for the challenge will mention books - then I can stumble across one naturally as part of the challenge! Maybe I'll reply to this comment later in the year if that works out :-)

The Harry Potter series is mentioned in The Diary of a Bookseller. If you want to go classical, there are references to Oedipus Rex in the Inspector Morse novel, The Dead of Jericho. The first lines of The Catcher in the Rye mention David Copperfield.

I'm trying to do PopSugar using books I'm already reading for ATY (could be tricky), so thanks to @Dubhease for nominating The Woman in Cabin 10, which is apparently mentioned in One Perfect Couple.

I would prefer to use books already chosen for ATY too Leah but I’m not finding a lot of overlap.

The last time this came up I read Portnoy’s Complaint which is listed in Alan Bennett’s novella The Uncommon Reader. It turns out there is a Listopia of 56 other (better?) choices:

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Joyce wrote: "I would prefer to use books already chosen for ATY too Leah but I’m not finding a lot of overlap.

I have managed 31 so far, but I am doing ATY twice, which gives me more choice. I think it's unlikely that I will come across a food truck in my reading, but who knows?!

JoDee wrote: "Listopia of books from The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. There is a Part 2 also

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The Sentence was great and had such intriguing book lists - I will probably choose one from here also.

Thank goodness I kept the lists I was making the last time this was a prompt!

Mentioned in Dark Lands:
A Bend in the River
The Poisonwood Bible
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

Mentioned in River in Darkness:
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Pachinko
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Mentioned in The Orphan Collector:
Influenza: The last great plague. An unfinished story of discovery
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

Mentioned in Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain:
The Gilded Age by Twain, Mark, Warner, Charles Dudley. (Penguin Classics,2001) Paperback
Don Quixote
Ivanhoe
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

Mentioned in The Things They Carried:
The Republic
Going After Cacciato
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Black Beauty was mentioned in The Secret of Stonehouse

Mentioned in People Who Mattered:
David Copperfield
Robinson Crusoe
Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough

Mentioned in the Second Machine Age:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Sun Also Rises
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

Mentioned in The Royals:
The Married Life of the Duchess of York
The Story of Princess Elizabeth: Told with the Sanction of Her Parents
The Queen and I
A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor K.G.

The Lord of the Rings was mentioned in Watch Me

Mentioned in Dear Mr. Knightly:
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Outlander
Austenland
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mentioned in I'll Never Tell:
A Is for Alibi
The Secret Garden
The Borrowers

Mentioned in The Goldfinch:
Silas Marner
Wind, Sand and Stars
The Book Thief

There are so many books mentioned in Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library that you might as well read that book, which is great, and then pick one of the books they mention :-)

In Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus, a character works for a magazine and they debate stories to write about. They manage to reference plots and characters in:

The Cousins
You'll Be the Death of Me
One of Us Is Lying and One of Us Is Next

I love when authors put these blink and you miss them jokes in, like a throw away line on one page when a character in One Perfect Couple uses a copy of The Woman in Cabin 10 (the book that made Ruth Ware famous) to rip pages out of to start a fire.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that Giovanni’s Room was mentioned in Swimming in the Dark ...

Two years ago I read Snow Crash purely because it was mentioned in The Kaiju Preservation Society.
Like Alejandra, I plan to see where my reading takes me for this one.

I like this prompt :) I think I'll take it as an opportunity to re-read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Chrissie wrote: "I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that Giovanni’s Room was mentioned in Swimming in the Dark ..."

I can't verify that, but I read Giovanni's Room this year and it was excellent!! I'm sure it's been mentioned in lots of books.

This will be the easiest prompt since I read a lot of books (fiction and non-fiction) about books. No planning, I will pick one as it find it

I just finished reading The Mighty Red which mentioned these books:
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
The Road

If there's a classic or other well-known book that you want to slot into this prompt, the Wikipedia page will tell you where else the book has been mentioned in other books or pop culture.

Here is a link to the page from 2017 Popsugar.

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And here is the link to the page of ideas from the 2018 Popsugar.

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101 books to read before you’re murdered by Sadie Hartman works for the under 250 pages prompt and then you can use one of the books mentioned for this prompt!

I love this prompt every time it shows up. " I really wanna read this one particular book, but... " no baby, go for it, there has been over a zillion books published in any number of formats, that book you wanna read is probably mentioned somewhere 😂

I just started reading The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle, who is a neurodivergent author, and Lily read the following books with her father to help with her dyslexia:
Nancy Drew: #1-64
Harry Potter Boxed Set, Books 1-5
The Lightning Thief
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Inkheart
Diane Duane
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
The Nibelungenlied
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

The Dutch House mentioned in The Sentence on p. 218.
The Sentence has a whole list of other books, if you are curious,

Ghost-Managing Book List
The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones
Ceremonies of the Damned, by Adrian C. Louis
Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto
The Hatak Witches, by Devon A. Mihesuah
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
Savage Conversations, by LeAnne Howe
The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker
Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth
Songs for Discharming, by Denise Sweet
Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, by Gerald Vizenor

“Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal
Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson
Sula, by Toni Morrison
The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad
The All of It, by Jeannette Haien
Winter in the Blood, by James Welch
Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle
The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
First Love, by Ivan Turgenev
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee
Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai
Sailboat Table (table by Quint Hankle)
The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett
Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector
Boy Kings of Texas, by Domingo Martinez
The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline
A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
There There, by Tommy Orange
Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
Underland, by Robert Macfarlane
The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Deacon King Kong, by James McBride��

“The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
Will and Testament, by Vigdis Hjorth
Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada
The Door, by Magda Szabó
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
Night Train, by Lise Erdrich
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, edited by John Freeman
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore
Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones
The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans
Tenth of December, by George Saunders
Murder on the Red River, by Marcie R. Rendon
Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
The Unwomanly Face of War, by Svetlana Alexievich
Standard Deviation, by Katherine Heiny
All My Puny Sorrows, by Miriam Toews
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan��

“NW, by Zadie Smith
Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley
Erasure, by Percival Everett
Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn
Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami
Books for Banned Love
Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Euphoria, by Lily King
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
Luster, by Raven Leilani
Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Vixen, by Francine Prose
Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison
The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
Indigenous Lives
Holding Our World Together, by Brenda J. Child
American Indian Stories, by Zitkala-Sa
A History of My Brief Body, by Billy-Ray Belcour��

“The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
Apple: Skin to the Core, by Eric Gansworth
Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Blue Sky, by Galsan Tschinag
Crazy Brave, by Joy Harjo
Standoff, by Jacqueline Keeler
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, by Sherman Alexie
Spirit Car, by Diane Wilson
Two Old Women, by Velma Wallis
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School, by Adam Fortunate Eagle
Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq
Walking the Rez Road, by Jim Northrup
Mamaskatch, by Darrel J. McLeod
Indigenous Poetry
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo
Ghost River (Wakpá Wanági), by Trevino L. Brings Plenty
The Book of Medicines, by Linda Hogan
The Smoke That Settled, by Jay Thomas Bad Heart Bull
The Crooked Beak of Love, by Duane Niatum
Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier
Little Big Bully, by Heid E. Erdrich��

“A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function, by Eric Gansworth
NDN Coping Mechanisms, by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Invisible Musician, by Ray A. Young Bear
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo
New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich
The Failure of Certain Charms, by Gordon Henry Jr.
Indigenous History and Nonfiction
Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith
Decolonizing Methodologies, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862, edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R. Woodworth
Being Dakota, by Amos E. Oneroad and Alanson B. Skinner
Boarding School Blues, edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc
Masters of Empire, by Michael A. McDonnell
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior
Boarding School Seasons, by Brenda J. Child
They Called It Prairie Light, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima
To Be a Water Protector, by Winona LaDuke��

“Minneapolis: An Urban Biography, by Tom Weber
Sublime Books
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Thousand Trails Home, by Seth Kantner
House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday
Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy, by Robert Bly
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, by Mahmoud Darwish
Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. Andrew Hurley
The Xenogenesis Trilogy, by Octavia E. Butler
Map: Collected and Last Poems, by Wisława Szymborska
In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché
Angels, by Denis Johnson
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz
Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Exhalation, by Ted Chiang
Strange Empire, by Joseph Kinsey Howard
Tookie’s Pandemic Reading
Deep Survival, by Laurence Gonzales��

“The Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston
The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell
The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, by Patrick O’Brian
The Ibis Trilogy, by Amitav Ghosh
The Golden Wolf Saga, by Linnea Hartsuyker
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Coyote Warrior, by Paul VanDevelder
Incarceration
Felon, by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa
Waiting for an Echo, by Christine Montross, M.D.
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
This Is Where, by Louise K. Waakaa’igan
I Will Never See the World Again, by Ahmet Altan
Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley
American Prison, by Shane Bauer
Solitary, by Albert Woodfox

SarahKat wrote: "Every time I come across a book mentioned in a book I think maybe I should write that down in case the prompt comes up again, but I never do. *sigh*"

I was certain I had a list. But I cannot find it anywhere on my laptop. *Sigh*

Laura Ruth wrote: "If there's a classic or other well-known book that you want to slot into this prompt, the Wikipedia page will tell you where else the book has been mentioned in other books or pop culture."
I did not realize that! Thanks for this!

I'm currently reading Weyward by Emilia Hart. So far characters have mentioned these books:
Children's and Household Tales - The Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm
(also specifically mentions the story The Robber Bridegroom)
The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
(also mentions the complete works of Shakespeare)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Robber Bridegroom -

The Unsinkable Greta James mentions:

The Cruise of the Dazzler
The Call of the Wild
Moby Dick

I believe The Secret History mentions a whole bunch of books, two of which are The Great Gatsby and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass. I'm considering these two as I have them on my bookshelf at home unread already.

But also does anyone know of books that mention The Little Prince? Really interested in squeezing this one in this year (also on my unread shelf). I have a lot of books I own that are unread so trying to tackle that as much as possible this year!

The Little Prince is mentioned in Goddess Meditations.

In Plagues of Night, Sisko brings a book to his daughter. Although the title is not mentioned directly, the cover art described is Charlotte’s Web.

The graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was mentioned in Kiss Her Once for Me.

A J Fikry has many many books listed!



Recurring References:

“Tamerlane��, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, features prominently throughout the book, as does the author himself.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is featured as the inspiration for the restaurant “The Pequod�� and its “Queequeg�� cocktails (the former is the ship in Moby Dick, the latter is a harpooner on the crew).
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is mentioned several times, primarily in reference to an argument between Fikry and a booksales rep. Fikry doesn’t like the book, but admits to not having finished it.
Flannery O’Connor is featured many times in different contexts, and probably has the most references besides Poe.
Works by J.R.R Tolkein are mentioned multiple times, primarily by Fikry, who delights in the “nerdiness�� of such references.
Fikry’s Books:

Page 19, Fikry is deciding on a book to read and mentions Old School by Tobias Wolff as “an old favorite.��
Page 97, Fikry discusses the Turkish Delight found in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Page 115, Fikry compares television show True Blood with works by Flannery O’Connor, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, and Caligula (presumably the play by Albert Camus, but possibly the film).
Page 179, Fikry provides a long list of short stories to help with writing: “The Beauties�� by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House�� by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananfish�� by J.D. Salinger, “Brownies�� or “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere�� by ZZ Packer, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried�� by Amy Hempel, “Fat�� by Raymond Carver, and “Indian Camp�� by Ernest Hemingway.
Page 223, Fikry says “The Grapefuit Rag�� while trying to say The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Page 225, Fikry admits to only finishing the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Maya’s and Other Children’s/YA Books:

Page 48, Maya’s first appearance includes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
Page 61, Maya loves and Fikry hates The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone (illus. Michael Smollin).
Page 72, Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (illus. Jen Corace).
Page 85, Caps for Sale by (written and illustrated) Esphyr Slobodkina.
Page 123, Maya mentions From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.
Page 145, Maya is reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
Page 147, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Page 156, Maya is reading The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by Matthew Tobin Anderson.

This person did the same prompt for a different challenge a few years ago and her blog mentions some great examples:

Here's a site with a pretty extensive list of books mentioned in 12 different books:

There's a list for books mentioned in The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. /list/show/8...

Does anyone know what book mentions The Cider House Rules?

This might be a little meta, but it should count. Seanan McGuire's Middlegame features references to and excerpts from a middle grade book that the main characters read as children.

She then released that book under the pen name of the character who wrote it in Middlegame: Over the Woodward Wall. The subsequent books in the middle grade series are mentioned in the sequels to Middlegame.

I'm currently reading The Extinction of Irena Rey, and a number of candidates for The Great Polish Novel have just been mentioned:
The Doll
Pornografia
With Fire and Sword
The Captive Mind
The Books of Jacob

The Iliad is also mentioned in Plagues of Night.

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah refers to The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat.

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald refers to the The Goshawk by T.H. White to the point where you feel as if you read both.

LeahS wrote: "The Harry Potter series is mentioned in The Diary of a Bookseller."

It's also referenced several times in Victoria Schwab's City of Ghosts trilogy. The main character is a huge fan of the series.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is referenced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

"Hot Dog Girl" by Jennifer Dugan is mentioned in "Emma and the Love Spell" by Meredith Ireland.

Currently reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult and The Picture of Dorian Gray is mentioned. It’s a great novel if anyone’s looking for a reason to read it.