The Book Title Association Game lives on

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Great Again, Donald Trump

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

I have dreamed about reading that book by Riis for about four decades now.

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

>6 alans: I have the Dover edition, paperback, nothing fancy but it makes its point. I bought it in the gift shop of the NYC Tenement Museum, which is a place very worth visiting if you happen to be in downtown Manhattan.

Yes lisapeet, that bookstore is wonderful and I think I do remember seeing it there. Didn't actually
get around to the tour because the wait was so long but the book store...wonderful. And has
anyone been to the newish bookstore in the newish Chelsea market near the Highliner. Just a beautiful book store.

{Jacob's Room}- Virginia Woolf

Touchstone not working for me.

(use square brackets, not curly)
Room by Emma Donoghue

// Sorry - not quite sure how this is working? Some posts are repeating a word from a title in the previous post, some aren't. What am I missing?//

It's free association—you can use the title, the author, the subject, a pun or idea linking any of the above. Often but not always humorous. So:

Tiny House Living: Ideas For Building and Living Well In Less than 400 Square Feet by Ryan Mitchell

The Giants House Elizabeth McKracken

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (I love this book)

Book of Frome (5th edition) by Michael McGarvie

>14 lisapeet: Gotcha - thanks

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Echo Park by Michael Connelly

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy

At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Matthiessen

Mariette in Ecstasy - Ron Hansen

I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again - Julia Phillips

Answered Prayers by Truman Capote

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout

/see, I've lost it completely! I don't see a single word that links >31 karenwall: and >32 JulieCarter: , so I guess I'm a bear of little brain who doesn't "get" this game at all/

New England and religious themes? Don't overthink it.

Father Melancholy's Daughter ~ Gail Godwin

Love 27 and 28!

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

This is a stretch, but its the first thing that came to my mind

Game of Thrones

>33 Tid: Don't feel bad, Tid. I'm really bad at this game, too. You'll get the hang of it.

>38 AprilAdamson:

I'm not getting it at all! There used to be a game I played in LT where you had to follow the previous title with another one, as long as there was at least one word the same in either author or title. I don't know the Elizabeth Strout book at all, so I'd not have a clue how it relates to the John Irving. Sigh.

It was more about taking the words in the title separate from the theme—"Abide with Me" being a hymn and prayer ("Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;/The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide./When other helpers fail and comforts flee,/Help of the helpless, O abide with me"), thus playing off of the previous title, Answered Prayers. You can play off of a word in the title, a concept in the title but not necessarily in the book it references, something about the author, or something about the content of the book—it's very freeform and kind of esoteric. So Father Melancholy's Daughter uses the fact that the hymn is quite sad (and also "Father" references the religious aspect) and then The Particular Sadness of the Lemon Cake references melancholy, and honestly I have no idea what Game of Thrones has to do with the previous title but I'll bite anyway:

Winter - Christopher Nicholson (Because while I don't know anything about the series either in book form or on TV, I do know that the big tagline was "Winter is coming"—and LT reinforced this by giving Game of Thrones as the default touchstone! Hah. Also because the book is on my pile and I'm thinking this might be just the right time of year to read it.)

>39 Tid: Often their is a theme or a link in the books themselves. For example Mariette in Ectasy mirrors the fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally. So lots of times you need to know more about the books than just the titles

>40 lisapeet: The Particular Sadness of the Lemon Cake references melancholy, and honestly I have no idea what Game of Thrones has to do with the previous title but I'll bite anyway

Hee, sorry, really need to be a GOT fan - There is a character in the books named Sansa; one of her big things is her love of lemon cakes. Yeah, that one was a little out there :) But the reply of Winter, was perfect! (and yes you should read the books) :)

Winter's Tale

Or, the title of one book can be a commentary on the previous book or author. For example, if anyone ever posts a Norman Mailer title, I always have Penis Pokey in the chamber.

As it were.

Bones: Recipes, History, and Lore, Jennifer McLagan

Ok, let's try...

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Wide Sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rhys

Ocean Greens - Explore the world of edible seaweed by Lisette Kresicher

Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Sky at Morning - Richard Bradford

Sailing - Susan Kenney

A Night to Remember - Walter Lord

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage ~ Alfred Lansing

>54 Tid: By george I think he's got it!

Voyage to the center of the earth Jules Verne

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life ~ E. O. Wilson

>56 cindydavid4:
It's ok, you can use the original quote - "By George, I think SHE's got it!" :-)

>58 Tid: hee, wasn't sure which way I should go. Should have just used your screen name in placd of the pronoun. Anyway, its a good day when I am able to quote one of my favorite musicals

Long Earth Terry Pratchett with Stephen Baxter

Dirt Music - Tim Winton

Of Mice And Men - Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton

Real Men Don't Eat Quiche - Bruce Feirstein

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray

Sex Object - Jessica Valenti

Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn

The Raw Shark Texts - Stephen Hall

The Raw and the Cooked - Jim Harrison

Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest ~ Christy G. Turner

Alferd Packer's Wilderness Cookbook by James E Banks

Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" - Harold Schecter

The Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita - Swami Rama

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

Dance with Dragons ~ George R. R. Martin

The Owl Service -- Alan Garner

Owls Do Cry ~ Janet Frame

Weep Not, Child - Ngugi wa Thiong'o (and as I recall it was a damn fine book)

Cry, the Beloved Country ~ Alan Paton

Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Notes from the Underground ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neverwhere Neil Gaiman

Anywhere But Here ~ Mona Simpson

// >84 cindydavid4: Love love love the book! but don't ever watch the TV series... //

Aw, really? I was hoping it would be great. Ah well - that was my first Gaiman novel (had read his Smoke and Mirrors short stories first) and was hooked. Will never look at the Gap the same way again (oh I read his book he wrote with Pratchett, Good Omen, which I reread on a regular basis)

// >87 cindydavid4: It MAY be ok if you saw the original series first, then read the book ... but if like me, you read the book and loved it, you would realise how miscast the series was compared to the pictures in your head. Hywel Bennett as Croup?? No way! C&V are shadowy figures, whose faces for me exist in a kind of permanent shadow. Door? Gaiman has her as 'elfin faced, a bit punky, not beautiful apart from her eyes' .. yet in the series she is played by an actress who would have been right for Hunter, not Door. Having seen those You Tube excerpts I vowed never to sit through the whole thing or I'd be so sad. Far better to leave the visuals to your own imagination. //

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Redemption At Hacksaw Ridge ~ Booton Herndon

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig

Zen Driving by K.T. Berger

(I admit to using the touchstones to find this but I couldn't resist using the name)

Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer

The Return of the King - JRR Tolkein

// sorry, couldn't resist! //

Have It Your Way, Charlie Brown - Charles M. Schulz

The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire - James McLamore

King: A Street Story - John Berger

Richard III: The King Under The Car Park: the story of the search for England's last Plantagenet king - Mathew Morris

Sunne in Splendor Sharon Kay Penman

House of Splendid Isolation ~ Edna O'Brien

House of Leaves ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough

Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers - Arundhati Roy

Field Notes From A Catastrophe ~ Elizabeth Kolbert

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Full House by Janet Evanovich

The Most Beautiful House in the World ~ Witold Rybczynski

Not The End Of The World by Kate Atkinson

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson .

Twillight Stephanie Myers

The twilight zone by Rod Serling

PS. I can't stop thinking of The Full Catastrophe ever since Cindy posted it. I am going to have to read it again.

The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

Hee Jayte, I only heard about it, never read it. Perhaps I should give it a try?

What's Left?: How the Left Lost its Way Nick Cohen (Interesting that this was published 10 years ago. Wonder if it has some lessons in it)

Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Down Among the Women ~ Fay Weldon

Not That Sort of Girl - Mary Wesley

The Other Girl - Theodora Keogh

The Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen

Little Women Louisa May Alcott

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar - Cheryl Strayed

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

The color of magic by Terry Pratchett

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace - Aaron Cohen

Grace Notes—Bernard MacLaverty

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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(https://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0)

Hahahaha! Hee, I think you take home the prize today!

The Looking Glass War John Le Carre

The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse

The Circle Game - Margaret Atwood

The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? -Horace McCoy

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Tell Me by Kim Addonizio

I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death -- Maggie O'Farrell

That was such a good book

Here I am

Ontology Made Easy by Amie L. Thomasson

Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley

>145 lisapeet: I had to look that up - and laughed!

In Pieces by Sally Field

HEy thanks for waking up this thread! Peace in our Time

The Clock Winder —Anne Tyler

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps - Edward Brooke-Hitching

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton (which I won in an early reviewers giveaway and have been meaning to review for ages).

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell

In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano

Class by Jilly Cooper

Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War by Joe Bageant

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta - Richard Grant

Dog of the South — Charles Portis

My Dog Tulip - J.R. Ackerley

Will have to refresh myself on links.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Norman Bridwell

So Big by Edna Ferber

Little Children Tom Perotta

Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton

The Ha Ha by Dave King

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Twelve O'Clock High by Beirne Lay Jr & Sy Bartlett - a book as well as a movie

Three-Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard

Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner

True Confections Katherine Weber

True Confections: A Novel Katharine Weber

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Book of Lies by Teri Terry

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan