Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Book Meme: Titles A-Z

The rules:

*Fill in each letter of the alphabet with a title of a book that you've read that begins with that letter (e.g. American Psycho for the letter A).
*Articles (a, an, the) don't count in alphabetizing, so skip to the first letter of the next word (i.e. A Thousand Splendid Suns would count for the letter T, The Great Gatsby would count for the letter G, and so on).
*Titles that start with or are entirely composed of numbers will be alphabetized by how they would be spelled when written out (i.e. 1984 would count as an N for Nineteen Eighty-Four).
*The letter X space will be special. The title will only have to include the letter X to count (i.e. Don Quixote). This isn't necessarily as easy as it sounds.

A - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
B - Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
C - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
D - Death at Devil's Bridge by Robin Paige
E - Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
F - Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
G - Grimm’s Last Fairy Tale by Haydn Middleton
H - House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I - I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
K - The King is Dead by Sarah Shankman
L - The Last Wolf of Ireland by Elona Malterre
M - Murder on a Bad Hair Day by Anne George
N - The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
O - Orlando by Virginia Woolfe
P - Painted Truth by Lise McClendon
Q - Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
R - Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
S - The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
T - 12 Sharp by Janet Evanovich
U - Untamed Tongues by Autumn Stephens
V - The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
W - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
X - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Y - You On a Diet by Roizen/Oz
Z - Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb

If I had the energy at this point, I'd fancy it up with links to my reviews, but I will just have to settle for a simple list.

3 comments:

Karen said...

Don't you love Isabel Dalhousie? I do adore Alexander McCall Smith's books. Have you read any of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series? Fabulous, and being made into a series for BBC...if we're lucky, we'll get it some day.

Marina said...

Yeah, she's a great character, and I actually started the #1 Ladies series first (I think the third one is next for me) before I'd found Dalhousie.

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