The book game.

[notoppings]

Just a simple game about books. (Similar to song game)

Rules:
Name a book title with author and genre.
Next person uses a word from the title or part of the authors name or another work by the author or another book from the genre.

Sample: A Christmas Carol. - Charles Dickens. - Fiction/Novel

The Grinch that stole Christmas. - Dr. Seuss. - Children.

Easy enough so here is the first title.

They Walked Like Men. - Clifford D. Simak. - Science Fiction.

[rara avis]

Children of Men - P.D. James - Sci Fi

[notoppings]

Methusala's Children. - Robert Heinlein. - Science Fiction.

[gedreosan]

Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card - Sci-fi

[notoppings]

The Isles Of Earth. - Isaac Asimov. - Sci-Fi.

[gedreosan]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne - Sci-fi

[notoppings]

Digging to the Center of the Earth. - Michael Anthony Steele. - Fiction.

[gedreosan]

Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology and Science Fiction - Miles Russell - Criticism

[rara avis]

Holes - Louis Sachar - Children's

[Tragic Hero]

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevensen - Fiction

[rara avis]

Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell - Children's

[gedreosan]

Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - Sci-fi

[rara avis]

Coyote Blue - Christopher Moore - Fiction

[Nikita]

Season of Passage - Christopher Pike - fiction

[rara avis]

Bury Me Deep - Christopher Pike - YA

[gedreosan]

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore - Fiction

[Nikita]

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Play/Tragedy/Fiction

[rara avis]

Doctor Doolittle - Hugh Lofting - Children's

[gedreosan]

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie - Fiction

[rara avis]

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson - YA

[gedreosan]

If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories - Paul Park - Sci-fi/Fiction

[rara avis]

A Princess of Roumania - Paul Park - Sci-Fi

[gedreosan]

The Lost Princess of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Fiction

[rara avis]

Ooh!

Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Children's (w/ illustrations by John R Neill! An all time favorite!!!)

[Nikita]

Menschen im Hotel - Hedwig (Vicki) Baum

[gedreosan]

Wir sind allzumal Sunder: Roman - Hedwig Mahler Courths - Fiction

[rara avis]

Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon - History

[Nikita]

Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers - War Fiction

[rara avis]

The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt - NF/Travel

[Nikita]

The City - Max Weber - Sociology

[rara avis]

Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin - Fiction

[Nikita]

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Historical

[rara avis]

Diamonds and Toads - Charles Perrault - Fairy Tale

[Nikita]

Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman - Children

[aok]

Castration and Male Rage: The Phallic Wound (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts) - Eugene Monick - Psychology

[gedreosan]

Rage of a Demonking by Raymond E. Feist

[rara avis]

Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane - fiction

[ClydeB]

Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman. Fiction.

[rara avis]

Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys #5) - Franklin W. Dixon - Children's

[Tragic Hero]

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

[rara avis]

The October Country - Ray Bradbury - Fiction

[Tragic Hero]

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

[rara avis]

Tarzan and the Ant Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Fiction

[gedreosan]

A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire and Douglas Smith

[rara avis]

Wicked - Gregory Maguire - Fantasy

(Haven't read this in a long time, but Elphaba may be an INTJ, now that I think of it. Elphaba might be THE INTJ female character of all time. I'm going to have to reread this book, now.)

[rewhu]

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

rara, I'd agree with you about Elphaba.

[rara avis]

The Wicked Prince - Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tale

[rewhu]

The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tale

[rara avis]

Little Brother - Cory Doctorow - YA

[rewhu]

My Brother's Keeper - Patricia Mccormick YA


re: Little Brother - Have you read it? If so, did you enjoy it? I keep seeing it on BoingBoing.net but have actually read it.

[hongi]

Little Women - Lousia May Alcott - fiction

[rara avis]

Just Me & My Little Brother - Mercer Mayer - Children's


rewhu- Haven't read it- same boat as you. I'll probably get around to it at some point... am curious.

[ATCGs]

Brothers In Arms - Lois McMaster Bujold - SciFi

[rara avis]

Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett - Sci Fi / Fantasy

[rewhu]

Good Omens - Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett - Religion/Fantasy

[rara avis]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman - Sci fi/Fantasy

[ATCGs]

The Mote In God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - SciFi

[rara avis]

Buffalo Girls - Larry McMurtry - Fiction

[cyan2012]

Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden - Gilbert Livingstone Wilson - Ethnography

[Tragic Hero]

Secret Garden - Frances Burnett - Fiction

[rara avis]

Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden - YA

[ClydeB]

The Changeling Garden - Winifred Elze - Horror

[rara avis]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt - Travel/NF

[ClydeB]

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Fantasy.
Very entertaining satire of "The Omen"

[gedreosan]

Storm Dragon: The Draconic Prophecies, Book 1 by James Wyatt

[Harmony]

When the Wind Blow - James Patterson - Fiction

[rara avis]

Ill Wind - Rachel Caine - SciFi/Fantasy

[ClydeB]

BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All - Bruce Porter - Biography

[rewhu]

Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror With Stephen King by Tim Underwood and Stephen King - Biography

[ClydeB]

From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy - Terry Lee Rioux - Biography

And "Bones" too.

[rewhu]

Stardust by Neil Gaimen - Fantasy

[ClydeB]

Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss - nonfiction.

[gedreosan]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card sci/fi

[rara avis]

The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin - YA

[gedreosan]

Ghost in a Four-Room Apartment - Ellen Raskin - Childrens

[ClydeB]

Ghost Whisperer: Plague Room - Steven Piziks - fiction / horror

[Tragic Hero]

The Plague - Albert Camus - Fiction

[gedreosan]

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made - Norman Cantor - non-fiction

[azelismia]

Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce - Fiction

[Tragic Hero]

A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man - James Joyce - Fiction

[azelismia]

The Man on the Moon - James Blaylock - Fiction

[ClydeB]

The Man Who Sold the Moon - Robert A. Heinlein - fiction.

[Franklin71]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein - fiction.

[ClydeB]

The Number of the Beast - Robert A. Heinlein - fiction.

[azelismia]

Time Scout - Robert Asprin / Linda Evans - Science Fiction

[ClydeB]

A Phule and His Money - Robert Asprin - Science Fiction

[azelismia]

the Amazing Maurice and his educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett - Science fiction

[ClydeB]

Grunts - Mary Gentle - Science Fiction.

[azelismia]

The Gentle Way: A Self-Help Guide for those who Believe in Angels (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Tom T. Moore - self help non fiction (cause angels exist, along with invisible pink unicorns, and they're neat-o!)

[Muumeh]

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams - fiction

[rewhu]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams - Detective

[ClydeB]

Arctic Drift (A Dirk Pitt Novel, #20) - Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler - fiction









(Dirka Dirka - couldn't resist)

[azelismia]

Secret Under Antarctica -Gordon Dickson

[ClydeB]

The Secret Country - Pamela Dean - Fiction.

[azelismia]

The Secret Panel - The Hardy Boys (Book 25) Franklin W Dixon (juvenile mystery)

[rara avis]

The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman - Children's

[ClydeB]

Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog - Loren Spiotta DiMare - Illustrated

[azelismia]

Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Illustrated By Rockwell Kent - Fiction

[rara avis]

The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk - Fiction

[azelismia]

The Anubis Gate - Tim Power (Steampunk)

[rara avis]

The Gate of Worlds - Robert Silverberg - SciFi

[ClydeB]

The Silent Blade - R.A.Salvatore - Fantasy

[azelismia]

(To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) The Gilded Chain:: A Tale of the King's Blades (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Dave Duncan


(duncan also did some Time and world travel books iirc)

[putupon]

The Once and Future King – T.H. White – Fantasy

[notoppings]

White Gold Wielder. Stephen R Donaldson. Fantasy.

[azelismia]

the once and future king - T.H White

[ClydeB]

The Stand - Steven King - Fiction (Horror)

[azelismia]

King Lear Shakespeare (Classic literature)

[ClydeB]

Too Many Pears - Jackie French - Children

[azelismia]

an Owl Too many - Charlotte Macloed (Mystery)

[ClydeB]

Howl at the Moon - Christine Warren - Fiction.

[azelismia]

Moon is a harsh mistress - Robert Heinlein (science fiction)

[ClydeB]

Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein (science fiction)

[azelismia]

The time machine - HG Wells (Classic Science fiction)


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[putupon]

Midnight at the Well of Souls - Jack L. Chalker - Science Fiction

[azelismia]

Snow White and the Seven Samuri - Tom Holt (comic fantasy/scifi)

[Tragic Hero]

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe {Classic Lit}

[putupon]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

[floramacivor]

The Merry ADVENTURES of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle - fiction

(sorry, I'm trying a new browser - Epiphany - and it isn't letting me use the bold/italics)

[putupon]

Forest Mage - Robin Hobb - Fantasy

[floramacivor]

Children of the New FOREST by Frederick Marryat - historical fiction

[putupon]

Children of the Night - Dan Simmons - Horror

[Tragic Hero]

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[altoid]

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ClydeB]

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Tragic Hero]

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

[ClydeB]

The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker

[rara avis]

A Great And Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray - YA

[Nikita]

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell - fiction

[Tragic Hero]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

[floramacivor]

The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock (nature guide)

[schwartzie]

A Handmaid's Tale - margaret atwood - fiction

[altoid]

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - fiction

[ClydeB]

The Goblin's Collection - Algernon Blackwood

[azelismia]

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes literature

[putupon]

The Long Run - Daniel Keys Moran - science fiction

[ClydeB]

The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death - Daniel Pinkwater

[azelismia]

the winter of the world - Poul Anderson

[putupon]

Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

[Tragic Hero]

The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck

[floramacivor]

The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

[ClydeB]

A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones

[putupon]

Magic Kingdom For Sale -- SOLD! - Terry Brooks

[ClydeB]

Into The Thinking Kingdoms - Alan Dean Foster - Book 2 of the Catechist series

[putupon]

Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer

[azelismia]

tenant of wildfell hall - anne bronte Classic literature

[rahdam]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I think...)

[azelismia]

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Classic literature

[altoid]

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

[azelismia]

The once and future king - T.h White

[putupon]

The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker

[Tuesday]

Diary of a worm - Doreen Cronin

Sorry, I'm a Children's Librarian :-)

[altoid]

Diary: A novel - Chuck Palahniuk

[ClydeB]

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

[pocohauntus]

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

[azelismia]

the Union Club Mysteries - Issac asimov

[putupon]

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon

[playthestatic]

Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish by Rabbi Benjamin Blech - the genre's hm, I don't know. Instructional?

Where did all the genres go, by the way?

[Tragic Hero]

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Classic Literature

[rara avis]

Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Fiction

[altoid]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Classic Literature

[Tragic Hero]

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Literature {had to, it's my favourite book}

[Nikita]

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Literature

[putupon]

Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson - Fantasy

[floramacivor]

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander - fantasy

[altoid]

Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman - philosophy

[floramacivor]

The Family Book of Verse by Lewis Gannett - poetry

[putupon]

The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe - Science Fiction

[altoid]

Rising Sun - Michael Crichton - fiction

[floramacivor]

Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe - biochemistry

[altoid]

The Red and the Black - Stendhal - classic literature

[floramacivor]

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

[altoid]

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak - children's book

[Tragic Hero]

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

[putupon]

White Fang - Jack London

[floramacivor]

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

[rara avis]

The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey - SciFi/Fantasy

[Nikita]

Eye of the Dragon - Stephen King - fiction

[altoid]

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

[floramacivor]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - literature

[Karamazov]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

[azelismia]

Death in the clouds - Agatha Christie Mystery

[ClydeB]

The Epiphany of Death - Clark Ashton Smith

[azelismia]

Death by the light of the moon - Joan Hess - Mystery

[ClydeB]

Love is the Plan The Plan is Death - James Tiptree, Jr.

[azelismia]

the last coin - james blaylock

[altoid]

The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie

[ClydeB]

The Coin Of Dionysus - Ernest Bramah

The Last Castle - Jack Vance

[azelismia]

Castle Perilous - John Dechancie


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[putupon]

Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants – Dav Pilkey – Children

[floramacivor]

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope - juvenile fantasy/mystery

[rara avis]

The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope - YA

[altoid]

The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien

[floramacivor]

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein

Well, that was dumb - how can there be any link to any of those words?

How about Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkein

[Rudy]

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

[floramacivor]

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

[Rudy]

Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice

[azelismia]

the house of 7 gables - nathanel hawthorne

[Rudy]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

And I propose that "the", "and", "a", "of" be excluded from consideration. Seconders?

[Nikita]

Firestarter - Stephen King - fiction

[rara avis]

The Open Boat - Stephen Crane - Short Fiction

[Rudy]

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata and Edward G. Seidensticker

[floramacivor]

Half Magic by Edward Eager

[rara avis]

Sylvester & the Magic Pebble - William Steig - Children's

[floramacivor]

Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake - poetry

[Tragic Hero]

Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

[floramacivor]

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard

[Karamazov]

King Suckerman by George Pelecanos

[Rudy]

A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin

[Karamazov]

Being and Time- Martin Heidegger

[azelismia]

The masks of time - Robert Silverberg

[floramacivor]

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

[Nikita]

The Well at the World's End - William Morris - Fantasy

[floramacivor]

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

"The Well at the World's End - William Morris"

I wondered if this was the pre-Raphaelite William Morris, so I looked it up - and it is! So I'm adding this to my booklist.

[Nikita]

War and Peace - Tolstoy - Literature

[altoid]

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

[floramacivor]

Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin

[Rudy]

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - Michael Davis

[altoid]

A Brief History of Time - Stephen W Hawking

[rara avis]

A History of God - Karen Armstrong - Religion

[altoid]

God in the Dock - C. S. Lewis - theology

[rara avis]

Storm Boy - Paul Owen Lewis - Children's/Mythology

[Nikita]

It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis - political novel and play

[altoid]

Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams - Nick Webb - Biography

[Nikita]

My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - Autobiographical Slave Narrative

[Rudy]

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

[floramacivor]

Paradise Lost - John Milton

[Rudy]

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

[altoid]

Acts of Faith - Philip Caputo

[Rudy]

Acts - "God"

[floramacivor]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[altoid]

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien - fiction

[rara avis]

Cars and Trucks and Things That Go - Richard Scarry - Children's

[floramacivor]

The Coverley Papers by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eustace Budgell

[Nikita]

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - literature

[Odin]

Closing Time- Joseph Heller - literature

[putupon]

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Literature

[azelismia]

the power of myth - Joseph campbell

[Odin]

The Power of one-Bryce Courtenay,

[altoid]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Fiction

[rara avis]

One Was Johnny - Maurice Sendak - Children's

[putupon]

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo - Fiction

[floramacivor]

The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

[rara avis]

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott - Fiction

[altoid]

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald - fiction

[Odin]

Paradise regained-John Milton

[floramacivor]

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead

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I was too late - how about The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin

[altoid]

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

[Odin]

In the Cage- Henry James

[Tragic Hero]

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James - Literature