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For the latter, Joyce Carol Oates also wrote as Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.
I think I will do an Oates or Krentz book because that just amuses me.


Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
�Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by. Patrick Radden Keefe
�Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan
The picture on the cover really makes me laugh.


I'm also reading One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid




Sara Nisha Adams - The Twilight Garden
Louisa May Alcott - Little Men

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz.




David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Mercies
Sally Cabot Gunning - Painting the Light
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far
Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland



My top contenders for this prompt are:
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Unpunished by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If I go with a writer than uses three names all together, it will likely be one of the following:
Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
I totally didn't think about an author who wrote under 3 different names (Anne Rice did)
Since it took me a month to read, I'm using the new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream Count. A book well worth spending a month on. Now I need to catch up!
Since it took me a month to read, I'm using the new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream Count. A book well worth spending a month on. Now I need to catch up!


REJECT: A book involving an island
Finished: 01/29/2025
Rating: 4 stars
Set in the Philippines in early 1900. Based on the author's grandmother's life. Good insight to the Philippine culture of the period, with a bonus mystery.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 4.5* - My Review


I'm on a sports kick (the Tour de France can't come soon enough) so I picked up this literary fiction told from the perspective of a professional cyclist during the Tour. My review can be found here.


Finally finished a popular book that I have seen on a lot of people's TBR or READ lists.

✴️Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by. Patrick Radden Keefe
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

I very much enjoyed the first book. The second, which I picked up from a giveaway box because of its beautiful cover was a pleasant young adult fantasy. Nicely done, if slightly confusing towards the end.


If you are interested enough to read a non-fiction book on the topic, I can suggest this book that I read earlier this year: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

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Louisa May Alcott.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Taylor Jenkins Reid.
What do these authors have in common? They all chose to use three names as their author names for their books.
This week, you are going on a scavenger hunt through your TBR for authors who use three names. You can make this a bit easier by including intials (think F. Scott Fitzgerald), or you can make it harder by looking for an author who has written under three different psudonyms (Jayne Ann Krentz, who also writes as Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle).
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What are you reading for this prompt?