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2025 Challenge - Regular
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11 - A Book Mentioned in Another Book

Americanah mentions Light in August and Cane
Love, Rosie mentions Ulysses and Sushi for Beginners
The Supernatural Enhancements mentionsThe Sacred Fount: Henry James (Literature, Classics, History) Annotated
Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries mentions Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Alexandra Benedict's Christmas mystery/thriller books mention a ton of Agatha Christie
The Boy on the Bridge mentions The Ship
The Girl with All the Gifts mentions Never Let Me Go and The Waterbabies: A Fairy Tale for a Landbaby
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg mentions The Femine Mystique and The Pirates of Penzance
My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen mentions Persuasion
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower mentions Waiting to Exhale, Deenie Disappearing Acts and The Color Purple
One of The Magicians books by Grossman mentions A Game of Thrones and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Another mentions Hamlet.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America mentions The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Fire Next Time
A Kiss Before Dying mentions Strangers on a Train
The Passenger mentions The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive
Slaymentions The 48 Laws of Power
The Book of Speculation mentions The Lady of the Lake and Treasure Island
Ready Player One mentions Nation

The list:
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Matilda
Harriet the Spy
Wait Till Helen Comes
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Egypt Game
These series are mentioned, so I would say any book in the series counts.
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Welcome to the Dead House




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Thank you so much for this list:
I will be reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Doll
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Another couple (non-Polish) books mentioned: The Magic Mountain and Sense and Sensibility
The Uttermost Farthing by R. Austin Freeman is referred to throughout Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Langslow #6) by Donna Andrews
This book is free on Gutenberg. It was first published in 1914 and I became so curious about it, I am now read it as well! It is a mystery!
Both Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Black Stallion Returns (Black Stallion #2) by Walter Farley are mentioned in No Nest for the Wicket (Meg Langslow #7) by Donna Andrews
This book is free on Gutenberg. It was first published in 1914 and I became so curious about it, I am now read it as well! It is a mystery!
Both Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Black Stallion Returns (Black Stallion #2) by Walter Farley are mentioned in No Nest for the Wicket (Meg Langslow #7) by Donna Andrews

“The Underground Railroad� by Colton Whitehead
“Educated� by Tara Westover
“Normal People� by Sally Rooney
“Where the Crawdads Sing� by Delia Owens
And “a book about children who spontaneously combust� which is “Nothing to See Here� by Kevin Wilson
I’ve already read all of them but thought the list might be helpful for anyone wanting a excuse to read one of these popular books!

I found this list: Novels mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton

�Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe.
Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, by Mary Shelley.
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving.
Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll.
The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.
The Shadow over Innsmouth, by H. P. Lovecraft.
And more! Books by Walter de la Mare, H. Russell Wakefield, William Fryer Harvey, H.G. Wells, Cynthia Asquith, Aldous Huxley—all forbidden authors."
"Firelight limned the faded gilt titles: The Willows, The Outsider, Behold, This Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist and, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Pellucidar, The Land That Time Forgot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the monstrous names of Arthur Machen and Edgar Allen Poe, and James Branch Cabell and Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood and Lewis Carroll; the names, the old names, the evil names. "


Will edit if there are any more.

Oliver Twist
Emma
Jane Eyre

-Resurrection
-Madame Bovary
-Oliver Twist
-Vanity Fair
Good Economics for Hard Times mentions
-The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
-Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
-Player Piano
The Message mentions
-Between the World and Me
-We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
-The Water Dancer
The Book Censor's Library mentions
-Zorba the Greek
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
-1984
-Pinocchio
-Fahrenheit 451



I would totally count it.
I've read Fangirl and had not even considered Carry On even though I have those books.

I am currently reading Want by Gillian Anderson and my Secret Garden by Nancy Friday is mentioned so many times (and I'm only 25% in).

The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America and the author mentions
John Fuller's book:
The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill .
'The Interrupted Journey' has been on my shelf for a long while so since I'm getting back into aliens/UAPs (UFOs) now seems like a good time for it.
UPDATE:
I read the introduction to The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America. The author makes it clear that he doesn't believe the couple was abducted by aliens so I look forward to his take on what he thinks happened.
I am curious though to read The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill so that I could compare these two books.

Though I was also reading The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America and that author mentioned The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill which is also on my TBR.
So I don't know which to choose!


Depending on how you interpret the prompt, one could use books mentioned in the cover blurbs or "Other Books By This Author" section for this prompt.

Scruples
Lace
Chances
Mistral's Daughter


On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Accidental Tourist
Such a Fun Age
So if any of those are on your TBR, they fit this prompt!




It was an enjoyable, twisty thriller - and both Winnie-the-Pooh and The Bell Jar get a mention in it!

It was an enjoyable, twisty thril..."
Oh, thank you for posting this. I have it planned myself.

One book that keeps coming up in various books is The War of the Worlds. Maybe that's my sign to finally get to it again.

Final Girls and
The Last Time I Lied
The Last time I Lied is the better book, IMO

“The Underground Railroad� by Colton Whitehead
“Educated� by Tara Westo..."
Super helpful since The Husbands is already on my TBR list!






I'm sure it's mentioned in many books but specifically in There Are Rivers in the Sky which I read earlier this year.

Books mentioned in this topic
Dracula (other topics)Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (other topics)
Ulysses (other topics)
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (other topics)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
E. Nesbit (other topics)Edward Eager (other topics)
Ruth Ware (other topics)
Ruth Ware (other topics)
Ken Bruen (other topics)
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One sticks out:
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity