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

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message 102: by Sasha (new)

Sasha  Wolf | 119 comments The Haunting of H. G. Wells, as you might expect, mentions several of Wells's books:

The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
The War in the Air
Marriage
Ann Veronica
The New Machiavelli

There are also a few mentions of books by other authors:
Rosmersholm
The Great God Pan

And finally, there's an annoyingly contradictory reference to "a copy of the latest book by Henry James, a collection of his late short fictions, sent to him by the author himself". Since this is set in 1915, the latest Henry James was in fact his second autobiography, Notes of a son & brother. His last pre-War short story collection was the 24-volume The New York Edition of Henry James: The Aspern Papers/The Turn of the Screw/The Liar/The Two Faces, published in 1909. So if you were wanting to read the autobiography or any of those 24 volumes, I guess you can take this as your prompt to do so.


Tara (the.readingredhead) | 2 comments ACOTAR is mentioned in Abby Jimenez's Say You'll Remember Me


message 106: by Cyndy (new)

Cyndy (cyndy-ksreader) | 133 comments This is an odd one, but in Crook Manifesto, it refers to Harlem Shuffle. It's specific about the Harlem Shuffle dance, but if I was doing the challenge...

"He was currently arranging for Barry White, whom he’d met when they worked on Bob & Earl’s classic 1963 single “Harlem Shuffle.� Doing more and more solo work on movies. Zippo showed him a rough cut in the Grotto when Page came to town for the release of Can’t Get Enough."

Whitehead, Colson. Crook Manifesto (pp. 204-205). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.


message 107: by Frogli (new)

Frogli | 96 comments So I finally picked up The Odyssey (Emily Wilson newish translation) and The Yellow Wall-Paper got a mention in the introduction


message 108: by Cathern (new)

Cathern (cat4280) | 26 comments Sense and Sensibility was mentioned in a book I just finished reading if anyone is in the mood for Jane Austen.


message 109: by Dubhease (new)

Dubhease | 607 comments Found another one. In The Lonely Hearts Hotel, in 1933, someone is reading an Agatha Christie book.

So, as long as it is one published in 1933 or earlier, you could use it.


message 110: by Megan (new)

Megan | 361 comments I'm reading Stephen King's "On writing" and he's mentioned: The Stand, Misery, Carrie, and the Dead Zone so far.


message 112: by Andrea (new)

Andrea | 36 comments Books mentioned in An Unnecessary Woman:
Austerlitz
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The Savage Detectives
The Science of Right
A Heart So White
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
A Tale of Two Cities
Invisible Cities
The Cinnamon Shops
The Conformist
As I Lay Dying
Goodbye, Columbus
A Moveable Feast
Fear of Flying
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lolita
The Shipping News
The Ashley Book of Knots
The Magic Mountain
The Emigrants
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Murphy
Waiting for Godot
Giovanni’s Room
Corydon
Sepharad
Sophie’s Choice
Old Masters: A Comedy
The Wasteland
Nightwood
The Leopard
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Crime and Punishment
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Brothers Karamazov
The Waves
Anna Karenina
The Book of Disquiet
The Fall
Lana: the Lady, the Legend, the Truth
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Microcosms
Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
The Metamorphosis
The English Patient
Swann’s Way
The Guermantes Way
Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year
Dubliners
Herzog
Hills Like White Elephants
The Encyclopedia of the Dead
A Short History of Decay
Duino Elegies
The Iliad
Ransom
The Color Purple
Paradise Lost (quoted)
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Fatelessness
How I Came to Know Fish
Richard II
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Charterhouse of Parma
Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Hunger
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Flight Without End
Rosemary’s Baby
A Book of Memories
A House for Mr Biswas
Midnight’s Children
Mrs. Dalloway
A Room of One’s Own
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Memoirs of Hadrian
Waiting for the Barbarians


message 113: by Diana (new)

Diana (candystripelegs) | 245 comments Emily Henry's Book Lovers is full of mentions. There's a ton mentioned in the story, but there's also a back page that has the characters' "reading list". Here's the ones mentioned in the story:

A Little Life
A Man Called Ove
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Gone Girl
The Devil Wears Prada
Anne of Green Gables
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Everyone Poops
The BFG

And vaguely:
The Chronicles of Narnia
11/22/63


message 116: by AF (new)

AF (slothlikeaf) | 398 comments And The Unsinkable Greta James, my book for a activity from my bucket list (Alaska cruise), mentions:

The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Moby-Dick or, The Whale


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message 118: by Sherri (new)

Sherri Harris | 767 comments I just finished The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Toward the end of the book she mentions books that have influenced her. Here are two that caught my attention.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. I read this book years ago & enjoyed it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I think I'll use this book for the prompt.


message 119: by Dubhease (new)

Dubhease | 607 comments I read Ulysses. It is supposedly mentioned in Just Kids and Fun Home.

In the Bell Jar, the protagonist complains about having to read Finnigan's Wake. So, I'm sure characters complaining about James Joyce happens in other fiction.

Unlike everyone else recommending the book they read, I do not recommend this book.


message 121: by Anshita (new)

Anshita (_book_freak) | 252 comments I read Dracula by Bram Stoker. According to Wikipedia, "With over 700 appearances across virtually all forms of media, the Guinness Book of World Records named Dracula the most portrayed literary character."


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