# A Book Title/Author Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953 "2006-02-17T16:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/181 "2006-02-24T17:21:05Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > My Side of the **Mountain** - Jean Craighead George The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by his Fool Will Somers - Margaret **George** ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/182 "2006-02-24T18:31:31Z")
**Notes** From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/183 "2006-02-24T20:11:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Notes** From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Cat Who Went Underground - Lilian Jackson Braun ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/184 "2006-02-24T21:16:15Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Cat Who Went Underground - Lilian Jackson Braun The **Cat** Who Walked Through Walls – Robert A. Heinlein ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/185 "2006-02-24T21:49:15Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The **Cat** Who Walked Through Walls – Robert A. Heinlein The Ideal Genuine Man - Don **Robert** son (gets my vote for the Great American Novel) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/186 "2006-02-24T21:55:01Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Ideal Genuine Man - Don **Robert** son (gets my vote for the Great American Novel) Mister **Roberts** –Thomas Heggen ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/187 "2006-02-24T23:13:34Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Mister **Roberts** –Thomas Heggen The Master of Rain - **Tom** Bradby (It probably says Thomas on his birth certificate.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/188 "2006-02-25T01:46:30Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Master of Rain - **Tom** Bradby **Master** of Space and Time – Rudy Rucker ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/189 "2006-02-25T02:11:50Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Master** of Space and Time – Rudy Rucker **Time** Will Darken It - William Maxwell ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/190 "2006-02-25T02:36:22Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Time** Will Darken It - William Maxwell A Wrinkle in **Time** – Madeleine L’Engle ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/191 "2006-02-25T02:46:50Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > A Wrinkle in **Time** – Madeleine L’Engle Songs in Ordinary **Time** – Mary McGarry Morris ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/192 "2006-02-25T03:44:09Z")
**Ordinary** People - Judith Guest ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/193 "2006-02-25T03:46:20Z")
The Oracle Glass – **Judith** Merkle Riley ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/194 "2006-02-25T04:19:55Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Oracle Glass – **Judith** Merkle Riley The Best of **Judith** Merrill- A short story collection (lame, but it’s the only thing I could come up with) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/195 "2006-02-25T18:15:21Z")
House of War - Judith Tarr (I didn’t want to use “The” but can we, if we need to?) ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/196 "2006-02-25T18:36:08Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > House of War - Judith Tarr > > (I didn’t want to use “The” but can we, if we need to?) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy And if we can use partial names and partial words, I don’t see why “The” would be disallowed. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/197 "2006-02-25T18:36:54Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > House of War - Judith Tarr > > (I didn’t want to use “The” but can we, if we need to?) **War** In 2020- Ralph Peters Playing off of articles always seemed a weak response to me **AuntiePam** but I didn’t forbid it in the rules. I guess that makes it a legal play. Anything not expressly forbidden is permitted, right? ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/198 "2006-02-25T18:38:44Z")
Honest, **marque elf** , you weren’t there when I previewed! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/199 "2006-02-25T19:13:41Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Honest, **marque elf** , you weren’t there when I previewed! That’s okay – another simulpost that worked out. The Dogs of **War** - Frederick Forsyth ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/200 "2006-02-25T19:14:42Z")
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