# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/241 "2006-02-28T00:46:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > **We** Were the Mulvaneys- Joyce Carol Oates A Christmas **Carol** - Charles Dickens ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/242 "2006-02-28T00:47:35Z")
And what should I do with all these Yevgeni and Zamyatin titles now, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/243 "2006-02-28T02:20:25Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > A Christmas **Carol** - Charles Dickens The Seduction of Water by **Carol** Goodman Mrs. Furthur ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/244 "2006-02-28T03:19:01Z")
> [@furthur](#): > > The Seduction of Water by **Carol** Goodman **Water** , Carry Me - Charles Moran ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/245 "2006-02-28T03:32:15Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Water** , Carry Me - Charles Moran Joanie Loves Chachi starring Erin Moran… Oh, sorry. Forgot the rules to the game. In that case Like **Water** for Chocolate-- Laura Esquivel ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/246 "2006-02-28T03:51:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Like **Water** for Chocolate-- Laura Esquivel It’s been played. Post #48. Getting hard to remember – we’re almost at 250 titles! ---
**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 28, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/247 "2006-02-28T17:00:27Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Water** , Carry Me - Charles Moran The **Water** Is Wide- Pat Conroy ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/248 "2006-02-28T17:05:52Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > The **Water** Is Wide- Pat Conroy The Man Who Wasn’t There - **Pat-** Barker ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/249 "2006-02-28T17:41:24Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Man Who Wasn’t There - **Pat-** Barker Bicentennial **Man** , Isaac Asimov ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/250 "2006-02-28T18:33:21Z")
> [@Eleanor of Aquitaine](#): > > Bicentennial **Man** , Isaac Asimov Enemies: A Love Story by **Isaac** Bashevis Singer ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/251 "2006-02-28T18:40:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Enemies: A Love Story by **Isaac** Bashevis Singer **Enemy** Mine - Barry B. Longyear ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/252 "2006-02-28T20:21:06Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > **Enemy** Mine - Barry B. Longyear _The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History_, by John **Barry** ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/253 "2006-02-28T20:26:51Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > _The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History_, by John **Barry** Bridge of Birds – **Barry** Hughart ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/254 "2006-02-28T20:31:50Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > _The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History_, by John **Barry** Is that fiction? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/255 "2006-02-28T20:39:07Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Is that fiction? I don’t think so. I should have quoted OtakuLoki’s play, where the name **Barry** was also used. You could play off of OtakuLoki’s book, and we’d be strictly legal. Just ignore mine. Or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/256 "2006-02-28T20:58:00Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > **Enemy** Mine - Barry B. Longyear **Enemy** Below - Denys Arthur Rayner ---
**Author:** ![Bertie\_Wooster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Bertie\_Wooster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bertie_Wooster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/257 "2006-02-28T20:58:03Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I don’t think so. I should have quoted OtakuLoki’s play, where the name **Barry** was also used. > > You could play off of OtakuLoki’s book, and we’d be strictly legal. Just ignore mine. Or not. 🙂 **Barry** Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/258 "2006-02-28T21:20:45Z")
> [@Bertie Wooster](#): > > **Barry** Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Grave Passions - **William** J. Mann ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/259 "2006-02-28T23:13:28Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Is that fiction? Ach, you’re right. I didn’t read the OP carefully enough, it just happened to be something I’m reading now. Let’s pretend I posted: _Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter_ by **Barry** Lopez Everything copacetic? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/260 "2006-02-28T23:45:24Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > _Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter_ by **Barry** Lopez Sounds good to me. 🙂 **Daughter** of My People - James Kilgo [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=14)