# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/21 "2006-02-17T20:16:21Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Brick **Lane** by Monica Ali I can’t believe I couldn’t come up with anything else right now, but … _Password to Larkspur **Lane** _, by Carolyn Keene. I might be able to make it through the whole game just using Nancy Drew titles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/22 "2006-02-17T20:29:36Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I can’t believe I couldn’t come up with anything else right now, but … > > _Password to Larkspur **Lane** _, by Carolyn Keene. I might be able to make it through the whole game just using Nancy Drew titles. 🙂 oh no! are you going to pull a [**Mr Blue Sky**?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6686613&postcount=385) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/23 "2006-02-17T20:38:03Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > oh no! are you going to pull a [**Mr Blue Sky**?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6686613&postcount=385) I promise to try not to, but if I’m really stuck, all bets are off. 😃 ---
**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 17, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/24 "2006-02-17T21:31:08Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I can’t believe I couldn’t come up with anything else right now, but … > > _Password to Larkspur **Lane** _, by Carolyn Keene. I might be able to make it through the whole game just using Nancy Drew titles. 🙂 Dogs of Babel- \*\* Carolyn \*\* Parkhurst this is harder than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![tiltypig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@tiltypig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiltypig)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/25 "2006-02-17T21:39:17Z")
**Babel** Tower–A. S. Byatt ---
**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 17, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/26 "2006-02-17T21:42:21Z")
> [@tiltypig](#): > > **Babel** Tower–A. S. Byatt \*\*Babel \*\* 17- Samuel Delaney ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/27 "2006-02-17T22:03:58Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > \*\*Babel \*\* 17- Samuel Delaney The Way of All Flesh – **Samuel** Butler This one brought up some bad reading memories. I think I was too young to appreciate it. Or maybe it was crap. Dunno. Looking forward to some “flesh” titles!! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/28 "2006-02-17T22:05:58Z")
> [@tiltypig](#): > > **Babel** Tower–A. S. Byatt Tea With the Black Dragon - R. **A.** MacAvoy (Yeah, it’s cheesy) BTW, I think **tiltypig** ’s entry came first. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/29 "2006-02-17T22:15:43Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Tea With the Black Dragon - R. **A.** MacAvoy > > (Yeah, it’s cheesy) > > BTW, I think **tiltypig** ’s entry came first. it did, and \*\*marque elf \*\*'s repsonse is valid to that, as **AuntiePam** ’s is to **marque elf** ’s. Yours is \*not \* valid to **AuntiePam** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/30 "2006-02-17T22:20:32Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > it did, and \*\*marque elf \*\*'s repsonse is valid to that, as **AuntiePam** ’s is to **marque elf** ’s. Yours is \*not \* valid to **AuntiePam** ’s. Oops. :smack: Adulthood Rights - Octavia **Butler** (Sorry, couldn’t think of any Flesh titles.) ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/31 "2006-02-17T22:21:21Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Tea With the Black Dragon - R. **A.** MacAvoy > > (Yeah, it’s cheesy) > > BTW, I think **tiltypig** ’s entry came first. The Great White Shark Hunt–Hunter S Thompson (I think it is fiction regardless of what he used to say) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/32 "2006-02-17T22:21:33Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Oops. :smack: > > Adulthood Rights - Octavia **Butler** I’m screwing up all over, sorry. Adulthood Rites - Octavia **Butler** ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/33 "2006-02-17T22:34:09Z")
> [@Sgt Schwartz](#): > > The Great White Shark Hunt–Hunter S Thompson > (I think it is fiction regardless of what he used to say) WTF?? Sgt, fiction or not how does this fit? from Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler Equal **Rites** - Terry Pratchett ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/34 "2006-02-17T23:56:01Z")
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan ---
**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 17, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/35 "2006-02-17T23:56:12Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > WTF?? Sgt, fiction or not how does this fit? > > from Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler > > Equal **Rites** - Terry Pratchett **Rite** of Passage- Alexi Panshin ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/36 "2006-02-18T00:05:16Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > **Rite** of Passage- Alexi Panshin The Beach - **Alex** Garland ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/37 "2006-02-18T00:09:19Z")
> [@Sgt Schwartz](#): > > The Great White Shark Hunt–Hunter S Thompson > (I think it is fiction regardless of what he used to say) No ‘White’, just ‘The Great Shark Hunt (Strange Tales from a Strange Time)’, I think. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/38 "2006-02-18T00:42:13Z")
> [@cthiax](#): > > The Beach - **Alex** Garland On the **Beach** - Neville Shute Hope that’s not a thread killer. ---
**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 18, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/39 "2006-02-18T00:48:57Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > On the **Beach** - Neville Shute > > Hope that’s not a thread killer. **On** A Pale Horse - Piers Anthony ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/40 "2006-02-18T00:55:00Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **On** A Pale Horse - Piers Anthony Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=3)