# 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:** 8
**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 22, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/141 "2006-02-22T00:47:45Z")
Palace of the Red **Sun** - Christopher Bulis ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/142 "2006-02-22T03:17:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Palace of the Red **Sun** - Christopher Bulis BrokedownPalace - Steven Brust ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/143 "2006-02-22T08:16:42Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > BrokedownPalace - Steven Brust Dinner At Deviant’s **Palace** by Tim Powers ---
**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 22, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/144 "2006-02-22T17:01:33Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > Dinner At Deviant’s **Palace** by Tim Powers Going After Cacciato- **Tim** O’Brien ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/145 "2006-02-22T17:14:43Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > Going After Cacciato- **Tim** O’Brien The Contract Surgeon - Dan O’Brien ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/146 "2006-02-22T19:09:54Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Contract Surgeon - Dan O’Brien Darwin’s Blade by **Dan** Simmons ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/147 "2006-02-22T19:33:18Z")
> [@DfrntBreign](#): > > Darwin’s Blade by **Dan** Simmons The Death of Sweet Mister - **Dan** iel Woodrell ---
**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 22, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/148 "2006-02-22T21:02:49Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Death of Sweet Mister - **Dan** iel Woodrell The Devil and **Daniel** Webster by Steven Vincent Benet. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/149 "2006-02-22T21:38:41Z")
> [@Bertie Wooster](#): > > The Devil and **Daniel** Webster by Steven Vincent Benet. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - **Steven** Sherrill ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/150 "2006-02-22T22:00:51Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - **Steven** Sherrill It **Takes** a Village- Hillary Clinton ---
**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 22, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/151 "2006-02-22T22:05:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It **Takes** a Village- Hillary Clinton Illegal move. Must be fiction. **Break** fast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/152 "2006-02-22T22:10:47Z")
What made me laugh out loud is that I’m sure **Sampiro** KNOWS it has to be fiction, and that he was making a “statement.” **Sampy** , darling, if I’m wrong, just ignore me. ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/153 "2006-02-22T22:41:22Z")
> [@Ensign Edison](#): > > Illegal move. Must be fiction. > > **Break** fast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut. **Breakfast** at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/154 "2006-02-22T23:34:02Z")
> [@furthur](#): > > **Breakfast** at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote. Murder in the Smithsonian - Margaret **Truman** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/155 "2006-02-22T23:46:09Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Murder in the Smithsonian - Margaret **Truman** Other Voices Other Rooms by **Truman** Capote ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/156 "2006-02-22T23:49:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Other Voices Other Rooms by **Truman** Capote _The Other_ – Thomas Tryon ---
**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 23, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/157 "2006-02-23T00:16:57Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > _The Other_ – Thomas Tryon The Crying of Lot 49- **Thomas** Pynchon ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/158 "2006-02-23T00:18:38Z")
Expecting Someone Taller - **Tom** Holt ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/159 "2006-02-23T00:27:48Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Expecting Someone Taller - **Tom** Holt The Genocides - **Thomas** Disch ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953/160 "2006-02-23T02:54:19Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The Genocides - **Thomas** Disch Joseph and His Brothers by **Thomas** Mann (Thomas was about the only way to go with Genocides & Disch are the alternatives and you’re limited to fiction!). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-title-author-game/344953.md?page=9)