# The Atoz Game (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097 "2022-08-04T15:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 301
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6002 "2024-09-01T22:42:58Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6003 "2024-09-01T22:45:20Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6004 "2024-09-01T23:05:14Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6005 "2024-09-01T23:17:01Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ His only complete novel. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6006 "2024-09-01T23:20:29Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6007 "2024-09-02T00:17:57Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6008 "2024-09-02T00:20:03Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6009 "2024-09-02T00:24:47Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Housekeeping. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6010 "2024-09-02T01:30:02Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Flemming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6011 "2024-09-02T01:36:49Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Flemming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6012 "2024-09-02T02:46:06Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ About the Cuban Missile Crisis. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6013 "2024-09-02T03:01:56Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6014 "2024-09-02T03:07:16Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6015 "2024-09-02T03:38:44Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6016 "2024-09-02T03:43:20Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6017 "2024-09-02T04:41:20Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ Plath, Sylvia - _The Bell Jar_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6018 "2024-09-02T10:21:00Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ Plath, Sylvia - _The Bell Jar_ Quintus of Smyrna - _Posthomerica_ ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6019 "2024-09-02T11:45:15Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ Plath, Sylvia - _The Bell Jar_ Quintus of Smyrna - _Posthomerica_ Rabelais, François - _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6020 "2024-09-02T12:23:27Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ Plath, Sylvia - _The Bell Jar_ Quintus of Smyrna - _Posthomerica_ Rabelais, François - _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ Stevenson, Robert Louis - _Treasure Island_ ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097/6021 "2024-09-02T13:47:21Z")
**Authors** Adams, Douglas - _The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy_ Balzac, Honoré de - _The Human Comedy_ Connelly, Michael - _The Lincoln Lawyer_ Dick, Philip K. - _The Man in the High Castle_ Edgar Allan Poe - _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket_ Fenn, Lionel - _Kent Montana And The Really Ugly Thing From Mars_ Grahame, Kenneth - _The Wind in the Willows_ Heinlein, Robert A - _The Pursuit of the Pankera_ Ian Fleming - _Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang_ Jackson, Shirley - _The Haunting of Hill House_ Kennedy, Robert F. - _Thirteen Days_ Lewis, Sinclair - _It Can’t Happen Here_ Mann, Thomas - _Buddenbrooks_ Nabokov, Vladimir - _Lolita_ Orwell, George - _Nineteen Eighty Four_ Plath, Sylvia - _The Bell Jar_ Quintus of Smyrna - _Posthomerica_ Rabelais, François - _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ Stevenson, Robert Louis - _Treasure Island_ Tey, Josephine - _The Daughter of Time_ One of the writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. In 1990, _The Daughter of Time_ (1951) was selected by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; _The Franchise Affair_, also by Tey, was 11th on the same list of 100 books. My favorite book of hers is _Brat Farrar_, which I plan to reread now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097.md?page=300) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-2/969097.md?page=302)