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Book titles
[edit]0, A–D
[edit]- The Antitrust Laws of the United States of America (Yale Law Journal Indiana Law Journal)
- Baker's Daughter - author unknown; submitted as plagiarised work
- Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus - award-winning book by a NASA climate scientist about how he reduces his fossil fuel use to one tenth the U.S. average, and why this is meaningful and satisfying. Published in 2017 by New Society Publishers. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
- Billur Köşk - sometimes translated as Crystal Palace or Crystal Kiosk, a collection of Turkish Anatolian tales published in the late 19th century.[1][2][3]
- The Book of the Wonders of India - a famous book equal to in significance as Arabian Nights; written in early India with 136 stories; supposedly real stories but seem a little far-fetched but still an important book (Muslim Heritage, Amazon, The MUA, JSTOR, Oxford Journals JSS (PDF))
- Beretta 606824 by Amirisetti Gopal - It is a book about the journey of the gun that killed Mahatma Gandhi. Andhra Jyothi, Sakshi, Eenadu
- Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society and Capture American Politics, by Elle Reeve (NYT, WaPo, PW)
- Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
- The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles (West. Am. Lit., St. Am. Jewish Lit.)
- Cactus Yearbook - yearbook for the University of Texas at Austin
- Can I Have a Chocolate Milkshake? Times of India Hindu GoMilitary
- The City at Stake: Secession, Reform and the Battle for Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, University of California Press)
- The Colossus Rises (redirect) - by Peter Lerangis; part of the Seven Wonders series; ; ;
- Coming Out to Play - by Robbie Rogers; ; ; ; ; ;
- Deephaven (novel) - by Sarah Orne Jewett; ; ; ; ;
- Department 19 (series) - by Will Hill; original series involving vampires and a secret orginization trying to stop them from global domination; references to Frankenstein (novel) (by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) and Dracula (novel) (by Bram Stoker); , ; ; ; ; ;
- DragonHeart (novelization) (ISBN 1572971304)- by Charles Edward Pogue; a novelization of the 1996 film based on his screenplay; ;
- The Drowning of Stephan Jones - by Bette Greene; book inspired by the murder of Charlie Howard; ; ; ; , ; )
- "The Drug Problem in America" (note the capitalization and quotation marks) - one of several titles used for an anonymously written commentary using drug abuse as an analogy for another meaning of "drug": the past participle of "drag" meaning.
E–I
[edit]- The Embedding - a science-fiction novel by Ian Watson (, )
- Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion - by Jane Ellen Harrison;
- Falling Kingdoms series - by Morgan Rhodes; ; ;
- The Familiar: Into the Forest - a novel by Mark Z. Danielewski; the second volume in The Familiar series; ; ;
- Forty-Five - a graphic novel (comic book) by Andi Ewington; cited at Jock, Frazer Irving, Lee Carter, Matt Timson, and Com.x; ; ;
- Four Meetings - by Henry James; ; ;
- From the Journal of a Leper - an autobiography by John Updike; published 1978 in small numbers, for sale at $250 and up, not generally available in any library; a bit of a mystery book by a major American author; ; ; ;
- Frostborn - by Lou Anders; ; ; ; ;
- The Future Lasts Forever - by Louis Pierre Althusser; ;
- A Girl Named Sooner (novel) - by Suzanne Clauser; ;
- Grimpow: The Invisible Road by Rafael Ábalos; ; ;
- The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service - by Charles M. Fraser ; ; ; ; ; ;
- Homer for the Holidays by Nancy Levine - USA Today Books, SF Gate
- "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa - by Charles Brandt ;
- I'll Be There (Sloan novel) - by Holly Goldberg Sloan; ; ;
- The Impregnable Fortress - by Saddam Hussein
- In Search of April Raintree - by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier; ; ;
- The Infinite Loop by Pierrick Colinet and Elsa Charretier, graphic novel about time/continuity police with themes about acceptance, difference, diversity, LGBT (, , , , , , , )
- It Chicks - a novel by Tia Williams; chronicles the lives of black students attending an elite performing arts academy; ;
J–M
[edit]- Kings of Colorado - by David E. Hilton; ; ; ; ;
- The Latte Rebellion - a novel by Sarah Jamila Stevenson; ; ;
- Leadership and Self-Deception - Best-selling business book from The Arbinger Institute - ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
- Legend of Old Stone Ranch - epic poem by John Worth Cloud, published in 1968, Texas' official state epic poem
- Whoever creates this, if you could also add it to the List of Texas state symbols, that would be great, thanks.
- Loving Will Shakespeare - by Carolyn Meyer; ; ; ;
- Malka (book) (also known as Malka Mai) - by Mirjam Pressler; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; mentions awards
- The Mango Season - by Amulya Malladi; ; ; ;
- The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film - by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp; asianreporter.com Newtype USA protoculture.ca; stonebridge.com; sequentialtart.com;
- The Missouri Supreme Court: From Dred Scott to Nancy Cruzan JSTOR Oxford U. Press
- Movies Are Magic - by Jennifer Churchill; published by Churchill Public Relations; ;
- The Mug of Melancholy - first novel by Rohit Chakraborty; published 2015, 4 Hour Books (imprint of Tara Press); ; ; ; ; ;
- My Basmati Bat Mitzvah - by Paula J. Freedman; a middle-grade novel about a Indian-Jewish-American girl considering diverse aspects of her identity in the months leading up to her Bat Mitzvah; published by Amulet Books (an imprint of Abrams); ; ; ; )
- The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity - by Amir D. Aczel; (; ; )
N–O
[edit]- Nabi: The Prototype - manhwa by Yeon-Joo Kim (Original: 나비 - NABI, ).
- Nightshade (series) (URL|nightshadebook.com}}) - by Andrea Cremer; contains Nightshade (2010 novel), Wolfsbane (novel), Bloodrose, and Rift (novel). , , ; ; , )
- The 9/11 Wars - by Jason Burke; ; ; ,
- Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis - by Joseph Tabbi; first book-length biography of postmodern author William Gaddis; published May 2015, Northwestern University Press; reviews have appeared in The Nation (), Flavorwire (), and Publisher's Weekly ()
- Now It's Funny: How I Survived Cancer, Divorce and Other Looming Disasters - non-fiction book by Michael Solomon; ; ;
- The Norton Shakespeare - by Stephen Greenblatt; ;
- Ocean Roads - by James George; ;
- October in the Chair - short story by Neil Gaiman; collected in his book Fragile Things ()
- "Ode on the Poets" - ode by John Keats; Barteby
- On a Farther Shore, a biography of Rachel Carson (NYT Science News Nature)
- The Open Classroom - non-fiction book by Herbert Kohl; about alternative education, seems to have been very influential (;
- "Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression, by Cheryl Greenberg
- Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi by Kanagaki Robun and Utagawa Yoshitora, c. 1853, Japanese art book on history of USA, http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/bunko11_a0380_0002/bunko11_a0380_0002.html
P–S
[edit]- Pandemonium (book) - by Daryl Gregory; won, Crawford Award;
- Panthea (poem) - poem by Oscar Wilde; Bartelby
- The Paper Bag Principle - by Audrey Elisa Kerr;
- Parallel Journeys - by Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck; ;
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay - winner of the Freeman Book Award for YA and a finalist for National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for YA, the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best YA, and the Carnegie Medal ()
- The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World - by Manu Bhagavan
- Platform Souls - by Nicholas Whittaker; 'a cult classic'; first published in 1995 and in a 20th-anniversary edition in 2015. Google.com plus many newspaper references from The Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian, etc etc, also cited under the word 'trainspotter' in the Oxford English Dictionary; Picknick99 (talk) 13:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- "Please Don't Kill the Freshman" - by Zoe Fisher, under the pen name Zoe Trope; A memoir written by a high schooler at the beginning of the new century that gives an angsty but honest reflection of being a queer teenager at the time. Published by Harper Collins in 2003. Author's website, Future Tense Books, Publishers Weekly, Willamette Week, Internet Archive
- Poetae Comici Graeci (PCG) - reference work for the whole of Ancient Greek Comedy, a genre which flourished in antiquity for over a millennium, from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD, sh:Poetae comici Graeci, Ancient Greek Comedy
- The Rest of Us Just Live Here - by Patrick Ness; a young adult fantasy/contemporary novel about a group of friends who live in the same town as the Chosen Ones and witness all the another-end-of-the-world stuff from the sidelines while also worrying about exams, experiencing first love, and basically trying to sort out their lives; nominated for Carnegie Medal (literary award) in 2016; , ,
- Shadows of Your Black Memory - by Donato Ndongo; about the Equatorial New Guinea on the road to independence and its conflicts with Spain; ;
- Siege of Mithila (redirect) - by Ashok Banker; ;
- The Sky Fisherman - novel by Craig Lesley ;
- Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor - by Matt Latimer; ; ; )
- The Spoils of Partition - history by Joya Chatterji; ; ; ; ;
- The Story of My Tits - graphic novel by Jennifer Hayden about a woman who must deal with breast cancer and a double mastectomy (Top Shelf Comix, Publishers Weekly, ; Publishers Weekly, Broken Frontier, AV Club, Comic Book Resources, Bleeding Cool, Library Journal Reviews)
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson - (Publishers Weekly NPR, EW, Kirkus Reviews)
T–Z
[edit]- Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant - by Emily Dickinson
- The Testing - by Joelle Charbonneau; first book in The Testing trilogy; ; ; ;
- Then (novel) - by Morris Gleitzman; ; ;
- Thick as Thieves (biography) - by Steve Geng; ; ;
- This Dark Endeavour - by Kenneth Oppel; ; ; ;
- This Song Will Save Your Life - by Leila Sales; ; ; ;
- The Tradition of the New - by Harold Rosenberg; ;
- Triumph of Hope - by Ruth Elias; ; ; ;
- Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, by Cheryl Greenberg
- The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook - by Andrew Doughty; there are seven editions; ; ;
- Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 by Nasser Mohajer
- The Warhole Economy by Elizabeth Currid - (Economist, Wiley Online Library)
- The Year of Fog - by Michelle Richmond (, )
- The Zombie Autopsies - ; ;
Characters
[edit]- Gajapati Kulapati - highly popular picture-book character in India; ; ; ;
Other book-related topics
[edit]- Digital scholarly edition (DSE)
- list of highest-grossing books - to go with the list of highest-grossing films page
References
[edit]- ↑ Menzel, Theodor. Billur Köschk: 14 türkische Märchen, zum ersten mal nach den beiden Stambuler Drucken der Märchensammlung ins Deutsche übersetzt. Hannover: Lafaire, 1923 [erschienen] 1924.
- ↑ Giese, Friedrich (1925). Türkische Märchen [Turkish Fairy Tales] (in German). Eugen Diederichs Verlag. pp. 2 (source and notes).
- ↑ ERTİZMAN, AYŞE ARZU (2020). Billur Köşk masalları [Crystal Manor folk tales] (Doctoral) (in Turkish). Istanbul Üniversitesi.