Vanna Goes out of Business Part 12

lLonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
avoid: O; L

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Avoid E and P

Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell (read April 2013)

letters to avoid: I and B

Ellen Rogers
by James T. Farrell

E; R

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (read in childhood)

letters to avoid: O and J

The Thirty-nine Steps
by John Buchan
E; T

Handling Sin
by Michael Malone

I; N

The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (read May 2013)

letters to avoid: O and M

Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
E; N

Alaska Virgin Air by Izzy Ballard (read April 2013)

letters to avoid: A & R

Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
I; J

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: O & C

Butterfield Eight
by John OʻHara

E*; F

*E is the forbidden vowel whether the 2nd word is written as "Eight" or "8".

Lysistrata by Aristophanes (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: A & S

The Lockwood Concern
by John OʻHara
O; L

558. The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (read 18 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1950)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Pharsalia *
by Lucan
A; P

* Fiction mainly, although based on a historical civil war. Purist classicists object to
this title because Pharsalus, main battle of the war, appears in only one book of the ten.

4979. The Juror, by George Dawes Green (read 25 Nov 2012)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: A and L

The Fisher King
by Anthony Powell
E; F

1441. Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert translated by J. C. Chartres (read 29 Mar 1977)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and M

End Zone
by Don De Lillo
E; N

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: O and D

A Theft by Saul Bellow
A; F

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (read May 2013)

letters to avoid: I and W

Scroll of Saqqara by Pauline Gedge
A; S

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (read May 2013)

letters to avoid: E and L

3290. Waiting, by Ha Jin (read 30 Jan 2000) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1999) (PEN/Faulkner winner for 2000)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and W

The Cross on the Drum by Hugh B. Cave (read July 2013)

letters to avoid: E and S

Lucy Crown
by Irwin Shaw
U; C

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (read July 2013)

letters to avoid: E and M

Julian by Gore VIdal
U; J

1814. A Division of the Spoils a Novel by Paul Scott (read 27 Nov 1983)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

Othello by William Shakespeare (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: O and L

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
A; H

Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn

O; G

A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (read March 2013)

letters to avoid: A and D

Poenulus
by Plautus
U; P

Hard Rain by Barry Eisler

A and N

1761. Dead Souls, by Nicolai V. Gogol translated by George Reavey (read 22 Jan 1983)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and D

Growing Up by Angela Thirkell (read Feb. 2013)

letters to avoid: O and G

Catherine Carmier
by Ernest Gaines
E; C

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

A; N

4798. The Crisis, by David Poyer (read 8 Feb 2011)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

Wyandotte
by James Fenimore Cooper
A; W

4528. The Thief of Time, by John Boyne (read 25 Jan 2009)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Libra by Don De Lillo
I; L

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (read Feb. 2013)

letters to avoid: E and C

Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
A; S

The Fruit of the Tree - Edith Wharton

// avoiding E; F //

Mantrap
by Sinclair Lewis
A; R

925. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (read 2 Nov 1967)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and K

A Fable by William Faulkner
A; B

346.The White Tower, by James Ramsey Ullman (read 25 Aug 1948)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons

avoid O and N

The Irish R. M.
by E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross

I; R

5042. Then We Came to the End A Novel by Joshua Ferris (read 9 Jul 2013)

A pretty long title for this game, eh?

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
I; L

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Avoid E, A

Wyoming!
by Dana Fuller Ross
O; W

146. The Ship, by C. S. Forester (read 14 Mar 1944)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and H

Colorado!
by Dana Fuller Ross
O; C

5039. The Dinner Party, by Howard Fast (read 1 Jul 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

A and S

New Mexico!
by Dana Fuller Ross

E; N

546. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (read 24 June 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1934)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and M

The Call of the Canyon
by Zane Grey
E; C

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

A, M

Somebody in Boots
by Nelson Algren

O; S

566. A Death in the Family, by James Agee (read 4 Jan 1959) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1958)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and T

Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
O; L

4258. Fear Is the Key, by Alistair MacLean (read 14 Jan 2007)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and F

Joplin's Ghost
by Tananarive Due
O; G

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

S; I

Junky
by William Burroughs
U; J

524. The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, by John P. Marquand (read 29 Oct 1957) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1938)

Has there ever been a longer title used in this game? U and J are exceptionally easy to avoid.

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Mississippi!
by Dana Fuller Ross

"Has a (13+ -word) title ever been used in this game?"

-- I doubt it. Not checking before 07/13, but scrolling up, the longest title I see in this thread is your own 8-worder (57); I set up the
"avoid" letters on that
one: I and R.

Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman - read last month

E and S

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyem

82 > 83
forbidden letters: A; R
(I think there are 4 A s in the 5 word title of "Rubaiyat..." --w/the last
word ending in -AM, not -EM.

// A; R //

Roland in #80 you say to avoid L but your title has no L. Seems to me you have to pick as a consonant m, s, or p. Which is it? Assuming it is S, I am playing on #80 and avoiding I and S:

3540. Prayer at Rumayla A Novel of the Gulf War, by Charles Sheehan-Miles (read 14 Feb 2002)

Letters to avoid in fictional title: A and R

57>80 > 84

The "avoid" in 80 was an awkwardly used adjective,
not a command, and it referred, in a pedantic commentary, to what WAS to be avoided back in 56>57.
(That was really I and R, anyway, not I and L!)
But, sorry, I did forget to write down what to avoid for 81.
The vowel was of course I, and then M S or P should have been specified,as you say, for the consonant. It looks like 81 took it to be M or P

// A; R // (84)

The Clue of the New Pin
by Edgar Wallace
E; C

2677. Paris Trout, by Pete Dexter (read 20 Nov 1994) (National Book award fiction prize in 1988)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and R

The People with the Dogs by Christina Stead

E and P

Outlaws by George V. Higgins
O; W

4993. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich (read 21 Jan 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

King John
by William Shakespeare
I; J

Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross

O and G

3386. The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (read 6 Jan 2001) (Booker prize in 2000)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

Pan by Knut Hamsun
A; P

Jingo by Terry Pratchett

J and I

The Swords of Lankhmar
by Fritz Leiber
O; L

4924. Private Screening, by Richard North Patterson (read 23 May 2012)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Blitzcat
by Robert Westall
I; C

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

E;N

A Sparrow Falls
by Wilbur Smith
A; S

Diane, #99 is not fiction. But #100 also avoids I and C so I am playing on #100:

4809. Dog on It, by Spencer Quinn (Peter Abrahams) (read 26 Mar 2011)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and D

I am a* Cat
by Soseki Natsume

A; C

*Has also been translated as
"I am THE Cat"; that also avoids O and D, but I always
prefer an E-less title, no matter what are the current
forbidden letteres

Sorry about not succeeding in keeping these games straight!!

Little Women byLouisa May Alcott

I;N

Couples by John Updike
O; C

532. The Primitive by Feike Feikema (read 29 Mar 1958)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and T

Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
U; H

A Life of Privilege, Mostly by Gardner Botsford

avoiding: I; L

The Women at the Pump
by Knut Hamsun
E; W

Dian, is #107 fiction? I don't think so, though I have not read it.

4147. Small Island, by Andrea Levy (read 4 Apr 2006) (Whitbread Book of the Year for 2004)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and L

Voss by Patrick White
O; V

4000. Camille, by Alexandre Dumas, fils (read 21 Mar 2005)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and L

Going, Going, Gone by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (read Aug. 2012)

Letters to avoid: O and G

Roland, your #113 does not avoid O so I am playing on #112, avoiding O and G:

3692. What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg (read 1 Feb 2003)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and S

Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
O; V

>109 Schmerguls: you are right.

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

E,L

Shouldn't the next forbidden vowel be A (116>117)?
(3 A s and one E in Animal Dreams)

// A; L //
You Must Remember This
by Joyce Carol Oates
E; M

Bobbin Up by Dorothy Hewett

O and B

1054. Justine by Lawrence Durrell (read 30 May 1970)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: U and J

A World I Never Made
by James T. Farrell*
E; W

*Or, as Touchstones informs me, by James LePore (!)
--That one's new to me. This title also evokes, briefly, an edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (!) as a sidebar

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

S and A

Except the Lord
by Joyce Cary

Avoiding E and T:

87. Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune (read c 1941)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and D

The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser
E; S

Idoru by William Gibson

I and D

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

E and S

Baraka and Black Magic in Morocco
by Rick Smith
A; B

Die Trying by Lee Child

I and D

The Tenth Man
by Paddy Chayevsky
E; M

2386. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (read 27 May 1991) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)

Letters to aqvoid in a fictional title: I and R

Un Lun dun by China Miéville

U and N

Roland, you do not avoid U. Playing on #131, the last correct post:

5003. The Key to Rebecca, by Ken Follett (read 8 Mar 2013)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Ringworld by Larry Niven (read Feb. 2013)

Letters to avoid: I and R

Absalom, Absalom
by William Faulkner
A; S

4835. Ripley Under Ground, by Patricia Highsmith (read 21 Jun 2011)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller
O; G

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

E and N

1642. Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (read 8 July 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1976)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: U and T

A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
A; F

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read Aug. 2012)

Letters to avoid: E and M

Vanity of Duluoz
by Jack Kerouac
O; V

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

A and L

Trinity
by Leon Uris
I; T

1465. Peter Abelard A Novel, by Helen Waddell (read 9 Oct 1977)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Fasti*
by Ovid
A; F

*primarily fictional; although based on history, myth and legend, it has never been considered a non-fiction. The title means roughly: "Calendar" or
"Holidays". It has been translated (by rolandperkins and others), but I don't think it has ever been given an English title.

4544. Winnie-the-Pooh The Color Edition,by A. A. Milne (read 11 Mar 2009)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
E; D

Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans (read Oct. 2012)

letters to avoid: A and R

3194. The Field of Vision, by Wright Morris (read 10 May 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize 1957)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and F

The Deep Sleep
by Wright Morris
E; D

Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (read Jan. 2013)

letters to avoid: O & P

Hawai'i
by James Michener

A; H

4460. Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens (read 20 Jul 2008)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and T

Band of Angels
by Robert Penn Warren
A; B

The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart (read last Sept. 2012)

letters to avoid: E & T

Araby by James Joyce
A; R

5057. The Go-Between, by L. P. Hartley (read 24 Aug 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Avoid: I and K

2068. Volcano: A Novel, by Shusaku Endo translated from the Japanese by Richard A. Schuchert (read 25 Mar 1987)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and V

The Chairman by Stephen Frey

Avoid: A ; M

1020. Set This House on Fire, by William Styron (read 31 Aug 1969)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and S

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Avoid: O : L

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
I; N

531. The Castle by Franz Kafka Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir (read 17 Feb 1958)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: T and E

ADA, or: Ardor
by Vladimir Nabokov
A; D

3186. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy (read 23 Apr 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1962)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter
A; L

5057. The Go-Between, by L. P. Hartley (read 24 Aug 2013)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

D'ri and I
by Irving Bacheller

I; D

2992. The Source a novel by James A. Michener (read 2 Jul 1997)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Apolloʻs Song
by Osamu Tezuka
O; P

white teeth by zadie smith; currently reading

avoid e, h

(edited to fix letters to avoid; it's my first time!)

376. Lady into Fox, by David Garnett (read 30 Jul 1950)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1922)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and L

Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I; P

(Thanks for relieving us of
the chain of E and T "Forbids", Schmerguls!)

the voyage out by virginia woolf

avoid letters e and t

David Balfour
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A; B

the perfect storm by sebastian hunger

avoid e and t (again!)

Elisa, I see some call The Perfect Storm fiction but it claims it is not and says it is true, so I am playing on #181:

5052. The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak (read 12 Aug 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and T

>182 Schmerguls: (of course! i had totally forgotten it is nonfiction!)

midwives by chris bohjalian

avoid: i and m

The God Seeker
by Sinclair Lewis
E; G

505. Aaron's Rod, by D. H. Lawrence (read 19 Dec 1956)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and R

Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence

O; W

5031. Dancing at the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig (read 6 Jun 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and N

Roland, there's an a in your title.

Homerʻs Flight*
by Rabindranath Maharaj
O; H

". . .thereʻs an a in your title"
(188 > 189)
Sorry, I guess I was (in my mind) spelling
"b u c k E r o o", but didnʻt get that onto the screen. To sound erudite, Iʻll note (no excuse) that it is said to come from the Spanish "vaquEro".

I notice, b t w, Schmerguls,
re our conversations of a few weeks ago about Touchstones,
that titles with apostrophes
are again not faring very well
in emerging from Touchstoens/Search. For a while I was having a successful skein of "in blue"> sidebar,
with test apostrophe-titles. Touchstones/Search.
Homerʻs Flight (above) is an example

2141. Bel-Ami, by Guy De Maupassant translated by Douglas Parmee (read 7 Apr 1988)

Letters to avoid in a fictional tile: E and B

Roland I have never had the trouble you talk about re apostrophes. E.G:

5063. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay (read 10 Sep 2013)

".. ... I have NEVER had the trouble you talk about re apostrophes. . ." (101) (emphasis added)

Oh. Well, good! I thought
you meant some weeks ago
that the apostrophes were
just starting to come through
at that time.

// E; B //

Sanditon by Jane Austen
A; S

(191
/
Sarahʻs Key
putting this in brackets doesnʻt, on my screen, put it in blue; it does give a "No Results" message. )

4278. Holly, by Albert French (read 21 Feb 2007)

Touchstone goes to wrong book and the right book is not listed under "other" though about 30 other books are listed!

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and L

Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
A; T

1987. Ironweed, by William Kennedy (read 9 Mar 1986) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1984) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1983)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Boston by Upton Sinclair
O; B

The Sinful Priest by Emile Zola - also translated as 'The Sin of Father mouret', but my version is the former

Read 30-odd years back

E and R

4922. Old City Hall, by Robert Rotenberg (read 18 May 2012)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and L

Anthem by Ayn Rand
A; H

924. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad (read 26 Oct 1967)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and L

The Diggerʻs Game
by George V. Higgins
E; G

1441. Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert translated by J. C. Chartres (read 29 Mar 1977)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and M

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. HIggins

E; C

270. Valiant Dust, by Percival Christopher Wren (read 21 Jun 1946)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and T

Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis

U; L

3210. Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (read 21 Jun 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1984)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and R

The Face of Time
by James T. Farrell

E; F

4788. Tap Roots. by James Street (read 2 Jan 2011)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and T

Killing Rain by Barry Eisler

Letters to avoid: I and N

The Pogo Papers
by Walt Kelly

E; P

706. Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley (read 25 Aug 1962)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and N

The Shimmer by David Morrell

Letters to avoid: E and R

Outlaws* by George V. Higgins

*Not to be confused with
THE Outlaws by Wayne D. Overholser, which I recently read,and others have probably used the title.

avoiding O and T:

1180. Germinal, by Emile Zola translated by L. W. Tancock (read 13 Aug 1972)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and G

Rabbit is Rich
by John Updike

I; B

2661. The Lost Traveller A Novel by Antonia White (read 9 Oct 1994)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and L

I Go Pogo
O; P

983. The Reivers A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner (read 30 Nov 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1963)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Potluck Pogo
by Walt Kelly
O; L

2883. The Runaway Jury, by John Grisham (read 1 Jul 1996)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: U and R

The Odyssey by Homer (currently rereading using the Alexander Pope translation)

Letters to avoid: E and S

Argonautica
by Apollonius of Rhodes
A; G

3842. The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (read 1 Jan 2004) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2004) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2003)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

Ilias / The Iliad
by Homer

I; L

4687. The Track of the Cat, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (read 24 Mar 2010)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Company Man by Joseph Finder

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and N

High Crimes
by Joseph Finder*

I; H

*On Favorites List

3903. The Emperor's General A Novel by James Webb (read 25 Jun 2004)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Pylon by William Faulkner
O; P

2399. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley (read 28 July 1991)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1939)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and M

Point Counterpoint
by Aldous Huxley
O; C

3533. Shane, by Jack Schaefer (read 28 Jan 2002)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and S

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (currently reading)

Letters to avoid: O and M

Whitejacket
by Herman Melville
E; W

546. Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (read 24 June 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1934)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and B

Chatterton
by Peter Ackroyd
A; C

Exodus by Leon Uris

E ; D

2386. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (read 27 May 1991) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and R

The Coup by John Updike
E; C

501. Kings Row, by Henry Bellamann (read 25 July 1956)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and K

The Prospect before us
by Herbert Gold
E; P

i, claudius by robert graves; finished earlier this week

avoid i and c

Love Story by Erich Segal

Avoid: O, T

Enjoy:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247

Kubla Khan, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do the game accept a poem's title as a valid title instead of a fiction book or a novel?

Kindly verify.

When I click on Roland's Kubla Khan (#246) I don't get Coleridge's poem but a book by somebody else. I think what is entered needs to be an actual book title.

246-248
/
If Kubla Khan isn't fiction,(247) I've never read a fiction in my life! But, thinking back,
I think it was ruled years ago in a different, older game that the title must
be one that appeared as the main title on on a title
page, and that's unlikely*, in the case of Kubla Khan
"Fiction" doesn't have to be a novel, -- can be a long poem or a short story, but I remember a
short story's being rejected because it had appeared only
in a literary journal.
And we never did settle, more recently, whether a screen play is eligible.
However I'll delete it.

*But not impossible. Touchstones offers Nick Bantock's (?) Kubla Khan: a pop-up version . . . which I haven't seen but being a pop-up wouldn't suddenly make it a non-fiction.
Thanks for the link to the all-too-short Coleridge text, razzamajazz. The late Robert B. Parker, b t w,
used "A Savage Place" (in line 14 of Kubla Khan)
as the title of an otherwise very un-Coleridgean novel.

Playing on 245, replacing 246
(Avoid O and T)

Krazy Kat ( a novel loosely based on George Herriman's
comic strip)
by Jay Cantor

avoid: A; K

Touchstones will be regarded as a "benchmark" whether the posted book title is an actual published fiction book.The title having no fictional content is an invalid, not acceptable entry or posting.

Message 259: Avoid which letters?

249>250 "Avoid which letters?"
Avoid A and K.
". . .title having no fictional content is. . .invalid . ."
Both Kubla Khan (the poem, original post in 246)
and Krazy Kat (250) DO have fictional content.

shogun by james clavell

avoid o and s

3151. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle (read 21 Jan 1999) (Booker prize in 1993)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and H

buyer's remorse by lori l lake

avoid e and r

McDonough
by Francis Field
O; D

b t w, Schmerguls, getting
"a book by somebody (other than Coleridge)" when you click on Kubla Khan is nothing! For something really extraneous to what was clicked on, try clicking on the above "McDonough". (But the real thing IS in the data base.)

Roland, one would think that if the book is in the LibraryThing data base it would be listed in the "other" list, but I know that is not necessarily so, because I never use any book which I have not read and all the books I have read are in LibraryThing, and yet sometimes even under "other" I do not find the right book...

5030. English Creek, by Ivan Doig (read 4 Jun 2013)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and N

Outlaws*
by Wayne Overholser

O; L

*Same title has been used by
the great George V. Higgins

1865. Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford (read 7 Sep 1984)

Letters to avoid in a fiictional title: A and D

Our Mr. Wrenn

by Sinclair Lewis
O; W

1643. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte (read 13 July 1981)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

The Natural by Bernard Malamud
A; N

528. I Pomessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (5 Dec 1957) (Book of the Year)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: (using the Italian title only) I and S

Note: In this game, a book title in a language other than English is acceptable ? Fiction or Non-fiction.

No, Razz, the book must be fiction, but the title can be in a foreign lnaguage provided the title is in Roman letters.

Roland, #266 has an I which is the vowel to be avoided so no one has yet played correctly on #264

"The title can be in a (non-English) language" provided the title is in Roman
letters." (268)
Good answer to 267. Sorry I erred on the forbidden letter, while straining to keep to the "Fiction Only" Rule.

// avoid I and S //(264)

Fontamara by Ignazio Silone
A; F

3845. My Brother's Keeper, by Marcia Davenport (read 11 Jan 2004)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

My Antonia by Willa Cather
A; N

4563. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (read 23 Apr 2009) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 2009)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and T

Summer by Edith Wharton

U; M

1811. The Jewel in the Crown a novel by Paul Scott (read 20 Nov 1983)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Brand by Henrik Ibsen
A; B

4981. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich (read 4 Dec 2012) (National Book Award fiction prize in 2012)

Letters to avoid in the title of a fictional book: E and H

Barabbas by Paer Lagerkvist
A; S

1196. The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford (read 12 Nov 1972 - re-read 15 Apr 1991)

Letters to avoid in the title of a fictional book: E and N

Piccadilly Jim
by P. G. Wodehouse
I; P

3353. Mayday A Novel, by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block (read 24 Sep 2000)

Letters to avoid in the title of a fictional book: A and Y

Zotz! by Walter Karig
O; T

985. The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (read 5 Dec 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1967) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1967)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

283 uses the forbidden T of
282 (in the article of "T H E fixer")

You are rightt, Roland. Don't know how I missed that. Try this one:

2679. Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson (read 25 Nov 1994) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1990)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and D

ghostwalk by rebecca stott

avoid g and o

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
A; B

4995. Forrest Gump The Novel by Winston Groom (read 23 Jan 2013)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian (read Sep. 2013)

Letters to avoid: A and P

World so Wide
by Sinclair Lewis
O; W

3225. Spartina, by John Casey (read 3 Aug 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1989)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and S

Except the Lord
by Joyce Cary
E; C

3036. Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks (read 21 Nov 1997)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and B

the human factor by graham greene

avoid a, h

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
E; F

1075. A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (read 13 Sep 1970)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and L

The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
E; M

4555. Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank (read 6 Apr 2009)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and L

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer - just finished

E and T

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (read in the early 1980s)

Letters to avoid: A and B

Our Mr. Wrenn
by Sinclair Lewis
O;* W

*The spelling "Mr.", rather than Mister" is used on
L T's book page, making O, not E the next forbidden vowel.

706. Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley (read 25 Aug 1962)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and N

Ulysses
by James Joyce
U; L

Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

O and D

326. Black Mischief, by Evelyn Waugh (read 27 Apr 1947)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and C

The Loved One
by Evelyn Waugh
E ; N

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Letters to avoid: O and P

Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
E; R

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

U and C

4894. The Art of Fielding A Novel by Chad Harbach (read 10 Jan 2012)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and F

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

Cover her Face
by P. D. James
E; C

3574. Mohawk, by Richard Russo (read 1 May 2002)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and M

Picture This by Joseph Heller I; P

1523. The Year of the French A Novel by Thomas Flanagan (read 28 June 1979) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1979)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and H

Good as Gold
by Joseph Heller

O; G

3386. The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (read 6 Jan 2001) (Booker prize in 2000)

letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and S

By the North Gate
by Gwyn Williams

E; G

3041. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier (read 18 Dec 1997) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1997)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

Roland, there is an N in your title.

The Hill by Ray Rigby
E; L

442. Hangsaman, by Shirley Jackson (read 31 Aug 1952)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and N

The Wrecker
by* Robert Louis Stevenson
E; W

*The title has also been used by Clive Cussler

3507. Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo (read 3 Dec 2001)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

The Maze Runner byJames Dashner
Letters to Avoid: E and R

Playing on 327, because 328 does not avoid N

//avoid O; N //
E; C

Dead Cert by Dick Francis

380. John Brown's Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet (read 29 Mar 1951) (Pulitzer poetry prize for 1929)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

Bethel Merriday
by Sinclair Lewis
E; M

174. Laura, by Vera Caspary (read 5 Feb 1945)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and L

Boston by Upton Sinclair
O; B

1893. The New Men, by C. P. Snow (read 20 Dec 1984)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1954)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and N

Mississippi! by Dana Fuller Ross
I; S

3626. Up Country A Novel, by Nelson DeMille (read 9 Sep 2002)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: U and N

The Deep Sleep
by Wright Morris

E; S

(Read ca. 1959)

3542. Coming Up for Air, by George Orwell (read 17 Feb 2002)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and R

Thin Air
by Robert B. Parker
I; T

2681. Burmese Days A novel by George Orwell (read 27 Nov 1994)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and S

Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
A; H

2123. Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark (read 30 Jan 1988)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and M

Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith

O; G

983. The Reivers A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner (read 30 Nov 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1963)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

Stalin's Ghost
by Martin Cruz Smith

A; S

written on the body by jeanette winterson; read ages ago and currently rereading

avoid: t and o

Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson (read in the 1980s)

Letters to avoid: E and N

4105. Saturday, by Ian McEwan (read 14 Dec 2005)(James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 2005)

Letters to avoid in fictional title: A and S

the broker by john grisham

avoid: t and e

Moby Dick by Hermann Melville
O; D

family pictures by sue miller

avoid f and a

Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis
O; W

i, vampire by michael romkey
avoid
i, m

Fathers by Herbert Gold
A; F

#352 incorrectly said the vowel to be avoided was a. Actaully the vowel to be avoided is I since there are two I's and only one a in the title. But Roland, perspicaciously, in #353 avoided I So I am playing on #355:

5085. Wonder, by R. J. Palacio (read 10 Nov 2013)

NEXT: Letters to be avoided in a fictional title: O and W

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis
E; S

3041. Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier (read 18 Dec 1997) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1997)

NEXT: Letters to be avoided in a fictional title: O and N

Max Havelaar
by Multatuli
A; M

1471. Trinity, by Leon Uris (read 21 Dec 1977)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and T

Murder on Embassy Row
by Margaret Truman
E; R

4809. Dog on It, by Spencer Quinn (Peter Abrahams) (read 26 Mar 2011)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and D

Cass Timberlane
by Sinclair Lewis
A; C

479. The Night of the Hunter, by Davis Grubb (read 16 Apr 1955)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

Cimarrron by Edna Fgerber
I; R

2046. Lonesome Dove a novel by Larry McMurtry (read 17 Jan 1987) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1986)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and L

Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
A; B

4777. The Confession, by John Grisham (read 19 Nov 2010)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and N

sorry to break up the roll that rolandperkins and schmerguls are on together...

a christmas carol by charles dickens

avoid: a and c

Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis O; R

Hey, we were feeling lonely and I am glad to have more participants.

928. Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh (read 7 Nov 1967)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and L

Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
A; S

tipping the velvet by sarah waters, read nov 2008

avoid e and t

South Riding by Winifred Holtby
I; R

2671. The Needle's Eye A Novel by Margaret Drabble (read 29 Oct 1994)

No "I" though there is an 'eye'!

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and N

Faraway by J. B. Priestley
A; W

The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon

E and L

2386. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (read 27 May 1991) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and R

Angel Pavement
by J. B. Priestley

E; P

2896. World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow (read 13 Aug 1996) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1986)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and R

the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood

avoid a and t

His Excellency / Son Excellence by Emile Zola
E; S
(forbidden letters taken from the French title).

2315. Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (read 31 July 1990)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and R

Nineteen-nineteen
by John Dos Passos
E; N

537. His Family by Ernest Poole (read 27 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1918)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and H

The Abysmal Brute
by Jack London

E; M

3290. Waiting, by Ha Jin (read 30 Jan 2000) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1999) (PEN/Faulkner winner for 2000)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and W

The Lost Men
by Benedict Thielen

E; M

caravans by james michener

avoid c and a in a fictional title

Our Mr.* Wrenn
by Sinclair Lewis

O; W

*Mr.: So spelled in
its L T page which also
omits the subtitle. The forbidden letter have been taking from this spelling, rather than from the spelling ". . .Mister"

2756. The Rainmaker, by John Grisham (read 10 Jun 1995)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and R

moby dick by herman melville

avoid m and o

363. The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (read 31 Jul 1949) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1939)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and T

"Jacob's Room"
by Virginia Woolf

O; J

5095. Men and Brethren, by James Gould Cozzens (read 3 Dec 2013)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: E and N

Voss by Patrick White
O; V

3674. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (read 5 Jan 2003) (Booker prize in 1981)(Co-winner of James Tait Black Memorial fiction prize for 1981)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and D

On the Beach
by Nevil Shute

E; B

4212. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (read 21 Sep 2006) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1977)

NEXT: letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and N

The Bluest Eye
by Tony Morrison

E; S

qbvii by leon uris

avoid q and i (shouldn't be too hard!)

Exodus
by Leon Uris

E; D

3166. Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott (read 26 Feb 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1998)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: I and L

Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis
O; D

the chains by gerald green

avoid h and e

378. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (read 17 Aug 1950)

NEXT: Letters to avoid in a fictional title: A and D

gone girl by gillian flynn

avoid g and o in a fictional title

Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
I; L

716. Morte D'Urban, by J. F. Powers (read 22 Dec 1962) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1963)

Letters to avoid in a fictional title: O and R

Rolan, your post does not avoid O

(412) does not avoid O.

Right, Of's a wOrd whose O
I might OverlOOk. Canceling it.