100+ Books with numbers 1 - 100 (and beyond) in the titles (in progress)
Submitted by evildonut on Fri, 03/18/2005 - 02:44
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- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Sozhenitsyn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie, One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello, One For the Money - Janet Evanovich
- A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie
- The Three Musketeers - Dumas, Murder in Three Acts - Agatha Christie
- The Big Four - Agatha Christie, The Four-Story Mistake - Elizabeth Enright
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Alborn, Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
- Six of One - Rita Mae Brown
- Seven Types of Ambiguity - Elliot Perlman, The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie, House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne (ed. note: ugh, I despise Hawthorne), Seventy Times Seven - Brandt Dodson
- The Eight - Katherine Neville
- Nine Tomorrows - Asimov
- Ten Little Niggers (Agatha Christie) (the book is no longer available under that title)
- Eleven - Highsmith
- Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
- Thirteen O'Clock, Thirteen at Dinner, The Thirteen Problems - all Agatha Christie, The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
- Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowd - Stephen Zanichkowsky
- Dick Sand, or: A Captain at Fifteen - Verne
- Sweet 16 - Kate Brian
- "Arcanum 17", André Breton
- Eighteen - Jan Burke
- Nineteen Nineteen - John Dos Passos
- "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas
- 21 - Jeremy Iverson
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba: Stories - Fenolgio
- If I Were Four and Twenty - W. B. Yeats
- Twenty Five Milk Runs - Richard Riley Johnson
- Portrait of an Artist With Twenty-Six Horses by William Eastlake
- Twenty-Seven Bones: A Thriller by Jonathan Nasaw
- Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle
- 31 Songs - Nick Hornby
- The 39 Steps - John Buchan
- North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
- "The Forty-Five Guardsmen" by Alexandre Dumas
- Forty-Six Years in the Army by John McAllister Schofield
- "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon
- Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Fifty-Two Days by Camel - Lawrie Raskin
- Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Sixty-Six - Barry Levinson
- Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine - Bennett Lear Fairorth
- Seventy Times Seven (A Colton Parker Mystery) by Brandt Dodson
- Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom - Rachel Pollack
- Around the World in 80 Days - Verne
- 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
- The Ninety Days of Genevieve by Lucinda Carrington
- God Has Ninety-Nine Names - Judith Miller, The Mystery of the 99 Steps (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) by Carolyn G. Keene
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- others:
- 0. And Then There Were None, Towards Zero - both Agatha Christie, One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello, Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
- 10.5. The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
- 451. Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
- 1001. One Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
- 1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
- 1985. 1985 - Burgess
- 2001. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
- 2010. 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke
- 2061. 2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke
- 3001. 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
- 20000. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
- 100000. One, None and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
Author Comments:
Please contribute! Inspired by dgeiser13's link to songs with numbers in the title.
Rita Mae Brown - Six of One
Alexander Dumas - The Three Muskateers
Katherine Neville - The Eight
done - thanks!
My suggestions:
Ten Little Niggers (Agatha Christie) (the book is no longer available under that title)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
More to come...
Oh, and what about:
Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
You could use:
Sozhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Highsmith: Eleven
Verne: Dick Sand, or: A Captain at Fifteen
Orwell: Ninteen Eighty-Four (cheating?)
Fenolgio: The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba: Stories
How About These:
-31 Songs, Nick Hornby
-The 39 Steps, John Buchan
-The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
Isaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows
Judith Miller - God Has Ninety-Nine Names
What about:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
1985 by Anthony Burgess (if you're using 1984)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
I'm not sure how you would use the last one... I read the title as 4-5-1, not 4 hundred... etc
Thanks for the suggestions. I included "One ..." and "1985", as well as Fahrenheit 451 at number 451, as it is fundamentally four hundred fifty-one degrees at which paper burns in the novel. I left out "The Third Reich" as it is not a cardinal, but rather an ordinal, number - the basis for a whole new list, I suspect, if one wanted.
Thirteen O'Clock - Enid Blyton
The Big Four - Agatha Christie, The Four-Story Mistake - Elizabeth Enright
A quick look at the Agatha Christie bookshelf reveals:
Thirteen at Dinner
The Big Four
Five Little Pigs
Murder in Three Acts
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
And Then There Were None
4:50 From Paddington
Towards Zero
The Thirteen Problems
The Seven Dials Mystery
Does the Novel 100 count?
I haven't heard of it (but that doesn't mean anything)- is the book's title "100" or "Novel 100"? Do you have the author's name? I can't seem to access amazon.com to look it up ...
It's actually called "The Novel 100" by Daniel S Burt. The reason I'm not sure it should count is that it's like Book Lust; it's really just a list of stuff to read.
Here's the link
I found a few more for you:
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon
"The Forty-Five Guardsmen" by Alexandre Dumas
"Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas
84, Charing Cross Rd - Helene Hanff
Ten Books of Architecture- Vitruvius
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
As I Look At Life by 14 Famous Writers
thanks! I'm disqualifying Twelfth Night for not being a cardinal number, and 10 Books of Architecture for being non-fiction, and the other as it is "by 14 writers", so 14 is not in the title.
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
NINETEEN NINETEEN - John Dos Passos
42ND PARALLEL - John Dos Passos
42nd is out, too - it's ordinal, not cardinal
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sixty-Six by Barry Levinson
I like that list!
One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
One For the Money, Janet Evanovich
"The Two Brothers", Honoré de Balzac
"The Two Poets", Honoré de Balzac
"The Two Dreams", Honoré de Balzac
The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
Two For the Dough, Janet Evanovich
Three Kingdoms, Guanzhong Luo
Three to Get Deadly, Janet Evanovich
Four to Score, Janet Evanovich
High Five, Janet Evanovich
Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy
Hot Six, Janet Evanovich
Seven Up, Janet Evanovich
Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus
Hard Eight, Janet Evanovich
To the Nines, Janet Evanovich
Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich
Eleven Minutes, Paolo Coelho
Eleven on Top, Janet Evanovich
Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich
"The Thirteen", Honoré de Balzac
"Arcanum 17", André Breton
Others:
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
"The 120 Days of Sodom", Marquis de Sade
One Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke
3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Okay, I'm requesting no more contributions that are either a) outside 1-100, or b) a number already covered. I'd rather fill the rest of the list ...
26. Portrait of an Artist With Twenty-Six Horses by William Eastlake
30. Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle
40. North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
50. Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
This can be completed quite easily by doing a search on Amazon.com, or would that be considered cheating ?
27. Twenty-Seven Bones: A Thriller by Jonathan Nasaw
60. Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
70. Seventy Times Seven (A Colton Parker Mystery) by Brandt Dodson
90. The Ninety Days of Genevieve by Lucinda Carrington
God Has Ninety-Nine Names by Judith Miller is non-fiction, so may I propose:
99. The Mystery of the 99 Steps (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) by Carolyn G. Keene
One could use amazon, sure, but I'm sorta interested in what people come up with in other ways. I loved the Kim Stanley Robinson trilogy, BTW.
Oh, goodness - if I start quibbling about fiction/non, I'll be here forever ... but I'll add Nancy Drew. :)