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Old 06-03-2015, 08:27 AM   #1
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Book reference challenge
How about a challenge... How many books can you read (or have you read) that reference another book, that references a book, that references a book, ... For example, I'm currently reading:

RoadRage by Stephen King, which references
She by H. Rider Haggard (I'm not expecting any book references in this one)

And let's be strict in the challenge; a book must be referenced by title.

Fiction only. The book must be referenced in "story" (not the introduction, or forward, or end notes, ...)
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Old 06-03-2015, 11:43 AM   #2
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Do you also require it to be different authors, or can they be the same?
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Old 06-03-2015, 11:52 AM   #3
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Clouds of Witness > Northanger Abbey > Mysteries of Udolpho.
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Old 06-03-2015, 01:37 PM   #4
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I can't remember them all but Jo Walton's Among Others has a bunch so it might be a good starting point for this challenge.
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Old 06-03-2015, 04:25 PM   #5
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If you left off the referenced by title, Silverlock is the ultimate. Brian Daily's "A Tapestry of Magics" makes a few references, as does Glory Road.
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Old 06-03-2015, 04:28 PM   #6
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Do you also require it to be different authors, or can they be the same?
Same or different, doesn't matter to me.

I'm not hard set on rules. I was thinking of World cross references, like the Dark Tower referencing Harry Potter, but than I was afraid of getting a lot of Star Trek, or Star Wars, or ... (not that there is anything wrong with those worlds.)
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Old 06-04-2015, 08:28 AM   #7
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A Confederacy of Dunces...references Heart of Darkness...(or "Har of Darkness" as one character mis-hears it in conversation, not knowing it's a book...thinking instead it's a sea-fog maybe...)
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"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry". I haven't done a title count; many titles mentioned - the title character operates a bookstore
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
--- Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
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Old 05-08-2016, 07:30 AM   #10
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
--- A Separate peace by John Knowles
--- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
--- To Kill a Mocking Bird
--- The Catcher in the Rye
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Old 10-05-2016, 08:44 AM   #11
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The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
--- The Elegance of the Hedgehog b Muriel Barbery
------- Anna Anna Karenina by Leo Telstoy
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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--- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
--- To Kill a Mocking Bird
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That sounds like a student bringing up books read for school.
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Old 10-06-2016, 08:28 AM   #13
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That sounds like a student bringing up books read for school.
Yes and no. Some times it is assigned reading. Sometimes it is other reasons (gifts given or received).
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