Books Mentioned in Another Book

Posted On January 10, 2021

Hi Readers! How was your first week of 2021? I know it doesn’t matter what year we are in. It’s just another day. But, if you decided to have a new mindset, then it really makes a difference!

In 2020, I had set up my Reading Challenge, which was to read 52 Books in 52 Weeks. One of the 52 categories included ‘A Book Mentioned in Another Book.’ It was actually quite difficult to find books that were mentioned in other books. Sure, I looked online to see if there were any articles that will help me, but I wasn’t able to find that many. Most of the articles were about book to movie adaptations or books that had bookish story lines.

So, I read 75 books last year & noted down a few books that have referenced other books in them! The only way I found out about this was because I adopted a new mindset last year & decided on that reading challenge. Now this is going to be a fun activity that I am going to continue with, because why not? Check out the short list so far. I promise to keep adding posts to this every once in a while.

 

~~THE DUTCH HOUSE BY ANN PATCHETT~~

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Makioka Sistersby Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Necessities of life by Adrienne Rich

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

 

~~THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW BY A.J. FINN~~

Howards End by E. M. Forster

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Havisham by Ronald Frame

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

 

~~LITTLE WOMEN BY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT~~

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Belsham’s Essays

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

 

~~KAFKA ON THE SHORE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI~~

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

The Castle by Franz Kafka

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

 

~~PRETTY THINGS BY JANELLE BROWN~~

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Tortilla Flatby John Steinbeck

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

 

~~TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE BY MITCH ALBOOM~~

Identity: Youth and Crisis Erik H. Erikson

I and Thou by Martin Buber

The Divided Self by Ronald David Laing

 

~~ORIGIN BY DAN BROWN~~

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Catch-22

Novel by Joseph Heller

 

~~THE GREAT ALONE BY KRISTIN HANNAH~~

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Watership Down by Richard Adams

 

~~ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE BY ANTHONY DOERR~~

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

 

~~THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BY COLSON WHITEHEAD~~

The Last of the Mohican by James Fenimore Cooper

 

~~THE SILENT PATIENT BY ALEX MICHAELIDES~~

Alcestis by Euripides

 

~~UNTAMED BY GLENNON DOYLE~~

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

 

~~THE BOOK THIEF BY MARKUS ZUSAK~~

The Whistler by John Grisham

 

~~THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI~~

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

 

~~COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI~~

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

 

That’s all for now! Hope you enjoyed this!

 

Until next time,