A-Z How many can you do?

Simon on Stuck in a Book has printed a list of authors A-Z Favourites and next to them a book by this particular author all the way through the alphabet and has challenged others to do the same.  This is a fun exercise I have done countless times while waiting for trains, planes etc but though I have listed authors and titles have not necessarily named books I have read by the chosen on the list.  That is slightly more problematical but have had a go and here is my result (some are easier than others and some have had to be dredged up from my teenage memory as well):

• AUSTEN, Jane - Emma
• BRONTE, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
• CHOPIN, Kate - the Awakening
• DICKENS, Charles - Bleak House
• ELIOT, George - Adam Bede
• FERRIER, Susan - Marriage
• GROSSMITH, G - Diary of a Nobody
• HARDY, Thomas - Mayor of Casterbridge
• ISHIGURO, K - Remains of the Day
• JEROME K JEROME - Three Men in a Boat
• KENNEDY, Margaret - The Constant Nymph (had to work my memory for this one read years and years ago. Rather purple prose if I remember correctly)
• LEVERSON, Ada - The Little Otleys
• MARTINEUA, Harriet - Deerbrook
• NICOLSON, Juliet - The Perfect Summer
• ORCZY, Baroness - The Scarlet Pimpernel
• PANTER-DOWNES, Mollie - One Fine Day
• QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur (writing as Q) - Hetty Wesley (Have to own up and say only a quarter of the way through, I looked at this totally out of curiosity as we had shelves of these in a library in Highgate where I then worked and I was intrigued. I can remember little about it so really perhaps it does not count but just have to have an author beginning with Q!))
• RENDELL, Ruth - An Unkindness of Ravens
• SAYERS, D L - Gaudy Night
• TROLLOPE, Anthony - Barchester Towers
• UNSWORTH, Barry - Pascali's Island
• VON ARNIM, Elizabeth - Vera (May be cheating here a bit as I have seen her books filed under A as well as V), so if the consensus is that she is under A then I will add VIORST, Judith - It's Hard to be hip over Thirty. I was going to put Barbara Vine but as she is Ruth Rendell thought that was pushing my luck
• WHARTON, Edith - House of Mirth
• X - PASS!
• YOUNG, Angela - Speaking of Love
• ZOLA, Emile - Ladies Paradise

Of course, the next trick is not only to have a book you have read by each A-Z author, but the book's title must also be the same initial as the author chosen - is this possible I ask myself?  Some are easy, some impossible.

This is going to niggle at me now...

Comments

[Kirsty]

I have exactly the same B-D, with a slightly different E to you Elaine. I missed quite a few letters, but could have had any number of authors for a few letters. Good game, this.

[Simon Thomas]

Oo, Kate Chopin gets in instead of Richmal Crompton, I see! Great novel, of course.
Grossmith(s) were almost my G, until I remembered Cold Comfort Farm.

[Elaine Simpson-Long]

OK Simon - let us change the rules. Why don't we write down THREE authors alphabetically? I could have written Crompton, Churchill, Cato for C, Ibbotson for I, Doestoevsky as well as Dickens for D, Tolstoy for T, Montgomery for M, and so on and so on...

tee hee

[Maureen]

This looks like fun. I think I'll save it for my next long wait for a First Great Western train!

[Cath]

I'd say Barbara Vine was fine as many authors are using pen names - George Eliot is someone else for instance.

I like the idea of the book title matching the letter too. Plus, it would be quite nice to pick a title from other people's lists that you've never read. I expect Simon is wondering what he's started! LOL.

[Elaine Simpson-Long]

Cath - of course george Eliot is someone else as well, what a silly comment for me to make, but somehow I never think of her by any other name, whereas Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine I know as they are contemporary writers.

[Angela Young]

Thank you for including Speaking of Love ... .

[Ted]

Fun idea! I appropriated it, but you know what they say about imitation.