4.16 avg rating — 2,314,866 ratings

"Discussed at Nathaniel's dinner party (v3) and referred to elsewhere, e.g. "Like I could have my own Jane Eyre moment, and whisper his name, and he would hear me and know I was thinking about him." (v2)"

4.06 avg rating — 17,053 ratings

"Finesilver plays it in the car on the way to confront Jackson (v3)"

3.71 avg rating — 18,641 ratings

"Arden says of a story on Nathaniel and Caspian "It's not exactly Evelina and Lord Oroville, is it?" (v3)"

3.76 avg rating — 137,582 ratings

"Arden quotes it at Caspian in their first phone call and confesses to not having read it (v1)"

4.13 avg rating — 87,951 ratings

"Caspian writes a quote from it on Arden (v2)"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,332 ratings

""I'd done so well at school that I'd come to university expecting a cross between Brideshead Revisited and an English version of The Secret History" (v1)"

4.15 avg rating — 1,019,212 ratings

""I'd done so well at school that I'd come to university expecting a cross between Brideshead Revisited and an English version of The Secret History" (v1)
Also, when Finesilver asks about skeletons in Arden's closet, Arden tongue-in-cheek "confesses" to the events of the novel. (v2)"

3.86 avg rating — 3,604 ratings

"I could have explained _The Western Canon_, but nobody deserved that." (v1)"

3.85 avg rating — 22,855 ratings

"This is the Fry autobiography that covers his university years, so it presumably includes the story about how he passed his exams by memorizing a few really good papers, which Arden refers to when he's despairing over finals to Nik. (v1)"

3.68 avg rating — 13,608 ratings

"Arden wrote a terrible paper on it when he was stoned. (V1)"

4.02 avg rating — 113,988 ratings

"Arden wrote a banal paper that started "Bleak House, the Victorian novel by the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens" (v1)"

3.73 avg rating — 5,583 ratings

"Arden tells Finesilver that Ellery is a fan (v3)"

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings

"This one is a stretch. But the Melmoth Room is named after a 19th century poet who died of syphilis in a Parisian gutter, and Sebastian Melmoth was a name assumed by Wilde... who died in Paris, possibly of syphilis. (v1)"

4.03 avg rating — 10,716 ratings

"Arden and his mom love (and quote) Father Brown. (v1,2)"

4.51 avg rating — 216,575 ratings

"Hazel is a Holmes buff. (v1)"

3.86 avg rating — 378,925 ratings

""(Though maybe Fanny would do it to a penitent Henry Crawford)" (v2)"

3.99 avg rating — 77,592 ratings

"George tells Arden about this book when he asks her why she pursued photography. (v3)"

3.78 avg rating — 226,818 ratings

""He made a slightly airy gesture with his fingers, like Prospero over his spellbook" (v1)"

3.45 avg rating — 7,831 ratings

"Arden tries to remember what it's about when cramming for finals. (v1)"

4.03 avg rating — 1,046,861 ratings

"Arden considers the Hamlet motif as an explanation for the tension between Caspian and Steyne. (v2)"

4.23 avg rating — 221,038 ratings

""Not that this was the sort of thing that happened in the Brothers Grimm" (v1)"

4.04 avg rating — 1,177 ratings

"Arden compares himself, left on the balcony, to Cinderella (v1)"

4.27 avg rating — 946,568 ratings

"Caspian reads this to Arden when he can't sleep during the search for Jackson. (v3)"

3.90 avg rating — 16,398 ratings

"Arden finds this in the penthouse. It was inscribed to Caspian's father by Steyne."

4.68 avg rating — 171 ratings

"Arden binge reads Georgette Heyer when he's getting over Caspian (v1) and again after Ellery moves out (v3)."

4.06 avg rating — 13,874 ratings

""One of Georgette Heyer's exquisitely sophisticated Corinthians adrift in the twenty-first century." (v1)"

4.35 avg rating — 9,862,507 ratings

"Arden imagines twenty four university students fighting to suck off Caspian. "Talk about a new twist on The Hunger Games." (v1)"

4.48 avg rating — 57,638 ratings

"Arden pulls it out when cramming. (v1)"

3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings

"The exam paper Arden looks at before his own finals has a quote from this. (v1)"

4.32 avg rating — 22,613 ratings

""like incidentals in a T. S. Eliot poem" (v1) also "this Prufrock had at least one peach in his life, and I damn well dared to eat it."(v2) Also, "licked into my corners like Prufrock's yellow fog." (v3)"

3.89 avg rating — 20,375 ratings

"Arden doesn't want to "pull a What Katy Did" on the swing (v1)"

4.27 avg rating — 1,987 ratings

"Arden's tattoo is a quote from this (v1)"

3.86 avg rating — 33,545 ratings

"Arden tells Finesilver that Ellery is a fan (v3)"

4.25 avg rating — 717,006 ratings

"Arden compares Bellerose to Mrs. Danvers, and then Bellerose somewhat cheekily buys the book for Arden and Caspian to take to the story-themed restaurant. (v1)"

4.46 avg rating — 6,621 ratings

"On Arden and Caspian's table at the restaurant (v1)"

4.29 avg rating — 4,778,722 ratings

""I'm not Mr. Collins."(v3) Also: five unwed daughters (v3); Lady Catherine DeBourgh (v3); and others."

3.99 avg rating — 77 ratings

"On George's bookshelf (v3)"

3.87 avg rating — 430 ratings

"On George's Bookshelf (v3)"

3.95 avg rating — 3,022 ratings

"On George's Bookshelf (v3)"

4.40 avg rating — 341 ratings

"Benjamin is on George's bookshelf; not necessarily this title (v3)"

4.17 avg rating — 221 ratings

"Sontag is on George's bookshelf; not necessarily this title. (v3)"

4.01 avg rating — 3,791 ratings

"There's an Arbus bio on George's shelf; it might not be this one (v3)"

4.17 avg rating — 24,784 ratings

"On offer for listening in the car (with the last disk missing) (v2)"

4.22 avg rating — 2,009,895 ratings

"On offer for listening in the car (v2)"

4.38 avg rating — 394,547 ratings

"On offer for listening in the car (v2)"

4.54 avg rating — 729,092 ratings

"On offer for listening in the car (v2)"

3.81 avg rating — 88,796 ratings

"Arden's name is taken from this play; Trudy quotes it at him when they are introduced.(v3). Also the source of the epigraph for v1."

4.14 avg rating — 1,884 ratings

""I'm going out for a walk and may be some time" comes from here (v1)"

4.10 avg rating — 78,122 ratings

"Source of the Pygmalion myth -- "this vision of exquisite masculinity, carved by a bent Pygmalion" (v1)"

4.20 avg rating — 5,428,645 ratings

""double-plus un-kay" (v1) is pure Newspeak. "; "unless they were both right simultaneously, and we had always been at war with Eurasia" (v3)"

4.25 avg rating — 27,314 ratings

""He gave me a Jeevesy nod, if Jeeves had been infinitely hotter and quite a bit scarier." (v1) "

3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings

"Arden references the first line of the title poem when he thinks "Glory be to God for dappled things" of Daniel Craig emerging from the sea. (v1)"

4.30 avg rating — 4,440,735 ratings

""I felt like Bilbo Baggins if the dwarves had come to play and party." (v1)"

3.84 avg rating — 381,884 ratings

"Caspian cites it to justify his high-handed tactics with Ellery -- "better to be feared than loved if one cannot be both" (v1)"

3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings

""And suddenly I found myself thinking about the story of Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnelle. Not that I was hideously cursed...But still. Caspian had given me my sovereynté." (v2)"

4.24 avg rating — 408 ratings

"Ellery's friend Janet "looked liike the subject of a Jenny Joseph poem."
Joseph has written many poems, but this one springs immediately to mind. (v2)"

4.34 avg rating — 736,670 ratings

"Ellery's friend Dick is reading "the latest George R. R. Martin" when Arden meets him (v2)"

3.99 avg rating — 435,187 ratings

""And stepped, like Alice, into a kinky Wonderland" (v2)"

4.27 avg rating — 40,116 ratings

"Arden tries to find the "Robert Frost road (correct, not common, interpretation)" between his and Caspian's preferences (v2)"

4.18 avg rating — 11,165 ratings

""You can imagine that you're Alexander and I'm Bagoas, disrobing you after some great battle." Both men are attested in history, but I think Arden may well have been thinking of this novel. (v2)"

3.97 avg rating — 62,630 ratings

""drifting about like the Ancient Fucking Mariner in a sea of my own memories" (v3)"

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"Arden and Ellery hear this at the Proms, and Ellery hands Arden the libretto. (v2) The Bluebeard tale appears multiple times in the story."

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings

"I'm going to let this stand in for the authors who are mentioned as being in Caspian's box without specifying a particular book: Verne, Wells, Asimov, Russ, Vonarburg, Bradbury, Heinlein, Bujold, Engh, Le Guin (v2)"

4.40 avg rating — 128,161 ratings

""the office had gone night-before-Christmas still around me" (v3)"

4.08 avg rating — 13,108 ratings

""like the matriarch in a Jilly Cooper novel" (v3)"

4.09 avg rating — 1,292,229 ratings

""for your Elinor Dashwood cosplay" (v3)"

3.33 avg rating — 749 ratings

"Ellery takes this with her on the plane to Boston (v3)"

3.97 avg rating — 3,088 ratings

"Arden gives Ellery a copy for Christmas (v3)"

4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings

"Arden, Ellery, and Nik play columes 1, 3, 4 in the hospital at Christmas (v3)"

3.86 avg rating — 12,737 ratings

"Jonas askes Arden whether the remembers him reading it to him (v3)"

4.17 avg rating — 404,795 ratings

""and I suppose if I asked for bread and butter you would have given me cake" (v3)"

4.10 avg rating — 21,737 ratings

"Arden is reading it when Steyne shows up (v3)"

3.77 avg rating — 141 ratings

""half wee timorous beastie" (v3)"

4.47 avg rating — 11,363,099 ratings

""like he was in Ollivander's and my dick was his perfect wand" (v3) "Honestly, if there had been a cupboard under the stairs, I'd probably have moved into it." (v1)"

4.48 avg rating — 1,399 ratings

"Arden recites "Resumé" to Ellery atop a skyscraper's skeleton (v1)"

3.78 avg rating — 31,717 ratings

""wondering if I'd fallen nonconsensually into a Hollinghurst novel" (v3)"

3.81 avg rating — 133,033 ratings

"Lord Steyne in Vanity Fair may be the source of Lancaster Steyne's name."

4.08 avg rating — 184,950 ratings

"Another iffy one. The morning after the fundraising dinner, Arden idly thinks that he didn't expect anything from Caspian -- not flowers, a diamond studded cock ring, not a note saying "So long and thanks for all the sex." Reference or coincidence? You be the judge."