Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

While reading a book in a series is one way to get a character in more than one book, but there's other options too. You can interpret 'character' as person for nonfiction, and of course many fiction books include real people as characters that would appear in other books with the same setting. On top of that, characters from works that have entered the public domain often get picked up for retellings and new stories alike.

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Where else did the character appear? Did you pick the book because of the character?

If you can’t decide, consider the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fford. The first two were my favorites so far. The Eyre Affair, and Lost in a Good Book. There are characters from several different classic books in each one. I remember funny parts from book 2 or 3 involving characters from The Trial and Sense and Sensibility, so I might read one of those books. Otherwise I’d like to visit Maisie Dobbs in her next book.

The Reading List is another book that discusses several different books, though I don’t recall if there is a lot of dialogue from the characters of the books. So I don’t know it it would count.

There are a few books with Dorothy from the wizard of Oz.

I like that there are more prompts that nonfiction fit into easily this year. I may read The Fifties, I'm sure Eisenhower will appear here and in many other books. If I do fiction I may read from the Amgash series

Denise wrote: "I like that there are more prompts that nonfiction fit into easily this year. I may read The Fifties, I'm sure Eisenhower will appear here and in many other books. If I do fiction I ma..."

Is that the one with Lucy Barton? I have one left- when Lucy and Olive Kitteredge meet.

My first choice for this is The West End Horror, the second of Nicholas Meyer's books about Sherlock Holmes. It also features Jack the Ripper. This year, about forty years after my first reading, I reread The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, NM's first Sherlock Holmes novel that includes Sigmund Freud. It stood up really well, so I'm inclined to continue with the series.

Oh, I hadn't considered real people (duh!). I was thinking series or crossover characters. For the 2nd book by an author prompt or most recent and a past book, I was looking up Jodi Picoult's titles and saw that she has had a few books where characters make an appearance in a later work. I don't have titles atm, but it was on wikipedia if anyone is interested.

I may read

Tombland by C.J. Sansom, the final book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Historical fiction and a chunkster.

Current possibilities:

The Uncommon Reader Queen Elizabeth
Accomplice to the Villain
Villain

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain Bill Bryson
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Hansel and Gretel
The 5 O'Clock Band Troy Andrews
How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh

I didn't want to read from a series, as we already have a prompt for that, so I'm going with Before Dorothy and Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography

I'm going for The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison. It's one of many books where Jack the Ripper makes an appearance.

This book was already on my TBR because I love The Goblin Emperor and The Cemeteries of Amalo series, so I'm eager to try something by the same author set in a different world.

NancyJ wrote: "Denise wrote: "I like that there are more prompts that nonfiction fit into easily this year. I may read The Fifties, I'm sure Eisenhower will appear here and in many other books. If I ..."

Yes Amgash is Lucy Barton and William

I added a bunch of historic ones

Using this to continue a new series I found when I was in the UK this year.

Death Rocks by L.J. Ross

So, yes, I am reading a book in a series, BUT these characters also appear in many, many other books. My daughter is reading a completely different series with the same main characters right now: Hades and Persephone. A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair

I will go with Forever and a Day which is a uncommissioned James Bond novel written by Anthony Horowitz