What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Or girls, whichever. Not with the name as part of a phrase, like the Alice books or Understood Betsy. Just the name, first and last and nothing else. So far I've got Lorna Doone (source of my screen name, obv.), Jane Eyre, Caddie Woodlawn and Anna Karenina. (Or is that her first and middle names?) What else?

Olive Kitteridge

Karenina is indeed Anna's last name.

Let's see ... Emma, Rebecca, Pamela, Clarissa, Justine, Athalie, Camilla, Imogen ... at the moment I'm spacing on any more first/last books.

Ooh, I do have one: Jennifer Government. (Yes, "Government" is her last name, it's kind of a future dystopia thing.)

There must be loads of them.

Eleanor Rigby

Elizabeth Costello

Agnes Grey

Oh, I can't stop...

Moll Flanders

Daisy Miller

Eline Vere
(in Dutch)

Mina by Elaine Bergstrom
Sovay by Celia Rees

Well, I can think of a ton of first names (Mandy, Torrie, etc. etc. etc.) but I take it Lorna, that you're interested only in books that have first and last names?

Catherine Cookson has lots.
Tilly Trotter, Katie Mulholland,FANNY McBRIDE, Maggie Rowan, Hannah Massey.
I'm sure there are more I just can't think of them at the moment.

Thought of another one: Jenna Starborn, an SF retelling of Jane Eyre.

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

These are great! Keep 'em coming. Lisa, I'm thinking I should expand to first-name titles as well. Anna, that's a good call, too. Anastasia Krupnik's parents did name her after the elusive Anastasia.

I wonder if I should include Fanny Hill? ;)

Amanda by Kay Hooper

Evelina, Justine, Lolita, Nana, Therese Raquin, Peggy Salté: A Novel.

Nadja, Marnie, Ellen Tebbits, Madeline, Eloise, Eugenie Grandet, Ursula, Sula, Carrie, Christine, Vera, Annie John: A Novel, Eva Luna, Betsey Brown, Belinda, Kate Vaiden.

Ellen Foster, Eva, Jasmine, Lucy, Lyddie.

@ Lobstergirl: I knew there was one by Isabel Allende! Al I could come up with was Paula!

And a few more: Effi Briest, Hedda Gabler, Mildred Pierce.

And let's not forget Pippi Longstocking.

And Sara Crewe! (Earlier, IIRC serialized, version of A Little Princess.)

Marjory Morningstar (Herman Wouk)
Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson)
Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser)

How could I have forgotten this one? Matilda by Roald Dahl

Did anyone else read the 80's YA historical romance series called Sunfire where all the titles were girl names like, Elizabeth, Amanda , Nicole , Emily , Caroline, Veronica, Megan , Danielle, Marilee, Josie , Susannah, Kathleen, etc? I think there were about 20 or so books in the series. I read every single one of them and owned all except an earlier one which was no longer in print (but, I borrowed it for reading from the library)! The whole series is now no longer in print. Kind of a shame since they are historically set stories, they would never become old or outdated for a modern tween girl! Makes me wish I hadn't given the whole series to Goodwill when I packed up and moved away from home!

Lavinia, Lucille.

Tully by Paullina Simons

Andra. A book with a somewhat silly premise, about a girl who (IIRC) is in an accident and requires a brain transplant. (Or she may have had some illness — I don't remember why she needed a brain transplant, only that she did.)

How abut virtually every book written by Clare Darcy.

I thought of another one ... Larissa.

Just looking around my shelves as I sit here, I see:
Damia
Maia
Killashandra
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Friday
Boudicca: The Warrior Queen
Lucy Gayheart

(I know, weird mix of science fiction and historical fiction. = )

Does Madame Bovary count?

Roxana, Frederica, Arabella, Venetia, Helen.

Anna wrote: "Sheri wrote: "Did anyone else read the 80's YA historical romance series called Sunfire where all the titles were girl names like, Elizabeth, Amanda , Nicole [bookcover:Nic..."

Oh my gosh, Anna, I've finally found someone else who actually read these too!!! I was beginning to think I was the only one who ever bought them, hence the reason they are no longer in print!!!!! I've had a posting for these books in a couple of groups since March and you are the only other person who's responded as remembering this series!! Nicole sticks out in my head as one I really remember, because the sinking of the Titanic was a rather traumatic/haunting scene in that book.

Jane by Dee Wells.

Scarlett — the sequel to Gone With the Wind that someone else wrote.

Anna wrote: "Sheri wrote: "Anna wrote: "Sheri wrote: "Did anyone else read the 80's YA historical romance series called Sunfire where all the titles were girl names like, Elizabeth, Amanda [bookcover:Amanda|475..."

Anna, would you please like to join the group I started, I Loved Reading These YA Books in the 70's or 80's? I would love to chat with you more over there without taking up any further "Women's names book titles" space with non-relatable discussions!! And you can see if there are any other books or series I have listed that you may have read, too!! Not many others have, there's only been one other that's admitted to reading these kinds of books, HA HA!!! Hope to see you over there!

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay and
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
...both well worth reading

Undine.

Desiree, Annemarie Silko.
Martha Quest: A Novel, Doris Lessing.
Madeleine, Andre Gide.
HERmione, H.D.
Salome, Oscar Wilde.
Camilla, Frances Burney.
Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm.
Medea, Euripides.
Antigone, Sophocles.

Carrie by Stephen King

Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
Elske by Cynthia Voigt

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Deenie by Judy Blume.

Could you possibly be thinking of the books based on the American Doll's. A lot of the dolls had books based in the era they represented

Tess of the D'Urberville's- does that count as just her name?

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay

Blue Belle
Flood
Shella
Blossom
Hard Candy
Strega

all by Andrew Vachss

CARLOTTA

How has Rebecca excaped this thread?

It was mentioned in the third post of the thread.

Nikki wrote: "It was mentioned in the third post of the thread."

Well, dang. At least I know I'm the blind one...and not everyone else!