Listless Monday, Music Books Edition

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature.  Be sure to check out their lists!

Listless Monday and Name That Book have kind of been on break for a while.  Not sure when I'll get back to Name That Book, but I did manage to get a new Listless Monday together finally.  Today's list is one that I'm hoping you will have suggestions for, since I don't know many books with a musical element. But, I know lots of people will!  Doesn't have to be a specific type of music or anything, just some aspect of music incorporated into the story.

Music Books

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Fenway
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Clockwork Three by Matthew Kirby
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart by Elizabeth Rusch
Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly
If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Lament and Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben Winters
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Struts & Frets by Jon Kovron
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez
We Shall Overcome by Stuart Stotts

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Listless Monday, Retellings and Such Like

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature.  Be sure to check out their lists!

I know you might be getting sick of hearing about it, but I created a list of books that will fit into the challenge I'm hosting, Classic Double Challenge, and I finally got the list set up with links!  So, here is a collection of retellings, sequels, prequels, tie-ins, and other generally "inspired by" books (with the originals, as best I could tell).  This list is anything but comprehensive, since the more popular works (notably Jane Austen and Shakespeare) have so many spin offs and such that I couldn't list them all if a wanted.  Thus, a sprinkling of them, plucked from my random knowledge (and with many thanks to those with suggestions, notably Melissa of Life: Merging).  Feel free to offer suggestions of some of your favorites!

Associated with a specific book/play/work

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
You Don't Know About Me by Brian Meehl

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWhat Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn

Beowulf by Anonymous
Beowulf by Gareth Hinds (graphic novel!)

Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Carmen by Walter Dean Myers
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro by Jen Bryant
When the Stars Go Blue by Caridad Ferrer

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Marly's Ghost by David Levithan and Brian Selznick

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
At Face Value by Emily Franklin
Flawless by Lara Chapman

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Dracula by Bram Stoker
iDrakula by Bekka Black
Bloodline by Kate Cary
Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Emma by Jane Austen
The Espressologist by Kristina Springer

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Gil Marsh by A.C.E. Bauer

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
On the Devil's Court by Carl Deuker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley
This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
Ophelia by Lisa Klein
Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fiedler
The Dead Father's Club by Matt Haig
Hamlet by John Marsden
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (and The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Something Rotten by Alan Gratz
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev (and various other Shakespeare plays)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Howards End by E.M. ForsterOn Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Iliad by Homer
Troy High by Shana Norris
Troy by Adele Geras
Nobody’s Princess by Esther Friesner
Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane by April Lindner
A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont
The Eyre Affaire by Jasper Fforde

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

King Lear by William ShakespeareA Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women and Me by Lauren Baratz-Logstedt
The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly
The Lost summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick

Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Enter Three Witches by Caroline B. Cooney
Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa Klein

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Shylock's Daughter by Mijam Pressler

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Loser's Guide to Life and Love by A.E. Cannon

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Clique by Cara Lockwood

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Hours by Michael Cunningham

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance by Emily Franklin & Brendan Halpin
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey by Garth Hinds
Ithaka by Adele Geras
King of Ithaka by Tracey Barrett
Ulysses by James JoyceOthello by William Shakespeare
Othello by Julius Lester

Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange
Captain Wentworth's Persuasion by Regina Jeffers
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Child Thief by Brom
Another Pan by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
Peter and the Starcatchers series by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik
Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
Pies and Prejudice by Heather Vogel Frederick
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
+a million other sequels and spin-offs

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
New Girl by Paige Harbison

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
West Side Story by Irving Shulman
Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Romeo’s Ex: Rosaline’s Story by Lisa Fiedler

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
The Scarlet Letterman by Cara Lockwood

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Humming Room by Ellen Potter

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sass and Serendipity by Jennifer Ziegler
Scones and Sensibility by Lindsay Eland
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonAnother Jekyll, Another Hyde by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Ariel by Grace Tiffany

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Map of Time by Felix Palma

Tristan and Isolt by Gottfried von Strassburg (or various other authors)
Tris and Izzie by Mette Ivie Harrison

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Tighter by Adele Griffin

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Catherine by April Lindner
Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood
The House of Dead Maids by Clare Dunkle

Significantly less easy to define and to find an "original" work are myths and legends, but there are so many different iterations I'm sure you could find at least two versions.

Myths/Legends:

Robin Hood
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughan
Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig (maybe?)
+a billion more

Arthurian Legends
Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
The Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandel
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
+a billion more!

Cupid and Psyche
Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire by Julius Lester
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Persephone
Abandon by Meg Cabot
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Minotaur
Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl
Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett

General Mythology
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (Greek)
Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan (Greek/Roman)
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan (Egyptian)

(If you're interested in fairy tale retellings, which are their own giant list, I've compiled quite a few at this Listless Monday list).

I know there are probably hundreds more to add - any suggestions?

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Listless Monday, Thieves Edition

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature.  Be sure to check out their lists!

I enjoyed Angie's favorite list of thieves, as well as Julie's favorite thieves and realized there are quite a few more literary thieves out there than I first thought.  I think for me, I love the thieves, but don't want to love them (after all, it isn't exactly a respectable career choice).  We find them charming and we just can't help loving them, but in real life?  No one loves a thief.  Anywho, here's a list of books/series that star or prominently feature a thief, reformed or otherwise.

Thieves Edition

Ancient Blades trilogy by David Chandler
The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes by Roderick Townley
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (suggested by KT)
Heist Society and Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
The Keepers series by Lian Tanner
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (at least in the title :)
The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas (suggested by KT)
Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (suggested by KT)
Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig
Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu (suggested by KT)
Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce
StarCrossed and Liar's Moon by Elizabeth Bunce
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett (at least in the title :)
The Time Travelers by Linda Buckley-Archer
The Westmark Trilogy by Lloyd Alexander

Any additions (or favorite thieves)?

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Listless Monday, Stormy Weather Edition

Listless Monday was inspired by both Amanda at A Bookshelf Monstrosity's feature Books by Theme and Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf's Listed feature.  Be sure to check out their lists!

It's the time of the year for winter storms, so I thought I'd gather together some books about storms/tempests/gales/hurricanes and anything else stormy I could think of. 

Stormy Weather

 

After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
Frost by Wendy Delsol
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
Storm Runners by Roland Smith
Storm Warning by Linda Sue Parker
Tempest: A Novel by Julie Cross
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Trapped by Michael Northrop
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Any suggestions? 

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