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A list of books with titles that quote other well-known works of literature. Many of these are phrases we've heard, but probably can't place. This list provides the answers. Coincidentally (or perhaps by design), many of these books may also be found on lists of the greatest literature of all time. It's no surprise that being "well read" is an attribute shared by many of the world's greatest authors. This list excludes books that only quote Shakespeare in their title. Shakespeare is quoted so often, he would require his own list. You'll probably notice that many of these quotes have also been used as song titles and in other mediums.

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  1. 1

    A che punto è la notte

    Source of title: Book of Isaiah 21:11
  2. 2
    John Kennedy Toole
    1980
    Comedy, Fiction, Tragicomedy
    Literary, Classics, New Orleans, Popular literature, French Quarter
    Source of title: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting, Jonathan Swift
  3. 3
    Philip Reeve
    2006-03-20
    Fiction, Children's literature, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature, Steampunk More
    Adventure, Technology
    Source of title: Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
  4. 4

    A Fanatic Heart

    Source of title: Remorse for Intemperate Speech, William Butler Yeats
  5. 5

    A Glass of Blessings

    Barbara Pym
    1958
    Novel, Fiction
    Literary, Classics
    Source of title: The Pulley, George Herbert
  6. 6
    Evelyn Waugh
    1934
    Novel, Fiction
    Literary
    Source of title: The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
  7. 7

    A Many-Splendoured Thing

    Han Suyin
    1952
    Novel
    Source of title: The Kingdom of God, Francis Thompson
  8. 8
    Laurie R. King
    1995
    Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Detective fiction
    Feminism, Religion
    Source of title: The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, John Knox
  9. 9
    E. M. Forster
    1924
    Novel, Fiction, Romance novel
    Literary, Classics, Literature, India, British Cuisine
    Source of title: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
  10. 10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    1978-07-01
    Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature More
    Classics, Time travel
    Source of title: Morning Song of Senlin, Conrad Aiken
  11. 11

    A Time of Gifts

    Patrick Leigh Fermor
    Source of title: Twelfth night, Louis MacNeice
  12. 12
    John Grisham, David Alan Mack
    1989
    Fiction, Mystery, Speculative fiction, Suspense
    Classics, Literature, English Literature, Mississippi, Murder, Adventure, Legal More
    Source of title: Ecclesiastes 3:3
  13. 13
    William Faulkner
    1936
    Slavery
    Source of title: 2 Samuel 19:4
  14. 14

    After many a summer dies the swan

    Aldous Huxley
    Source of title: Tithonus, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  15. 15

    Ah, Wilderness!

    Eugene O'Neill
    1933
    Source of title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translation Edward FitzGerald
  16. 16
    Edith L Tiempo
    Source of title: Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
  17. 17

    All Passion Spent

    Vita Sackville-West
    1931
    Novel
    Source of title: Samson Agonistes, John Milton
  18. 18
    Robert Penn Warren
    1946
    Novel
    Politician, Election, Political corruption
    Source of title: Humpty Dumpty
  19. 19

    Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

    Michael Morpurgo
    2006
    Children's literature
    Source of title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  20. 20
    Madeleine L'Engle
    1989-10-01
    Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature More
    Time travel
    Source of title: Psalms 66:13
  21. 21

    An Evil Cradling

    Brian Keenan
    Source of title: Qur'an 13:18, Arthur John Arberry translation
  22. 22

    An Instant in the Wind

    André Brink
    Source of title: The Broken Tower, Hart Crane
  23. 23
    Aldous Huxley
    1923
    Novel, Fiction, Roman à clef
    England, Literary, Classics, Literature
    Source of title: Edward II, Christopher Marlowe
  24. 24

    Arms and the man

    William Lowther
    Source of title: The Aeneid, Virgil
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    William Faulkner
    1930
    Novel, Fiction, Black comedy
    Literary, Classics, Literature, Mississippi, Monarch, Death
    Source of title: The Odyssey, Homer

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