Thursday, April 3, 2025

Which Literary Pop Song Was This Author In?

If you mention any of these authors, I might recall them from the lyrics of either:

"My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors," or

"Bitches In Bookshops," or its sequel,

"Hardcover Bound 2." 

In this handy alphabetical guide, I'll tell you which song rings a bell in my brain when these authors are mentioned. Bonus: I'll also mention if they're pictured on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.


Allende, Isabel: HB2
Angelou, Maya: HB2
Atwood, Margaret: MBLaBoA
Barthes, Roland: BiB
Beckett, Samuel: HB2
Borges, Jorge Luis: HB2
Bradbury, Ray: HB2
Bronte, Charlotte: BiB 
Burroughs, William S.: BiB, MBLaBoA. Cover of Sgt. Pepper's
Burton, Pierre: MBLaBoA
Capote, Truman: HB2

Churchill, Caryl: HB2
Coelho, Paulo: HB2
Davies, Robertson: MBLaBoA
De Montaigne, Michel: BiB
Eugenides, Jeffrey: BiB
Foucault, Michel: BiB
Freud, Sigmund: HB2
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: MBLaBoA
Gipson, Fred [author of Old Yeller]: HB2
Golding, William: BiB
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: HB2
hooks, bell: MBLaBoA
Jung, Carl: HB2. Cover of Sgt. Pepper's

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Kinella, W.P.: MBLaBoA
Lee, Harper: HB2
Lessing, Doris: MBLaBoA
Letts, Tracy: HB2
Malthus, Thomas Robert: HB2
Morrison, Toni: HB2
Murakami, Haruki: HB2
Nin, Anais: BiB

Ondaatje, Michael: MBLaBoA
Orwell, George: BiB, HB2
Palahniuk, Chuck: HB2
Plath, Sylvia: HB2
Poe, Edgar Allan: HB2. Cover of Sgt. Pepper's
Proust, Marcel: BiB
Puzo, Mario: MBLaBoA
Rand, Ayn: BiB


Rowling, J.K.: BiB
Rushdie, Salman: HB2
Sendak, Maurice: HB2
Seuss, Dr.: HB2
Shakespeare, William: BiB
Silverstein, Shel: HB2
Stein, R.L.: BiB
Tolstoy, Leo: BiB
Toole, John Kennedy: HB2
Twain, Mark: BiB
Zusak, Mark: HB2

For the full list of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, you may refer to this Wikipedia article

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