(Semi) Numerical Book Titles
An idle curiosity led me to wonder how many of the first few
integers had been used in book titles. I knew that, theoretically,
the number of such titles could only increase, so that as time
wound ever on, there would be a huge stretch of consecutive
integers that had appeared as titles. Perhaps fractions would
show up, negatives, and here and there an irrational, or complex
value, so that eventually it might even be possible to do some
crazed form of arithmetic using only book titles.
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Music Minus One: Poems, Jane Shore;
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Less than Zero, Brett Easton Ellis;
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey;
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Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana;
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Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers;
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Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque (Kramer);
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez;
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The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney;
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Now We Are Six, A A Milne;
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T E Lawrence;
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Butterfield Eight, John O'Hara;
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8.4, Peter Herndon;
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Nine Hours to Rama, Stanley Wolpert;
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Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie;
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Richard Yates;
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Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose;
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Thirteen Gun Salute, Patrick O'Brian;
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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos;
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I am Fifteen And I Don't Want to Die, Christine Arnothy;
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The Sixteen Pleasures, Robert Hellenga;
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Seventeen, Booth Tarkington;
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Mila 18, Leon Uris;
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Nineteen Dollars and Eighty Four Cents, William Wegman;
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Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas;
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Catch 22, Joseph Heller;
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27, William Diehl;
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28, Barbary Lane, Armistead Maupin;
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30, Stephen Dixon;
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A .38 Special and a Broken Heart: Short-Short Stories, Jonis Agee;
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The Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan;
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel;
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44, Dublin Made Me, Peter Sheridan;
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The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon;
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Fifty Two Pickup, Elmore Leonard;
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The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees North Latitude, Jules Verne;
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Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne;
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84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff;
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Unknown Man No. Eighty Nine, Elmore Leonard;
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Ninety Degrees South, Herbert Ponting;
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Ninety Three, Victor Hugo;
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The Hundred Days, Patrick O'Brian;
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The Hundred and One Dalmations, Dodie Smith;
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The 158 Pound Marriage, John Irving;
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Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury;
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Dr Seuss (Theodore Geisel);
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A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley;
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The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous;
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The Tale of the 1002d Night, Joseph Roth;
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I Owe Russia $1200, Bob Hope;
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne;
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A Cool Million, by Nathaniel West (Nathan Weinstein);
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The Four Million, stories by O Henry (William Sydney Porter);
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The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur Clarke;
Last modified on 04 May 2006.