The Book Lust Mistakes

I have (so far) spent ten years with Book Lust and over that course of time I found numerous oddities. I don’t know what made me do it, but here is a list of all the errors or weird things I discovered:

Within the Table of Contents:

1. The chapter “Eric Kraft: Too Good To Miss” (p 140) is completely missing from the TOC.

Within the text:

1. The title Moving On does not include an author (page 203). Larry McMurtry’s name doesn’t appear on the page at all.

Within the Index (these are the book, short story and poem titles not included in the index but are mentioned in Book Lust somewhere):

1. “Ado”
2. Alice, Let’s Eat
3. American Practical Navigator
4. American Fried
5. The Achieve Of, the Mastery Of, the Thing
6. “At the Rialto”
7. “Blind Heron”
8. “Blue Garden”
9. Bonny’s Boy
10. Burn Marks
11. Bonobo: the Forgotten Ape
12. “By a Swimming Pool…”
13. A Bridge Too Far
14. “Brown Wasps”
15. Caged Owl
16. Caddie Woodlawn
17. Choose Your Own Adventure
18. A Child’s Life
19. The Citadel
20. Casket and the Sword
21. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
22. “Corn-pone Opinions”
23. Collected Fictions
24. Cruddy
25. Crazy Creek
26. “Days of Pie and Coffee”
27. “Devil Baby at Hull House”
28. “Crack Up”
29. “Dear Derrida”
30. Dog Next Door
31. Dream Gold
32. “Drug Store in Winter”
33. End and the Beginning
34. “Ethics of Living Jim Crow”
35. Ethel and Ernest
36. Eva Luna
37. “Exorcist of Notre-Dame”
38. Freedom at Midnight
39. Fredericksburg to Meridan
40. “Forgetfulness”
41. “Funeral II”
42. “Golden Retrievals”
43. “Golden Angel Pancake House”
44. Ginger Pie
45. Good Times are Killing Me
46. Green Eyes
47. “Goodbye, Place I Lived Nearly 23 Years”
48. Hitty
49. “House of Blue Light”
50. In Between Sheets
51. In the Gloaming
52. “Introduction to Poetry”
53. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
54. Jew of New York
55. Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid…
56. Kid From Tomkinsville
57. “Law of Acceleration”
58. Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
59. “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
60. Little White Horse
61. M16
62. Maus
63. Maus II
64. Moffats
65. Minnow on the Say
66. Old Yeller
67. Only Bread, Only Light
68. Now Read This
69. Now Read This II
70. Pendragon Cycle
71. Red River to Appomattox
72. Saturdays
73. Sea is Blue
74. “Sex Ex Machina”
75. Second Common Reader
76. “Stickeen”
77. “Strip Poker”
78. Terre des Hommes
79. Third Helpings
80. “Tortures”
81. “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”
82. “True Love”
83. Tumbling
84. War Babies
85. “Two Tramps in Mud Time”
86. Wait for Marcy
87. Ulysseys
88. Wetware
89. Wheels Within Wheels
90. “Workshop”
91. Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

Within the Index (these are the authors not included in the index):

1. Lynda Barry
2. Eleanor Cameron
3. A.J. Cronin
4. Gardener Dozois
5. Kristin Waterford Duisberg (note: last name was missing – indexed under Kristin Waterford)
6. Eleanor Estes
7. Rachel Field
8. Robert Frost
9. Phoebe Gloeckner
10. Slavomir Rawicz
11. Keith Robertson
12. Art Spiegelman

Pagination errors in index:

1. Asimov, Isaac
2. The Brothers K
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop
4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
5. Paul Eddy
6. Educating Esme
7. Grand Sophy
8. Robert Heinlein
9. The Hobbit
10. I Don’t Know How She Does It
11. In the Fall
12. Inflating a Dog
13. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
14. Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Lord of the Rings
16. Alice McDermott
17. Moo
18. Larry McMurtry
19. Midnight’s Children
20. Alice Munro
21. Pride and Prejudice
22. Remains of the Day
23. Salman Rushdie
24. That Eye, the Sky
25. The Trial
26. Timbuktu
27. Vietnam
28. Winter’s Heart
29. Dean Young

Title Errors:

1. Shockwave Runner should be Shockwave Rider
2. The Eye, That Sky should be That Eye, the Sky
3. Too Late Boyhood Blues should be Too Late American Boyhood Blues
4. Twelve Days of Christmas should be Hillary Knight’s Twelve Days of Christmas

Interesting omission: The name of the series has been indexed but not the individual titles within the series. The only reason why I bring this up is because Pearl does list the individual titles in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

1. The Pendragon Cycle:
   1. Taliesin
   2. Merlin
   3. Arthur
   4. Pendragon
   5. Grail
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes:
   1. A Study in Scarlet
   2. Sign of Four
   3. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
   4. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
   5. Return of Sherlock Holmes
   6. Hound of the Baskervilles
   7. Valley of Fear
   8. Last Bow
   9. Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
3. Irish R.M.:
   1. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
   2. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.
   3. In Mr. Knox’s Country
4. Sea of Fertility:
   1. Spring Snow
   2. Runaway Horses
   3. Temple of Dawn
   4. Decay of the Angel

Interesting oversight in reverse. This time the individual titles are indexed but not the name of the series:

1. The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Of course, this is not a comprehensive list. I am not done with Book Lust (not in the least) so there is a possibility other mistakes will crop up. I just felt like posting this now. If there are any additions in the future I will be sure to mark them.