Lost in a good boo (2)

Nine days ago (Lost in a good boo) I floated a game from the BBC Radio 4 comedy Cabin Pressure: books which sound more interesting with the last letter knocked off.

I got quite a few takers, both in comments and by email, so I've decided to pull them all together here (see list below). I've homogenised the style as far as was easy to do, but otherwise left them more or less as sent, and to save space have listed contributors at the bottom with initials only against each title. As soon as I've posted this, I'll tidy up by removing the comments from the original post.

Dirk Dusharme sent some with a variation, removing two letters instead of one. I have left those in the original comment. Ray Girvan ("Poor Pothecary") also pointed me to a similar, but more sophisticated, exercise posed in The Guardian by David Barnett three days before, which I also recommend – including Ray's own suggestions (search for Ray78). Comparing dates, I suspect that Barnett was also prompted by the same episode of Cabin Pressure, though he doesn't say so.

Alice Walker, Possessing the secret of Jo [y] (ZT) Annie Proulx, The shipping new [s] (LG) Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The shadow of the win [d] (ZT) David Lodge, Paradise new [s] (ZT) Doris Lessing, The story of a non-marrying ma [n] (ZT) E Nesbit, Five children and I [t] (LG) Edgar Allen Poe, The Rave (DD) Eleanor Roosevelt, My Da [y] Franz Kafka, The great wall of chin [a] (ZT) Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Choler [a] (JH) George Orwell, Animal far [m] (ZT) Ian Pears: The dream of Scipi [o] (Aspirational auotobiog of an ambitious but only partially literate kangaroo...) (BW) J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the goblet of fir [e] (JB) J R R Tolkien, The hobbi [t] (GR) J Bronowski, The Ascent of Ma [n] (GR) Joanne Harris. Blackberry win [e] (a racecourse thriller) (AG)	Joanne Harris. The evil see [d] (a Vatican conspiracy thriller?) (AG) John Fowles, The magu [s] and A maggo [t] (two esoteric reinterpretations of the "Mr Magoo" story) (BD) John le Carré, Mission son [g] (MT) John le Carré, The spy who came in from the col [d] (a story of English espionage against the Scottish Nationalists) (BW) Magnus Mills, Three to see the kin [g] (FG) Melinda Haynes, Mother of Pear (DD) Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heave (DD) No author given, Animal Far [m] (PL) No author given, Candid [e] (PL) No author given, Catch-2 [2] (PL) No author given, Execution Doc [k] (PL) No author given, Light Their Fir (Something from the ecowarriors) (DD) No author given, Native So [n] (PL) No author given, Nondestructive Testin (something from my Southern colleagues) (DD)	No author given, Romeo and Julie [t] (PL) No author given, So, You're Going to Wear the Kil [t] (Those Scotsmen - they’ll wear anything) (DD) No author given, Teach What You Kno (Ironic) (DD) No author given, The Audacity of Hop [e] (PL) No author given, The Gift of Chang [e] (DD) No author given, The invisible Ma [n] (PL) No author given, The Pear [l] (PL) No author given, The Strange [r] (PL) Salman Rushdie, Sham [e] (ZT) Salman Rushdie, The ground beneath her fee [t] (ZT) Sebastian Faulkes, Bird son [g] (ZT) Stephen King, I (DD) Ursula K le Guin, The eye of the hero [n] (FG) Ursula K le Guin, The lathe of heave [n] (ZT) Ursula K le Guin, The other win [d] (FG) Vladimir Nabokov, Pale fir [e] (LG)
AG: Abbie Green BD: Beth Davis BW: Barry Williams DD: Dirk Dusharme	FG: Felix Grant JB: Jim Barratt JH: Julie Heyward LG: Livia Gilardi	MT: Mike Tipnell PL: Pauline Laybourn ZT: Zainab Talu