Larry McMurtry

5 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 4 times in other books.

Books by Larry McMurtry

• Lonesome Dove (1985): mentions 1 book, mentioned in 1 book
• Books: A Memoir (2008): mentions 39 books
• Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009): mentions 26 books
• Terms of Endearment: mentioned in 2 books
• The Last Picture Show: mentioned in 1 book

Quotes from Larry McMurtry's books, and about them

• Lonesome Dove on Ivanhoe: “She had read them Walter Scott's Ivanhoe when Jeff and Johnny were six and seven, respectively.”
• Books: A Memoir on Tent Life in Siberia: “the book that introduced me to the pleasures of inspired travel writing was called Tent Life in Siberia, by George Kennan”
• Books: A Memoir on Ulysses: “Probably its most daring act was to publish several installments of James Joyce's Ulysses”
• Books: A Memoir on Seven Pillars of Wisdom: “Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a fifty-thousand-dollar book these days”
• Books: A Memoir on Go Tell It on the Mountain: “I got a nice copy of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain”
• Books: A Memoir on Nicholas and Alexandra: “Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra, and I have been reading about the two world wars ever since”
• Books: A Memoir on The Guns of August: “Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra”
• Books: A Memoir on The Big Sleep: “There's a bookshop in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, and it is also in the movie”
• Books: A Memoir on The Sun Also Rises: “the famous 'stoppped' on page 81, line 26, of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises”
• Books: A Memoir on The Great Gatsby: “For big-ticket books such as The Maltese Falcon, The Great Gatsby, or The Sound and the Fury”

Authors Larry McMurtry's books mention

• Ernest Hemingway (3): Books: A Memoir mentions The Sun Also Rises; Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast
• Cyril Connolly (2): Books: A Memoir mentions Enemies of Promise; Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Unquiet Grave
• Jack Kerouac (2): Books: A Memoir mentions On the Road; Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions On the Road
• Wallace Stegner (2): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Crossing to Safety, Angle of Repose
• William Faulkner (2): Books: A Memoir mentions The Sound and the Fury, The Portable Faulkner
• Barbara Tuchman (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The Guns of August
• Charles Maturin (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Melmoth the Wanderer
• D. H. Lawrence (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Studies in Classic American Literature
• Daniel Defoe (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Robinson Crusoe
• Dashiell Hammett (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The Maltese Falcon
• E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions We Pointed Them North
• E. M. Forster (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Aspects of the Novel
• Evelyn Waugh (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Sword of Honour
• Ezra Pound (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions ABC of Reading
• F. R. Leavis (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Great Tradition
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The Great Gatsby
• Frank R. Stockton (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Lady, or the Tiger?
• Fredric Wertham (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Seduction of the Innocent
• George Kennan (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Tent Life in Siberia
• Gertrude Stein (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Making of Americans
• Gustave Flaubert (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Madame Bovary
• Harold Nicolson (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Diaries and Letters
• Helene Hanff (1): Books: A Memoir mentions 84, Charing Cross Road
• Henry James (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Daisy Miller
• Herman Melville (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Moby-Dick
• Horace McCoy (1): Books: A Memoir mentions They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Isaac Newton (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Principia Mathematica
• James Agee (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• James Baldwin (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Go Tell It on the Mountain
• James Jones (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions From Here to Eternity
• James Joyce (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Ulysses
• John Berryman (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
• John Carter (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Taste and Technique in Book-Collecting
• John Rechy (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions City of Night
• John Steinbeck (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Cup of Gold
• Joseph Mitchell (1): Books: A Memoir mentions My Ears Are Bent
• Ken Kesey (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Sometimes a Great Notion
• L. M. Montgomery (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Anne of Green Gables
• Lawrence Durrell (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Alexandria Quartet
• Leslie Fiedler (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Love and Death in the American Novel
• Lytton Strachey (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Eminent Victorians
• Margaret Mitchell (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Gone with the Wind
• Mark Twain (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Life on the Mississippi
• Miguel de Cervantes (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Don Quixote
• Niall Ferguson (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The House of Rothschild
• Northrop Frye (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions Anatomy of Criticism
• Percy Lubbock (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Craft of Fiction
• Peter Hopkirk (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
• Raymond Chandler (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The Big Sleep
• Robert Burton (1): Books: A Memoir mentions The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Robert K. Massie (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Nicholas and Alexandra
• Salman Rushdie (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Satanic Verses
• Susan Sontag (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions On Photography
• T. E. Lawrence (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Seven Pillars of Wisdom
• Thomas Hardy (1): Books: A Memoir mentions Jude the Obscure
• W. Somerset Maugham (1): Literary Life: A Second Memoir mentions The Summing Up
• Walter Scott (1): Lonesome Dove mentions Ivanhoe

Plus 3 mentions between Larry McMurtry's own books.

Authors who mention Larry McMurtry

• Rabih Alameddine (1): An Unnecessary Woman mentions Terms of Endearment

Plus 3 mentions between Larry McMurtry's own books.