In case you're wondering about the weird discussion title, when I tried to name this discussion "Wolf Books," houzz stopped me with the error message "Title must have 15 characters." I think this must be new. I feel certain we've had much shorter titles in the past. I didn't want to add anything to my title, so I just typed what I saw in the error message.

Mozart And The Wolf Gang - Anthony Burgess

You can just add spaces to get up to 15. Yes, this is somewhat new.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken

I often find after looking up a title on Am*zon (as the BBC always says "Other search engines are available) I receive many unsolicited emails recommending books with strange titles that I would never consider buying . . .

Socks - Thanks for that hint. I would never have thought of it.

Vee - Well that figures, doesn't it? I haven't had that happen because I normally look for book titles on my library's online catalog - mostly because it lets me apply filters to shorten the results list.

The Wolf Wants In -- Laura McHugh

Kathy....lol, when I read your post initially I thought that the title had to be one containing 15 characters/letters . Now THAT would be a challenge !

It's not in the title, but the Louise Penny book I just finished (The Beautiful Mystery) was set in a monastery named St. Gilbert Among the Wolves.

Donna

Kathy, I thought you were looking for a crossword name! I love filling in half-done crosswords often left incomplete in magazines at the doctor's surgery waiting room or at the hairdresser. I don't enjoy starting one from scratch though...it is more of a challenge to finish the hard bits or change a word that has misguided someone. Heeheehee!!!

Kathy......or.... even more challenging....must have 15 characters in the story.

Yoyo - I can see why you thought that. It's not my best effort at a discussion title. Now if I just knew how to edit the title...

Donna - I had forgotten about the monastery's "wolf" name, but you are right!

Annpan - You would have gotten along with my father famously. Like you, he only wanted to finish off others' abandoned crossword puzzles - the hard part.

Tell the Wolves I'm Home -- Carol Rifka Brunt. I loved this book (and it's more than 15 characters LOL).

Sheri - I loved that book too. I believe it was Reader in Transit that first put me on to it.

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves -- Karen Russell

Vee, I immediately thought of the Aiken book too. :) another children’s book with Wolf in the title is Neil Gaiman’s Wolves in the Walls. But for an adult book:

The She-Wolf of France ... Maurice Druon.

I read the entire Accursed Kings series about 30 years ago, but for some reason this volume about Isabella did not engage me as much as the others, perhaps because the focus moved out of France to England.

I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

annpan, I used to finish my mother’s unfinished crosswords. This often involved erasing words which were not correct, but which fit in the space because they had been misspelled. :-/

Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Big Bad Wolf - Mark Teague

There are plans by extreme Nature Lovers to re-introduce wolves into Scotland, which is not going down well with sheep farmers.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder -- Kent Nerburn

(Just ran across this one - the One Book South Dakota 2019 selection)

Vee, then there's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf, a picture book from Jon Scieska and Lane Smith. Did the Wolf really huff & puff, or did he just have a bad cold? :)

It’s not a book so I’m cheating a bit...Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. (I love the music but hate the story.)

Donna

The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort. Is there any truth in the story that wolves still roam Lower Manhattan where they are heard howling at night? Do many of them consort with hookers, take drugs and booze, mistreat their families, cause financial melt-downs? Could they not afford handkerchiefs to prevent the spread of germs?

Where are the stories of the good caring wolves?

Hour of the Wolf -- Håkan Nesser

Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf.

Sons of the Wolf by Barbara Michaels. I really liked her books back in the olden days. She was actually Barbara Mertz and also wrote as Elizabeth Peters. I liked all those gothic-type books. Mary Stewart was my favorite, although she mostly wrote current-day stories. I blame her for my love of travel. Her characters were always having adventures in different countries.

BTW, I'm just back from our Switzerland-Austria Odyssey Tour. It was great--possibly the most tiring trip I've made what with climbing to the tops of stuff. No Heidi sightings, but I did get a souvenir Christmas ornament of her.

Carolyn, my favorite ghost story is Barbara Michaels' Ammie, Come Home. I re-read it almost every year around Halloween. :)

Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh

The Ferocious Chocolate Wolf - Lizzy Finlay

(this one for Carolyn)

Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith (Thanks, Vee)

Donnamira, Ammie, Come Home is my favorite Michaels book, too.

Dances with Wolves -- Michael Blake

The Gay Werewolf: Takes Two to Tango - Lex Lanale

( nothing like variety in reading matter ;-))

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig - Eugene Trivizas

(Kathy I am trying! My family would say very trying . . .)

You're doing great, Vee!

I see that I can't follow directions. (I must have thought I was on the game thread.

The Wolf Wants In, Laura McHugh