We know him as Giordano Bruno, but he liked to invent long names and titles for himself, names, it was said, longer than his body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Stone kings looked down on her from their thrones, their faces chipped and stained, even their names lost in the mists of time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Apparently she was a member of some group, Concerned Citizens Against Fudge Packing in the Park or something like that, who wanted to out the names of the men arrested in the bandstand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ophie quickly got lost in the names of them all, so she began to give them names of her own making in her mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As Jackson hung the paper at the front of the room, everyone strained their eyes to make out the names. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So does Butterscotch, who jumps up, gives three short barks—almost like Mom using three names—and calmly walks in front of Penny to block her path. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She ran her finger down the names, selected one that sounded local and reached into her pocket for change. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams walked up to the Wall, overwhelmed by the names. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be surprising to find them among the “smartest” girls’ and boys’ names in California, listed on pages 199-200, that are still fairly obscure. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Dorian ripped it open, and his stomach twisted at the long line of names. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I will name no names, Joseph, but so they are pleased to call him up town, and I have seen that man.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

What other sports team names can you think of that refer to armed conflict? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I told her how hard I had tried to find names for them and how strange it was finding them carved in the bark of a sycamore tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, she'd prefer just Janice, but I always called her "Ms." just because you never know when Doris might pop up, and she ain't play calling elders just by their first names. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Kids who're really popular get called by their first names, so Nick Yew's always just “Nick.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Not one year yet. Do you want to know their names?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They keep their tasks and names very carefully separated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He would show up under different names farther and farther away from his own country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But he knew the names of most Samuelis, whether they were living there or not. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She knew no names of people in Suffolk, despite having lived there for nearly thirteen years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she thought of the few things they did own, like the small stuffed animals with hers and Papa’s names on them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it is such an important matter that those babies have names right now?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And every time we clicked on one of those names, we would be relieved that it wasn’t our Gordy Johnson. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Spitting and curling his mouth in scom, he would reel off names of people he said had done this. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If many names on the above lists were unfamiliar to you, don’t feel bad. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So what if the spirits hear us call their names? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They wrote their names on fourteen pieces of paper which they put into a hat and each woman took one out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the third one was brought and Eva said “Dewey” again, everybody thought she had simply run out of names or that her faculties had finally softened. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the name for it, as well as the names of other articles of clothing. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer kids add their names for this one. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Bran and Meera made up names for those who sang the song of earth: Ash and Leaf and Scales, Black Knife and Snowylocks and Coals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mill boys were always picking fights with town boys—tripping us up or calling us names. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Alaric, do you remember their names? The Cursed Toads?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Isaac Tupperman. He’s why I’m telling this story. I went out with him for nearly two months. That’s how come I can remember the names of his favorite writers.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the second week of December Professor McGonagall came around as usual, collecting names of those who would be staying at school for Christmas. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X’s lawyer, Assemblyman Percy Sutton, said that the police now had the names of those whom Malcolm X had said planned to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the guard would laugh and say “I don’t know no names; I only know numbers. Besides, you can’t visit here, you can only visit in jail.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know their names or anything about them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She is squinting at the list of names. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I knew Feathers’s and Rubio’s last names to bring something of their family back for them too. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Chinese I know hide their names; sojourners take new names when their lives change and guard their real names with silence. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names they picked were Freedom 7, Liberty Bell 7, Friendship 7, Aurora 7, Sigma 7, and Faith 7. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever names Harren the Black had meant to give his towers were long forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The emigrants confused the gods by diverting their curses, misleading them with crooked streets and false names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been called names, it still hurts—and it still always comes as such a surprise that I never know how to respond. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the streets in Swanlake Village had two words in their names. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She said the names of the plants over and over aloud, trying to make a chant of them for easier memory. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurd believed he knew the answer: a few memories and an education so inadequate they might have difficulty reading their names in “big boxcar letters.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What new names or rumors will I hear today? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In root position, the root, which is the note that names the chord, is the lowest note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I recognized a few other faces in the crowd and realized that, whether they were household names or not, this was an exclusive group that held a significant amount of influence and power. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I do apologize, but we have strayed off topic. Where are my manners? I believe that introductions are in order. I don’t recall hearing your names.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He keeps on his computer a roster of 1,600 names and addresses, and on each entry is a note describing the circumstances under which he met the person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t mind. And all the names but one in here have two dates.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some were old enough to know their names at least, but Lazlo was just a baby, and an ill one, no less. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

People whose names I don’t know are treating me as if I’m their long-lost son or brother or cousin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Aleph spoke their long names and they were wreathed in a white fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And we try to keep their names out our mouths if at all possible. Seems like discussing them brings them around faster.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Paqo said, “Strange how close the two names are. Micay. Millay. Beauty and horror just a click of the tongue apart. One moment in time, and a life veers off on a different path.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sierra gazed into the murky mirror over the sink, past all the hearts and names etched into the glass. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We need to gather six thousand three hundred names,” Dr. Agar said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the rear of the church was Sheriff Clark with a bunch of his armed deputies, recording the names of people who attended the meeting and taking notes on everything the speakers said. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missing settled over the girls like a sudden coat of snow shaken loose from an awning, and they moved forward on autopilot, dazed smiles in place, and stated their names and representative states. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it’s weird that Alaric can’t remember the Cursed Toads’ names? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “Gentlemen, the floor’s open for names for the newest member of the band, Bud-not- Buddy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

What she recalls are the names and details of the lives of all the fictional characters from the party: Michelle and Gendry and Michael. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know many of the alums from the fifties, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to see if any names rung a bell.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looks at the items, does some addition in his head, and names a price. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the government kidnapped those kids in Arizona who had the same names and birthdays as Chess, Emma, and Finn? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Best of all, she had no interest in their names. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She would call the parents Mr. or Mrs., never by their first names. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I was connected to those names now, because of what happened to me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Why are we called by names, when all others have numbers?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under the recorded names were other names, just as “Macon Dead,” recorded for all time in some dusty file, hid from view the real names of people, places, and things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all they gave the two people they had made names: the man they called Ask, or Ash Tree; the woman they called Embla, or Elm. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I was telling him about our names,” Candy says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One Turk calls family names, the others count people getting on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although there is general agreement about the names of some commonly used "exotic" scales, they are not at all standardized. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, it’s even becoming fashionable for American-born Chinese to use their Chinese names. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She grabs her backpack, which has been inked all over with band names and quotes, and fishes out her wallet. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The old miner reports the names of many of the towns and their approximate sizes, which he knows off the top of his head and apparently finds very interesting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ugly—seeing the names, pictures of other black boys makes it hard to forget them. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Of course what I really like about it are the names of all the plants with the name possum. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized a few of the other parents who had come to the meeting in our great room, but I don’t know their names. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seems a bit daft not to write the family’s names now, as the Nazis are so familiar with them anyway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My mother’s face turned a shade darker when Ma Charles said all of Big Ma’s names. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He had his alto sax idol, Johnny Hodges, with Duke Ellington’s band, but he said he thought too many young musicians were only carbon-copying the big-band names on the same instrument. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading was for me the key to ‘knowledge’; I swallowed facts and dates and names and themes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lovely names. They will be beautiful ornaments for my bridge,” said Shukra, examining his fingernails. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, fancy that. You know all their names? I usually forget them soon after I've made them up.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Since tissues connected to their donors’ names are subject to strict regulation under the Common Rule, samples are no longer named using donor initials as Henrietta’s cells were; today they’re usually identified by code numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two bad friends were now too ashamed to go before the chief to ask him to change their names. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Claudio and Hero—Shakespeare wasn’t all that good about his names—Claudio and Hero would have a whole lot to do just to get up to where Romeo and Juliet were. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper, who had always been such a great reader, had no difficulty in thinking of names for the penguin children. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Men at the front of the crowd called us names and jeered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flirted with them and forgot their names and let them know that she’d forgotten their names, because the forgetting made them admire her and want her to remember. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Do those other names mean anything to you?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Our names will be on the alumni lists of Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, and even Harvard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But now, tonight, the dead were risen, Earth was reinhabited, memory awoke, a million names were spoken: What was so-and-so doing tonight on Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed familiar names, like my own and the other members of the club. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They were the names of snows that emptied south in stone canals to fill the empty seas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here, with my new glasses on, I can see the virtual names of streets and buildings blinking in and out as I move around the room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only their middle names, which perforce became their given names, were their own. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You call your child by the names of all your other children and finally the dog before you get to his. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Andrea mixed up several names, too eager to get from one Decker to the next. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Think of all the names we've been called over the years.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have memorized the names of all the books of the Bible, in order, and the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer, and most of the Beatitudes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until now it has not occurred to Gogol that names die over time, that they perish just as people do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lorries stop, we climb out—a confused heap, a remnant of many names. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could never really remember the names of his clerks and typists. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So in Macbeth, when he wasn’t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he want to express in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s when the Aspirants disappeared. There are four of them. Their names—” “We know all that.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That’s why I always signed the forms saying your names or pictures couldn’t be used on the school website; that was why I was always so careful about what I let you do online. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were a million names to choose from. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What are the differences between letters of the alphabet and music pitch names? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Those names you have—they shouldn’t be a burden. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There’s more about plural names in the chapter on plurals, pages 18-19. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strolling and gawking at the houses and whistling a happy little dorky tune like some Sneezy or Snoozy or whatever their names are. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I have answered to all three, but I never introduce myself by those names. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Whoever the king names will not have an easy time stepping into your armor, I can tell. Lord Mormont faces die same problem." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the boys behind me call names and the girls to each side sneer, I look straight ahead because those sheep are smiling at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we need new names. My parents know I have a friend named Marlee at West Side.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the stack of CDs and read through the names. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Probably not a great thing that Coach knew our names already. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had the names of towns and rivers by heart and he measured their progress daily. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“No. I have roommates. The phone’s under one of their names.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His was one of many gray tombstones in a line of foreign unpronounceable names. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Also, I have blotted out some names as lam afraid of getting innocent people in trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with painstaking care, I carved their names deep in its red surface. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Croteau still seems impressed by his wife’s family, and their being among “the ones with their names on the buildings.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m wary of them and dislike the changing room, where we have to put on the blue cotton bloomer-bottomed gym suits with our names embroidered on the pockets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

—School, for many of us, would be a rough and a constantly uphill battle; but he hoped that some of us would remain in school long enough to learn to write our names. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t understand what that must’ve been like, but she knew how powerful names were. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The names scrolled in tidy columns through her mind, each group belonging to a different chapter in her life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it in the girls, in their loud laughter, in their gilded bamboo earrings that announced their names thrice over. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How many other names and promises had they known and made? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She picked up the clipboard on her desk and started reading the names out loud. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You did a good thing. Plus, Dennis has two first names. He was asking to get in trouble.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he started calling out the boys' names. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I hurry toward language arts class, reading the names in the bricks as I go past the girls’ restroom. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I counted the stations and said their names in my head. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It asks my birthdate and address, my parents’ names and phone numbers, my health insurance. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t so hard recognizing me, was it? Even without names.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I mean, black folks can get creative with names, but Love? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, but he also has not died, so I assume he still loves having the proper names of things even if he isn’t saying them.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all her late nights cursing their names, Zahra is family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You want us to tell you our names?” asked the clean-jawed spook. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I came across these names in newspapers, magazines and books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mens names were given to fighters and women’s to bombers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the cigarettes, those same companies had their names on the ballpark billboards too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scratched names on the giant stone appear in my mind, but I don’t speak them to her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to list names; I’d have to include some of those most prominent then in popular music, even a number of them around today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She reeled off several more names I don’t now remember. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a full pass before he realized that there were some names missing. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the penalty of law if you refuse to register these names?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Consequently, many of the stars today have Arabic names, which I think are mysterious and beautiful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had this feeling that in America names didn’t mean anything, not like they did in Korea. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My next thought was that until we’d arrived, we were just names on a piece of paper anyway, so it couldn’t have been that hard to change. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the biggest names in web development had gone through Insomnia Con: Jenny Lindt, for instance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

No human beings had names like that “These guys are moving here next year,” Sloan bragged, like that was supposed to scare me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew nobody, had no names except the first name of an old lady who was now dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Weird, weird, weird. Did they just steal our names and birthdays? Or—I know.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He knew names for most of the flowers and trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The tourist industry has found this place! Too bad. It used to be so quiet and tucked away. Now the meals have biblical names.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was my second day at private school, and I didn’t know the other students’ names yet, so I looked around to see who one of my teachers had called on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just so were the names of kings always written, with an oval line about them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute, you guys, we have to have a slogan, right? What do you think of this: Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if you remember me. I was a Twelve when you were. My names Claire.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They’re the same names, but next to them, there’s also a tick scratched in, obviously for each time I completed what I had to do. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He would see the lush fields, the tall forests, and, most important, the fabled libraries, holding books no one in Tenebrion had ever read or even heard the names of. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably got a longer list of names than any of us.”We all nod, because what do we know, and Addie says she’ll talk to him right after lunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

For all these names of love she had taught him, as one teaches new words to a child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Give me the names, the first names, addresses if you have them, of the two witnesses,” the agent said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t remember all the goblin rebels’ names, so I invented a few. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Oh, and there was also a Warren Wright born in 1964; was it possible Mrs. Richardson had her names mixed up? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inspired by what we’d seen, we noticed that other stores we passed also needed to change their names. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other names they spoke aloud to each other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with a big group at lunch that included Mike, Eric, Jessica, and several other people whose names and faces I now remembered. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Faces appear, names are exchanged, pictures taken, kisses brushed on cheeks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reads off some names and more trainees leave the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I carefully fold the cash into my pocket and pull out my business spiral from my backpack to write down the names of my new clients. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I have to. The money’s half mine, and if I don’t get it we won’t have a cent to our names.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They still hadn’t exchanged names, and she wasn’t sure they should. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our middle names are different, at least, but—yeah. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And clouds got at least ten different names, I say. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the fabrics that we know of today came to Europe via the Muslims, and their names still show their origins: damask from Damascus, muslin from Mosul, gauzes from Gaza. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I make mental notes so I can remember their names. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Our African first names became our American middle names. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no danger of an uprising here among the privileged, among those whose names, are never placed in the reaping balls, whose children never die for the. supposed crimes committed generations ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The European names are unfamiliar and hard to spell. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He writes the letters of the alphabet and says their names and has me repeat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rhydd calls all us kids “Blue” so he doesn't have to remember our names. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"No, really. You see how he’s always teasing all of us. Goofing around with our names. He doesn’t do that with you." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It has been widely stated that He and La are the first letters of her names but whereas one textbook says the names were Helen Lane another says Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Try to start with simple music which either includes the names of the chords, or has simple chords in the accompaniment that will be relatively easy to find and name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Latin names of the gods are, of course, used; and the Latin forms in the case of any personage who has a Latin as well as a Greek name. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something. Not Yo-Yo Ma.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian shrugged and continued, calling out the names in singsong fashion, with measured pauses, letting his voice linger over the names and numbers, a weird litany here in the quiet office. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of which prompted him to begin, also without any evidence, to start publicly announcing the names of individuals he claimed were Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Hey, our names kind of match,” she said as she chewed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It strikes me as suspicious, the way she’s arranged the names. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The names were familiar, but I had heard so many names in the last week, and I couldn’t match “Paul” and “Marya” with faces. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The last thing I remember was dying, so why am I on this wall? Are we enemies? Have you got names? I’m the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me ‘Westley.’” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped and turned to look at him, eyes wide, just as Max announced their names. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There are no other children’s names here,” he said. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The swift figure meaning everything to them, all identities, all persons, all names. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their full names and addresses, their travel schedules, anything that could help me notice something suspicious about their behavior—I download all of this and store it away for later analysis. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She typed my name into the computer, hit Enter, then asked how many names I wanted. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As for those she served with, she did not even want to know their names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In most cases the standard spellings of the names—Tabitha, Cheyenne, Tiffany, Brittany, and Jasmine—also signify low education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She logged the names of vipers, salamanders, rare frogs, tiny snakes native only to faraway islands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember exactly when I stopped keeping count of how many people’s names I knew. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke went on to speak of other names and how they began. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I jotted these names into my notebook alongside the word Troublemaker; and said I'd look into it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They slip into other names, and sink without a trace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two teams were organized and, after much debate, names were chosen: The Sparkle Ponies would stay on the beach, tend to the wounded, and try to salvage whatever they could from the wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Surely I must have had nurses who tended to me, though I remember none of their names or faces. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And if there are records, then there are names. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could look online. Search both their names and see what comes up.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We pointed out other things—the spring, the cave, a gull flying, the sun and the sky, Rontu asleep—trading the names for them and laughing because they were so different. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They demanded the names of the adult ringleaders. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"However, I prefer to use the names their parents gave them—the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Your Highness. A woman and a man. But they didn’t give their names.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are there really flags in Chinatown signaling what stowaways have arrived in San Francisco Bay, their names, and which ships they came on? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone calls our names over the wall, says it’s time for tea and cake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She jotted their names on the back of one of her mother’s pictures and gave it to me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But after each man or woman fell, Tehlu knelt and spoke to them, giving them new names and healing some of their hurt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This is who you are now. You need to commit the names and the story to memory.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From his list he first eliminated the names of people who were dead. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen out of my back pocket and start writing down all the names I can think of on a napkin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I move closer to one of the walls and read through the names, searching for one that looks familiar. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ali and Reza are both popular Iranian names—maybe even more popular than Sohrab—though both are technically Arabic in origin. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She knows way too many names of prescription pills—even for someone with an interest in medical school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Other people may call us names or think we’re weird or whatever, but that does not mean we believe them. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Theaters were places where people with well-known names gave their performances. I began to feel that this was turning into a career.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, he quickly rattled off the names of his mother, his wife, and even his dog. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There are plenty of strange names in Kiev,” he said through his unsure smile. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How can she be expected to cook dinner for her family with the names of dead people on the walls? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now what does that remind me of? Might I ask your names, sir?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I want to add that we had always been the only kids in elementary school with names that everyone stumbled over. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dark, thunderous, powerful hatred rises in me as I scream and call him names. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure he had them mostly wrong and he made up new games and gave them made up names. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you got names for your rockets?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited until they were done shouting out their names before he 'gave them answer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Traditional” and “modern”: those would be the perfect names to label the two groups of corn. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I even kidded Alice about the names she chose for her children. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

What wonderful names he knew for that flower! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cari paced back and forth in front of the porch until Wash told her to sit down so he could teach her the names of his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or the detectives blabbed, and now everyone at the station knows our names. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

From then on, when jockeys’ names were posted for Howard’s horses, Pollard was never among them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never got their names. No badges. Three of them showed up, told me that I had better be careful, that I had painted a target on my back, on my whole family.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ones that call me Casper and Wonderbread and Ghostboy and Paleface and other names I don’t even want to say. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s this activity where a group of friends draw names out of a hat, and they are supposed to buy a lot of Christmas presents for whatever person they choose. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“At least they didn’t put our names on them.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Better Piggy than Fatty," he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that. Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Everyone will know their names, thanks to you.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Only outsiders call us by our proper names. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Who comes up with these nail polish color names anyway?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He's recording the names of the people who had stopped to help Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her names were only symbolic, but I had more than symbols to remind me that freedom was possible—probable—and for me, very near. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took most of the walk across campus before I understood what she’d said, then I checked my course schedule and, for the first time, noticed the numbers next to the course names. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We all know that names rise and fall and rise—witness the return of Sophie and Max from near extinction—but is there a discernible pattern to these movements? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her brother, Mars—Dad and Papi let Sunnie choose the names, and I kid you not, she named the babies Mars and Jupiter—died when they were seventeen days old. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The next morning my father had us carve our names into the stump of the tree that fell away from our house. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She reached under the desk and pulled out another thick book called Standard Highway Mileage Guide and turned to a page that had a million numbers and city names on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The men started calling out their code names so we’d know who was still alive. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Selverton Square, he saw a kiosk where the poster with his and Lina’s names on it had been pinned up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had written books under those names and plenty of others. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though their first names were spelled different, you said them just the same. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Over yonder were what she called her “word plants”—the wild flowers she planted because they had names she liked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

You can see the place, under the lily, where the lettering was painted out, when they decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation for us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, students were required to use their real first names, followed by a number, to differentiate them from other students with the same name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lurz asked, running his finger down a list of names written in careful script next to page numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Over bare rock they rode, through gloomy pine forests and drifts of old snow, over icy ridges and across shallow rivers that had no names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I don't even know my own grandparents' first names. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He showed me a large log book half filled with student’s names and their requests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She touched the granite, trailed her fingertips over a few names, then a few more. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Boy21 is in my homeroom even though homerooms are arranged alphabetically and all the other M and W names are not grouped together. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, just try not to say those names when I’m around, okay?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They call each other by their last names, draw attention to any extra departures from cleanliness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told me the names of the dogs. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to publish the list of names in the paper. Tomorrow.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their names suddenly appeared on the enormous, forty-three-foot-wide announcement board at the eastern end of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t. So even if you were to write the names, I couldn’t read them. And it’s not permitted for girls to learn.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enumerated the names of famous Charleses in order to stir up genetic ambition in the boy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Let me take a look at those names there, Saboe,” he said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Robots have names. Haven’t you ever seen Star Wars'?” Was he kidding? Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Nana’s forgetfulness was cute at first—she’d call us by the wrong names, mix up our birthdays, send us Christmas cards in the middle of summer—but it isn’t cute anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He found some paper and put down the names of all the movie stars and singers he could think of. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Calpurnia, you will find it a bad idea to give names to your experimental subjects.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He needed to get all the names together and have the chaplain look at them by the next day, Saturday. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I remember the names from the pictures and in the book, and soon as I leave school tomorrow, those are the ones I’ll be looking for in the library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I don’t know your first names yet, but I’m sure I’ll learn them soon.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“All those names and the black surface. It’s like looking in a mountain pond at night, but with the names floating on it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Drinks with the names of people,” Desdemona complained to her mute husband back in the attic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do as you think best, but bring me names.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We could look online. Search both their names and see what comes up.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at the names and I think about how I got them, and I'm not proud of myself for being a sneak thief. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Koffi knew all their names and realms, but it was still strange to see the great goddess’s likeness before her, so large, so grand. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Oh, different names, perhaps— Jupiter for Zeus, Venus for Aphrodite, and so on—but the same forces, the same gods.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With everything to choose from in the wav of names, why did she pick that one? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam calls me and Mom names, like, every day. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He recognized them: there were tattered scrolls in the vaults of Stormhold in which those knives were pictured, and their names were given. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few minutes passed, however, before she returned and announced, “I shall now read the names of children admitted into the second phase of the test.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still there’s seldom less than a score round the Boss, as they names him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This must be my cue to name a few names, because this is how Ted operates, my coworkers claim—through snitches and by setting up one woman against another. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until years later that Ivy realized Taryn’s dad had been a swimmer in college and had taught her the names of all the swimming strokes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There are names inscribed on the bronze panels, dozens of names. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The names of the kids with detention were announced at every assembly, and I was always one of them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember the other monks’ names, or even the prayers that had been his vocation for decades, but the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He wants to know the names of everything: Train. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But still, I wonder if maybe everybody gets names hung on them for only a little part of who they are. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we sit back down, Ren has us introduce ourselves by our names and our halls. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their names were added to an official registry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My face flushes and a knot rises in my throat when I see all those names. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, the list of avatars on the Scoreboard was over a hundred names long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Softly she called our names, as if she hoped we might finally hear and come running. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Boomer and I walk between the old gravestones—crooked and slick with moss, some of them so old you can’t even read the names on them anymore—until we come to the newer ones. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hari’s gaze was all ice and venom as he said, “Forgive me if I don’t want to take advice on names from someone called Dimple.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Last come crop names that aren’t consistent within language groups at all, but instead follow trade routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine read the names to me several times. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They know the first names of the staff. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have a pew near the back that may as well have our names on it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

All the names would be listed on the two huge wings of the wall, etched into black granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re just some stupid kids from the neighborhood who like to call him names.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atoms will be freed, after all, and names are misleading and can constantly change. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

What I wanted was to go back to not caring about Ocean James, the boy with two first names. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another thing I think about names is that they do hurt. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kenyon handed us a slip of paper with the names of three books to look up in the card catalogue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And other names, people she hadn’t met but whose names she’d heard whispered in her home and at church: Mary Turner, Obe Cox, Paul Jones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The other six members flanked him on either side, and I heard each of their names as a lady at the far corner of the table called roll into the microphone. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s also customary to drop the final s when forming the possessives of ancient classical or biblical names that already end in s: Whose biceps were bigger, Hercules’ or Achilles’? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compare and contrast the pitch names on the staff with the letters of the alphabet. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he falls into a Capitol accent as he mimics Effie Trinket, the maniacally upbeat woman who arrives once a year to read out the names at the leaping. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Despite their brevity, they are full of information, both because of the nature of written language, and because of the special way Mesoamerican people chose their names. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had boyfriends who played guitar and sang in bands with names like Liquid Courage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Jude,” I say, because names have no power over mortals. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But changing the note names or adding different-named notes, will change the name of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But we’ll need the names of each of them...There must be at least a hundred?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“No. Not at all. Actually this region takes its names from us, although people barely know it. It was a trading post back in the old days.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And for two and a half hours before dinner and two and a half hours after dinner, I'm in my room going through the names from my crumpled stolen list. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly he envisioned “Gogol” added to the list of names, “Nikhil” printed in tiny letters upside down. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of large boulders, with names printed underneath them in white pencil. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had called us by our formal name, like when your mother or grandmother calls you by all of your names to keep from calling you something worse. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The towns all have new names, and if that weren’t enough to remember, now we’re supposed to call one another citoyen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never paid much attention to the names the children had picked, but looking at her now, he knew that Sansa had chosen well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I scan the names, looking for my sisters, hoping Rémy lied, but I don't see them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe we’ll think about more than names and stop talking to each other like some of us are less than others of us. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The people of the Capitol are going nuts, showering us with flowers, shouting our names, our first names, which they have bothered to find on the program. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A slim, sophisticated-looking woman approaches us holding a sign with six names on it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the names weren’t actually summer names, but they were names that had some kind of connection to summer. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Many graves were marked with index-card-sized metal plates on sticks with names and dates; the rest were unmarked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The day before the last day of school, Mr. Tushman called me into his office to tell me they had found out the names of the seventh graders from the nature retreat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I knew the names of hot senior guys I'd never met before. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If the government kept records of all the colored arrivals, perhaps among the many names was that of her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was also starting to understand that I could try to ignore or shake off the way I felt when people called me names. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the skies and told her the names of stars and constellations. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suárez Family was listed in the very last bunch of names. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I’m shying away from ancient classical names. And besides, if he has a Mexican name, then maybe he’ll feel more Mexican.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I can tell by the way she chain-smokes on the way home and acts bored and nonchalant, referring, every once in a while, to the real, professional actors by their first names. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mind had a hard time grasping names of places, or remembering countries or rulers, how the world was organized. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Macbeth and Malcolm are not the same person, though their names share an initial consonant,” she said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m Madame Bee. What are your names, lovely girls?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Bless his heart. Good as gold, that boy is. Don’t bat an eye when kids poke fun at him, calling him names like Pogo.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Famous physicists were given code names—Enrico Fermi, for example, was supposed to tell people his name was Henry Farmer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Diana, Georgie,” she cried, as if she knew no words other than our names. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One by one they flapped their wings and took flight, soaring above us, cursing our names and threatening to take their revenge. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The reason I know all of this is that we had to say our names, going around the circle, and what we do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Tallmadge did not tell Washington the names of the agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have each of your names in this tin, and I’ll pull two names at a time. The two names I pick will be partners.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

That is how you can get lost, in a sea of names. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks his friends based on whether he likes or dislikes the colors of their names. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Every day, the boys scanned the ever-growing lists for familiar names. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

None of the document names mattered; none of the agents acted human at any point in the story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Wary of giving away game plans, the heirs decided the questions would be written out, but no names were to be signed. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the notes of the two scales will have different names, the scales will look very different when written, and musicians may think of them as being different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I whisper, “The whole world will know their names.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She changed names almost as often as we changed addresses. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up on the Wonder Dome, thirty-two brightly colored names in a balloon font popped into view as the players finished tapping them into their phones. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the pages, in the margins, they scrawl the names and addresses of the people who help them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“If you think this is Mom’s twin...does that mean we have cousins with the exact same names as us? Can that happen?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

By that time, all the family names for boys had been exhausted. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard steps coming down the stairs and Mrs. Trek calling their names. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dewey looked at the gray stone inscribed with four names, and the date of their death: November 15, 1959. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distinction between a first appearance on stage and subsequent appearances can also be marked by the use of names or indefinite nouns on the one hand and pronouns on the other. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of “Frederick Bailey.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Between us, we have a total of seventy-two names, other than the names you see here. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father named me Ezekiel Jeremiah Jackson—two strong Bible names—he had great ambitions for me. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed him into the house, and Mychal exclaimed a series of artist names. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They denounced books they had never read, people they had never known, ideas they could never understand, and doctrines whose names they could not pronounce. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were no onion knights, but proud men from houses whose names were old in honor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Muslims react to this fact by referring to the Negro as “the so-called American Negro” and substituting for the names inherited from slavery the letter “X.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Skeezie says, and before you know it we’re all whooping it up and running to the computer to add these names to all the others. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

To Xhosa traditionalists, this name is more acceptable than either of my two previous given names, Rolihlahla or Nelson, and I was proud to hear my new name pronounced: Dalibunga. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who could ever describe this confusion, and come up with the village names and the dates for the history books? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Brian handed over the list of names, each name with boxes beside it in which returns were noted as they arrived, corresponding to the master list on the big boards in the assembly hall. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, the soldiers barely looked at me as I passed through an entryway crowned by statues of Mary and Jesus, plus other saints whose names I did not know. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma India stood silent by my side as I fed the flame and spoke their names and forgave them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your names appeared on the Scoreboard on the same day, just a few minutes apart. So you entered the throne room together, didn’t you?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have too many names on this thing, do you?” he mumbled nervously. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I see them again, they shall have taken new names of their own devising. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She wrote down as many names of fish as she could think of: herring, cod, stingray, salmon, mackerel, haddock, shark, trout, perch, pike...What else was there? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, Anthony and fourteen other women took the oath and had their names added to the official voter rolls. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Rojas kept an exact tally of everyone who entered and left, and he could recite their names, dates of entry and departure, and their circumstances without hesitation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace saw Maya’s birth certificate, her parents’ names carefully typed in, and a small set of baby footprints. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She walked with light steps, whispering the names of every tree and flower, careful not to trample any saplings or mushrooms as she stepped. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe not yelling at them, not calling them names, not hitting them—maybe that is enough. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It be like their spirits are inside you, remaking you into something better and bolder every time you say their names, read their poems, learn their legacy. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The man behind the camera was confounded by their outlandish names. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tiny blue numbers scattered around the map matched up with business names listed in the margins. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In the strange other words they said that Linda was bad; they called her names he did not understand, but that he knew were bad names. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she still calls me hurtful names and whacks me for one thing or an- other every day, she usually doesn’t leave bruises or draw blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Helen showed up in articles again and again with different last names, a few scientists began feeling the need to set the record straight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In case you don’t remember, Ms. Antilly was the guidance counselor for students with last names beginningAthrough G.Later that year, she moved to another school district. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The letter went on to describe their five cats—one had only three legs, and they all had peculiar names. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He thought about the names he’d been called last year and how uncomfortable his non-Muslim friends looked when they pretended that they were all the same. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"I expect we'll want to know all their names," said the fat boy, "and make a list. We ought to have a meeting." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were benches along the walls outside the doors with their frosted glass and their neatly printed names and titles. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I bought a larger one and wrote down the names, addresses and date mowed, so there was some order. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

They would show the image over and over again while they read the names of those who were trapped inside, begging for help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And the best part is, the comments section of the article isn’t filled with trolls calling the people in the article awful names. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the names sent a wave of sighs and whispers through the group. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

On the platform they walk from compartment to compartment, looking for their four names on the passenger list pasted to the outside wall of the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grim it stood above the northern cliffs, grey were the clouds over the seas of winter, endless the lists and ranks and rounds of names that the Namer's eight pupils must learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Register by last names and get your quarters assigned.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“There were three. Return Eric to the Erudite. Report the names of all people who did not get shot with needles last time. And deliver the Divergent to Erudite headquarters.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I handed the names to Arnold, who opened his computer and started tapping away. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What am I to do with a list of names?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Let us,” Lincoln declared, “make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives’ bonnets to church.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Look, you made the front page of the Daily News. Your names are here.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They’d put their names on every waiting list they could find, and from time to time an adoption agent would call with a possible match. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The names and the responses sounded almost like a song, a melody for a classroom, a tune for many voices. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Williams wasn’t the first black engineer hired by Langley, but the couple of black men who preceded him had come and gone so quickly that not even their names remained in the institutional memory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he marked them with their respective names so that all he had to do was read the inscription in order to identify them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griffiths has no trouble saying their names, and when they notice me, they acknowledge me with friendly waves. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I looked up again to the names carved in the tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read it out loud—and looked at her with wide eyes when I got to the names of his brothers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He believed in giving his children and grandchildren names that meant something, like parents did in biblical times. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I brought nail polish so we can paint our names on the back of the turtles. That way, you’ll know for sure that it was mine when it wins.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

These names don’t have much in common, phonetically or aesthetically, with the low-education names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The list of names was long for such a small place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the magazine rack is a row of light switches with different names under them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They kicked the students, called them names, slapped them in the face, dragged them by the ears, whipped them, and struck their hands with wooden sticks and rulers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The spies sent the Nazis many shipping details from South American ports, too—long lists of vessel names, cargoes, and departure dates. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now for the boys’ names that are turning up these days in high-education households. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Here I stand. Look, if that is your pleasure...but first tell me your names." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could see the moving red and white lights along the drive and the lights of the bridges whose names I didn't know. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Delivery trucks pulled in and out of the market, and inside were a hundred different stalls, with names like Gibbs and Pardoe Fruits, Great British Mushrooms, and David Kira, Banana Merchants. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

This woman was the giver of American names, a powerful namer, though it was American names; my parents gave the Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father will speak to you. He won’t forget your names.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look at the Little Free Library stocked with picture books and shelved alphabetically by the illustrators’ last names. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Mr. Bonner goes on, “if the person feels as though they have enough information—names, dates, access to primary sources like newspapers and photographs—they can seek out some truth that way.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

A fuller description of all the names and contributors lies outside the purview of this book. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“She suddenly began to utter the names of the women who had worked with her as if in a final roll call,” Shaw later recalled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During tests we were given blank maps of the thirteen colonies, and asked to fill in names, dates, capitals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But instead we have to be standing in the square at two o'clock waiting for the names to be called out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If he had to read the names of the ministers of Japan or Zaire, or any name containing more consonants than vowels, or more vowels than consonants, he would embarrass himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though she didn’t know the names of the vegetables she lay among, she recognized his as onions. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He says little has changed since the time of the Greeks for the barbarians are within the gates and their names are legion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There are nonsensical names, like Jet and Tipper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A progressive was someone who called her mother and father by their first names. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up—like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me—Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“There are so many stories here. So many names.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

By repeating code words and code names so often, the spies were opening the door to Elizebeth and her team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Spurge, red with rage, yelled, “You, Ysoret Clivers, are a—” And then he called Clivers all the names he’d been storing up for all the years. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn't a code, and had nothing to do with people receiving false papers containing names different from the ones they were born with. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yet you say you have some names for us?” said Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She taught us the star pictures and what names to call them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you know? We have something else in common. Our names.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I figured Miss Love was the one who suggested names to him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The two other members of Dain’s spy troupe also have code names. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Notice how I rattle off all their names. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure’s hands whisper across the houses as she recites the names of the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Neat handwritten blocks told their names, where to gather them, when they came in bloom, their medical uses. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the accused named names, fingering friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But no one yelled at me or called me names or beat me because I hadn’t watched my sisters and brothers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But then the male and female ones have different names.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“On Dasher and Donner and Comet and all you other guys with the weird names,” Bull called out from the roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piles of yellow pads and pencils were on the tables, and partners were taking them and writing their names on top. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All around me the people move like a herd of cows in a stampede, yelling and crying out family members’ names. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't take many conversations with Ralph before it became clear that he had difficulty remembering names. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boy outside seemed to have an endless supply of peas, but eventually he called Matt a few bad names and went away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these features made the forms, names, and sequence of Semitic alphabet letters easy to remember. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his hand along the names and waits for Byrd to find her words. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Since when did you know about fossils and Latin names?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Mention any more names like that and you won’t even make it home, I swear it.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you believe the names people had in the old days? Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The foyer feels cool and dark as they walk down the hall, reading the gold-lettered names and titles on the doors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could even call the names of some of the same people from back there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He locked the door and shuttered the wide windows of the inn, as if to distance himself from the stars and all their varied names. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we start by giving our names.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Look at all the names we came up with for the signs we put up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The principal gave the names of the three eighth graders; then he said, “And the anchor leg was run by Penn Webb, who brought the team from last place to second.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Had no idea there were actual names for this. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

A sea of eager smiling faces bobbed around them, calling out names and waving cards with passenger’s names on them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she spoke gibberish, cried out, called out names Mariam did not recognize. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The famous Schaffhauser grilled cheese had three different kinds of cheese in it—Swiss cheese and two other ones with funny-sounding names I couldn’t pronounce. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had names, too, though the couple in the cottage called them Daisy, Lily, Hyacinth, Violet, Dahlia, Jasmine, Poppy, and they did not remember the ones they had before. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And I just couldn’t learn all those names and facts, much less spell them correcdy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Merchants sang out the names of what they sold. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“What a shame it is that the proper names for them they cannot have.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the local coffee shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of people's names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, she assigned seats in alphabetical order, last names first. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would call out our names, one by one, and introduce us to his many friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A sheet of paper was tacked up, listing the names of die children expected to attend practice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“How the hell would I know their names?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five names in each category don’t appear at all in the other category’s top twenty. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t they teach you about names at the University?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were no pampering unguents disguised by rugged names. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The names of a few of the friendlier tribes, a few cities under lockdown for insurrection—stuff like that. I just wanted to get a sense of what was happening in Virginia.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All the details he’d memorized jumped out like flares in the night, names and titles and plays that now made perfect sense because of Albert. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The name Virgil doesn’t mean anything to me, but that’s because it’s hard for me to remember names. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In that dark she created by keeping her eyes shut, she would pray, beginning with the names of her own sisters, for all those she wanted God to especially care for, here and back home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I can see because they have names written right next to them. But it still looks like lines.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So that the companies can wrap themselves in some sort of official cloak, the names are recorded in books which are registered in the Library of Congress. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy bent his flashing glasses to them and could be heard between the blasts, repeating their names. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But not a great one. Merchant families don’t have the same stability...” “... and their names don’t carry the same weight,” she finished with another, knowing shrug. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Marketed under trade names which give no hint of their nature, many of these preparations contain such poisons as mercury, arsenic, and chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Black people choose their traditional names with great care; those are the names that have deeply personal meanings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You writing down things about us all?” and he called out the names as he found them: Jocko, Slant, Pomp, Isaac, Charles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So how about comparing today’s most popular names with the top ten from only twenty years earlier? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Several app icons flickered into view above his head, and I raised an eyebrow as I recited their names. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Some plants got their names from leaves, some from flowers, some from seeds, some from roots. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knows kids’ names and makes it a point to call out to them. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She hoped the others were safe, but she had to put all that out of her head and concentrate on the scribbled names flying beneath her fingers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Freud," the doctor said, listing names on his pad. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"In the kitchen, arguing about names for the wolf pups." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Gave their kids names that no master could ever take away. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Sweetly, to begin. Hear what tales they tell and what names they give you. It may be they had no part in this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed almost unbelievable that the DNA structure was solved, that the answer was incredibly exciting, and that our names would be associated with the double helix as Pauling’s was with the alpha helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Enrique pushes out his chest and asks for two names, so close together they are almost one. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She recited the names of her other knives, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The code names were the weak points that gave Elizebeth a pathway into the messages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All of you, get up! We value you. We honor you. We sacrifice for you. We’re calling your names!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The names of the towns mean nothing to him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And then you and I weren’t friends anymore. You started calling us names.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your friend’s. I don’t want to say her name because...names have power.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And black parents give their children names that are starkly different from white children’s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The names of the various hues were one of the first things small children learned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The lawyer got names and positions all fouled up, and I've got a drunk for a partner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because these names were long, and because they used uncommon letters and combinations like F and MB, they stood out. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I made a progress round the room, with Charles at my side, prompting me with the names. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The speed of the players was incredible — the Chasers were throwing the Quaffle to one another so fast that Bagman only had time to say their names. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t even have to read the street names. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There are websites that mention a handful of names—usually just the “top players”—but none with year-by-year lists of who was on the team. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

This is where she gets to call out the names of anyone late on their dues or tardy for meetings or not fulfilling their philanthropic duties. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I call them Mr. and Mrs. Park anyway, since my parents never let me call any grown-ups by their first names. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The names of all the uncles, both grandfathers, and the four great grandfathers had been used. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traced interesting names on some of them, like Mehitable and Josephus, and even gruesome verses about dying. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, amid a new sound that I recognized as bursts of gunfire, my mother shrieked the names of her children. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They circled him, old names and new ones dropping like crab apples. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“To hear the names he’s giving me! That Orlick! In my own house! Me, a married woman! With my husband standing by! Oh! Oh!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don’t make them true. You killed Jasper in cold blood.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Various states have different names for them, but I had dawdled in New England, the winter grew apace, and I had visions of being snowbound in North Dakota. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It included a list of the names of sixty Soviet secret agents, recently graduated from spy training, who would soon be posted to assignments overseas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The draft offices started drawing names out of a tumbler today,” Cymbeline said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

These names bothered me in sixth grade when I was excited to start middle school and make friends. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The sacks, and the names of the farms, had to go. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No one smiled in camp, and only rarely did they exchange names. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there might be other people at those addresses with those names. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

People frantically searched for one another, screaming out names. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing those names go unanswered, one, then another and another and another. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She called their names, reminded them of the memories they shared. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each catch was weighed, and names were posted on a leaderboard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By now Big Ma had worn herself out scolding me in the names of our family and my lack of good common sense. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He said it real mean, like I was the one who’d done something to him, even though he was the one who called me and Betsy bad names. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Step right up—ah, what can I do for you, little boy? How about a nice bagful of pronouns—or maybe you’d like our special assortment of names?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four weeks in I was being called half a dozen names that weren’t Robert—cripple, spastic, legless, and the dreaded Toe Nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Kept looking, eyes running across the tops of the stones that had last names engraved in them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to cry aloud, hurl their names across the darkness, but dread stifled my voice. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu suddenly did not remember which was the boy and which the girl; both names, Morgan and Taylor, sounded to her like surnames. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But most come rushing to our windows, shouting our names. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told her that I thought the coincidence of our teams’ names was bizarre. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the names were familiar, but I didn’t remember anybody. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“If a petition against such broadcasts would help in any way, I, for one, can guarantee at least 50 names of responsible persons who would be willing and eager to protest.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We all dove into the huge stack of packages, grabbing anything with our names on it. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, the floor was polished marble, and the ceiling was a strange twisting river of names that, Aru imagined, belonged to the dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I watch as girls with last names starting with A, B, and C file in and out of their interview. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As mothers appeared on porches one by one throughout the mill village, calling their children’s names, C.P. reluctantly wandered home, dusk descending, the pale yellow lamplights sputtering on in houses as he passed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were laughing and pelting me and calling me names. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have in the past been accustomed to addressing underservants by their Christian names and saw no reason to do otherwise in this house.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The police took our names and classroom number and said they would pick us up that afternoon. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

From a bewildering array of boxes with confident names—Predictor, Fact, Accu-Test—she selected one and pressed it into Mia’s hands. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Walter Cronkite didn’t read off the names of the missing in action, so Lieutenant Baker was never mentioned. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The girls’ names are in most regards diverse, though with a fair share of literary and otherwise artful touches. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Across the room, I spotted Mr. Lewin with two other newsmen whose names I couldn’t place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They were starting with names from A through C. Hanako’s last name was Tachibana, so they would not be called for a while. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lists of names were regularly posted, and refugees could learn when they would leave and where they would go. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no visitors. You may not bring food, and I will not tell you the names of any prisoners in this camp!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I read the other two names on my list out loud. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different classes, with names like the harmonic mean. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then we spell our names and answer her questions about how we built it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t embarrassed—many names were called that morning. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I have two middle names, a compromise between my parents. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Volunteers were reading the names of deceased Vietnam veterans in alphabetical order. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They cried out the names of loved ones. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It really bothered Emma that she couldn’t calculate the odds, because of not knowing all the possible names in the world. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Scruggs felt a palpable sense of expectation as family members waited in the hallowed hall, then wept openly to hear the names of their loved ones spoken aloud, honored in “America’s Church.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A list of names and their donation amount occupied the right-hand side of the screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was at the University learning all manner of names, right? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dawn drums thunder out and begin listing the names of the dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The SS Einsatzgruppen used code names for the executions, calling them “special actions,” “special treatments,” “cleansings,” and “resettlements.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s right here, Aunt Jenny, so his psychic signals are coming in loud and clear. Their names are Dozer and Petunia.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They ask our names and smile when we talk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

No. He answered his own question aloud, and took from his pocket the heavy pages he had cut from the Bible, all written over with the names of his genealogy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot avenge them, but I will not forget their names. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not supposed to mention names. But the embargo means countries are closing their embassies. That’s why you don’t have an embassy anymore,” he points out to Sammy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the end, he whittled the list down to five names. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Names we have been called, names we have been given. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she came back carrying a thick book with a glossy cover and people's names printed all over it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Kids who have the same names and birthdays as us,” Finn informed her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom’s voice turns suspicious as she murmurs, “Wait, those names...” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Angel Atkins calls me names and messes with me all the time. Today she tripped me in front of everyone, so I pushed her, and she fell out her chair.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Genie didn’t care about what the fireworks looked like as much as he loved the names. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We usually look for our names on the local school sport report, but this swastika business is getting bigger than everything right now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The fact that he never bothered to remember our names was insulting, but neither was that slight, alone, enough to make us despise him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cards from girls are all neatly signed, with their full names, so there will be no mistake about who gave what. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly I am thinking of Gale and his forty-two names in that big glass ball and how the odds are not in his favor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother didn't know any of these names. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The names for some of these ranges are: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Also in sensible names for children, because look what happened to Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down to the river with the Doorman and head upstream to where the names are in the rock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When you pick up a new book in the bookshop, you’ll very likely see quotations—kindly remarks about the book on the jacket from names you know and trust. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He introduces everyone, and I forget their names instantly, except for Alex. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Not yet, Miss Ohi — do you think we could just call one another by our names?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He ran home, only to stand in front of the empty house shouting the names of his parents, two brothers, and sister. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Other people have money and things, but these are the pearls Roma women carry, these strings of names." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Both girls had their names stitched in cursive on their uniforms, but with my dyslexia, the words looked like meaningless spaghetti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I tuned in again as Ms. Rubin started reading off the names of the kids who’d made the High Honor Roll because we were supposed to stand up when our names were called. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I can say for a fact that you’ve saved one or two people from certain death in your career. And if I stay here all day I can probably even come up with their names.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, the guests are united in a single topic of conversation, talking about names for the baby. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When called to the stand, I give nothing but my first and last names. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Last week we got her talking about baby names for a full half hour of social studies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

We knew one another's names, and I knew who liked me and who didn't. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The names of the freshmen were read aloud—like the induction to some kind of society. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately regretted it, because the moment those names had faces, they became people instead of parameters. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With his fingers he could feel the carved names in the smooth wet wood: Tarik. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their new names symbolized their dedication to Allah, and that dedication extended to all aspects of their lives. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“But for filth like this . Moody said softly. “You say you have names for us, Karkaroff,” said Mr. Crouch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When we’d resumed an even keel, we squinted into the maelstrom and screamed our friends’ names. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If the names meant anything to him, he didn’t show it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had taught me that people like to divvy up one another with names. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stared at them and realized that I didn’t know the proper names of any of them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was very severly beaten by the cottage mistress, who had called me names and made fun of me in front of all the boys. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to tie it in neat bundles and put their names on everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Come tomorrow morning, would they all realize what they had done and come running, begging to erase their names? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe after the operation kids wouldn’t call me names so much. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Thirty thousand names sounds like a lot,” I agreed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were the names of the uncles who died in Shanghai? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four names a few different punches, demonstrating each one as he does, first against the air and then against the punching bag. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The dead would have their names etched in granite, forever. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Red Corn gave me the names of several Osage who, she thought, might have information about the murders, and she promised to later share with me a related story about her grandfather. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the table in front of Poirot was a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach with the names of the passengers marked in in red ink. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Wall, a reporter asked Scruggs to point out the names of the twelve men whose deaths had inspired him to build the memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Have you said mean things about him, or called him names?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later she would explain that the boys had been taunting her, sticking their feet in the aisle to trip her, kicking her, and calling her names. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his head slowly and began reading through the names. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wall of the garage was studded with every imaginable size of screwdriver and drill bit, wrench head, and plenty of things I didn’t know the names of. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when she found nothing, after inspecting my ears and my nose and counting my fingers, she called me names, using words I had never heard before. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly every inch of it was covered in tiny inscribed names. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They're just way stations before the prisoners are taken out of the country, to other camps with foreign-sounding names, to places where healthy young men may die of mysterious illnesses. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

First come the title and some names, blacked out on the film with a crayon so we can’t read them, and then I see my mother. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m trying not to worry about it as we didn’t hear a lot of names because the guards commenced beating on the bars with their nightsticks, drowning out the men’s cries. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could at least give them names in plain English, you would think. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted information—the names of friends, forwarding addresses, suggestions on where to look next. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One time Alex attempted to communicate to a mother that her kids were harassing us and calling us names. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then he’d pulled names out one at a time to determine his initial boatings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A white guy, who I could tell was thinking about those names too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to shake away the thought, refocus on the names. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don’t matter to anyone but themselves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It’s hard enough not to have fancy grandparents whose names are carved into the bricks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then he called Brandon one of the dirty, horrible, vile names that had been scrawled in the vandalized yearbook. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were too many names, but I was proud to wear the bead. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed so long ago, but I still recalled the different names of the dance nights: “Back to School,” “Pens Down,” “Bob Marley Night,” and many more. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And Jeanne and Jacob—those were their names, I know now—they felt it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We had to learn the names of everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab’s letter reporting its own disintegrations of lithium went out to the journal Physical Review on September 15 and appeared in print two weeks later over the names of Lawrence, Livingston, and White. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few minutes to get their names straight—Pam is eleven, Lacey is ten, and Jenny is eight. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The wall has various names: Wall of Thoughts, Wall of Ideas, Wall of My Mind, or just The Wall, not to be confused with Pink Floyd. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Iggy goes, "I ask a question, you better answer, get it? Names. I want your names." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many changed their names and many took other religions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This practice, however, was strictly against regulations and one job of the prefect was to take down the names of students who indulged in it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but notice that most of the names of those being arrested or fined were German. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it wasn’t relevant before, Tobias,” Niles says, “but it is now that you’ve resisted answering the question. The names of your parents, please.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Now he's calling me names. Brothers, you heard him." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think all of the new things have names yet.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Katz was the one person I knew on earth who might be on the run from guys with names like Julio and Mr. Big. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Con had already consulted with Tali on this, and he had two names ready. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kids at school had teased her about her mother, calling her a witch and a lot of other names. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He read off a bunch of names that didn’t mean anything to me, and then he said the last name: “Edward Johnson.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mama Sweetie taught practically every child in Pine Level their ABCs and how to write their names and how to count to a hundred, using peanuts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Singly and in pairs, boys who had tried out for the team walked up to check the list for their names. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get right to the points, let’s start with names. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old colleague, Caspar Commelin, director of Amsterdam’s Botanical Garden, agreed to identify many of the tropical plants and provide their Latin names. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps you had better explain about the names.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to grasp the memory, hold on to it, complete the picture with faces, names, a place, but it faded into obscurity. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The people her children had fallen among didn’t have normal names: Fist, Knife, Granny. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were ten names, listed alphabetically by the last initial. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I told you to. I told you to get a list of names!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The man flipped open a binder and scanned a list of names. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My friend Jennifer had eight letters in her name, and Elizabeth Brewster had nine in hers, and yet their names weren’t “too hard.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When the woman arrives, she is nervous and grasshoppery, smiling falsely, dropping names like a trail of crumbs to the powerful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I tell myself that my friends would never call me dirty names, I feel buried under the Doctorita’s insults. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the crowd’s angry words hurt my feelings because they used some of the names I had been called. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think the sisters just wanted to give us royal names. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Shouting their names, I dashed back into the building and began to search for them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In some cities outside the Northeast, evangelical business owners list their names in Christian Yellow Pages. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is the image of their two names on the tag that she thinks of, a tag she had not bothered to save. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel said, “Sit down, Lee. We’re trying to think of names.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are three names carved into the rock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“To most people it’s names. Dead people. But I always picture just eyes, eyes, eyes. I can’t go to Washington and face that Wall. I can’t have sixty thousand pairs of eyes staring at me.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For each one of you there are dozens of young people who can hardly write their names. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soojin’s dad already goes by George and her mom is Mary, so their names would just become official after they take the oath to become citizens. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the older ones canted crazily, like crooked teeth, the names and dates eroded from decades of sun, wind, and snow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You will set up the Goblet of Fire once more, and we will continue adding names until each school has two champions. It’s only fair, Dumbledore.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She paused heavily between the first and last names. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows where they are or what their names are now? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not at liberty to give out the patients’ names. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Free folk don’t follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic,” the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sima had one week to “think about it,” which meant she had one week to tell the Committee men the names of all the people in the underground church. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tears welled in my eyes, I clenched my teeth and in my mind called him ail sorts of obscene names as he lashed me mercilessly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of its fifty-two thousand accounts were offshore holdings, secretly deposited—many without names, just numbers—as tax havens for American citizens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I will. I just need to finish writing down the names of who is here,” she whispered. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then my father smiled and winked at the crowd as if it were a huge joke that the agitator should be calling my father names while my father was right there behind him. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they wound their way underground, Piper saw old graffiti gouged into the stones: Roman numerals, names and phrases in Italian. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They ran over to join the group of boys and saw that they had surrounded a bird and were throwing stones at it and calling it names. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And I told him some kids on my street called me “Zippy” because I was skinny and hyper, and other names too, and I didn’t like it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here. Give mine to the Animal Rescue League, too. On the card, just put both our names." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Well, we did that all the time, but this time, I started pulling the paints from the old leather satchel she carried them around in and reading all their names. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The substitute teacher, Ms. Winter, squinted and brought the list of names on the attendance sheet closer to her face. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some kids near our station start grumbling about making food with names they can’t pronounce. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Lance and the anchorman got all revved up speculating how the sting must have netted a couple big local players—guys with enough power to keep the names locked down tight. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

To Clement, the proliferation of names suggests the plant was used for many purposes by many cultures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The names, Scruggs thought as he sat alone in the kitchen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The shops now bear Aryan names and swastika banners. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In time I learned some of my classmates’ names. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

These were rough around the edges from our camp can opener and stamped with expiry dates and some with company names: Campbell’s, Heinz. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And that was worth a million and a half bad names. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, grains. You want to know the names of some grains. Let's see, there's wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And there are names among us that are worth more than a thousand mail-clad knights apiece. No, he will not smile.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alex turned away from the list of the dead and saw several pages of handwritten names, with phone numbers next to them. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Thus America’s problem is not its betrayal of “government of the people,” but the means by which “the people” acquired their names. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By using numbers rather than names when we compile our diary, I think they’ll feel more comfortable and it will probably be safer for all of us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They all had pieces of paper pinned to their clothes, with names written on them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lets the book take his mind on an alphabetic ride through bird names, bird songs, and bird predictability. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the neighborhood newspaper boy, I knew all the names on my route. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana was being kissed by so many people whose exact identity was unknown to her, though Poppy tried to clarify names of aunts, cousins, and wives of cousins, to help his family out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the man who signed these names in your squadron ?” “Which one? There are two names here.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, faintly, the same voice keeps reading names. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the auction block they tallied the souls purchased at each auction, and on the plantations the overseers preserved the names of workers in rows of tight cursive. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But there were a lot more people who just called me names and slammed the door in my face. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now the feelings were twisted, tangled roots, and all the names for the source of this growth were buried under English words, out of reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She will be one of those names, hers will be one of those stories: lost, missing, body never found. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, there are always pet names to tide one over: a practice of Bengali nomenclature granting, to every single person, two names. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even bother to ask our names. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had been able to understand some of the shouting—words, names? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The American Defense Society continues to push for abolishing Hun names in America. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stared down at the paper, at me and my brothers' names. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There must be a file that lists my parents’ names on it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All the kinds we had came in giant boxes with names that sounded like real cereals’ weird second cousins—Oaties. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

People listened to his broadcasts regularly—many to hear him announce names and make sure theirs weren’t on the list. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Edward loved looking up at the stars, and he loved the sounds of the constellation names. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He said he’d call out the names two by two, starting with the first pair to wrestle. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Forgotten names sang through my head like forgotten scenes in dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the hundreds of thousands of such women in the California data, many bore distinctively black names and many others did not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If you look closely at them, you’ll notice that they aren’t really signs at all, but lists of names highlighted in neon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There, in the sand of the plaza of that small city, the boy read the names of his father and his mother and the name of the seminary he had attended. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landlord introduced the newcomers to the Bree-folk, so quickly that, though they caught many names, they were seldom sure who the names belonged to. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write the letter names of the lines in your staff: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The average score in that class was 20.96, meaning that the average person in the class knew 21 people with the same last names as the people on my list. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and I can’t vote because we don’t yet have our true names. But we can go and listen to the debate. We can speak if we want. And we can watch the vote.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“But the fact is, you had already seen the Bible. You knew about those people—knew their names, knew they were Marylanders, knew...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Every hotel in town was to report the names of everybody that was registered in their hotel every night," FBI agent Duane Traynor explained. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By the end of lunch, we had come up with a whole list of names of kids and teachers who could sit at our table if they wanted. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she carries her parents’ credit card—her parents, who are married and forty-five and not dating random dudes with plural names. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I mentioned no names, you will observe.—Oh! no; cautious as a minister of state. I managed it extremely well.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I naively assumed that war occurred in far-off places with hard to pronounce names, not in Long Beach. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that the Secret Service would be protecting us for years to come, the agency selected official code names for us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know names of any of the recent ones. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds to me like once this judge knows who wants to enter, he’ll choose the best from each school and never mind how old they are. Dumbledore’s trying to stop us giving our names.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ms. Laverne is looking over the new class list, her finger moving down the row of names. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She wrote other names down, erased them, and wrote them down again at other positions until the sheet of paper was a jumble of names and smudges. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They fell onto the bed in a knot of arms and legs, each calling the other by the secret names they had used in the days of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Julio, don’t you hate it when people from the neighborhood who somehow manage to leave change their names? Instead of Juan, they want to be called John.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Throughout the long history of the family the insistent repetition of names had made her draw some conclusions that seemed to be certain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But for the most part, we didn’t rely on names. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their true names were too long for human tongues, said Leaf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then another circle overlaps my friends’ names, and I write Brooklyn Collective. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

That might come later, his advisers have told him; for now, it was important to apprentice with the big names. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We can listen to the news while we're doing that. And maybe, since Cas isn’t up to moving around a lot, she can make another sign with all of our names on it.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, they might as well have said their names were Ken Stupid and Bob Ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But of all the names this place is called, I love the name Bronzeville. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They flirt with us, looking handsome in their neat, long braids and pressed khaki pants and button-down shirts, all the best brand names. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her finger down a list of names. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then he’d neatly label the insects with their Latin names. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The thread tugs harder, and I stoke the flame with names. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In two weeks, she had memorized the two thousand or so names or headings on the file box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, most of the campesinos around here can’t read, so it wouldn’t do us any good to put names on the roads.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brain swirled with names, Lena, Saba, Leila, ending in a, like her own. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Horton passed along names and addresses of people he knew who would be needing a place to stay when they reached their destination. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think we should trade names now that we know so much about each other?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Douglas and Nora raised their eyebrows simultaneously, nodding slowly, as if to let the absurdity of the names settle in. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

People’s names escaped me and I began to worry over my sanity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Still wrote their names down on loose slips of paper. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now here is the suitors’ answer— you and all the Akhaians, mark it well: dismiss your mother from the house, or make her marry the man her father names and she prefers. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years we used to go out every now and again and look for the Entwives, walking far and wide and calling them by their beautiful names. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After this, wherever Bull and Lucy and Edward went, some tramp would take Edward aside and whisper the names of his children in Edward’s ear. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I put my own ingenuity to work, coming up with a dozen names from my reading, because, of course, I don’t want to give the sons any real Dominican names and get someone in trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That thing was gigantic, with flowers that I didn’t even know the names of, and in the card she promised that she’d come to visit as soon as she was back in the States. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

You have to understand, by the fifteenth time we did this, I stopped paying attention to the names of the forms or the faces of the agents. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m not good at remembering names,” he told us. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As he and his aide passed by, Hannah could see the paper on the clipboard was now covered with numbers and names. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, yesterday I had hated him; now we were calling each other by our first names. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“LEP Commander Root. Right, we know each other’s names, so could we get on with this?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know our names anymore, but we still had our Jewish stars on our uniforms, ragged and torn though they were, and we were all in the Jewish car. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Before Mom grounded me, I was able to piece together the names of the people who received a letter like your grandmother’s. I could only find contact information for one of them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even remember the names of the pictures he saw. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My working theory then held all black people as kings in exile, a nation of original men severed from our original names and our majestic Nubian culture. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It showed the Empire State Building, and etched in tiny Greek letters, spiraling around the image, were the names of all the heroes who had died defending Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it wouldn’t be saying Kaddish for the dead that protected me from the Angel of Death but reciting the names of the living. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t suppose he’d be able to do much useful surgery up there, but if I fell and broke my back at least I’d know the Latin names for what was wrong with me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boat passengers wave wildly, laughing and yelling the names of friends and family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis took our names and numbers and made new documents for us to replace the ones that had been destroyed before they marched us into Dachau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Men that used whatever moneymakin’ scheme they could, and made enough money to clean their names by sending their kids to Harvard. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In this way we exchanged names, from bed to bed: Alma. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the law, most of them were still property, their names on pieces of paper in cabinets kept by the United States Government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The return mail brought fulsome endorsements from Niels Bohr, Mark Oliphant, and Frederic Joliot, among other names likely to impress the trustees. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We would learn how to execute military commands and repeat our drill and ceremony so many times that “right face,” “left face,” and “parade rest” became as familiar as our own names. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Racetrackers in that era had a peculiar animosity for given names. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later, brooding over the black-and-white striped clothing of the black men, I remembered that in Elaine I had had a book that carried the gaudy pictures and names of jungle beasts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anybody who believes that has never been called a name.This is what I think about names. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the place names were starting to run together, and I’d never been good at keeping details like that straight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She kept a scrapbook with the obituaries of all the doctors she outlived and could recite the list of names by heart, like a chapter out of Genesis. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve heard tell of folk with three names, but I never saw one before.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to learn the knights’ names—and give ’em nicknames in me head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The places and names on Ned’s map were familiar to me now. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew everybody she invited good enough to speak to them in the halls—and when she didn’t know their names she asked to find out. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted to honor them all, but couldn’t go on saying their names. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had grown up believing that priests could tell whether someone was telling the truth or not, but Father Stylianopoulos had only nodded and written their names into the church register. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If Solomon and Ryna were names of people, the others might be also. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my junior year, I went to Miss Katona, the high school guidance counselor, to ask for the names of colleges in New York. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t recognize any of the names, and I wondered why everyone was so excited. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As they called out their names, he noted them carefully in alphabetical order. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try a few other names, kids I ask about homework sometimes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked off the bus, they began to call me names. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then Tab and Emily showed Bridge how they drew little animals on their homework, in the upper left-hand comers of their papers, underneath their names. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

For the following forty-six years, the state of Alabama refused to erase from its books the names of the two thousand arrested children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, what were the names of books written by H. L. Mencken? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

High lords with old names, fat rich men dressed in velvet, knights puffed up like bladders with their honors, yes, and women and children too— they're all meat, and I'm the butcher. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“When the missionaries first came, they didn’t think Igbo names were good enough. They insisted that people take English names to be baptized. Shouldn’t we be moving ahead?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You could go look in the Hall of Open Records. You’d find the names. But think, son. If you apply for children, then who will be their parents-of-the-parents? Who will be their grandparents?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each clipboard says our names and has a picture of a basketball and places where people can sign their names and put down how much they’re donating. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Further confusing the matter is that the stages or ages in North America have different names from the stages in Europe and often only roughly intersect in time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you see those names?'' he asked, pointing up at the chiseled letters listing people no longer alive. “There's a family behind every name—a mother or father, brothers and sisters, perhaps a wife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A glass cylinder looms in the center of the deck, upon which a list of names and numbers constantly updates and loops. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After school, Felix and about thirty other kids stood in a semicircle waiting for their names to be called for a team. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came with woolen caps and names given to them by their mothers, or grandmothers, or somebody’s best friend. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My American name is Jinjoo Han. Han is my married name. But my Korean name will always be Lee Jinjoo. Because Korean women keep their maiden names.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t remember the names of some of the towns or what the houses we had lived in looked like. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the newspaper, the boys’ names are listed: Jack, Johnny, Andy, Stuart, and the boy who was driving and caused the accident, his name was Eddy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, the headmaster arrived at the start of class and called out all the names of those students who had to leave. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They are afraid to disclose their names, ages, or place of birth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He knew the names of presidents and what order they served in. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I feel a little sorry for her, but mostly it feels good to see her hurt the way I hurt when she calls me names. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Happy Return," “I'm Here,” those sort of names. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He thought Pilate’s only acquaintance with the Bible was the getting of names out of it, but she quoted it, apparently, verse and chapter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Latin names of the gods are therefore used. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena hit the landing, ran for the tomb door, and prayed to gods whose names she’d forgotten, but who she hoped had not yet forgotten her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their names are Sarah and Anne, good sensible names. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sick of their names I could cut my throat.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The stars were bright overhead and I lay and counted the ones that I knew and gave names to many that I did not know. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their two names would remain entwined for the rest of Lawrence’s life, with more atom smashers— and many more achievements—still to come. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, “it’s not so easy to read Shakespeare—especially when he can’t come up with names that you can tell apart.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know the names of the actors and actresses of all the shows, what time each program comes on, which channel, and which shows are repeats. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Here are the names of some emerging viruses: Lassa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t far, and I ran, calling their names as loud as I could. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

See, not only did that book have fancy swallow-you-up pretty pictures, but it had big, easy-to-read words, except the names, so I could actually read the stories. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The names were all characters from the Peanuts comics: Charlie Brown, Sally, and Lucy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But maybe that was in vogue here — small town names? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the Alcazar he inserted into scripts the names of popular products, bars, and restaurants, including the Cliff House, and for this received another stream of income. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They drew it up on paper, signing their names and asking a couple of guys to act as witnesses. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are logged into an intake book with their names and notations on which body parts they are missing or how they were otherwise injured. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’d thought up a hundred different names and pictured himself with every possible breed. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s short and to the point; it doesn’t fool around. Like my name—Isa. They’re both good, strong Scottish names. Spunky.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken a ruler to make three columns and wrote our names at the top of each. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Shagrat’s voice trailed off into a string of foul names and curses. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These names mark the boundaries of my youth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands more found good-paying work at manufacturing plants with names redolent of an era of sweat and muscle—Vulcanized Rubber and Plastics, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, Rohm and Haas, General Motors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every Wednesday night, Rasheed listened to the Voice of Shari’a when the Taliban would announce the names of those scheduled for punishment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The true names of the authors did not appear on the title pages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It would have been too much to hope for names from the lapidary in Paris. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She spits our names like fruit gone bad. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He could beat up the big black kids if he wished, the tough Puerto Rican kids, anyone else who called us names or made slanty eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They had already asked me to tell them the names of everyone in the underground church.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hindus have a million names for God, but all are wrong, because Hindus worship the wrong Gods.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

On the middle two pages are the order of the scenes and the names of the cast members. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I keep forgetting to put people's names in. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Normally groups this large would overflow with sounds—chatting, laughter, arguments, people calling one another’s names, like the market on any given day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The last death has to count, Arya told herself every night when she whispered her names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They are strong enough to be who they are, no matter what names they get called. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cosmonauts had code names, and hers was Sea Gull. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I always liked the names of popes,” Blake says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their names all ended with Y. Her husband, Clarence Pastor, had black lung and sat on the front porch of their huge sagging house all day long, but he never smiled or waved at passersby. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now all four of our names appeared on the "list" of those who were to stay and help with arrangements for the transition. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This makes me think of Eleanor Markey, and then Demetrius talks about medicines that are out there and helpful, and everyone volunteers the names of the drugs that are helping them get through. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Teacher Gu was about to write the names of all the candidates on the blackboard when Yin Lan-lan raised her hand. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t warn researchers when he found that their cells had been contaminated with HeLa; he just published their names, the equivalent of having a scarlet H pasted on your lab door. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fisher starts reading names, and I hold my breath. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"I know all the names. Save your breath." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of their own names, the jockeys had stenciled the names of Howard’s horses on the back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe, because he does the calligraphy for the certificates, traditionally calls out the names from the stage at the front of the big theater. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Angela and I were the last to arrive, and, as Eric said our names, I noticed a younger boy sitting on the stones near the fire glance up at me in interest. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So I started a column called “Birthday Corner,” listing the names of the eighty or so people who had their birthday in the coming month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And—a trick that works for politicians to this day— he taught himself to remember people’s names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t really know how to pronounce these names.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don’t know why. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

For three days Samuel lay in bed, fighting the fever phantoms and putting names to them too, before his great strength broke down the infection and drove it caterwauling away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Skeezie: So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear those names?” he whispered hurriedly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few minutes, Miss Emily went on reminiscing about different events from those days, mentioning a lot of people whose names meant nothing to us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what does that mean? And what do you mean by name? Is it just a name like ‘Kvothe’ or ‘Elodin’? Or is it more like ‘Taborlin knew the names of many things.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were always books at home where I could look up the names of the different insects or birds we found. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as I can tell, we’ll probably never know what our names were.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They were given names and relatives, and special responsibilities for the cosmic services they were expected to perform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near morning, I print out what I have done in one long continuous sheet, the way he prefers to read the thick stack of names. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going over lists of names in her mind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, we will put both to the test. Each of your family names has been written on a piece of parchment and placed inside this basket.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Eight, nine, and ten are Dauntless-borns whose names I barely recognize. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To write our names on the map in giant swooping letters. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was well acquainted with Ulbrickson’s perpetual solemnity, and he had his own names for the coach: sometimes he was the “Deadpan Kid,” sometimes the “Man with the Stone Face.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He glanced at each of us and checked our names off on his copy of our orders. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors, like scientists, love to give long names to things. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No one's near, so I say, "I got in, and I printed out a long list of names. Can I put it in your backpack?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light turns green, and we jolt forward as Mom says, “Jack. Were those names from the treaty?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my bearings as best I could, but I was only seven and a half, and didn’t know many street names. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know their names, either, so I had to name them myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I read down the list of names on the sheet I saw that Mr. Huffer was the last man to sign it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was that crossing of stature, names, and character that made Úrsula suspect that they had been shuffled like a deck of cards since childhood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know some of those other names. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This happened often, as the warders were generally unfamiliar with the variety and nature of African names. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has special names for each of my sisters and me, not the hurtful ones other people use, like Termite and bënduka, for Adah, which means Crooked Walker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are signs everywhere with squiggly names scrawled on them. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As daylight faded, veterans and visitors lingered by the Wall, touching names one last time, offering prayers and promises to return. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She retained the names of most of the things she looked at Xenopus laevis, African clawed frog. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anatole never misses one, because his mind is that quick, and also I think the indigenous names mean more to him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole state depressed him, the blue lines representing highways that intersected towns whose names and destinies were mysteries to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one recent ten-year stretch, each of these names was given to at least two thousand babies in California—fewer than 2 percent of them black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They silently closed in on the front riser as Mr. Donnelly continued to read the names. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother spends hours on the phone and has all the names changed on the bank account, the mortgage, the bills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the men, Victor is jovial and back-patting, asking twice for their names, as if he means to pass on a compliment or a complaint. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Either one. We figure that Washington Irving and Irving Washington are one man and that he’s using two names just to throw us off the track. That’s done very often you know.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

People in Saint Louis seemed to accept us and never called us names. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their names, chosen by a committee, were announced then. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fisher’s already calling the rest of the names, so she doesn’t hear. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There is another set of names that is commonly used, particularly in classical music, to talk about harmonic relationships. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The names Xhosa families give their children always have a meaning, and that meaning has a way of becoming self-fulfilling. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On a Saturday night in February 1949, Radio Quito announced a Martian invasion using the newsflash technique and local place names. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s not one of the names you liked before, is it?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He decided they needed names, and since there were five of them, he named them after the Jackson Five. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Before he could enact for her some gesture of loving acceptance, she turned, and she and Leon marched on, calling out the boys’ names. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I click on the names and photos of the poets we find. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They wrestled for a few seconds before Luke stood up and yelled their names. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then he would call out the names of a few of the Murphy Homes boys. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I suck in a long breath and prepare to hear the names of the winners. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it just seemed easier to blurt out what Mom calls my pie chart: half Mexican, half fill-in-the-blank with the names of a bunch of different European countries. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We walked around the neighborhood and by noon we had the names we needed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spirits around them chattered like bats—lost and confused, not remembering their past or even their names. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I suggested town names, Radar pulled out his handheld and looked them up on Omnictionary. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were names carved on the bunks and magazine advertisements stuck onto nails in the walls, as if the women had tried to personalize the place, but it did not help. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finish, the suspicious officer points to the old man, who is nodding away at the names I’ve read off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can't help but laugh each time our daddy tells us the names of his brothers and sisters. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know all their names, but I waved back and smiled at everyone. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Now those are some names you don’t see very often these days,” one of the chaperones, passing by and looking down at his rubbings, remarks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know their names until you told me just now,” Mohammad says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bailiff read off some names that caught my attention. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I pictured sharks in the ocean, calling out their own names as they swam by. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“That boy call me names and grab my arm. I want him to stay away from me.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Matthias picked up the pen and ink Wylan had laid out and began to scratch in the names of the buildings and surrounding roads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nali pointed to the stars above and called certain clusters by their Navajo names, while Nathan’s fire consumed the last bits of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some of them were famous names whom most people never thought of as Jews. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate to hog all the attention, but I am so grateful they don’t mention no other names. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had a map drawn of what he had seen, persuaded Prince Charles to look at it, and curried favor with him by asking him to award British names to all the Indian settlements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since I brought up the topic of astrology, Gardner’s examples of the first letters of the names of the months and the planets are particularly appropriate. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her biggest effort will be to learn her students’ names. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that this could be a chance to learn some new names. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep up with names. They send us new kids all the time. The community service program with the school is a mess,” she said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Only she could speak the Common Tongue, so what the others thought of their new names Bran never learned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Given the finite number of traits a dog can have, pretty much everyone’s dogs have the same names; people just recycle them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The names on this list are famous ones—prime ministers, presidents, pop stars—and beside each name is an amount of notes offered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She knew all the nurses’ names as she led me down the hall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Herold gave the soldiers false names and claimed he and Booth were on their way to join up with the Confederates themselves. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, most of the names white people think are unusual actually have meanings in various African languages.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

After the usual business of going through all the names of the children, Miss Honey handed out a brand-new exercise-book to each pupil. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Effie Trinket says as she always does, "Ladies first!" and crosses to the glass ball with the girls' names. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Please enter your first and last names and, when you have done so, tap ‘Join Game.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of these fractions, the sugars and starches, the alcohols and acids, the emulsifiers and stabi lizers with the strange names, will be made into food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Except for Perry, Floyd Wells was the one human being who could link the names Hickock and Clutter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in English and one in Spanish. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten, Monique had begun poring over a mail-order doll catalog as if it were a book—expensive dolls, with names and stories and historical outfits, absurdly detailed and even more absurdly expensive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was inspiring, but dangerous: the police took the names and addresses of all the spectators in the galleries, and photographed them as they left the court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest coins, worth the least, and what’s worse, they chose the names themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few tales, names recited as solemnly as the words of a prayer, the fading memory of a red door . . . was Vaes Dothrak to be her home forever? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The good news was that more students were coming up to me, which was a chance for me to ask their names. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then there were names that were added to your name because of who you were, what you were known for, or what was said about you. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as their names were announced, Wynn and I whooped and hollered and waved our signs high. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, if only...The girls who made the soccer team had their names announced this morning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Magically, new holographic statues appeared as Mr. Lemoncello rattled off the authors’ names. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He had copied the map printed in the paper and had learned the names of commanders on both sides, as he followed the report. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also told him that all of Father’s and Mother’s pet names were meaningless, that a kiss here and there didn’t automatically lead to trust. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But then I read the rest of the names. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ohio, Indiana, Michigan were dressed up like the Indian warriors from whom their names came. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed four different spice stores, each with turmeric and chilies lining the shelves and spices in colors and with names I had never seen before. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No names or times or good solid details, just the suicide chick, just the old dude who’d pinned me to the floor of my room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every time we put a slash through one of those names, it’s like we’re casting a vote for our own party. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And my name won’t be on it either. None of our names will be there.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some are going so far as to call Potter “the Chosen One,” believing that the prophecy names him as the only one who will be able to rid us of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The maid's warty index finger slid down the list of names of the patients in Belsize tacked upon the kitchen wall "Greenwood, no breakfast today." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And underneath each picture, I’ve written our names in my neatest handwriting. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She uses the class list to write their names inside the sunburst-shaped badge. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wore many names when I was quick, but even I once had a mother, and die name she gave me at her breast was Brynden.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He swallowed, and said, “Some men say there is wisdom in wine. Such men are fools. At other inns other names are being bruited about, never doubt.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and pulled down the school directory, scanning the names of all the third-grade girls from last year. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She called out the twins’ names, and heard in reply only the stir and scuff of hooves, and the thump of a heavy body pressing against a stall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are names for people who take advantage of women who are not in full control of themselves, and none of those names will ever rightfully be applied to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Never call her names. Never tell your dad stuff about her. Treat her really kind.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the places in my heart, but the names have all changed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me her address book, filled mostly with the names of people at Jackie Robinson Intermediate School where we both taught English as a Second Language to Haitian students. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

‘Give me the names of important books,’ I would say to startled teachers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack had to learn which parts of town it was safe for him to be in without risk of being beaten up by a non-Jewish gang, or, at the very least, called anti-Semitic names. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And so today, I wrote the names of my companions upon the first page of that quire—POMP and SLANT—and they traced them after. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then, from behind them, they heard their names. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But our sentence of confinement was suddenly forgotten when the tiny people I thought lived inside the radio set announced a list of names approved for return to Ramallah. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Over the next two months, a lot more people signed Armpit’s cast, most of them females who decorated their names with hearts and flowers. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what those were, but I shuddered at the names. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As names are read, items are received with the excitement of someone winning a real contest, as if the booty were free and not paid for at three, four, or five times the store value. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“She’s pretty mad at both of us. She agreed that Granddad was from a different generation, but she also said that I can’t call people names every time I get mad at them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know it's kind of late, but I skip ahead two names to a person who lives in Denver, because it's an hour earlier there. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not many names,” a man said, looking over the list. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were the names of numbers in Hindi, the most commonly spoken language in India. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He seemed to like all of his bird names and when he heard them he grinned and waved his chubby arms in delight. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't know all of their names, but every one of them knew mine. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even now, when it was so real, so important to my own life, I had trouble keeping all the names and facts straight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Well, just as we code talkers made up names for things, so, too, did the ordinary fighting men create nicknames for just about everything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fiver! Are you trying to make me angry? I’m not going to get angry because you call me stupid names. But you’re letting the others do all the work.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even after months of managing egos and matching names and positions, Garfield didn't have the rest of his cabinet in place when he reached Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He called out the names one by one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He handed it to Lockton, who read the names and smiled. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even gives himself names, although they are not bad ones and would appear to arise out of a creative urge that runs deep in him. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finding the names of those who arrested her husband was satisfying at first, but then it only fueled her rage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Consequently, good names appear on envelopes, on diplomas, in telephone directories, and in all other public places. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dialog window popped up, asking me to confirm the spelling of each of their avatar names. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I say both your names, come to the front row and have a seat.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But that’s only because they have names and emotions for everything that happens.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

More danger because of those other kids with our names being kidnapped…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All I needed was to keep my part of the deal and get free of Bodega and free of my own conscience, which would nag me and call me names if I backed out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Their names went through Edward’s head like the notes of a sad, sweet song. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

But most food has different names in the islands. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

An Abnegation volunteer speaks the next round of names. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He told Rebecca he was going to build a national memorial engraved with the names of all the American casualties of the war right in the center of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He would always ring his bell and then call out the names of people who had letters and packages. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, get all the names and start assigning them to different companies. I don’t want them bunched up, spread them out. See about their arms.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was using our real names out loud, too. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They told us yesterday, two of our most recent lawyers; both of them have the prestigious SAN, for senior advocate of Nigeria, after their names. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Armed guards surrounded her while hundreds of white people spat and called her names. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

At the moment, Oliver was surrounded by his basketball buddies, who signed their own names and made up additional names and addresses to fill up the sheets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Back in Battle Mountain, we had stopped naming the Walls family cars, because they were all such heaps that Dad said they didn’t deserve names. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each time a list was posted, Salva’s heart would pound as he read the names. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since four thousand names didn’t convince them, next year we’ll have to get eight.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mom knew the names of some of them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

After her defiance of the overseer, they called her Harriet, because the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer fitting for a girl who had displayed such courage. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, in a thousand years,” said Spurge with a smile, “our books—books with our names upon them—will be the ones idiots like us will argue over.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Out of sheer boredom I have come up with names for the musicians I imagine performing each of the Muzak melodies I am forced to listen to every time I work at Awkworth & Ames. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks he’d travel to New York City to meet with a Soviet contact—Gold knew these men only by fake first names. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon and his wife, Pat, attended the White House church services with 125 guests, their names carefully listed in Appendix A in the Daily Diary. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I made up my own names for them according to the sound of their cries. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Anatole came home excited about the general strike and spoke of it quietly through dinner, careful as always to use code words and false names. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried and quickly abandoned trying to teach them how to play charades; they were simply no good at guessing the names of famous people, since they had never heard of any of them. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Then one by one our names were announced and our medals were carefully placed over our heads. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Neither of the girls had ever heard of a poor working boy with three names. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange hearing him call them by their first names. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows who is Muslim, Hindu, or Sikh by the clothes they wear or the names they have. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One carousel is dedicated solely to surfboard key chains with stenciled names, alphabetically arranged. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Alter, I believe that names have significance, both the ones we are given and the ones we give ourselves. Tell me, do you know my name?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their names leapt in fire, burning down the years under his axe and his hose which sprayed not water but kerosene. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought if you looked like everyone else, people would stop calling you names or looking at you sideways?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And of course it does not mean even that, for there are seas and bays and straits beyond counting that bear names of their own. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When a robed Klansman strolled by gathering names of those who wanted to join the group, C.P. didn’t hesitate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before Sachs left the White House that day, Watson was already jotting down names for a committee to investigate the military applications of fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

More than 40 percent of the white babies are given names that are at least four times more common among whites. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We find a spot on the third level, ride an elevator to the lobby, and sign our names on a sheet at the front desk. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He told them the names of each item in English as he gave it to them—“shirt,” “shift,” “apron”—then pointed out other words they would need, like “massa,” “yes’m,” and “yessir.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Not just one name. I was reciting the names of my ancestors, going back ten generations." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the front cover are the names of at least twenty girls who had it before I did. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had started announcing the names of schoolgirls on his radio show. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the next forty-eight hours, all the WEC members we could round up worked frantically, putting the names, addresses and phone numbers of all thirty thousand registered voters in Little Rock onto note cards. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We did not know it at the time, but some of the last names we got were the names of famous dead white men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he rattles off all these names of people I can never keep straight: CIA Deputy Chief, Congo Station Chief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As early as 1941, Elizebeth and her team had even started to identify some of the key players in those networks, at least by their code names. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Among the names on the list was the master armorer Salloreon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I looked around the office at the names of the right drugs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Good writers may have no explicit awareness of how these constructions and verb types work, and they certainly don’t know their names. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Before she had quite arisen, she called our names and issued orders, and pushed her large feet into homemade slippers and across the bare lye-washed wooden floor to light the coal-oil lamp. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names of the towns or the rivers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

An omniscient voice is already calling out each of our names as we enter the arena, the voice deep and reverberating, and as it does, each name rotates in flames in the arena’s center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"So can we talk to some of them? You get any names?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took many years for me to realize that the names I had been called when I was growing up had everything to do with others and nothing to do with me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before that, black people in America had been called all sorts of terrible names. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were instructed not to reveal their real names to one another and to choose an alias. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Despite our nearly identical names, we were very different. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids had called Park names in the halls, but it didn't hurt like he thought it might. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

During Kaede’s first year, she had been assigned a task suitable for a Chancellor’s daughter: sitting in the library and marking down the names of every student who came and went. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jethro listened with fascination to the new names of men and places. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, there were many other offensive, racist names hurled at Enoch. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You ought to hear the droll names he gives the lads he trains." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had to work out details like the specific placement of the memorial, the exact length needed to fit everyone’s names, and the thickness of the granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coach keeps calling out names, and I have to access like crazy to figure out who everyone is. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was spooky but Brian began again, pronouncing the names more exactly, pausing between names and figures. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have nothing, so I pencil the names into my mind and go over them in ink. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I knew some of the names from the news, but many I didn’t. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he learned that the press was reporting on the crash without giving the crewmen’s names, Phil ran out of a meeting to get word to his family that he hadn’t been on the plane. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

As they were all leaving, a little before 5:30, Toby asked the girls to write down the names of some of the best books about Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not sure of names. Six, maybe seven. I can sense them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The fire went out of Samuel’s eyes and he said quietly, “Your sons have no names.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to learn the names of people and put them together with faces because all I saw was white. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I had been quizzing them for years about names of hundreds of trees and birds, how could I insult them by assuming they didn’t have names for different mushrooms? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Elsie Lacks,” I said, scanning the names over his shoulder as my heart raced. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They both signed their names in the middle square, right over President Wilson’s washed-out signature. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The girls were allowed to choose their own names from a preapproved list of alliterative options. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, exactly. I found your parents’ names on the roster—and from there I got the death notices of your father and brothers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Judges, please join me here at the podium as I call out your names. First up: Mrs. Kate Sullivan. Kindergarten teacher. She is joined today by her directionally challenged students, Abby and Victor.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The names of most of these nurses have been lost to history. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He always felt that the rich people in town, “the ones with their names on the buildings,” as he put it, lived in another world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I just know the common ordinary everyday names that folks call things around here.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that many of the countries, like Siam and Italian Somaliland, no longer existed in the same way; the names had changed by now. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One by one, the boys stepped forward and said their names. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He knew all the families and had come up with names for most of them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The names were already written down in the file. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Actually Mrs. Clarke was well able to remember most of the actual names, but once the information entered Penelope’s head it dissolved into gibberish. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I’d spent years in Harlem and on the road around the most popular musicians, the “names,” even, who really were making big money for musicians—and they had nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh yes, this is the memorial wall where they put the names of the ones who died, she pointed out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we passed the rows of Korean stores on the boulevard, John could tell me the names of the owners and previous owners. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, is that it? Give me their names, Milo. Give me their names and I’ll see to it that they go on every dangerous mission the group flies.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And if that was not enough, he was given a whole list of names, beginning with ‘Old Barliman here’, to whom he could go for further information. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Famine and plague were everywhere, and in some places there was such despair that mothers could no longer muster enough hope to give their children names. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think of all the voices that have told me who I have been, the names I’ve had. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I thought not to inquire why my mother stayed in this house, or why we alone were given names — mine, Octavian; hers, Cassiopeia — when all the others in the house were designated by number. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Think of all the embraces, all the private jokes, customs, greetings, names, dreams, all the shared knowledge and capacity of a black family injected into that vessel of flesh and bone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our birth names were irrelevant, as were our past acquaintances and past accomplishments and past failures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Somebody, and he wasn’t going to name names, he told us, was out with a migraine. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professional women have the right to use their maiden names if they like. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have all kinds of names for him in my head, but I keep them to myself. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems like I already heard these stories before . . . only thing is, the names sound different.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luma took down their names and ages, and with the help of the team manager, Tracy, wrote their names on strips of masking tape, which the women plastered across the backs of the boys’ T-shirts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I explain how I didn’t know their names, but their suits suggested the shelled creatures. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One summer day, I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: “Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was best, Dad had said, to use fairly common names when going with a fake ID, something people wouldn’t really remember or, if they checked, they’d be overwhelmed with information. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve regarded it as my duty to disguise nothing—the names, the places, the exact circumstances—I put it all there as a matter of historical record. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Claire could hear her murmuring the names—white willow, nettle, meadowsweet, goldenseal—and knew she was pondering what combinations to create. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of her Unsullied reclaimed their birth names after she had freed them; others chose new names for themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jews, as such, until I got to high school, were all incarcerated in the Old Testament, and their names were Abraham, Moses, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Job, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I took off my coat and hat and took my packet of letters and lay back upon the bed, drawing a feeling of importance from reading the important names. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how y’all do up in New York, but down here, we don’t just go callin’ people’s mamas names.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The man flipped open a binder and scanned a list of names. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘You get ones with names of universities,’ I remembered. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time, the institutions and their many names all blurred together. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don't know their names, but they grew next to my parents’ house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Such names are themselves priority claims, made on behalf of the original discoverers by their admirers, and the implicit analogy is with the naming of America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“How come they have different names for the medals? Why aren’t they all just, you know, ‘gold’?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She learned the names of the classiest brands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As folks came down and sat at the table, I learned their names by listening. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got the names of 160 people who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and mailed each of them a packet. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom mentioned Jackson Pollock once, Lucy Jo said that she had Polish blood and therefore did not appreciate Mom using derogatory names for Polish people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She complied with their request and gave them particulars, like Keith’s Social Security number and a bunch of dates and names she rattled off. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I bribed someone with one of your Ma’s gold necklaces to put our names on a list so we could leave.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now I want to know how to pronounce their names. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he put down the names of the people who came with her, and that was all. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the two others whose names I thought silently—Miriam and Aaron. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger asked in a tone that indicated that he was simply mentioning names and not recommending places to go. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their names are like names in a footnote, or names written in spidery brown ink in the fronts of Bibles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She ran and squatted again and again, calling them with strange made-up names. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the planet had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds, the game’s attract screen came back up, showing the four ghosts, their names, and their nicknames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Compounds containing spores of Bacillus thuringiensis are now being manufactured by several firms in the United States under various trade names. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That’s how they collected the names of all the teachers to deport.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He taught her the names of the parts of the body, words for weather, and words for food. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These weed-killing chemicals are sold under brand names that never suggest their identity or nature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, tell your illiterate friends that if they’re going to call names, they should at least know how to spell them.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t believe it either when Mr. Little read off the winners’ names at dismissal. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Chris,” Seven says, “DeVante’s got a point. What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? Who or what defines ‘normal’ to you? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He felt down and found it: a card of the sort ladies and gentlemen had with their names printed on them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure. People who don’t know her well—the government, her boss. We all have our official names, and then our nicknames, which are like secrets that only the people who love us use.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He points his spoon at the aunts and asks their names again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It seems like a price, giving up our names, but maybe it’s a fair exchange for the gun being lowered. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Buellton and Brownley, really, but what kind of names are those for knuckleheads like them? Mom was going through some snobbish upper-class phase with husband number one.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After making endless announcements, he welcomed visiting Rotary Club members from other cities and began introducing invited guests, who stood up as their names were called. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

So, maybe just for me, in that moment I decide to come up with my own names for us all. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She lists off every person in the room, but I lose track after the first few names. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here among all these strange names was a Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the edge of the holding ponds, they gave the young fish silly names, and invented personalities for them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The names of many Patriots in the spy war will never be known. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two girls who will be competing at the American Cup this year are”—she paused and looked down the whole line of girls before saying the names—“Katelyn Ohashi and Simone Biles.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He knew their names before he entered the apartment, so he probably already knew all the things they could tell him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This is what he liked—to be in command and everything going smoothly, the students responding to their names smartly, accepting the chocolates, showing school spirit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you look at the names on your sympathy list, they are probably the people whom you devote the most attention to — either on the telephone, in person, or thinking and worrying about. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a lot of boy friends. What are their names, sweetheart?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d like to get a look at the ones with names like Life, The Crisis, and Ebony, but I’ll have to ask Miss Fulton another time. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Elisabet worries genuinely, in spite of our reassurances, that she and Anatole might have been assigned new first names, since theirs are European and “colonialist.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I had my favorite screechers, and I gave them names. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Unmistakably, it was the question of a still very young man who, now and then, is not inclined to admit that he knows the first names of certain people. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even reduced to ten names each, the recitation lasted for almost two hours. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They had reputable names they could borrow against in a pinch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Young man," Enrico Fermi replied when a student asked him the name of a particular particle, "if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They call her names, but she don’t talk to none of them. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I knew right then I wouldn’t be saying anything about the people living behind those names. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Standing now in the moonlight, Gabe stroked the paddle, feeling the carved names, and wondered if perhaps Trademaster had felt the sudden shift. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I puzzled out names and words, dates and shapes, and imagined the lives of the men who lived there before me, just as I had done in my old ex-prison high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You remind me of my own children... or would, if my little ones were not dead. I shall take good care of you. Tell me your names.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Burnt Mill Creek had an inordinately large population of Germans—families with last names such as Schwarzkopf, Grunwald, or Shoemaker. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he ticked off the names of friends he grew up with, it was a litany of trouble: one was an alcoholic and divorced at twenty, with a child and no job. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, her aunts have given her a list of names of uncles and aunts and cousins she might call on along her way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No one ever remembers that my mom and I have different last names. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But he made a mental note of the names of the two men who had expressed their fear. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vermont is Volvos and antique shops and country inns with cutely contrived names like Quail Hollow Lodge and Fiddlehead Farm Inn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The very considerable rise in the fame and fortune of the Cottons dates from this time; but at the top of the Roll in all accounts stand the names of Captains Meriadoc and Peregrin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brooding his friend asked, “Are there names in the dark realms?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided I’d try to not use their names at all, or if I had to, I’d call them “Doc Dad” and “Doc Mom.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought she might add three more names to her prayer, but she was too tired to decide tonight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, Windrider, with each year, it gets harder to remember all the names.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often the name of a scale simply reflects what it sounds like to the person using it, and the same name may be applied to different scales, or different names to the same scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s just like, who’s next? I’m scared for myself because bullets don’t have no names on them. That’s why I don’t go outside. There’s too much going on.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Barrow-wights we know by many names; and of the Old Forest many tales have been told: all that now remains is but an outlier of its northern march. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It took him a minute to figure out that everything was arranged in alphabetical order, by the owners’ names, and a few minutes to find the Bs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Latin names of the gods are therefore used here. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thumbed the pages and saw strange words and strange names. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army covered twenty-two miles the first day, by the reckoning of the guides Lady Sybelle had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t even call them Mom and Dad. Two years later and I only called them by their first names. It felt like...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Colin says he likes names that signify a virtue: Patience, Faith, Chastity. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a hand-drawn picture of places around the town, labeled with names. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could have called you names and then I’d have started boiling inside like the oil in her frying pan. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Inmates are not at large at night, swarming around you on their way to chow, arguing with you when it’s time to “lock in,” calling you names, stressing you out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone half clever might dub you Pitch or Scuttle, ill-favored names. Or Slate, a sedentary name. Heaven forbid you end up Blackie, that’s an ill-fitting name for a prince like you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had taken a new name for most of the usual reasons, and for a few unusual ones as well, not the least of which was the fact that names were important to him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They started trying to make me angry, calling me names. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The censors weren’t happy about the authentic names. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a dog or a Moo-slim or any of the other names he’d been called by Tad and his friends over the years. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There sure were some weird names on my list. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“So, no congratulations or anything. Just, like...their names.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Janey, the wife of Michigan senator Philip Hart, was familiar with the workings of Washington, DC, and she knew many of the big names in government. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They supplied their names to Mike and sent for a fork for me. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stunk at Greek names, but even I knew the greatest warrior of all time, who had died from a wounded heel. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I said those names this rabbit turned to the others and cried, ‘I knew it! Tear them to pieces!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize one of the names from when Mustafa had her a few years ago. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“What are you searching for? And why do you need those names? What do you intend to do with them?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was drawn to World War I memorials, which often listed the names of those killed in action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I listened to shouts, to ugly names, while I smiled and said “Thank you.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have our names, so do what you have to do,” he said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Clearly hoping to contain her tenuous hair situation, she plants one hand on her head as she crosses to the ball that contains the boys' names and grabs the first slip she encounters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One names what was previously only darkly felt. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the names of islands thousands of miles away where the Japanese were attacking American and Allied bases in the Pacific. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unusual names. Doesn’t Prosper mean ‘the lucky one'?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you tell me your names and what you have in mind?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like Roman, most people scrawled little more than their names and a date. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier sat outside the door that opened onto the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No more stealing our money, beating us up, or calling us names,” said Masood, stepping forward. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

To compensate properly, always transpose by moving in the opposite direction from the change in the part names. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My smile will be welcoming, my mind frantic as I scramble through the past, trying to locate their names. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not see Ron’s or Hermione’s names anywhere on it, though the density of the crowd of dots now making its way to the Room of Requirement might, he thought, be concealing them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of pronouncing all of Big Ma’s names, the pastor presented them as “Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lucas.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Merry, to whom the others belonged, had not, in fact, given them any such names, but they answered to the new names that Tom had given them for the rest of their lives. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as they got outside, they heard Grandma, standing at the edge of the cliff, hollering their names. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbors’ names, the way the house smelled, what school was like, the holidays, the taste of icing on birthday cakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dasch's handkerchief held the names of the saboteurs' contacts in America, written in invisible ink. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As I read the names of the tombstones in my head, it was almost like a weird roll call, like I was saying hello to all these people. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was lots of fish, but except for the mackerel, I don’t remember the names. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two names look very different on the staff, but they are going to sound exactly the same, since you play both of them by pressing the same black key on the piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Students weren’t allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My mother, who stuffs thimbles in her mouth and then blows up her cheeks like Dizzy Gillespie while sewing yet another Raggedy Ann doll that she names Suzette after me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She said that Bill had often muttered names in his feverish sleep, but she had been unable to make them out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had started to feel better at Camp Jupiter, remembering random names and faces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names—Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Green Mountains, White Mountains—seem an invitation to amble. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some were calling the names of dogs and looking under the building. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We usually don't supply that kind of information over the phone, but since it's you, Judge Ford, I'll be happy to oblige. Just spell out the names and I'll call back if I find anything." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Did they tell you the names of those killed?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was the rhythm that had eluded her before, buried in the whispered cadence of their names. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My brother knows the names of all his cows, all of them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write the letter names of the three ledger lines below and the three ledger lines above your staff. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“There is room for twenty-one more. Plenty of room. Ail the knights’ names are written on them in gold.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although they had no sense of humor about their names, Ken and Bob did like to joke a lot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have the names lined up, for a boy or a girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“On a very simple level, one of the things we insist upon at my airline is that the first officer and the captain call each other by their first names,” Ratwatte said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You’d have to know the number of all possible names, wouldn’t you? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A mulberry wood is the kind of place the animals have names and jobs and go on storybook adventures. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Who doesn’t share last names with a suicide bomber. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Good names had no place within a family. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was waiting for us in baggage claim, standing amid all the limo drivers in suits holding signs printed with the last names of their passengers: JOHNSON, BARRINGTON, CARMICHAEL. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had an uncanny ability to remember names. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Meecham family prepared for midnight Mass. Mary Anne and Ben, fully dressed, knelt before the Christmas tree rattling presents that bore their names. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the top five names among high-end and low-end families, in order of their relative disparity with the other category. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then I realize that I don't know the names for anything I am looking at. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know how I felt when other kids called me names, and I asked him how he knew kids called me names. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to do for a old lady that’s clean, and she don’t holler and call me names. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s hunched over in his chair, staring at his list like the names are giving him a stomachache. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I gave Horchow the list of names from the Manhattan directory, he went through the list very quickly, muttering names under his breath as his pencil skimmed the page. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such words poured out of her absent-mindedly, but never in the old days had she called Johnny such names. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never wrote their names in notes, in case the notes fell into the wrong hands. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

How many dead lives and fading memories were buried in and beneath the names of the places in this country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what are the “whitest” names and the “blackest” names? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

One by one, in no particular order, the scythes came to the front to recite various names of people they had gleaned over the past four months. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The last chord of most pieces will usually be the chord that names the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As for Joe, well, he’s been called more names than the world’s most stinking umpire. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don't remember Megan mentioning you to me, but she had a lot of gallery regulars—I’m not very good with names. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only vaguely knew the names of the trees around me, and all I knew was due to Charlie pointing them out to me from the cruiser window in earlier days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But tell Mr. Falk to come in next time, or send me the names of the books he wants. I don’t know what he wants to read.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, when Baker listed the total spent on carriage rental, the subcommittee demanded the names of the people who rode in the carriages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so pro­foundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No idea. I got two weird comments on my page this morning. I didn’t recognize the names—” She pulled her phone out of her bag and held it out to Bridge. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beneath our pictures are our names, ages, favorite foods, and our definitions of Clover City in one word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I want to add that I can’t imagine calling Soojin any of those other names, and that it would feel like I was talking to an impostor—but I don’t. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘Well, Sam,’ said Frodo, ‘what’s wrong with the old customs? Choose a flower name like Rose. Half the maidchildren in the Shire are called by such names, and what could be better?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He read a long list of names of “people who helped make this possible.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd thing was, no names had been released. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now I have to make up names and dances. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The effect is even more pronounced when the sample is widened beyond the most common names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A few new students I hadn’t met yet or wasn’t sure I had their names right. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She says the names of the people she loved. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I still had a hard time remembering some of my friends’ names, and I could recall nothing about the shooting. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how far I was from either, in which direction they might lie, or what their names might be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After Dad told me the children’s names, I started crying. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘Our names and our business are our own, and this does not seem a good place to discuss them,’ said Frodo, not liking the look of the man or the tone of his voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They pelted me with stones and called me names that were cruel and hurtful, names like "Christ killer." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I opened a notebook and wrote down the names we’d come up with so far. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mothers were screaming the names of their lost children, and the lost children cried in vain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I entered, he hollered that the room was colder than a barn and called me all manner of rude names. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made the mistake of handing over the pen to let them sign their own names. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Here, look: I have chosen names for all three.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

With the encouragement of the teacher, they called him names and punched him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But it was evident to all of us that Jocko could not hear himself hailed; that he was wandering already upon the foothills of a country where there are no names. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They called out their own names, women’s pretty names, haphazard names, horizontal names of one generation. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The purpose of our search would be to locate and remove any of the Divergent from the premises. And as for the names, that is none of your concern.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike good names, pet names are frequendy meaningless, deliberately silly, ironic, even onomatopoetic. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I could take care of those charts. I could write down everyone’s names and keep track of where they start, what kind of progress they make, where they finish. Stats like that.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She whispered her names to her pillow, and when she was done she added, “Valor morghulis,” in a small soft voice, wondering what it meant. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I got my mother to buy a notebook in which I wrote the names of all our customers, and the amounts they owed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some girls, also from home, whose names I don't remember. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their names were as strange to me as their contents: Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables and the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the new names—Isaiah, Jordan, and Elijah—were in fact numbers one, two, and three in 2000. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

‘Strange names you give indeed! But I will report them as you bid, and learn my master’s will,’ said the guard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tags hang by each compartment door, marked with handwritten names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I love those names, and I didn’t mind memorizing where each one was in the sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the names are in the Squawking Crow article, hold on.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I told him how I didn’t know the subtle nuances or meanings of Korean names, even though I knew quite a few, that it would have been like naming someone purely by sound. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set his own words to the great classics and gave them simple names like “Lullaby” and “Serenade” and “Street Song” and “Song for a Sunshine Day.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In play, when just the two of them were together, she gave her little brother names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had read it in a matter of hours, oddly relieved that the names of the characters were never revealed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hiked through thick sand the opposite direction of Santa Cruz to lay low for the day, stopped about a mile past where the Mexican cop had asked our names. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And somehow the mountains will never sound right to us; we’ll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time, and the mountains were shaped and seen under those names. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I've got one hour and ten minutes to find the names of some unhappy customers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The given names of half the people at the track were complete mysteries. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Filch was standing at the oak front doors as usual, checking off the names of people who had permission to go into Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Umma had taken to calling her Stick, but names did not matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s what both Alaric and the Gran had said when Seven asked if they remembered the Cursed Toads’ names. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The one thing I do tell her is where I found the names. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Old Waubanikway, who dreamed many names, had no name for the baby either, but she said that she would give no other name until she found one for the boy. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The gang kids called out names at him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about Taborlin the Great, who knew the names of all things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Nita had given Nailer and Tool a bunch of names to memorize, writing them in the mud for Nailer so that he could memorize the pattern of their letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Did you think I remembered all the names and ranks of everybody Maddie ever worked with? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I respectfully read each of the programmers’ names. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The first day he came into the classroom I wanted them to sit in assigned seats so that I could get to know names. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had nude a special effort to learn all their names, so he might thank them later for their tender treatment of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had been jotting the callers’ names in Morrie’s small black appointment book. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I already have some of the potion names here.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The altar boys stood in an arc around the priest as he recited a list of a hundred twenty-nine names, Haitian refugees who had drowned at sea that week. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I thought there were supposed to be similarities beyond the design of one house and people with the same names being in both worlds. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'm going to give you a series of names, and you will tell me if you know any of them. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s a man with either of those names in my squadron.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He helps me choose the brightest blooms—not just violets, but daisies and roses and lilies and others I can’t remember the names of. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gardner wrote our names next to each other on the board and asked all the pairs to pick a country from a list he handed out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Some places have as many names as they have occupants to name them. Now please ask your serpent to back away, lest he crinkle the pages.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"But, sir, it wasn't me who called you names!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman repeated their names softly to herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of it has to do with the way a lot of black people pick names. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I want to know your friends' names and what you do after school and all the things you haven't been telling me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She gets on the loudspeaker, calling the names of the last people to buy tickets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And there are only five names to go. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying out my top ten dog names. Does he look like a Max to you?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the coach called names from his list of tryouts, Ben looked around and studied faces as lonely as his. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing popped up. Which is crazy, given their names.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The patriarchy is even showing up in the names of my lip gloss? Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“No names were mentioned and nothing was said exactly in the words. But she knew what I was thinking and I knew what she was thinking.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls her age could speak and write English and they knew the names of presidents, astronauts, and radio and movie personalities, who lived below the top of the world. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I am sleeping I can see their faces, and I wish I knew their names. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And seated in front of me is the championship team! Please tell me your names as well.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There was a retched taste in my mouth from food coloring the members used to make us remember their names, and my clothes and face were stained green. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The others were still small, their names yet of one syllable: Dan and Mar. Perhaps I could care for them, Kira thought briefly, trying to find her own future within the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Bliss used his initials, his first and middle names were “Doctor Willard.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here are the most popular names given to baby girls in the 1990s among low- income families and among families of middle income or higher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When he allows me to join him, and when he feels like talking, he teaches me new names, charts the reference points: Orion, the Bear, the Dragon, the Swan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you're using a chromatic circle to transpose the names of all the chords in a piece, just make sure that you move each chord name by the same amount and in the same direction. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Groves wanted to know the names of the most brilliant German physicists—the ones most likely to succeed in giving Hitler an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yarn puddles all over the floor until all that is left are a few round, fuzzy balls with strange names like Pluto, Strawberry, and Bluebeard. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the midnineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Later, after the arena’s Jumbotron screen lit up with the names of the 2012 women’s junior national team, I was smiling so hard that the muscles in my face actually ached. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her gods had names, and their faces were as familiar as the faces of her parents. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And I laid there on the hard concrete, for the second time in a week, tears flowing down my cheeks, thinking about each one of those names. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That’s when I see the second cousins and great aunts and uncles whose names I barely recognize. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The SS officers made us line up and tell them our names and numbers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Pap to know I’d disobeyed his orders, so ’stead of using their proper names I didn’t say nothing more than “It’s all right, li’l pup” and “There, there, girl.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the loggers have left inscriptions, their names, their initials, intertwined hearts, short dirty words and crude pictures of women carved or penciled in the wood of the two- by-fours of the walls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though the audit studies can’t be used to truly measure how much a name matters, the California names data can. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I whisper, “The whole world will know their names.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“The police told me the names of the children in the cellar,” he said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Use their names, command them, speak to them calmly but sternly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once a rider logged his first win, he officially became an apprentice jockey, or “bug boy,” so called because of the asterisk, or “bug,” that was typed next to apprentices’ names in the racing program. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of working, we painted our names on the backs of the tiny turtles and let them run up and down our arms as we waited for the polish to dry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called each other names—opportunist, cynic, pessimist—and I found myself frightened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He showed Genie a few more cool ones, mainly from people whose names he had heard before but didn’t really know. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If we did fall, they’d make a really big deal out of it, staggering around laughing, and sometimes calling us names that made our hearts beat fast the rest of the way home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And for myself, I lie in my hammock at night and whisper the names to the darkness: Dahomey, Taghaza, Sankore, Accra, the ancient realm of Songhai. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mine was almost exactly like hers, except for the names of the characters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each of their names was carefully recorded in account books. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It has other names: the Rookery, the Crockery....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Gran,” said Seven, suddenly remembering something she had been wanting to ask, “do you remember the Cursed Toads’ names?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Scotty introduced me to a couple of other guys, but I forgot their names as soon as I heard them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poster boards hung at equal intervals with signs that read, group 1, group 2, and so on all the way to group 25 with the partners’ names listed right below. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She pulls out pictures of her own, taken during my high school years, and we try to remember the names of the people in them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the floor beside the cot, her inventory ledger, open to a fresh page, contained a list of names. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It cracks me up how expensive restaurants, located in what are basically outdoor shopping plazas, give themselves these snooty, fancy names. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He collects cigarette cards with pictures of airplanes on them, and knows the names of all the planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to come over after school next week? We could work on our project or think of more names for you if you want.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And their wild reveling, their astonishing acts made their names ring out. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At least our middle names came from people and not instruments. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy hurried toward us, calling our names, eager to hold us once more. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The generals talk about Mexico, where both men fought on the same side, recalling names of long-ago battles like Churubusco and Veracruz. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, you know the rest—my brother is called Tick because he goes tocktocktocktock-tocktocktock and I am called Tock because I go ticktick-tickticktickticktick and both of us are forever burdened with the wrong names. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

All twenty-three kids in Mr. Larson’s afternoon class had wanted their names in the masthead, and each had done something to help get the Guardian pulled together in record time. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He mostly remembered the workings of the world—but emptied of specifics, faces, names. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There weren’t really that many names on it: two sheets, single spaced, three columns across, alphabetical order. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Scientists, who love to give long names to things, call this process photosynthesis. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In dark places, their names whipped sharper than fear; everyone had needs that were hard to fulfill. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They dashed from hotel to hotel, scanning the list of names in the registration book and looking for the name "Nicholas." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fisher calls our names, and we walk to the front and set up our giant poster, which is filled with the words from all the poems we liked. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“When I was little and the kids called names, we used to say, ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me,’ ” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids just signed their names. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were twelve names, and twelve letters in each name. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these people had never appeared in the paper, and they were so excited to see their names in print, they bought several copies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d attended so many elementary schools and middle schools I couldn’t keep their names straight anymore but this, this switching high schools all the time thing was really starting to make me want to die. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But was it truly necessary to select such extraordinary names?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Some had merely signed their names in Everlasting Ink; others had carved their initials into the wood, still others had left messages. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

While he lay there by the fence sleeping, I thought of different names for him, trying first one and then another, saying them over to myself. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra sat up, excited at hearing the names of her old friends. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘Ach! sss!’ said Gollum, covering his ears with his hands, as if such frankness, and the open speaking of the names, hurt him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Slay whom your lord names as enemies, and be content. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Manolo admits even he talked, giving names of those who were already caught or had escaped abroad. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they get sick of calling me names and ride away laughing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All those words he loved and all those names he made up were in him, but it was as if they had gotten crushed in a Cuisinart. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me start off by asking what your reaction is to the events of the last twenty-four hours. Were you surprised to see those names appear on Halliday’s Scoreboard?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If anything, a number in these contexts enhances individuality; no two people have the same credit-card number, for example, whereas many have similar names or personality traits or socioeconomic profiles. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I mentioned the names of Lansing people and places, he remembered many, and pretty soon we sounded as if we had been raised in the same block. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bear many names, and so I shall name you as well.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Dante’s making a list of names for his baby brother.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He opened up what looked like the white pages on his desk and started rattling off names and addresses to me as if they made a difference. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you say their names. We’re not going. Don’t you go, neither.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These slaves were listed by their first names with their approximate ages and their skills given. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian asks everyone to make fall leaves for the bulletin board and to write our names on them. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the stones are labeled with enemy names, as with the unfortunate i-Earthquake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mothers from the PTA meeting called the names of their children and clutched at each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The names we chose were descriptive, not sentimental: Big Red, Black Mare, White Giant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He memorized the names of countries, their capitals and chief exports. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four or five other empty ones with names on them, too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Who names a tea place ‘Bean Heaven,’ anyway?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the English journals had names I couldn’t pronounce. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay, there’s that weird thing with Gogol’s name. Like, why does he need two names? It’s actually kind of confusing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Searching the names, separately and together, she finds a small notice about the fire noting the deaths of Patrick Power and his sons, Dominick and James. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He read the road signs with interest now, wondering what lay beneath the names. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cast is full of regulars and rookies with cartoon names like Flapjack, Scoobs, and Cookie. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The unbumt king supplied some names, and Dolorous Edd had done the rest, smuggling them from Mole’s Town. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We tried lots of names but could never seem to get it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. The objects are real. And a lot of the names are real. Billy was real. But the stories are mine.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Amaranta fetched the ledger where she had written down the facts about her nephews and as the telegrams arrived she drew lines through the names until only that of the eldest remained. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Selitos knew that in all the world there were only three people who could match his skill in names: Aleph, lax, and Lyra. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Unless you want my middle names as well." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds’ names come out true, I supposed mine did. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Did Elihu say anything to the men who arrested him? Did he give them any names?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do your first and last names start with the same letter?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were gangs, whose slogans and names were painted in bold letters on the sides of buildings or on sidewalks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Red banners now hung over the doorways as temporary signs, with the new names painted in black or white. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the hairball thinks it’s his duty to learn eleven hundred names, who are we to burst his bubble by telling him he doesn’t have to?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled a map of Jupiter toward him and started to learn the names of its moons. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Some have to, the names their folks gave them are such dogs. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scribbled their names on a scrap of paper towel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Courtney is one of those great names that could be a guy’s name, but in the case of Hannah, it is not. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason that surprised me, those little names she used. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I ran through D names from Greek mythology. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Few people can say the names of their home towns with such sly affection. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she calls out our names one by one. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I access him enough to know that when he really, really likes a girl, he creates a font and names it after her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There, in July 1886, borrowing one of the most prominent family names of the time, Mudgett registered his name as Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The letters were waiting when I returned, seven of them, addressed to men with impressive names. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up the volume filled with names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They all had names, and she would talk to them for hours. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Ashima does not believe in crossing out names, or consolidating them into a single book. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the music, detecting two popular songs which he particularly disliked, and scrutinized the credits closely to find any names of performers who normally nauseated him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their names slid in and right back out of my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Meggie thought there were almost as many names as the village had houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miyax found the names so nice that, as she took her cooking pot from the fire to offer her guests hot ptarmigan, she hummed and sang. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we knew she cared, for the simple reason that she never called us names; she would yell but never call us names. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now, as I watched the mega screen where the roster of names would appear, I felt, deep down, that I could’ve done better. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He handed Amaka a piece of paper and told her he had written some suitably boring names on it, that she had only to choose one and he would leave. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, the rest of the names appeared on the overhead screen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now paying attention to the names on the doors, Harry turned a corner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I mentally scanned my bookshelf for the really impressive names. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just like when I heard the other after-schoolers make fun of Rose and call her names. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Some kids from school had come in—paying customers—and she was writing their names in mayonnaise on their sandwiches before pressing her perfect V-tops down onto them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even though he had a picture with some of his war buddies hanging on the living room wall, he never talked about that picture or the names of his friends. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t found them fit enough or good enough to want to know their names, and believed himself too good to tell them his. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, their strange-sounding American names were hard to remember and difficult to pronounce. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The names gathered first on the African coast in tens of thousands of manifests. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a woman, not Effie, calling the names in 12, but she still begins with “Ladies first!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, naturally, they weren’t going to give their kids any old normal names. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She says a lot of people just make up degrees to put by their names. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Only kids with summer names can sit here. Let’s see, is there anyone here named June or July?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. The guy with the two names,” she muttered. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could. Or I could question the daughters sharply whilst the father looks on. That will wring some names from him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z