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Many musicians base band names, songs or albums from books. For example, Blind Guardian has many songs which reference Tolkien and King. Others take their names from books. Obvious examples include As I Lay Dying and Paradise Lost. Other examples include Amon Amarth, named after a mountain in Lord of the Rings, and Keep of Kalessin, named after a dragon in the Earthsea Cycle. If you do vote, please indicate why. :)
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Parzival: With Titurel and the Love Lyrics
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A Walk on the Wild Side
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Hamlet
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Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, #1)
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Nibelungenlied
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Doctor Zhivago
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The Stars My Destination
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
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Carrie
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Auguries of Innocence
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The Drowned World
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The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
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Tannhäuser: Poet and Legend: With Texts and Translations of His Works (University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages a)
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Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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Legends of the Ring
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The King in Yellow
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Dead Souls
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The Star Wars Trilogy
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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The Apology
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Being and Nothingness
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The Prince
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An Outcast of the Islands
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
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Novum Organum
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The Doors of Perception
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The Invisible Man
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A Burnt-Out Case
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The Stars Look Down
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Islands in the Stream
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The World According to Garp
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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Pincher Martin
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
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Silent Spring
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The House on Mango Street
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Triad
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Le Lys dans la vallée
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The Possibility of an Island
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Narcissus and Goldmund
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The Call of Cthulhu
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The Stand
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The Lottery
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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The Sirens of Titan
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
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Yertle the Turtle
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Bach (Goodreads Author)
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Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Vol. 1
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The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Vol. 1
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Meetings With Remarkable Men
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
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In a Sunburned Country
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How do you feel about the song "Tender is the NIght" a reference to Keats' Ode to a Nightingale ?
Thom wrote: "How do you feel about the song "Tender is the NIght" a reference to Keats' Ode to a Nightingale ?"Add whatever you think works :p
OK, So here you have a song, "Tender is the Night", the title taken from Keats Ode, and also the Fitzgerald novel of the same title.
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