Thank you everyone who entered the contest! I got such encouragement for doing this :) Trust me, I was a little afraid to do a giveaway in this manner. I promise I won’t always make you work for it, but I had a lot of fun and it seems you all did too!

First up the solutions to the anagrams:
1) Accompany Heirs: American Psycho
2) Horse Hut: The Hours
3) A Noonday Frenzy: Franny and Zooey
4) Weed Nothing With: Gone With the Wind
5) ill Oat: Lolita
6) Phoebe’s Stitch: The Bitch Posse
7) Cheater Hence Thirty: The Catcher in the Rye (for some reason almost everyone forgot to include the word “The” at the beginning. I got so paranoid I had to double check that I actually included all the letters. Thanks y’all :P
8) Shitty Threescore: The Secret History
9) Be A Sensitive Tofu Pygmy: Seven Types of Ambiguity (definitely intended to be the most difficult to solve)
10) Enhance Entice Goof: The Age of Innocence
11) A Dad Or Roar: Ada, or Ardor (props to everyone who got this as I managed to accidentally include an extra ‘a’ when I first typed up the post)
12) Fee Ingenuity Throne : Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)
13) Fat Red Ark: After Dark
14) Awaken Aim Hiss: Asa, As I Knew Him
15) Zap Cart Onion: Prozac Nation
16) No Ant Meet: Atonement
17) The Preacher’s Pal: The Rachel Papers

Alright and now the winners!

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In FIRST PLACE, and the winner of both BROKEN GLASS PARK and HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE: Gillian! (first person to submit, 17/17 correct, though tsk tsk at the Catcher mistake :P)

In SECOND PLACE, and the winner of HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE and a EUROPA TOTE: Lauren! (second person to submit, 17/17 correct, though tsk tsk at Catcher mistake to you as well :P)

In THIRD PLACE, and the winner of HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE: Leanne! (16/17 correct, props for not making the Catcher mistake and for noticing the extra A in Ada or Ardor)

Alright, so you all need to email me your addresses and pray I don’t stalk you or something.

Just kidding, just kidding. Really though, the winners should email me their addresses, so I can send you your stuff. booklushie [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you again to everyone else who played! You totally made my week. :)

ey what’s that sound? It’s the sound of my first contest/giveaway! *releases a bunch of balloons into the air* I actually envisioned the game first, then I thought, well, no one will play if there isn’t a prize at the end of it. So I decided to turn this into a giveaway as incentive to play the game! Indulge me, pretty please? There are books in it for you! :D

THE PRIZES:

FIRST PLACE: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (my review) + Broken Glass Park

SECOND PLACE: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine + blue Europa tote

THIRD PLACE: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine

THE GAME:
Anagrams! Not just any anagrams though, anagrams of my favorite books. Each anagram comes with a hint (I’ve left off books that I couldn’t provide a hint for because sometimes my tastes do veer into the obscure). There are 17 anagrams in all but I don’t expect anyone to get all of them. The person with the most correct answers wins! In the event of a tie, the person who submitted their responses first wins.

THE RULES:
1) No cheating by using an anagram generator/solver or accessing any pages using cache
2) To enter, email your responses to booklushie [at] gmail [dot] com
3) That’s it really! You ARE welcome to use Google to help you with the hints provided.

Sound good? All right, anagrams can be found below. Good luck!

1) Accompany Heirs
hint: This novel turns 20 this year. When it was first published, it created quite a controversy due to its extremely violent content.
2) Horse Hut
hint: This novel won the Pulitzer and depicts a single day in each of the lives of three women separated by generations.
3) A Noonday Frenzy
hint: You may recall that earlier this year I challenged myself to read all the works by the famous reclusive author of this book; however, this one was deliberately left off because I had just read it in 2008.
4) Weed Nothing With
hint: This novel won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a nearly four hour long film, which is still considered to be one of the greatest American films to this day.
5) ill Oat
hint: First published in Paris (though written in English) because it was deemed too obscene for the US, it has since become a classic and is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of literature. It was also adapted into two films, one of which the author actually wrote the screenplay for.
6) Phoebe’s Stitch
hint: A relatively obscure title, it was recently announced that this novel will be adapted into a film directed by Catherine Hardwicke.
7) Cheater Hence Thirty
hint: Written by the same author as #3, this is certainly the more famous of the two…and generally produces more polarized reactions
8) Shitty Threescore
hint: The author of this novel only has two under her belt despite being in the game for nearly two decades now. She attended the same college as the author of #1 and even dedicated this book to him.
9) Be A Sensitive Tofu Pygmy
hint: This hefty novel by an Australian author takes its name from a well known work of literary criticism.
10) Enhance Entice Goof
hint: This novel won the Pulitzer, making the author the first woman to win the Prize.
11) A Dad Or Roar
hint: The author of this novel makes an earlier appearance on this list at #5. This is not the novel he is most well-known for but it is his longest.
12) Fee Ingenuity Throne
hint: This title is often written out as a number. Many of its terms and concepts have made their way into everyday conversation. One term is even the title of a reality show.
13) Fat Red Ark
hint: This Japanese author has a highly anticipated novel coming out this fall…whose title coincidentally is a play off #12. Also coincidentally, I read this novel in one sitting, during the time of day its title depicts.
14) Awaken Aim Hiss
hint: This novella isn’t particularly well-known but its author penned a well-known memoir that was later adapted into a film starring Winona Ryder that barely resembled the book it was based off. Figure out the author, and you can probably figure out the novella I’m talking about.
15) Zap Cart Onion
hint: The only nonfiction title on this list, this memoir depicts one woman’s battle with depression. Its title includes the name of what is still the most famous anti-depressant.
16) No Ant Meet
hint: Adapted into a film that was up for a best picture Oscar just a few years ago, this novel was shortlisted for the Booker. It didn’t win, but no worries, the author had won for another novel just three years prior.
17) The Preacher’s Pal
hint: This author won the Somerset Maugham Award for this debut novel, much like his father had almost 20 years earlier. Like father, like son, eh?