{19} On the nineteenth word of nineteen books...

Posted August 12, 2000 8:47 PM.

• "thank"
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
• "in"
  The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
• "and"
  The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
• "it"
  The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
• "much"
  The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
• "building"
  The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
• "lens"
  The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart
• "top"
  The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
• "is"
  A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• "the"
  A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes
• "knew"
  Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
• "and"
  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
• "composed"
  Against Nature, J.-K. Huysmans
• "average"
  The Soft Machine, William S Burroughs
• "you"
  Flatland, Edwin A Abbott
• "atoms"
  Engines of Creation, K. Eric Drexler
• "veracity"
  Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
• "way"
  Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
• "next"
  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

(*Chapter headings, Prefaces, Prologues, Introductions, Initial Quotes etc. excluded)