Famous "Middle Books" in Trilogies

Famous Middle Books



Middle Book &                   Sandwiched Between:
Author



The Libation Bearers              Agamemnon,   The Eumenides  (Plays, actually)
Aeschylus

Purgatorio                               Inferno,   Paradiso  (Poems, technically)       
Dante Alighieri

The Marriage of Figaro           The Barber of Seville,   The Guilty Mother  (Plays)
Pierre Beaumarchais

The Duchess of Langeais        Ferragus,   The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Honoré de Balzac

The Town                               The Hamlet,   The Mansion
William Faulkner

The Reprieve                          The Age of Reason,   Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre

Palace of Desire                      Palace Walk,   Sugar Street
Naguib Mahfouz

Cat and Mouse                       The Tin Drum,   Dog Years
Günter Grass

Still Life                                  The Virgin in the Garden,   Babel Tower
A.S. Byatt

Unbearable Lightness of Being     The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,   Immortality
Milan Kundera

Pinball                                     Hear the Wind Sing,    A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murkami

Ghost                                      The City of Glass,   The Locked Room
Paul Auster

The Crossing                           All the Pretty Horses,    Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy

Gospel According to Jesus     The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis,   Blindness
José Saramago

Winter of the World                Fall of Giants,    Title Unknown
Ken Follett

River of Smoke                       Sea of Poppies,    Title Unknown
Amitav Ghosh

Bring Up the Bodies               Wolf Hall,    The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel


FANTASY


The Two Towers                    Fellowship of the Ring,   The Return of the King
J,R.R .Tolkien


SCIENCE FICTION


2010                                        2001: A Space Odyssey,   2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clarke

Green Mars                             Red Mars,   Blue Mars
Kim Stanley

The Year of the Flood             Oryx and Crake,   MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood


SPY THRILLER

Set                                           Game,   Match
Len Deighton

The Honorable Schoolboy      Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy,   Smiley’s People
John Le Carré


MYSTERY


Girl Who Played with Fire     The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson                           The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

The Subtle Knife                     The Golden Compass,   The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman


HISTORICAL FICTION


The Spoilt City                       The Great Fortune,    Friends and Heroes
Olivia Manning

Winter of the World                Fall of Giants,     Title Unknown
Ken Follett

River of Smoke                       Sea of Poppies,    Title Unknown
Amitav Ghosh


Bring Up the Bodies               Wolf Hall,   The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel

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