That was a short-lived contest. Maryam wins, finding five titles out of eight.

Ok, so to account for the fact that a lot of you haven't even seen this thread yet, let alone played the game enough to know where the excerpts in question are, I'll keep a lid on the titles for the next couple weeks or so. Anybody that comes up with five correct titles can share the glory.

And three of the eight are still unknowns.

So in a couple weeks, I'll post the correctly guessed titles, the names of those who got them, and the number of titles that remain unguessed.