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Books & Authors 2026-03-10 (Season 42)

BOOKS & AUTHORS

In this 1897 work the title character enters an inn with his face almost entirely covered in bandages

Books & Authors 2025-09-23 (Season 42)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Realizing he couldn't draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination

Books & Authors 2025-06-16 (Season 41)

BOOK COVERS

In 1974 Allison Maher Stern posed horizontally on stools & pretended to swim for a cover of this book

Books & Authors 2024-09-17 (Season 41)

CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES

This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood"

Books & Authors 2024-07-01 (Season 40)

GERMAN BOOKS

First published in 1812, this anthology included "The Water Nymph" & "The Booted Tom Cat"

Books & Authors 2024-06-10 (Season 40)

NEW YORK TIMESBOOK REVIEWS

In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & "highbrow pornography"

Books & Authors 2024-05-17 (Season 40)

BOOK & MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES

The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett

Books & Authors 2024-04-19 (Season 40)

COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits

Books & Authors 2023-07-14 (Season 39)

BOOKS & AUTHORS

In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California

Books & Authors 2023-05-22 (Season 39)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green

Books & Authors 2023-05-08 (Season 39)

NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES

This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib

Books & Authors 2023-01-13 (Season 39)

IN THE BOOKSTORE

The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot

Books & Authors 2022-12-27 (Season 39)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby"

Books & Authors 2021-09-21 (Season 38)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit"

Books & Authors 2021-07-15 (Season 37)

BOOK CHARACTERS

Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how"

Books & Authors 2021-06-21 (Season 37)

REFERENCE BOOKS

Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion"

Books & Authors 2021-05-13 (Season 37)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring

Books & Authors 2021-04-30 (Season 37)

BOOKS & AUTHORS

In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns

Books & Authors 2021-01-14 (Season 37)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages

Books & Authors 2020-03-11 (Season 36)

BOOK WORDS

A 1964 essay coined this 2-word term for "artistically serious" comic books & endorsed it over "illustories" & "picto-fiction"

Books & Authors 2020-03-03 (Season 36)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

This book was published in Latin as "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"

Books & Authors 2019-11-20 (Season 36)

MOVIE & BOOK TITLES

This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme

Books & Authors 2019-09-11 (Season 36)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state

Books & Authors 2019-04-18 (Season 35)

COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES

During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity "C. King"

Books & Authors 2019-03-29 (Season 35)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-be have d little boy!"

Books & Authors 2018-12-11 (Season 35)

BIBLE BOOKS

The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for "song sung to a harp"

Books & Authors 2018-07-11 (Season 34)

FROM BOOKS TO BROADWAY

"Son of a Witch” & “A Lion Among Men” are sequels to the book that inspired this musical

Books & Authors 2018-01-05 (Season 34)

COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS

In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero

Books & Authors 2017-12-06 (Season 34)

REFERENCE BOOKS

This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting

Books & Authors 2017-12-04 (Season 34)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

For this series of picture books that started in 1987, each crowd scene takes about 8 weeks to illustrate

Books & Authors 2017-06-14 (Season 33)

BOOKS & AUTHORS

His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine

Books & Authors 2016-06-16 (Season 32)

BOOK TITLES

A Pulitzer winner in 1947 & Best Picture Oscar winner in 1949, its title is also a line from Lewis Carroll

Books & Authors 2016-03-22 (Season 32)

CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOK CHARACTERS

The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn

Books & Authors 2015-09-21 (Season 32)

WORLD OF BOOKS

Mussolini considered this book written during the Renaissance "the statesman's supreme guide"

Books & Authors 2015-04-17 (Season 31)

BOOK REVIEWS

A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to "Battle Royale" & said it's "a future we can fear"

Books & Authors 2014-12-29 (Season 31)

BOOK DEDICATIONS

The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform"

Books & Authors 2013-10-03 (Season 30)

CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES

The impetus for these books came from a vision the author had "of a faun carrying an umbrella & parcels in a snowy wood"

Books & Authors 2012-04-04 (Season 28)

CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS

A. cavaticus, the scientific name of the barn spider, inspired the middle initial & last name of a character in this book

Books & Authors 2012-03-02 (Season 28)

BOOK VILLAINS

The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine"

Books & Authors 2011-07-25 (Season 27)

BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS

The 2003 bestseller "The Meaning of Everything" is subtitled "The Story of" this reference classic

Books & Authors 2011-03-21 (Season 27)

COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS ON SCREEN

From 1966 to 1968 this role was played by 2 different actresses in a TV series; it was also the title role in a 2004 film

Books & Authors 2009-05-21 (Season 25)

BIG BOOKS

When they began in 1879, the creators of this thought they'd finish in 10 years; 5 years later, they reached "ant"

Books & Authors 2009-04-21 (Season 25)

BOOKS ABOUT ACTORS

Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines

Books & Authors 2008-03-17 (Season 24)

BOOK TITLE REFERENCES

It "had been built... for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home... for 100 American P.O.W.s"

Books & Authors 2007-01-22 (Season 23)

RECENT BOOKS

"American Vertigo" by philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy retraced a trip 175 years before by this man, his countryman

Books & Authors 2006-04-20 (Season 22)

BOOKS

Chap. 1: "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb"

Books & Authors 2004-06-28 (Season 20)

BOOK TITLES

"I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this

Books & Authors 2004-03-05 (Season 20)

BOOKS

This book says, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...that's our official slogan"

Books & Authors 2004-01-27 (Season 20)

THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF

F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company

Books & Authors 2003-12-15 (Season 20)

REFERENCE BOOKS

When it was completed in 1928, Britain's P.M. said, "Our histories, our novels, our poems... are all in this one book"