Bestsellers Study Guide

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Other

60 answers | 135 clues
Should-Know (2)
James Michener 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:3
J $200 1999 This worldly author brought us tales of "Texas", "Poland" & the "Caribbean"
DJ $2,000 2015 1980: His newest epic was "The Covenant", spanning the settlement of South Africa
DJ $400 1990 "Caribbean" is his fictional history of the islands
Heaven 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2
J $200 2024 Mitch Albom touches readers' souls with books like "The First Phone Call from" here & "The Five People You Meet in" here
DJ $800 2004 "Tuesdays with Morrie" author Mitch Albom titled his 2003 bestseller "The Five People You Meet" here
J $200 2019 It's a whole new world for Annie in Mitch Albom's sequel "The Next People You Meet" here
Worth Knowing (58)
World War II 3 The Godfather 3 Sidney Sheldon 3 Primary Colors 3 Jonathan Livingston Seagull 3 Hillary Clinton 3 Airport 3 The Agony and the Ecstasy 3 Swim with the Sharks 3 Lincoln 3 Carl Sagan 3 Zane Grey 2 What To Expect When You're Expecting 2 Tom Brokaw 2 The Mammoth Hunters 2 The Horse Whisperer 2 The Group 2 the 1980s 2 the 1970s 2 the 1960s 2 the 1950s 2 the 1940s 2 the 1920s 2 Shirley MacLaine 2 Russell Baker 2 Roots 2 Richard Simmons 2 Paris 2 Norman Mailer 2 Nancy Reagan 2 Mars & Venus 2 Main Street 2 Louis L'Amour 2 Leo Buscaglia 2 Kindergarten 2 John F. Kennedy 2 James Herriot 2 James Bond 2 Jacqueline Susann 2 Into Thin Air 2 Ian Fleming 2 Hawaii 2 Harvard 2 Gilda Radner 2 George Burns 2 Erma Bombeck 2 Erica Jong 2 David Sedaris 2 Danielle Steel 2 Crazy Rich Asians 2 Bob Woodward 2 Barbara Tuchman 2 Winston Churchill 2 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus 2 Robert Ludlum 2 Joan Collins 2 E.L. Doctorow 2 Arthur Clarke 2

Mystery / Thriller

5 answers | 27 clues
Must-Know (1)
Tom Clancy 8x $600 avg J:2 DJ:6
DJ $200 2001 Not surprisingly, in 2000 his newest Jack Ryan techno-thriller, "The Bear and the Dragon", debuted at No. 1
J $800 2020 1986's "Red Storm Rising" was his second novel & his second No. 1 bestseller
DJ $200 1990 He got a $4 million advance for his latest thriller, "Clear & Present Danger"
Should-Know (2)
Stephen King 7x 14.3% stumper $271 avg J:4 DJ:3
J $100 1999 In 1998 this master of horror rattled our nerves with "Bag of Bones"
J $200 2010 In 1990 "Four Past Midnight" hit the bestseller lists for this horrormeister
J $200 2005 His "Dolores Claiborne" & "Gerald's Game" were 2 of the top-selling novels of 1992
John Grisham 7x $829 avg J:3 DJ:4
J $200 2015 A young attorney barely out of law school exposes a giant corporate conspiracy in this author's "The Rainmaker"
DJ $800 1992 No. 1 thrillers by this author include "The Firm" & "The Pelican Brief"
DJ $1,600 2007 In 2006 he was back at No. 1, this time with his first nonfiction book, "The Innocent Man"
Worth Knowing (2)
Dick Francis 3 It 2

Children's Literature

2 answers | 4 clues
Worth Knowing (2)
The Hunt for Red October 2 Jean Auel 2
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