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1 Exodus 22 Book 2 of this Leon Uris novel is titled "The Land is Mine"
2 Genesis 21 "The Bible", with George C. Scott as Abraham, restricts itself to this Biblical book
3 John Grisham 14 In 1993 he had 2 No. 1 books simultaneously, "The Client" in hardback & "The Pelican Brief" in paperback
4 Ulysses 11 James Joyce's lengthy tale that takes place in one day, or the preferred first name of this president
5 Revelation 11 Scary 7-headed beasts are a vision to behold in this book
6 Stephen King 10 Actual identity of Richard Bachman, who wrote "Thinner"
7 Daniel 10 Belshazzar sees the handwriting & this man interprets the handwriting
8 A Clockwork Orange 10 Chapter 21, with the hero's redemption, was not included in U.S. editions of this 1962 A. Burgess book
9 Tom Clancy 9 Newsweek called this author of "Clear and Present Danger", "the king of techno-thrillers"
10 The Scarlet Letter 9 Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne's baby daddy in this classic
11 Ruth 9 In the last chapter of the book named for this widow, she's remarried to a man named Boaz
12 Philip Roth 9 He wrote a novel called "The Great American Novel" a few years after "Portnoy's Complaint"
13 Judges 9 This Old Testament book details the careers of Othniel, Gideon & Samson
14 Goodnight Moon 9 Clement Hurd illustrated this children's classic seen here:
15 1984 9 George Orwell's dystopian fable, or the year this photo was taken
16 The Great Gatsby 8 Fitzgerald ended this novel, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
17 Psalms 8 The book of Proverbs comes right after this book in the Bible. but right before it alphabetically
18 Job 8 Out of the whirlwind, God tells him to "Gird up thy loins now like a man" in Chapter 40 of his book
19 Jane Eyre 8 Mr. Rochester's Thornfield Hall, burned down by the insane Bertha Mason
20 Gone with the Wind 8 In 1996 a fire badly damaged the Atlanta apartment house where this 1936 bestseller was written
21 Catch-22 8 Joseph Heller's "Closing Time"
22 Anne Rice 8 This vampire novelist wrote "Exit to Eden" under the pseudonym Anne Rampling
23 William Faulkner 8 He added a history of the Compsons to "The Sound and the Fury" 15 years after it was first published
24 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 7 Some of what this title character eats: "one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake" & a slice of watermelon
25 Sophie's Choice 7 William Styron's 1979 story of a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz
26 Song of Solomon 7 "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this
27 Proverbs 7 Funk & Wagnalls says this Bible book of sayings was written for ancient "yuppies"
28 On The Road 7 "Dean was having his kicks; he put on a jazz record, grabbed Marylou... and bounced against her with the beat"
29 Of Mice and Men 7 Steinbeck:"And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?'"
30 Heart of Darkness 7 "For him evidently Mr. Kurtz was not in his grave; I suspect that for him Mr. Kurtz was one of the immortals"
31 East of Eden 7 This John Steinbeck title refers to the direction traveled by Cain in the book of Genesis after he did you know what to Abel
32 Charlotte's Web 7 The message "Some pig", spun by a spider, convinces a farmer to save Wilbur in this book
33 All The King's Men 7 Robert Penn Warren took this novel's title from a line in "Humpty Dumpty"
34 Sister Carrie 7 Though the heroine of this 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser becomes a star, happiness eludes her
35 Where the Wild Things Are 6 It's the first in a trilogy of books that also includes "In the Night Kitchen" & "Outside Over There"
36 War and Peace 6 Among other events in this Tolstoy novel, the emperor Napoleon shouts, sneers & takes snuff
37 To Kill a Mockingbird 6 "'Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'"
38 The Wind in the Willows 6 The adventures of Toad, Rat & Mole were featured in this 1908 Kenneth Grahame children's classic
39 The Little Prince 6 "If you please, draw me a sheep" requests the title kid in this 1943 Saint-Exupery fable
40 Stuart Little 6 E.B. White's "Little" mouse who made his debut in 1945
41 Remembrance of Things Past 6 "Swann's Way" is its 1st of 7 parts, "Time Regained", the last
42 Numbers 6 Name of the book whose second verse begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation"
43 Lord of the Flies 6 From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island
44 Little Women 6 In chapter 3 of this novel, Jo thinks Laurie is going off to college, then finds out that he's only 15
45 Jonah 6 Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet
46 John Updike 6 A good ear for the angst of suburban dialog characterizes this author's "Rabbit" novels
47 In Cold Blood 6 S. Neil Fujita's designs include one that looks like a drop of you-know-what for the cover of this Truman Capote book
48 Henry James 6 Though he wrote "The Europeans" & in 1915 became one, both he & brother William were born Americans
49 Green Eggs and Ham 6 Georgeanne Brennan wrote a cookbook that shares its title with this Dr. Seuss classic
50 F. Scott Fitzgerald 6 He met his wife Zelda at an Alabama country club dance in 1918

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Exodus (21) Genesis (21) Revelation (11) Ulysses (11) Philip Roth (11) A Clockwork Orange (10) Daniel (10) Job (10) Grisham (10) Judges (9)

American Literature

175 clues
F. Scott Fitzgerald (8) John Steinbeck (7) William Faulkner (7) J.D. Salinger (6) East of Eden (5) Kurt Vonnegut (5) Herman Melville (5) Hemingway (5) Of Mice and Men (4) Jack London (4)

Mystery / Thriller

149 clues
Stephen King (10) Agatha Christie (5) John Grisham (4) Conan Doyle (4) Miss Marple (3) Misery (3) Spenser (3) Tom Clancy (3) Scott Turow (3) Dashiell Hammett (3)

Children's Literature

139 clues
Charlotte's Web (7) The Wizard of Oz (6) Dr. Seuss (5) The Cat in the Hat (5) Alice in Wonderland (4) James and the Giant Peach (4) The Wind in the Willows (3) Peter Pan (2) Curious George (2) John Gray (2)

British Literature

127 clues
Daniel Defoe (5) George Orwell (5) Dickens (4) Thomas Hardy (4) Laura Ingalls Wilder (4) 1984 (3) Robert Louis Stevenson (3) Tolkien (3) David Copperfield (2) Little House on the Prairie (2)

Poetry

123 clues
George Eliot (6) (Allen) Ginsberg (3) The Satanic Verses (3) Mary Shelley (3) Shel Silverstein (3) The Mill on the Floss (3) Psalms (2) "Leaves of Grass" (2) "Frosty The Snowman" (2) Homer (2)

Shakespeare

32 clues
Remembrance of Things Past (2) Geoffrey Chaucer (1) Twelfth Night (1) prologue (1) King Lear (1) Will (1) Birnam Wood (1) The Old Man and the Sea (1) Henry VIII (1) The Prince and the Pauper (1)
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