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| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |