Memorize these and you could recognize 10.4% of all Fiction clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen King | 6 | He dedicated "Firestarter" to Shirley Jackson, who wrote "The Haunting of Hill House" |
| 2 | Tarzan | 5 | Lord Greystoke, he became a swinger at an early age |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes | 5 | To our knowledge, neighbors at 221A Baker Street never complained about his violin playing |
| 4 | Nero Wolfe | 5 | Rex Stout's stout investigator |
| 5 | Agatha Christie | 5 | She may have been a "dame", but you'd never say that about her famous character Miss Jane Marple |
| 6 | The Invisible Man | 4 | The 1st chapter of this H.G. Wells novel is "The Strange Man's Arrival" |
| 7 | Philip Marlowe | 4 | He's described in "The Long Goodbye" as "Tarzan on a big red scooter" |
| 8 | Lilliput | 4 | The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" |
| 9 | Hercule Poirot | 4 | He found "Murder on the Orient Express" & "Death on the Nile"; maybe he shouldn't travel |
| 10 | Brave New World | 4 | "Three Weeks in a Helicopter" is an interactive "feely" film in this Aldous Huxley novel |
| 11 | Utopia | 3 | In a Thomas More book, Raphael Nonsenso tells of this land |
| 12 | The Simpsons | 3 | On this show, "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" was novelized by Norman Mailer |
| 13 | The Maltese Falcon | 3 | Popular film & novel in which Kasper Gutman, Joel Cairo, & Brigid O'Shaughnessy appear |
| 14 | The Canterbury Tales | 3 | This classic centers on a story-telling contest among pilgrims vying for a free meal at Tabard Inn |
| 15 | Tess | 3 | Though she has an illegitimate child & kills a man, the hearty tale about her is subtitled A Pure Woman |
| 16 | Scarlett O'Hara | 3 | Southern belle whose sisters were Suellen & Carreen |
| 17 | Rosemary's Baby | 3 | Near the end of this novel, Rosemary complains that her child "can't wear black all the time" |
| 18 | Robinson Crusoe | 3 | J. M. Coetzee's novel "Foe" reimagines this novel, but with a woman shipwrecked on the deserted isle |
| 19 | Rabbit at Rest | 3 | Published in 1990, it's John Updike's final novel about ex-basketball star Harry Angstrom |
| 20 | Panem | 3 | Katniss Everdeen lives in District 12 of this country |
| 21 | Norman Mailer | 3 | He wrote 1948's "The Naked and the Dead" while studying at the Sorbonne |
| 22 | Narnia | 3 | Aslan's How is a sight that's not to be missed in this land chronicled by C.S. Lewis |
| 23 | Nancy Drew | 3 | The first mystery solved by this teen detective was "The Secret of the Old Clock" |
| 24 | Moll Flanders | 3 | After stealing a piece of silk, this Daniel Defoe heroine is convicted & sent to Virginia |
| 25 | Jane Eyre | 3 | Charlotte Bronte's hard-luck heroine who finally finds happiness with Mr. Rochester |
| 26 | George R.R. Martin | 3 | This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking |
| 27 | Father Brown | 3 | G.K. Chesterton's full-time priest, part-time detective |
| 28 | Daisy Miller | 3 | The nickname of Annie P. Miller, heroine of a Henry James novella |
| 29 | China | 3 | Homeland of inscrutable detective Judge Dee |
| 30 | Charlie Chan | 3 | Keye Luke & Sen Yung played this detective's No. 1 & No. 2 sons in several films of the '30s |
| 31 | Catch-22 | 3 | A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled |
| 32 | Atlas Shrugged | 3 | One of the most influential books of our time, this 1,100-page novel was originally called "The Strike" |
| 33 | On the Road | 3 | In 2001 the scroll on which Jack Kerouac feverishly typed this book was sold for over $2 million |
| 34 | Morrie | 3 | "The Third Tuesday: We Talk about Regrets" |
| 35 | Maine | 3 | In Elmore Leonard's historical novel "Cuba Libre", Pvt. Virgil Webster "felt himself lifted from the deck" of this ship |
| 36 | bones | 3 | Murdered by her neighbor, Susie Salmon tells her story from heaven in this Alice Sebold bestseller |
| 37 | Willy Wonka | 2 | He gave Charlie a tour of his chocolate factory |
| 38 | Wendy | 2 | Sister of John & Michael Darling, Peter Pan thought she was darling, too |
| 39 | Warsaw | 2 | "The Zookeeper's Wife" finds herself hiding Jews smuggled out of this capital's ghetto in WWII |
| 40 | Walter Mosley | 2 | "A Little Yellow Dog" is a recent novel featuring his reluctant detective Easy Rawlins |
| 41 | Travis McGee | 2 | Captain of the houseboat "Busted Flush" |
| 42 | Tom Sawyer | 2 | In his 2nd sequel, Mark Twain wrote about him as a detective |
| 43 | Tom Jones | 2 | Foundling found by the worthy Squire Allworthy in Henry Fielding novel |
| 44 | Tolkien | 2 | Cram is a biscuit-like food made by the men of Esgaroth in this author's fantasy world |
| 45 | Thornton Wilder | 2 | His 1st novel, "The Cabala", is about pagan gods, but his most famous novel is about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" |
| 46 | the White Rabbit | 2 | This animal in a hurry drops his gloves & fan; Alice picks them up |
| 47 | The Turn of the Screw | 2 | Bennett Cerf called this Henry James tale "1 of the 2 best ghost stories I have ever read" |
| 48 | The Three Musketeers | 2 | The evil Milady de Winter poisoned Mme. Bonacieux in this French swashbuckler |
| 49 | The Shining | 2 | The Overlook Hotel in Colorado is the sinister setting for this Stephen King novel |