Memorize these and you could recognize 17.8% of all Novels clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dracula | 14 | Jonathan Harker, lawyer |
| 2 | Moby-Dick | 13 | The narrative in this 1851 novel contains a dissertation on cetology |
| 3 | Animal Farm | 13 | "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" |
| 4 | the Lord of the Flies | 13 | William Golding said he intended Simon to be "a Christ figure" in this novel |
| 5 | William Faulkner | 13 | Temple Drake is the strange heroine of his novel "Sanctuary" & its sequel "Requiem for a Nun" |
| 6 | Wuthering Heights | 12 | The odd word in this Bronte title is Old Yorkshire dialect meaning "stormy weather" |
| 7 | Robinson Crusoe | 12 | Daniel Defoe claimed this novel was an allegory of his own life |
| 8 | A Tale of Two Cities | 12 | Sydney Carton |
| 9 | Brave New World | 10 | Sex, soma, & suicide, starting in the year 632 after Ford |
| 10 | 1984 | 10 | Winston Smith, Julia & Mr. Charrington |
| 11 | John Steinbeck | 10 | He co-wrote "Sea of Cortez" with marine biologist Edward Ricketts, the model for Doc in "Cannery Row" |
| 12 | The Invisible Man | 10 | Griffin becomes an unseen guest at the Coach & Horses Inn |
| 13 | Treasure Island | 9 | The Admiral Benbow Inn near Black Hill Cove in the English countryside |
| 14 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 9 | It's the only novel we know that has characters named Scout, Atticus & Boo |
| 15 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 9 | This novel ends with Chief Bromden escaping from the hospital after he smothers Randle P. McMurphy |
| 16 | Oliver Twist | 9 | Mr. Brownlow, Fagin & Bill Sikes |
| 17 | Jane Eyre | 9 | Her life experiences take her from Gateshead Hall to Lowood School to Thornfield Manor |
| 18 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 9 | Some critics think his last, unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon", was his best |
| 19 | Catch-22 | 9 | Characters in this 1961 novel include Milo Minderbinder & Major Major Major |
| 20 | Anna Karenina | 9 | This Tolstoy novel famously begins, "Happy families are all alike..." |
| 21 | Sister Carrie | 9 | At the beginning of this 1900 novel, the title character, Caroline Meeber, has left home |
| 22 | The Three Musketeers | 8 | The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared" |
| 23 | The Scarlet Letter | 8 | After R. Chillingworth dies, Pearl becomes "the richest heiress of her day" in this novel |
| 24 | Stephen King | 8 | This author discussed the horror genre in his 1981 work "Danse Macabre" |
| 25 | Rebecca | 8 | The 2nd Mrs. Maxim de Winter's memories of menace at Manderley |
| 26 | Madame Bovary | 8 | Emma takes poison after using up her husband's inheritance to finance her love affair |
| 27 | East of Eden | 8 | Caleb Trask, Aron Trask & Abra Bacon |
| 28 | On the Road | 8 | The first sentence of this 1957 novel is "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" |
| 29 | Charles Dickens | 8 | The actual title of his 1st novel is "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" |
| 30 | The Great Gatsby | 7 | Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan & George Wilson |
| 31 | Of Mice and Men | 7 | Lennie Small, migrant worker |
| 32 | Frankenstein | 7 | "I beheld the wretch, the miserable monster whom I had created" |
| 33 | Don Quixote | 7 | His real name was Alonso Quixano |
| 34 | David Copperfield | 7 | This autobiographical novel was Dickens' personal favorite |
| 35 | The Catcher in the Rye | 7 | This novel ends with Holden Caufield in a sanitarium |
| 36 | War and Peace | 6 | Prince Andrey Bolkonsky dies after he's wounded at the Battle of Borodino in this Tolstoy classic |
| 37 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 6 | The avuncular title character of this 1852 American novel dies after a brutal beating |
| 38 | The Sun Also Rises | 6 | Hemingway novel that begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton" |
| 39 | The Red Badge of Courage | 6 | It's a bloody head wound from being struck with a rifle butt |
| 40 | The Last of the Mohicans | 6 | "...scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas, like drops of falling rain" |
| 41 | The House of the Seven Gables | 6 | "The Old Pyncheon Family","The Arched Window" |
| 42 | Pride and Prejudice | 6 | 19th century /Once titled "First Impressions" /Is Darcy the one? |
| 43 | Ivanhoe | 6 | Wilfred is the 1st name of the title character in this novel by Sir Walter Scott |
| 44 | H.G. Wells | 6 | "The Time Machine" |
| 45 | Doctor Zhivago | 6 | Lara Antipova |
| 46 | Thomas Hardy | 6 | Petr Tranchell turned his 1886 novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" into a 1951 opera |
| 47 | Truman Capote | 5 | "Other Voices, Other Rooms" |
| 48 | The Wind in the Willows | 5 | Badger, Mole, Rat & Toad |
| 49 | The Time Machine | 5 | Weeena, an Eloi girl, becomes the companion of the time traveler in this H.G. Wells novel |
| 50 | The Natural | 5 | Roy gets shot on the way to a Cubs tryout. Roy turns the Knights around. Wonderboy breaks, Roy fails |