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Dracula 14 Moby-Dick 13 Animal Farm 13 the Lord of the Flies 13 William Faulkner 13 Wuthering Heights 12 Robinson Crusoe 12 A Tale of Two Cities 12 John Steinbeck 11 Brave New World 10 1984 10 The Invisible Man 10 Charles Dickens 10 Treasure Island 9 To Kill a Mockingbird 9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 9 Oliver Twist 9 Jane Eyre 9 F. Scott Fitzgerald 9 Catch-22 9 Anna Karenina 9 Sister Carrie 9 The Three Musketeers 8 The Scarlet Letter 8 Stephen King 8 Rebecca 8 Madame Bovary 8 East of Eden 8 On the Road 8

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Dracula 14x 8.3% stumper $500 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:2

J $200 2011 In this novel, Lucy Westenra "went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat"

J $600 2021 Miss Lucy Westenra, the first victim in Great Britain

DJ $1,000 1989 Jonathan Harker, lawyer

Moby-Dick 13x 10.0% stumper $390 avg J:8 DJ:2 FJ:3

J $100 1999 "And this is what ye have shipped for, men! To chase that white whale on both sides of land"

DJ $2,000 DD 2010 "It was the... Rachel, that in her search after her missing children, only found another orphan"

FJ 2008 This title character of an 1851 work doesn't show up until Chapter 133

The Invisible Man 10x 11.1% stumper $1,522 avg J:5 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2013 It's Ralph Ellison /Don't add "The" to the title /Nameless narrator

J $500 1994 After WWII, Ralph Ellison obtained a Rosenwald Fellowship that enabled him to write this novel

DJ $9,000 DD 2021 Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel

To Kill a Mockingbird 9x 22.2% stumper $689 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2023 In "Go Set a Watchman", a grown-up Scout from this novel revisits her childhood home in Maycomb, Alabama

J $600 2022 Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation

J $1,000 2021 "The trial and the melodramatic conclusion" of this "seem contrived. But (the) insight into Southern mores is impressive"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 9x $800 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $400 2010 The big chief looms large, sanity is a relative term, a small-time crook is treated ratched-ly

J $600 2015 New patient Randle Patrick McMurphy shakes things up at a psychiatric hospital in this novel

DJ $1,200 2020 "On a mental ward. Miss Ratched's ward! The reekerputions will be... devastating!"

Catch-22 9x $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $200 1997 Joseph Heller based his play "Clevinger's Trial" on Chapter 8 of this, his most famous novel

J $600 2008 1961:"Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office"

DJ $1,200 2020 Gotta fly; Major Major Major Major problems; war is Heller

Anna Karenina 9x $800 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 2020 Anna, Vronsky may be something now, but he is easily distracted--you bet on the wrong horse

DJ $600 1993 This Tolstoy heroine has a daughter named Anny & a maid named Annushka

J $1,000 2019 Foreshadowing later events, a man is crushed to death beneath the wheels of a train early on in this 1878 classic

The Three Musketeers 8x $400 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 2011 "The Shoulder of Athos, the Baldric of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis"

DJ $800 2019 "D'Artagnan Takes Command"

J $200 1997 The novel that gave us the famous phrase "Tous pour un, un pour tous"

Rebecca 8x $1,150 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $800 2021 Daphne du Maurier described it as "the influence of a first wife on a second... until wife 2 is haunted day and night"

J $1,000 2021 "Everyone was angry with" this woman, the titular first wife of a Daphne du Maurier novel, "when she cut her" mass of dark hair

DJ $800 1996 "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

Madame Bovary 8x 12.5% stumper $925 avg J:3 DJ:5

DJ $800 2020 Emma, your marriage to a country doctor won't fulfill you, but neither will your affairs with Leon & Rodolphe

J $1,000 2018 Sure, she'd had affairs with Leon & Rodolphe & lost all her money, but a quick bankruptcy & a huge Go Fund Me later, she was fine

DJ $800 2018 In this Flaubert work, then-mademoiselle Emma pricks her finger, puts it in her mouth & sucks it & Charles is smitten

On the Road 8x 42.9% stumper $771 avg J:5 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2022 Keen Kerouac; passing Paradise; country crossing

DJ $800 2015 Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951

J $1,000 2018 A father & son try to avoid marauding cannibals on their trek in this Cormac McCarthy novel

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Frankenstein 7x 20.0% stumper $800 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $200 1990 "I beheld the wretch, the miserable monster whom I had created"

J $600 2002 "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"

DJ $2,000 DD 2021 "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"

Don Quixote 7x $933 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $200 2009 This Cervantes character is "otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance"

DJ $4,000 DD 2023 "What you see there are not giants, but windmills"

FJ 2014 "His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met"

War and Peace 6x $367 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2016 A page, after page after page turner by Tolstoy; Paul Dano went Bezukhov on TV; the title covers a lot of ground

J $600 2008 Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'"

DJ $200 1993 Prince Andrey Bolkonsky dies after he's wounded at the Battle of Borodino in this Tolstoy classic

Uncle Tom's Cabin 6x 33.3% stumper $600 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2017 The subtitle of this novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe is "Life Among the Lowly"

J $800 2020 Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel

J $1,000 DD 2024 "Eliza's Escape"

The Red Badge of Courage 6x $1,360 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2022 This classic by Stephen Crane has been called "the first modern war novel"

J $600 2013 "Colorful" novel /The title? Civil War wound /Crane your head upward

DJ $1,600 2023 Henry Fleming is eager to get into battle until the slaughter actually begins in this work by Stephen Crane

Ivanhoe 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1994 Cedric wants Rowena to marry Athelstane, who has royal blood, in this Sir Walter Scott novel

DJ $600 1993 Cedric the Saxon, Rowena &Wilfred

DJ $1,000 1992 This 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel could also be called "Wilfred", the character's first name

Doctor Zhivago 6x 16.7% stumper $967 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $600 2010 Lara, but not Flynn Boyle, remembrance of things Pasternak, title physician, heal thyself

J $1,000 2014 "Train to the Urals"

DJ $800 1987 Lara Antipova

Life of Pi 6x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $800 2018 A cargo ship out of India loaded with zoo animals doesn't make its final port in this Yann Martel novel

DJ $1,200 2015 The main character of this Yann Martel novel is named for a swimming pool

DJ $800 2024 After a disaster of a cruise, the title teen of this Yann Martel novel spends 227 days lost at sea with a rough crew indeed

Ayn Rand 6x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 1997 "Great men can't be ruled", she wrote in "The Fountainhead"

DJ $600 1997 Before moving to the U.S., this "Fountainhead" author worked as a guide in a Leningrad museum

DJ $1,400 DD 2015 Her 1936 debut "We the Living" began a lifelong theme by attacking the evils of socialist collectivism

The Wind in the Willows 5x 20.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2021 "'Toad Hall,' said the Toad proudly, 'is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence"' is a line in this novel

J $800 2018 "'He must be a very nice animal,' observed the Mole, as he got into the boat and took the sculls"

DJ $2,000 DD 2012 Mr. Toad's "shiny new motor car" isn't new enough; Toad's off to Lexus' "December to Remember" sales event

The Natural 5x $3,300 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $1,000 2018 1952:"Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail"

FJ 2019 A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy"

DJ $1,600 2016 Baseball player Roy Hobbs

The Age of Innocence 5x 25.0% stumper $550 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2014 Thomas Paine wrote "The Age of Reason"; Edith Wharton wrote this 1920 satire of social life in 1870s New York City

J $600 2025 This Edith Wharton novel about the doings of New York society families won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize

FJ 1994 The first Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a woman, it became a movie in 1993

Norman Mailer 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1991 "The Naked & the Dead"

J $500 1996 His 1980 work "Of Women and Their Elegance" is an imaginary memoir by Marilyn Monroe

J $400 1996 "The Naked and the Dead"

Lady Chatterley's Lover 5x 20.0% stumper $720 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2010 Try a little "Tenderness", the original title of this scandalous D.H. Lawrence work

J $1,000 2007 Constance marries paralyzed Sir Clifford, has an affair with the gamekeeper, gets pregnant, awaits divorce & new life

DJ $200 1993 Near the start of this D.H. Lawrence novel, Clifford Chatterley marries Constance Reid

James Joyce 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2018 "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a portrait of him, its author

DJ $800 2022 The experimental "Finnegans Wake"

DJ $400 2001 "Finnegans Wake"(1939)

Heart of Darkness 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2024 This 1902 novella tells the story of a man assigned by an ivory company to take command of a damaged boat

J $800 2008 1902:"The horror!The horror!"

J $1,000 2008 1902:"He said he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and cleared out of the country"

Gone With the Wind 5x $275 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 2000 1936:"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..."

FJ 2008 From this book's penultimate paragraph: "There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him"

DJ $200 1996 "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..."

Crime and Punishment 5x $680 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $400 2025 Raskolnikov performs the first half of the title; doesn't handle it well; gets the second half of the title

DJ $600 1997 Kill an old lady pawnbroker, get sent to Siberia

J $800 2021 Raskolnikov

The War of the Worlds 5x 60.0% stumper $740 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 Published in 1898, this Wells novel had its biggest impact when adapted by another Welles in 1938

J $700 DD 1987 Hostile aliens fall victim to germ warfare in England

DJ $2,000 2021 "I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel"

Joseph Heller 5x $350 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1989 "Catch-22"

FJ 2023 He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service

DJ $400 2017 "Catch-22"(1961)

The World According to Garp 5x 20.0% stumper $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2014 "The World According to Marcus Aurelius" & "The World According to Bensenhaver"

DJ $400 1999 P.S., T.S. is the central character of this 1978 John Irving novel

J $200 2018 John Irving's "The World According to" him begins with his mom arrested "in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater"

Franz Kafka 5x 20.0% stumper $960 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1997 He died in 1924 without completing "The Trial" & "The Castle"

DJ $800 1993 Count Westwest, the lord of the castle, is named but doesn't appear in his novel "The Castle"

DJ $2,000 2010 The hero of his unfinished novel "The Castle" is known only as K.

Ulysses 4x 33.3% stumper $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2015 This James Joyce novel could be called "A Day in the Life of Leopold & Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus"

J $1,000 2011 "The Lotus Eaters" & "Circe"

FJ 2009 Molly, the wife in this 1922 novel, represents a modern-day Penelope

Twilight 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2022 Stephenie Meyer said the idea for this first novel came to her in a dream

J $1,000 DD 2014 The first of a "Saga":"Blood Type"

DJ $400 2018 Quoting this novel, "About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire"

Theodore Dreiser 4x $625 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1996 "Sister Carrie"

J $500 2000 Shortly after the release of "Sister Carrie", his publisher withdrew it due to the book's "amorality"

DJ $1,200 2007 "Sister Carrie"(1900)

The Stranger 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 1992 The French title of this Albert Camus novel is "L'Etranger"

J $600 2025 A magistrate refers to the Frenchman Meursault as "Monsieur Antichrist"; Albert Camus opts for this title designation

J $1,000 DD 2024 This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know"

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1990 It inspired 2 operas named "Esmeralda" & one called "Quasimodo"

J $600 2014 Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th:"A Bird's Eye View of Paris"

DJ $200 1989 Its last chapter is titled "The Marriage of Quasimodo"

The Hobbit 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2008 1937:"I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you"

DJ $800 2018 A fantasy classic:"There and Back Again"

J $200 2004 (1937)"'It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!'"

The Good Earth 4x $550 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1989 When this Pearl Buck novel begins, it's Wang Lung's wedding day

DJ $600 1997 "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

DJ $1,200 2012 "Wang Lung, it's not the Hwangs driving us into poverty! It's your addiction to Farm Ville!

The Fault in Our Stars 4x $900 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2023 This novel:16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer

J $800 2021 In this novel 17-year-old Augustus Waters introduces himself as having had "a little touch of osteosarcoma"

J $1,800 DD 2015 Hazel Grace &Augustus Waters

The Da Vinci Code 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $400 2021 A symbologist & a cryptologist deal with a murder at the Louvre in this novel

DJ $800 2011 2003:"The Holy Grail is not a thing. It is, in fact... a person"

FJ 2019 For help with research, the author of this 2003 novel acknowledged the Louvre, Catholic World News & "five members of Opus Dei"

The Count of Monte Cristo 4x 25.0% stumper $1,700 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2024 "The Cemetery of the Château d'If"

DJ $2,000 DD 2019 "The Chateau d'If", "The Treasure"

DJ $400 1987 Edmond Dantes

Somerset Maugham 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 In 1908 this "Of Human Bondage" author had 4 of his plays running in London at the same time

DJ $600 1997 "Sheppey" is this "Of Human Bondage" author's play about a barber who wins the sweepstakes

DJ $800 1999 He used the word mumpish, which means sullen, in his book "Of Human Bondage"

Slaughterhouse-Five 4x $1,600 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,200 2022 Billy Pilgrim gets bombed: "A HUGE TUSH FLIES OVER"

DJ $1,200 2012 "Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden"

DJ $2,000 2023 "His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes"

Ship of Fools 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1994 Vivien Leigh's last film, it was adapted from the Katherine Anne Porter novel of the same name

DJ $600 1993 Part I of this Katherine Anne Porter novel is titled "Embarkation"

DJ $600 1993 Katherine Anne Porter titled part II of this novel "High Sea"

Moby Dick 4x $350 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1998 "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale"

DJ $600 1990 Stubb, Starbuck & Queequeg

DJ $200 1993 Queequeg, Ishmael &Captain Ahab

Margaret Atwood 4x 25.0% stumper $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1994 "Bodily Harm" & "The Handmaid's Tale" are 2 of this Canadian's feminist novels

DJ $1,600 2018 In this author's "The Blind Assassin", Laura dies in Toronto on page 1 but leaves a novel, yes, "The Blind Assassin"

DJ $1,600 2008 "Life Before Man" is by this Torontonian feminist

Joseph Conrad 4x 50.0% stumper $1,050 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 His novel "Lord Jim" uses the term cat's-paws for breezes that ruffle the surface of the sea

DJ $2,200 DD 1990 English novelist who once said he wrote in English, thought in French, & dreamed in Polish

DJ $600 1998 His first novel, "Almayer's Folly", is autobiographical, like "Lord Jim"

Gulliver's Travels 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1987 After a shipwreck, an 18th c. adventurer gets tied down in Lilliput before he can return home

DJ $800 2020 "The report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm"

DJ $400 2019 "Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput"

Fight Club 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 Go ahead & talk about this 1996 Chuck Palahniuk knockout

J $1,000 2025 The narrator's in big trouble atop a skyscraper; gets in some scraps, which he really can't talk about; space monkey business

DJ $1,200 2023 "So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking"

Edna Ferber 4x 50.0% stumper $900 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 2003 In 1925 she won a really big prize, the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel "So Big"

DJ $1,000 2001 "Ice Palace"(1958)

DJ $800 1994 "Cimarron", the 1st western to win the "Best Picture" Oscar, was based on a novel by this author of "Giant"

Dan Brown 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2007 He said his novels, like "Angels & Demons" deal with a murder, a chase, a ticking clock & a love interest within 24 hours

DJ $800 2026 Soon breaking the blockbuster code, this author's first novel was "Digital Fortress", featuring cryptographer Susan Fletcher

J $1,000 DD 2019 "Tonight's lecture--a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral"

Cervantes 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2001 This "Don Quixote" author wrote his first novel, "La Galatea", in 1585

DJ $2,000 DD 2021 "La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one

DJ $200 1996 This "Don Quixote" author's first published work was "La Galatea", a pastoral novel

All the King's Men 4x 25.0% stumper $1,500 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2011 In this novel a southern politician's life is described in stark detail, with exquisite Penn-manship

DJ $1,000 1996 This Robert Penn Warren novel is narrated by Jack Burden, an aide to Willie Stark

DJ $2,000 2021 This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar

All Quiet on the Western Front 4x $1,750 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1991 The original title of this Erich Maria Remarque novel was "Im Westen nichts Neues"

J $800 2020 About young German soldiers:"NO FRET STREWN QUAIL TELETHON"

J $1,000 2021 Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel

A Passage to India 4x 50.0% stumper $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $600 2019 E.M. Forster novel set against the backdrop of the British Raj

DJ $1,200 2013 E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary"

DJ $800 DD 1996 In this E.M. Forster novel, Dr. Aziz & Mrs. Moore meet in a mosque

A Confederacy of Dunces 4x $1,600 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $800 2025 A Toole to win a Pulitzer; New Orleans can be more fun than that; the rota fortunae is a very different wheel! of! fortune!

DJ $2,000 2020 Will Ferrell & John Belushi were considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly, but this novel is still unfilmed

FJ 2013 Its first line is "A green hunting cap squeezed on the top of the fleshy balloon of a head"

A Clockwork Orange 4x $933 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $600 2010 Ultra-violence /Burgess hits the ol' milkbar /Ah, dystopia

DJ $1,600 2013 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs"

FJ 2024 The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up"

Fyodor Dostoevsky 4x $700 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1993 He dictated his last novel, "The Brothers Karamazov", to his wife who took it down in shorthand

DJ $1,000 1992 Stavrogin's confession to a horrible crime was cut from the 1st publication of his novel "The Possessed"

DJ $400 1997 The idiot of "The Idiot" is this Russian author's attempt to portray a truly good man

D.H. Lawrence 4x $975 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1999 He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning "inclined to use a dagger"; it's in his novel "Sons and Lovers"

DJ $2,000 2021 The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow"

DJ $400 1996 Like Paul Morel, the hero of his "Sons and Lovers", this author was the son of a coal miner

Alexandre Dumas 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1997 D'Artagnan is the swashbuckling hero of this author's "The Three Musketeers"

DJ $1,000 1991 Aramis is the Bishop of Vannes in his novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne"

J $200 2009 "The Three Musketeers","Joseph Balsamo"

Worth Knowing (126)

Zane Grey 3 Vanity Fair 3 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 3 Tom Jones 3 Tom Clancy 3 Thomas Wolfe 3 The Red and the Black 3 The Godfather 3 The Color Purple 3 The Call of the Wild 3 Sir Walter Scott 3 Sinclair Lewis 3 Show Boat 3 Philip Roth 3 Outlander 3 Mutiny on the Bounty 3 Love Story 3 Ken Kesey 3 Jurassic Park 3 Jules Verne 3 John O'Hara 3 John Irving 3 Japan 3 Ian Fleming 3 Exodus 3 Around the World in 80 Days 3 Anne Rice 3 William Makepeace Thackeray 3 The Brothers Karamazov 3 World War II 2 William Golding 2 Watership Down 2 Tropic of Cancer 2 Tom Sawyer 2 Tom Robbins 2 Their Eyes Were Watching God 2 The Swiss Family Robinson 2 The Silence of the Lambs 2 The Shoes of the Fisherman 2 the scarlet pimpernel 2 The Remains of the Day 2 The Prisoner of Zenda 2 The Princess Bride 2 The Martian 2 The Last Temptation of Christ 2 the Korean War 2 The Jungle 2 The Hunt for Red October 2 The Cider House Rules 2 The Cardinal of the Kremlin 2 The Caine Mutiny 2 The Bridges of Madison County 2 The Book Thief 2 The Bonfire of the Vanities 2 Texas 2 Terry McMillan 2 Tennessee Williams 2 Tara 2 Soldier, Spy 2 Rhett Butler 2 ragtime 2 Rabbit at Rest 2 Quo Vadis 2 Portnoy's Complaint 2 Pip 2 Pilgrim's Progress 2 Peter Benchley 2 One Hundred Years of Solitude 2 Of Human Bondage 2 Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 Memoirs of a Geisha 2 Mary Stewart 2 Mario Puzo 2 Main Street 2 Lost Horizon 2 Lonesome Dove 2 Lolita 2 Leon Uris 2 Larry McMurtry 2 Lara 2 Lady Chatterley 2 Journey to the Center of the Earth 2 John Updike 2 John Galsworthy 2 James Clavell 2 James Cain 2 Jacqueline Susann 2 Jack Kerouac 2 J.K. Rowling 2 Hermann Hesse 2 Herman Wouk 2 Henry James 2 Gore Vidal 2 Gone Girl 2 Frank Norris 2 Forrest Gump 2 Fifty Shades of Grey 2 Fear of Flying 2 Evelyn Waugh 2 Esmeralda 2 Elmore Leonard 2 Elmer Gantry 2 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2 Dostoyevsky 2 Dorian Gray 2 Clay 2 Casino Royale 2 Carson McCullers 2 Captain Ahab 2 Bridget Jones's Diary 2 Brideshead Revisited 2 Breakfast at Tiffany's 2 Black Beauty 2 Beth 2 Being There 2 Barbara Cartland 2 Australia 2 Atlas Shrugged 2 An American Tragedy 2 Alice Walker 2 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 2 a hat 2 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2 (Sylvia) Plath 2 Wonder Boys 2 The Magnificent Ambersons 2

British Literature

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Must-Know (7)

Animal Farm 13x $370 avg J:6 DJ:4 FJ:3

J $200 2021 It's said that the character of Snowball the pig in this novel represents Leon Trotsky

J $600 2004 (1945)"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

FJ 2018 A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia... & a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition"

Robinson Crusoe 12x $325 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 1998 Title character who says, "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"

J $600 2009 This character says, "Having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me"

J $200 2025 "Wrecked on a Desert Island" is chapter III of this novel by Daniel Defoe

A Tale of Two Cities 12x 18.2% stumper $682 avg J:6 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $300 1997 Its less famous second line is "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

J $600 2020 By Dickens: "Knitting"

DJ $2,000 DD 1994 Charles Darnay is a nephew of the wicked Marquis de St. Evremonde in this Dickens novel

1984 10x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $200 2022 It gave us the phrase "Big Brother is watching you"

DJ $600 1998 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"

J $1,000 DD 2003 It's the novel that told us, "Even to understand the word 'doublethink involved the use of doublethink"

Treasure Island 9x 11.1% stumper $778 avg J:5 DJ:4

DJ $200 1989 The Admiral Benbow Inn near Black Hill Cove in the English countryside

J $600 2025 Opening map quest; Long John Silver doesn't sound good to me; there's the place!

J $1,000 2025 Ben Gunn is a marooned sailor rescued as part of the rip-roaring action in this 1883 novel

Oliver Twist 9x 12.5% stumper $500 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2019 Orphan asylum / "Or, the Parish Boy's Progress" / How Dickensian!

DJ $600 1990 "Please, sir, I want some more"

J $1,000 2018 This orphan was written into existence just after the passing of the Poor Law of 1834

Jane Eyre 9x 11.1% stumper $578 avg J:2 DJ:7

DJ $200 1997 This Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"

DJ $600 1997 "I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now"

J $1,000 DD 2013 Well! Oh, Rochester! /What's that up in the attic? /It's insane up there!

Should-Know (14)

Of Mice and Men 7x $600 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $200 2007 Itinerant workers George & Lennie dream of owning a ranch; Lennie accidentally kills a girl; George kills Lennie

J $800 2010 "With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select...Lennie!" George beamed. Now they could buy 200 rabbit farms!

DJ $1,200 2011 "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits"

David Copperfield 7x 14.3% stumper $771 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 In this autobiographical novel Dickens based Mr. Micawber on his own father

DJ $600 1994 Charles Laughton was originally set to play Mr. Micawber in this 1935 film but W.C. Fields replaced him

J $1,000 2024 "Wickfield and Heep"

Pride and Prejudice 6x $533 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2015 Elizabeth Bennet &Mr. Darcy (the novel that started it all)

DJ $800 2013 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife"

J $200 2010 Darcy thought, dodged a bullet! That Bennet family was nuts! Elizabeth was cute, but I've got money, single life's not so bad!

H.G. Wells 6x 16.7% stumper $433 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1988 "The Time Machine"

J $500 1993 It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History"

J $300 1997 This British author wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds"

Thomas Hardy 6x $767 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $400 2020 "Jude the Obscure"

DJ $800 1992 Petr Tranchell turned his 1886 novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" into a 1951 opera

DJ $1,600 2012 This "Far from the Madding Crowd" author's first published work under his own name was 1873's "A Pair of Blue Eyes"

The Time Machine 5x $900 avg J:3 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $200 1993 Weeena, an Eloi girl, becomes the companion of the time traveler in this H.G. Wells novel

J $600 2011 Rod Taylor starred in a film version of this Wells novel in which a scientist cruises the centuries

J $2,000 DD 2022 The nameless narrator of this, Wells' first novel, finds himself in the year 802,701

Jane Austen 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2012 "Sense and Sensibility"(1811)

DJ $800 2001 "Persuasion"(1818)

DJ $1,000 1990 Author of "Sense & Sensibility" who said, "I write about love & money”

Emma 5x $720 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 People who live in woodhouses... making her debut in 1815, this title woman tries to match Harriet with Mr. Elton

J $800 2015 This Austen girl: "Dear Mrs Weston, do not take to match-making... Jane Fairfax mistress of the Abbey!--Oh! no, no"

DJ $1,600 2019 The title of a Jane Austen novel refers to her, Miss Woodhouse

Virginia Woolf 4x $1,533 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 2000 We don't know "Who's Afraid of" reading her first novel, "The Voyage Out"

FJ 2018 A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941

DJ $1,600 2007 This novelist has Clarissa Dalloway reexamine her life choices in between dealing with last-minute party details

Tolstoy 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1996 His 1863 work "Kazaki" or "The Cossacks" secured this count's reputation as a novelist

J $800 2013 Sofya Andreyevna, wife of this great Russian novelist, is a narrator of "The Last Station", about his final year

DJ $200 1992 He disliked most operas, so it's just as well he never saw Iain Hamilton's opera of his "Anna Karenina"

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 4x $1,600 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $1,200 2018 Spoiler alert! Thomas Hardy's novel about this woman ends with her arrest & death

FJ 2013 Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn

DJ $1,600 2018 Thomas Hardy:"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"

Robert Louis Stevenson 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1993 He spent the last 4 years of his life at Vailima, his plantation in Samoa

DJ $600 1993 This Scottish novelist is buried at the summit of Mt. Vaea on Upolu, an island of Western Samoa

DJ $1,600 2010 When he died in Samoa in 1894, he left behind what many consider his masterpiece, "Weir of Hermiston"

Nicholas Nickleby 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1993 Kate Nickleby works for a dressmaker named Madame Mantalini in this Dickens novel

DJ $800 1989 This Dickens hero quits his job as a tutor, takes the half-wit Smike with him & becomes an actor

DJ $1,200 2009 As a teacher, this title Dickens character witnesses mistreatment of orphans by Wackford Squeers

Moll Flanders 4x 50.0% stumper $2,150 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1994 This Daniel Defoe heroine has many liaisons & even marries her own brother by mistake

DJ $2,000 2021 This title Defoe heroine has 5 weddings but no funeral

DJ $600 1990 After a life of crime, this Defoe heroine is transported to Virginia & inherits a plantation

Worth Knowing (14)

Thornton Wilder 3 The Picture of Dorian Gray 3 Scarlett O'Hara 3 Kidnapped 3 Daniel Defoe 3 wuthering 2 The Pickwick Papers 2 The Old Curiosity Shop 2 Tess 2 Sense and Sensibility 2 Jude the Obscure 2 Great Expectations 2 George Orwell 2 A Christmas Carol 2

American Literature

27 answers | 139 clues

Must-Know (6)

William Faulkner 13x 16.7% stumper $958 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $400 2024 His fourth novel, "The Sound and the Fury", is often seen as his breakthrough into genius

J $500 1999 He was studying intermittently at the Univ. of Miss. when he wrote the 1-act play "Marionettes" in 1920

DJ $1,600 2023 In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack

Wuthering Heights 12x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:6 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $200 2021 Catherine &Isabella Linton

J $600 2007 Heathcliff is raised in the Earnshaw home, falls for Cathy; love thwarted; both die

DJ $1,600 2020 "Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them"

John Steinbeck 11x 40.0% stumper $990 avg J:4 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 2000 The pirate hero of his first novel, "Cup of Gold", is a far cry from Tom Joad

J $600 2009 "The Winter of Our Discontent","The Moon is Down"

DJ $1,000 1998 For this cover photo, Gary grew a goatee to look more like this author, seen here:

F. Scott Fitzgerald 9x $767 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $300 2000 In 1932 his wife Zelda published the novel "Save Me the Waltz", her version of their life together

J $600 2003 Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise"

DJ $1,000 1995 He once considered calling his novel "This Side of Paradise" "The Romantic Egotist"

The Scarlet Letter 8x $500 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 1994 As this novel opens, Hester Prynne is led to the pillory, where she is to stand for 3 hours

J $600 2011 "Hester and Pearl"

J $400 2019 Shortly before imperfect clergyman Arthur Dimmesdale dies in this book, his little daughter Pearl gives him a kiss

East of Eden 8x 42.9% stumper $1,600 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 1997 "The Salinas Valley is in northern California."

J $800 2019 This 1952 Steinbeck novel about the Trask brothers is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain & Abel

J $1,000 2010 The Trask at hand, California dreamin', raising Cain (& Abel, metaphorically)

Should-Know (12)

The Great Gatsby 7x $560 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $400 2021 H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant"

DJ $800 2004 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew has a drink at the Seelbach Hilton.) F. Scott Fitzgerald enjoyed drinking at the Seelbach Hotel & made it the site of Tom & Daisy's bridal dinner in this famous novel

FJ 2025 In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel's publication

The Sun Also Rises 6x 50.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:2

J $600 2010 Dawn first broke on this Hemingway novel with the working title "Fiesta"

DJ $1,200 2017 Journalist & World War I veteran Jake Barnes

FJ 2020 Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain

The House of the Seven Gables 6x 50.0% stumper $900 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2012 Hepzibah Pyncheon; Thomas Maule, architect of the title structure

DJ $800 1997 "Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house..."

DJ $1,600 2013 This 1851 novel begins, "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house"

Truman Capote 5x 20.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2015 He spent a lot more time in Kansas than he would have otherwise to prepare "In Cold Blood"

DJ $800 2008 He oxymoronically described his 1966 book "In Cold Blood" as a "nonfiction novel"

DJ $1,000 1988 "Other Voices, Other Rooms"

The Grapes of Wrath 5x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2018 Rain?! The climate had changed! The Dust Bowl was no more! "Ma!" Tom yelled. "We're not leaving Oklahoma after all!"

DJ $600 1996 "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently..."

FJ 2007 "In the souls of the people" these "are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"

Nathaniel Hawthorne 5x 40.0% stumper $920 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2000 In the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", he wrote of his experiences as a customs official

J $600 2015 He was appointed surveyor of Salem's custom house in 1846; he lost the gig 3 years later, but things worked out

DJ $1,500 DD 1993 In 1846 he was appointed surveyor of customs in his native Salem, Massachusetts

The Old Man and the Sea 4x $367 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1988 The last line of this fish story is "The old man was dreaming about the lions."

J $800 2024 At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again

FJ 2017 "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film

Huckleberry Finn 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 Life on the Mississippi with an orphan & a runaway slave

J $200 2024 "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter"

J $200 2018 1884:"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'"

Ernest Hemingway 4x $600 avg DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $400 1988 "The Torrents of Spring", published the same year as "The Sun Also Rises"

DJ $800 1997 Key West smuggler Harry Morgan is the protagonist of his novel "To Have And Have Not"

FJ 2009 "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932

Billy Budd 4x $1,600 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,000 1990 The Benjamin Britten opera based on this Herman Melville work climaxes with a hanging

DJ $1,600 2021 Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself

DJ $1,600 2008 Melville created this foretopman

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 4x $775 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1988 The hero of this Twain novel gets hit over the head with a crowbar in the U.S. & wakes up near Camelot

J $800 2022 Twain travel; Merlin mentioned; knights on bikes; we're gonna get medieval on your mind

DJ $1,600 2015 Hank Morgan wins the position of prime minister & earns Merlin's jealousy in this Twain tale

Kurt Vonnegut 4x 50.0% stumper $1,350 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1996 This American's first novel "Player Piano", was reissued as "Utopia 14" in 1954

DJ $1,600 2021 One man's rebellion against a world run by machines is the plot of "Player Piano", this author's first

DJ $1,000 1991 Just like magic,"Hocus Pocus" became a bestseller for him in 1990

Worth Knowing (9)

Willa Cather 3 Toni Morrison 3 Zelda Fitzgerald 2 Louisa May Alcott 2 Jack London 2 Herman Melville 2 Harper Lee 2 Absalom, Absalom! 2 (John) Jakes 2

Mystery / Thriller

19 answers | 88 clues

Must-Know (4)

the Lord of the Flies 13x $817 avg J:7 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2024 "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock", begins this novel by William Golding

DJ $600 1996 The title of this William Golding novel is a translation of the Hebrew Ba'al Zevuv

J $1,000 2010 "We're saved!" Piggy exclaimed to Ralph. "Looking back", Simon said, "We probably shouldn't have eaten Jack"

Charles Dickens 10x 10.0% stumper $480 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $200 2020 "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"

DJ $800 1997 "Mr. Wegg prepares a grindstone for Mr. Boffin's nose" is a chapter in his novel "Our Mutual Friend"

DJ $1,200 2025 He never minded using a name to tell you about a character, like teacher Mr. M'choakumchild in "Hard Times"

Sister Carrie 9x $844 avg J:1 DJ:8

J $200 2003 Stephen King's first published novel was this tale of a tormented telekinetic teen

DJ $600 1993 Married man George Hurstwood deserts his family for this Theodore Dreiser heroine

DJ $1,600 2005 In Chapter 1 of a Theodore Dreiser novel, this naive 18-year-old heroine meets--uh-oh!--a traveling salesman

Stephen King 8x 12.5% stumper $438 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $100 1996 "Carrie"

DJ $800 2022 Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course

J $200 1997 He's scared readers with such popular novels as "It", "Carrie" & "The Stand"

Should-Know (6)

The Maltese Falcon 5x $750 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2020 Hard-boiled favorite about a pilfered avian:"HEELS OF CATTLEMAN"

DJ $600 1996 Casper Gutman & his gunsel Wilmer are characters in this Dashiell Hammett novel

DJ $1,600 2010 Sam Spade Hammetts it up with Brigid O'Shaughnessy; a black piece of art causes all kinds of...heck

Mark Twain 5x $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 2000 In 1896, 20 years after the original work, he wrote "Tom Sawyer, Detective"

DJ $1,000 1991 His 1873 novel "The Gilded Age", was co-written by fellow Hartford, Conn. writer Charles Dudley Warner

J $100 1996 As a teenager he wrote copy for his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal

Agatha Christie 5x $820 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2015 She wrote 6 romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott but is better known for her many mysteries

DJ $800 1994 She wrote several novels, including "The Burden", under the "Mysterious" pseudonym Mary Westmacott

DJ $2,500 DD 2018 She created fictional mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, author of "The Affair of the Second Goldfish"

Robert Ludlum 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1989 His 1st 2 fast-paced thrillers were "The Scarlatti Inheritance" & "The Osterman weekend"

DJ $600 1990 His most recent bestseller is "The Icarus Agenda", published in 1988

DJ $1,200 2009 "The Scarlatti Inheritance"(1971)

John Grisham 4x 33.3% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $400 2002 A young girl's trial testimony against her rapist inspired his novel "A Time to Kill"

J $600 2012 "A Time to Kill"(1989)

FJ 2023 A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted"

Around the World in Eighty Days 4x $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2000 1873:"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens..."

DJ $400 2021 "Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had traveled constantly eastward"

J $400 2014 (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) From London's Reform Club to the first stop in Egypt, across India, then on to Yokohama, to thepenultimate stop in New York, here's the route taken in this Jules Verne novel

Worth Knowing (9)

Sue Grafton 3 Murder on the Orient Express 3 the Vietnam War 3 Washington 2 Sherlock Holmes 2 Rome 2 Raymond Chandler 2 James Patterson 2 Dashiell Hammett 2

Poetry

8 answers | 33 clues

Should-Know (6)

The Last of the Mohicans 6x 40.0% stumper $880 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2021 Based on the author's preface to this book, it could have been "The Last of the Wapanachki"

J $600 2022 A Bumppo in the road; Cora does not stay alive, no matter what occurs; hey... where'd everyone go?

J $1,000 DD 2017 "The fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!" is a line in this historical novel

A Farewell to Arms 5x 75.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $800 2014 Frederic Henry, the protagonist of this Hemingway novel, is in the Italian ambulance service during WWI

DJ $1,400 DD 2007 In this Hemingway novel, wounded WWI soldier Frederic really presses the call button of Nurse Catherine

FJ 2022 A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American

Henry Fielding 5x $560 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1992 Of Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding & Tom Jones, the one who wrote the other 2

DJ $600 1995 "Amelia", this "Tom Jones" author's last novel, is un- characteristically depressing

DJ $1,000 1994 This Englishman described his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" as "A comic epic-poem in prose"

Holden Caulfield 4x $533 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2020 Jerry Lewis was among those who desperately wanted to play him, J.D. Salinger's most famous character

DJ $800 2014 He narrates "The Catcher in the Rye"

FJ 2022 Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns"

George Eliot 4x 25.0% stumper $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2021 This Englishwoman's novella "The Lifted Veil" had a prophetic title, as it was soon revealed that George was a pseudonym

J $1,000 2015 This "Silas Marner" novelist also penned the politically charged novel "Felix Holt, the Radical"

DJ $800 1988 Though "Silas Marner" was her most popular work, "Middlemarch" was her masterpiece

Vladimir Nabokov 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1995 The title of this "Lolita" author's novel "Pale Fire" refers to a 999-line poem by a fictional murdered poet

DJ $2,000 DD 2010 Reminiscent of another of his novels, his "The Original of Laura" features a lecher named Hubert H. Hubert

J $200 1999 This "Lolita" author wrote verse plays such as "Dedushka" under the pseudonym V. Sirin

Worth Knowing (2)

The Bell Jar 3 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2

Children's Literature

5 answers | 17 clues

Should-Know (2)

The Catcher in the Rye 7x $533 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2019 When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that"

J $600 2010 Holden couldn't wait to tell Phoebe he'd passed all his school exams with honors, his faith in humanity was never stronger!

FJ 2014 The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff

Fahrenheit 451 4x $600 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $400 2022 A classic tale that makes points about censorship

J $600 2012 Guy Montag, Fire Captain Beatty

FJ 2016 The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene"

Worth Knowing (3)

Watchmen 2 The Wizard of Oz 2 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2

Shakespeare

3 answers | 15 clues

Must-Know (1)

Brave New World 10x 30.0% stumper $730 avg J:6 DJ:4

J $200 2025 Huxley AF (that's "After Ford"); ain't no fun being an Epsilon; tough day at the lighthouse

J $600 2022 Harrowing Huxley; funky future; cloned classes

DJ $1,000 1993 Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne & Mustapha Mond

Worth Knowing (2)

The Sound and the Fury 3 Babbitt 2

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