| He reworked a novel called "Stephen Hero" into "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
James Joyce |
200 |
July 19, 2012 |
| He reworked a novel called "Stephen Hero" into "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
James Joyce |
200 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" |
<i>In Cold Blood</i> |
400 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" |
<i>In Cold Blood</i> |
400 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Hugo novel evokes medieval life under the reign of Louis XI |
<i>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</i> |
600 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Hugo novel evokes medieval life under the reign of Louis XI |
<i>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</i> |
600 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This author of "Doctor Zhivago" studied philosophy at Moscow University & the University of Marburg |
Pasternak |
800 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This author of "Doctor Zhivago" studied philosophy at Moscow University & the University of Marburg |
Pasternak |
800 |
July 19, 2012 |
| The narrator of this Poe story says, "above all was the sense of hearing acute" |
<i>The Tell-Tale Heart</i> |
1000 |
July 19, 2012 |
| The narrator of this Poe story says, "above all was the sense of hearing acute" |
<i>The Tell-Tale Heart</i> |
1000 |
July 19, 2012 |
| This Ernest Hemingway love story that takes place during WWI was one of Penguin Books' first 10 titles |
<i>A Farewell to Arms</i> |
200 |
November 8, 2010 |
| The middle initial of this author of "The Good Earth" stood for Sydenstricker, her maiden name |
(Pearl) Buck |
400 |
November 8, 2010 |
| This Khaled Hosseini novel is about Amir, who flees Kabul for America |
<i>The Kite Runner</i> |
600 |
November 8, 2010 |
| The bestselling novel "Freedom" has put him back in Oprah's Book Club & good graces |
Jonathan Franzen |
800 |
November 8, 2010 |
| This "Remembrance of Things Past" author was so deathly afraid of germs he wouldn't pick up a pen if he had dropped it |
(Marcel) Proust |
1000 |
November 8, 2010 |
| First name of young Mr. Fowl, whose adventures include "The Time Paradox" & "The Lost Colony" |
Artemis |
200 |
November 10, 2009 |
| This Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is the biography of a certain Witch of the West |
<i>Wicked</i> |
400 |
November 10, 2009 |
| Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials" begins with "The Golden" this |
<i>Compass</i> |
600 |
November 10, 2009 |
| In 2009 she headed out of "The Hills" & published her first novel, "L.A. Candy" |
Lauren Conrad |
800 |
November 10, 2009 |
| In a book by Trenton Lee Stewart, 4 gifted kids answer an ad & become "The Mysterious" this "Society" |
Benedict |
1000 |
November 10, 2009 |
| Disillusioned by the Spanish Civil War, this British author wrote against totalitarianism in "Animal Farm" |
(George) Orwell |
200 |
January 15, 2009 |
| She dedicated both "Atlas Shrugged" & "The Fountainhead" to Frank O'Connor |
Ayn Rand |
400 |
January 15, 2009 |
| This Edith Frome New York City penned "Ethan Frome" in 1911 |
(Edith) Wharton |
600 |
January 15, 2009 |
| She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss" |
(George) Eliot |
1000 |
January 15, 2009 |
| The first line of his 1951 novel mentions a "lousy childhood ... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap" |
J.D. Salinger |
|
January 15, 2009 |
| In "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, teenaged Isabella Swan falls for a romantic one of these blood-suckers |
a vampire |
200 |
September 19, 2008 |
| "The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state |
Maine |
400 |
September 19, 2008 |
| "Forever in" this color is Ann Brashares' third sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" |
blue |
600 |
September 19, 2008 |
| Hmm... a murderer has somehow escaped from a locked room in her 1938 mystery "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" |
Agatha Christie |
800 |
September 19, 2008 |
| Sebastian Faulks penned the new James Bond novel "Devil May Care" for the 100th anniv. of this author's birth |
Ian Fleming |
1000 |
September 19, 2008 |
| In 1998 her "Pandora" came out of the box as the first of her "New Tales of the Vampires" |
Anne Rice |
200 |
May 15, 2008 |
| Corruption runs rampant in Gore Vidal's historical novel named for this centennial year |
<i>1876</i> |
400 |
May 15, 2008 |
| "In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases", wrote this novelist |
John Irving |
600 |
May 15, 2008 |
| Kim Edwards called her memorable first novel "The Memory Keeper's" this |
<i>Daughter</i> |
800 |
May 15, 2008 |
| "The story of Nat Turner had been long gestating in my mind, ever since I was a boy", said this novelist |
William Styron |
1000 |
May 15, 2008 |
| This Steinbeck novel begins, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came..." |
<i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> |
200 |
May 7, 2007 |
| A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man |
Aldous Huxley |
400 |
May 7, 2007 |
| In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved" |
Machiavelli |
600 |
May 7, 2007 |
| Perhaps the effort killed him--he died not long after completing his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov" |
Dostoyevsky |
800 |
May 7, 2007 |
| The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic |
<i>The Wind in the Willows</i> |
1000 |
May 7, 2007 |
| In a classic book, d'Artagnan hopes to serve as a guard to King Louis XIII & is befriended by this title group |
<i>The Three Musketeers</i> |
200 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Tyrone Slothrop is a central character in his novel "Gravity's Rainbow" |
Pynchon |
400 |
July 7, 2006 |
| This "Invisible Man" author was working on a novel called "Juneteenth" when he died in 1994 |
Ellison |
600 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Part one of this Carson McCullers novel says Frankie "belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world" |
<i>The Member of the Wedding</i> |
800 |
July 7, 2006 |
| In 1912 this Polish-born author shared with readers "The Secret Sharer", a short story in English |
Joseph Conrad |
1000 |
July 7, 2006 |
| Tom Wolfe's award-winning book about our first astronauts, or what he proved he had by penning it |
<i>The Right Stuff</i> |
200 |
January 21, 2004 |
| This tale for which Hemingway won a Pulitzer was a revision of his earlier story "On the Blue Water" |
<i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> |
400 |
January 21, 2004 |
| It's the English title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Cien Anos de Soledad" |
<i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> |
600 |
January 21, 2004 |
| His Alex Cross thrillers include "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue" |
James Patterson |
1000 |
January 21, 2004 |
| Sue Grafton began her letter-perfect alphabet mysteries with this book |
<i>A Is for Alibi</i> |
|
January 21, 2004 |
| In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts" |
John Grisham |
200 |
September 10, 2003 |
| His 1994 novel "White Shark" didn't have quite the same bite as his "Jaws" |
Peter Benchley |
400 |
September 10, 2003 |
| In the U.S. Ian Fleming took a gamble & published this first novel of his under the title "You Asked For It" |
<i>Casino Royale</i> |
600 |
September 10, 2003 |
| An actress is recruited to infiltrate a terrorist group in this John le Carre bestseller -- pa rum pum pum pum |
<i>The Little Drummer Girl</i> |
800 |
September 10, 2003 |
| In the beginning was this Barbara Kingsolver saga of a Southern missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo |
<i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> |
1000 |
September 10, 2003 |
| An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick" |
Herman Melville |
100 |
May 17, 2001 |
| Joel Chandler Harris' book of this character's songs & sayings was subtitled "Legends of the Old Plantation" |
Uncle Remus |
200 |
May 17, 2001 |
| This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson |
William Faulkner |
300 |
May 17, 2001 |
| He wrote the screenplay to the 1983 Disney film "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which was based on his 1962 novel |
Ray Bradbury |
400 |
May 17, 2001 |
| E.M. Forster's experience as a secretary to an Indian prince was put to good use in this 1924 novel |
"A Passage to India" |
500 |
May 17, 2001 |
| "The Naked and the Dead","Existential Errands","The Executioner's Song" |
Norman Mailer |
100 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "The Great American Novel","Zuckerman Bound","Portnoy's Complaint" |
Philip Roth |
200 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "Welcome to the Monkey House","Galapagos","Player Piano" |
Kurt Vonnegut |
300 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "The 158-Pound Marriage","The Cider House Rules","A Son of the Circus" |
John Irving |
400 |
February 21, 2000 |
| "No Name","The Woman in White","The Moonstone" |
Wilkie Collins |
500 |
February 21, 2000 |
| Mathematician Ian Malcolm confronts more dinosaurs in this 1995 Michael Crichton sequel |
"The Lost World" |
100 |
November 11, 1999 |
| In Frank Herbert titles, this word follows "Children of", "Heretics of" & "God Emperor of" |
"Dune" |
200 |
November 11, 1999 |
| "The Gunslinger" is the first volume of this Stephen King series |
"The Dark Tower" |
300 |
November 11, 1999 |
| This "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author wrote of his days in the RAF in "Going Solo" |
Roald Dahl |
500 |
November 11, 1999 |
| An attorney must search the Brazilian rain forest for a missing heir in his novel "The Testament" |
John Grisham |
|
November 11, 1999 |
| In 1998 Israel celebrated its 50th anniversary & this Leon Uris book celebrated its 40th |
<i>Exodus</i> |
100 |
October 16, 1998 |
| With "Pandora", she recently began a new series of vampire tales |
Anne Rice |
200 |
October 16, 1998 |
| In 1997 this author returned to his roots with "Wobegon Boy" |
Garrison Keillor |
300 |
October 16, 1998 |
| In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfiction works as "Submarine" & "Fighter Wing" |
Tom Clancy |
400 |
October 16, 1998 |
| E.L. Doctorow's novel "The Book of Daniel" was based on the espionage trial of this couple |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
500 |
October 16, 1998 |
| With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer" |
John Grisham |
100 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This author is famous for giving readers "Goosebumps" & leading them down "Fear Street" |
R.L. Stine |
200 |
May 15, 1998 |
| In this Stephen King novel, author Paul Sheldon is held hostage by his No. 1 fan |
"Misery" |
300 |
May 15, 1998 |
| Sinclair Lewis dedicated this book about a real estate broker to Edith Wharton |
"Babbitt" |
400 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This author of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" is an ordained Unitarian minister |
Robert Fulghum |
500 |
May 15, 1998 |
| This "Godfather" author calls "The Fortunate Pilgrim", re-released in 1997, his best book |
Mario Puzo |
100 |
January 27, 1998 |
| In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
200 |
January 27, 1998 |
| His first novel "The White Peacock" preceded "Sons and Lovers" by 2 years |
D.H. Lawrence |
300 |
January 27, 1998 |
| Title of Kitty Kelley's 1997 bestseller about Britain's House of Windsor |
"The Royals" |
400 |
January 27, 1998 |
| "Perchance to Dream" with Philip Marlowe, is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this Raymond Chandler novel |
"The Big Sleep" |
|
January 27, 1998 |
| She dedicated her 1816 novel "Emma" to his royal highness, the Prince Regent |
Jane Austen |
100 |
November 25, 1996 |
| In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Evangeline St. Clair is better known by this nickname |
"Little Eva" |
200 |
November 25, 1996 |
| A notorious 1820s murder inspired this author of "All The King's Men" to write "World Enough and Time" |
Robert Penn Warren |
300 |
November 25, 1996 |
| A degenerate bootlegger named Popeye abducts college coed Temple Drake in his 1931 novel "Sanctuary" |
William Faulkner |
500 |
November 25, 1996 |
| It's the city in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" |
San Francisco |
|
November 25, 1996 |
| Not surprisingly, in 1984 his "1984" was a bestseller |
George Orwell |
100 |
October 30, 1992 |
| Stephen Crane established his reputation with this novel of the Civil War |
<i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> |
200 |
October 30, 1992 |
| An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi" |
Mark Twain |
300 |
October 30, 1992 |
| A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name |
Washington Irving |
100 |
April 8, 1991 |
| Poet & editor Wm. C. Bryant is known for his 1870-71 translations of these 2 Homeric works |
the <i>Iliad</i> & the <i>Odyssey</i> |
200 |
April 8, 1991 |
| In the last 50 years, this Dale Carnegie book has sold more than 15 million hardcover copies |
<i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> |
100 |
November 2, 1987 |
| Author of "The Witches of Eastwick" |
John Updike |
200 |
November 2, 1987 |
| W/encouragement from J. Susann, this "3's Company" star published a book of poetry "Touch Me" |
Suzanne Somers |
300 |
November 2, 1987 |
| E.B. White's "Little" mouse who made his debut in 1945 |
Stuart Little |
400 |
November 2, 1987 |
| Author of "The New York Times Cookbook" & food columnist for the paper |
Craig Claiborne |
500 |
November 2, 1987 |
| Wm. E.E. Owens' "One Man vs. the Establishment" has been rejected by a record 137 of these |
publishers |
100 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Queen of mysteries who also wrote "Straight" novels under the name Mary Westmacott |
Agatha Christie |
200 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Critics called this character 1st introduced in "Life on the Mississippi", "a noble savage" |
Huckleberry Finn |
300 |
December 23, 1985 |
| Literary social movement of the '50s advocating nonconformity, poverty, & jazz |
beat movement (generation) |
400 |
December 23, 1985 |