| This Carolyn Keene character has been solving crimes for more than 80 years; her latest books are her diaries |
Nancy Drew |
200 |
July 24, 2014 |
| For stealing a loaf of bread during the French Revolution, he ended up serving 19 years |
Jean Valjean |
400 |
July 24, 2014 |
| On the day of her wedding, she learns that her groom-to-be, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife |
Jane Eyre |
600 |
July 24, 2014 |
| This teen classic from the '60s features brothers Darry, Sodapop & Ponyboy |
<i>The Outsiders</i> |
800 |
July 24, 2014 |
| As this book begins, Santiago had "gone eighty-four days... without taking a fish" |
<i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> |
|
July 24, 2014 |
| In a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick's neighbor is this wealthy title bootlegger |
Gatsby |
200 |
November 17, 2009 |
| Mrs. Danvers is Maxim de Winter's sinister housekeeper at Manderley in this novel by Daphne du Maurier |
<i>Rebecca</i> |
600 |
November 17, 2009 |
| Rhett Butler has a long-term affair with this Atlanta prostitute |
Belle Watling |
800 |
November 17, 2009 |
| In a Melville work, Billy Budd's last words are "God bless" this captain |
Captain Vere |
1000 |
November 17, 2009 |
| This inhabitant of 221B Baker Street had been a surgeon in the British army |
Dr. Watson |
|
November 17, 2009 |
| What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow |
Oliver Twist |
200 |
March 31, 2008 |
| This character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper |
the Headless Horseman |
400 |
March 31, 2008 |
| She is the narrator of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
Scout |
600 |
March 31, 2008 |
| 2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story |
McBoing-Boing |
800 |
March 31, 2008 |
| In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
1000 |
March 31, 2008 |
| Spoiler alert:This March sister dies in "Little Women" |
Beth |
200 |
May 14, 2007 |
| This E.B. White character slept in a tiny bed made of "four clothespins and a cigarette box" |
Stuart Little |
400 |
May 14, 2007 |
| In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy lived with Aunt Em & this uncle, a farmer |
Uncle Henry |
600 |
May 14, 2007 |
| On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days |
Phileas Fogg |
800 |
May 14, 2007 |
| Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert's rival for the love of this girl |
Lolita |
1000 |
May 14, 2007 |
| In book titles, this inquisitive monkey "Visits the Library", "Goes to the Beach" & "Goes to a Costume Party" |
Curious George |
200 |
October 5, 2006 |
| Please look after this bear from Darkest Peru, thank you |
Paddington Bear |
400 |
October 5, 2006 |
| This title girl lives at a convent school in Paris; she has her appendix out in the first story about her |
Madeline |
600 |
October 5, 2006 |
| In "Alice in Wonderland", it "vanished quite slowly... ending with the grin, which remained some time" |
Cheshire Cat |
1000 |
October 5, 2006 |
| The book about this title stuffed hare is subtitled "How Toys Become Real" |
the Velveteen Rabbit |
|
October 5, 2006 |
| English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping is called this for short |
Mr. Chips |
200 |
January 2, 2004 |
| This mathematician gone bad is Sherlock Holmes' archenemy |
Professor Moriarty |
400 |
January 2, 2004 |
| Humbert Humbert usually refers to 12-year-old Dolores Haze by this name |
Lolita |
600 |
January 2, 2004 |
| With help from Helen Fielding, this 30-something singleton & diarist also has a published "Guide to Life" |
Bridget Jones |
800 |
January 2, 2004 |
| Tyrone Slothrop, an American Lieutenant, is the central character of this 1973 classic by Thomas Pynchon |
<i>Gravity\'s Rainbow</i> |
1000 |
January 2, 2004 |
| In "Interview with the Vampire", Louis tells a reporter of his initiation into the world of the undead by this vampire |
Lestat |
100 |
June 22, 1999 |
| Count Vronsky & the husband of this title character have the same first name: Alexey |
"Anna Karenina" |
200 |
June 22, 1999 |
| Migrant ranch hands Lennie & George dream of buying a farm in this Steinbeck work |
"Of Mice and Men" |
400 |
June 22, 1999 |
| In this Edith Wharton novel, Newland Archer marries May Welland but is tempted by Ellen Olenska |
"The Age of Innocence" |
500 |
June 22, 1999 |
| Constance Reid is the maiden name of this character mentioned in the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel |
Lady Chatterley |
|
June 22, 1999 |
| In "The Grapes of Wrath", this matriarch says, "All we got is the family unbroke" |
Ma Joad |
100 |
January 9, 1998 |
| Sherlock Holmes described this foe as the "Napoleon of Crime" |
Professor Moriarty |
200 |
January 9, 1998 |
| He told Brigid O'Shaughnessy, "I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life" |
Sam Spade (in <i>The Maltese Falcon</i>) |
300 |
January 9, 1998 |
| D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley plays around with a playwright as well as this gamekeeper |
Oliver Mellors |
400 |
January 9, 1998 |
| This Thackeray character is the orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera girl |
Becky Sharp (in <i>Vanity Fair</i>) |
500 |
January 9, 1998 |
| Frederic Henry is wounded by a shell while eating cheese & macaroni in his "A Farewell to Arms" |
Ernest Hemingway |
100 |
May 21, 1997 |
| Dr. Pangloss teaches this Voltaire title character metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology |
Candide |
200 |
May 21, 1997 |
| This R.L. Stevenson story follows Mr. Utterson as he discovers these 2 characters are the same man |
<i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> |
300 |
May 21, 1997 |
| The title of this 1987 Toni Morrison novel is what the ghost of Sethe's daughter calls herself |
<i>Beloved</i> |
400 |
May 21, 1997 |
| Rabo Karabekian, a minor character in "Breakfast of Champions", is the focus of his 1987 novel "Bluebeard" |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
500 |
May 21, 1997 |
| The name of this Mary Shelley scientist is often confused with his ghastly creation |
Dr. Frankenstein |
100 |
January 25, 1996 |
| Like Quincy on TV, Kay Scarpetta in novels by Patricia Cornwell has this profession |
Medical Examiner |
200 |
January 25, 1996 |
| In a Judith Krantz bestseller, Billy Ikehorn Orsini owns this title boutique |
Scruples |
300 |
January 25, 1996 |
| She's the matriarch in "The Grapes of Wrath" |
Ma Joad |
500 |
January 25, 1996 |
| Howard Roark, the central architect in this novel, was supposedly modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright |
"The Fountainhead" |
|
January 25, 1996 |
| This boy was "lawless, and vulgar and bad" & Tom Sawyer "was under strict orders not to play with him" |
Huckleberry Finn |
100 |
November 6, 1995 |
| Charles Dickens considered calling this title character Spankle or Copperboy |
David Copperfield |
200 |
November 6, 1995 |
| This Bronte heroine uses the pseudonym Jane Elliott after she flees from Mr. Rochester |
Jane Eyre |
300 |
November 6, 1995 |
| This detective was modeled in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers |
Sherlock Holmes |
400 |
November 6, 1995 |
| This D.H. Lawrence "lady" plays around with a playwright before she gambols with a gamekeeper |
Lady Chatterley |
500 |
November 6, 1995 |
| The first remark the Mad Hatter addresses to her is "Your hair wants cutting" â how rude |
Alice |
100 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In "Wuthering Heights", young Hindley Earnshaw calls him a "beggarly interloper" & an "imp of Satan" |
Heathcliff |
200 |
February 6, 1995 |
| Jonathan Harker is amazed to see him crawl down his castle wall face down, his cloak spread out like wings |
Dracula |
300 |
February 6, 1995 |
| This Oscar Wilde character says, "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait" |
Dorian Gray |
400 |
February 6, 1995 |
| In a Russian novel, Kitty Shcherbatsky & this title character both fall in love with Count Vronsky |
Anna Karenina |
500 |
February 6, 1995 |
| Her married name was Hedda Tesman |
Hedda Gabler |
100 |
November 7, 1991 |
| A 1962 Solzhenitsyn work describes one day in the life of this prisoner |
Ivan Denisovich |
200 |
November 7, 1991 |
| According to the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel, it's who Mellors is |
"Lady Chatterley\'s Lover" |
300 |
November 7, 1991 |
| In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montague has the job of burning books |
"Fahrenheit 451" |
400 |
November 7, 1991 |
| The murder of this perfumery girl occured about 2 years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue |
Marie Roget |
500 |
November 7, 1991 |
| Dr. James Mortimer seeks his help in solving the death of his friend Sir Charles Baskerville |
Sherlock Holmes |
100 |
June 18, 1991 |
| Only Piggy and the twins, Sam & Eric, stick by Ralph in this William Golding novel |
the <i>Lord of the Flies</i> |
200 |
June 18, 1991 |
| For Philip Pirrip, the hero of "Great Expectations", this nickname was a natural |
Pip |
300 |
June 18, 1991 |
| Count Vronsky rides a thoroughbred named Frou Frou in this Tolstoy novel |
<i>Anna Karenina</i> |
400 |
June 18, 1991 |
| Sycorax was a foul witch who was the mother of this monster in "The Tempest" |
Caliban |
500 |
June 18, 1991 |
| After Mr. Hyde kills a member of Parliament, he reveals the secret of his dual identity to a friend |
Dr. Jekyll |
100 |
March 25, 1991 |
| The vicious Mordaunt beheads King Charles I in "Twenty Years After", Dumas' sequel to this |
<i>The Three Musketeers</i> |
200 |
March 25, 1991 |
| Wang Lung has a concubine named Lotus & a pretty slave named Pear Blossom in this Pearl Buck novel |
<i>The Good Earth</i> |
300 |
March 25, 1991 |
| Budgie, the title character of children's books writen by the Duchess of York, is one of these |
a helicopter |
400 |
March 25, 1991 |
| Clyde is sentenced to death after the pregnant Roberta drowns in this T. Dreiser novel |
<i>An American Tragedy</i> |
500 |
March 25, 1991 |
| The Lilliputians called him Quinbus Flestrin or great man-mountain |
Gulliver |
100 |
October 10, 1990 |
| In this M. Twain novel, Tom Canty & the future Edward VI trade places for a while |
<i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> |
200 |
October 10, 1990 |
| Henry Fleming is a Union soldier who must come to terms with his fear of death in this Civil War novel |
<i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> |
300 |
October 10, 1990 |
| Frederic Henry & Catherine Barkley escape to neutral Switzerland in this Hemingway WWI novel |
<i>A Farewell to Arms</i> |
500 |
October 10, 1990 |
| Prince Myshkin's childlike & gentle nature earns him this title nickname in a Dostoevski novel |
<i>The Idiot</i> |
|
October 10, 1990 |
| This series of books featured Nan & Flossie & their twin brothers |
<i>Bobbsey Twins</i> |
100 |
July 9, 1990 |
| Tolstoy novel in which fictional Pierre Bezuhov considers assassinating Napoleon Bonaparte |
<i>War and Peace</i> |
200 |
July 9, 1990 |
| Though he didn't have a nose for poetry, Christian Fell in love with her, Cyrano's cousin |
Roxane |
300 |
July 9, 1990 |
| Mattie Michael & Etta Mae Johnson are 2 of "The Women of" this "Place", created by Gloria Naylor |
Brewster |
400 |
July 9, 1990 |
| Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel about a dull country doctor & his shallow wife |
<i>Madame Bovary</i> |
500 |
July 9, 1990 |
| This F. Scott Fitzgerald character was born James Gatz |
The Great Gatsby |
100 |
April 2, 1990 |
| In "Ivanhoe" the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise |
Richard the Lionhearted |
200 |
April 2, 1990 |
| For saving this little girl from the waters of the Mississippi, Uncle Tom was bought by her father |
Little Eva |
300 |
April 2, 1990 |
| John D. MacDonald used colors in the titles of all the adventures of this private investigator |
Travis McGee |
400 |
April 2, 1990 |
| Byron wrote an epic poem about this Latin lover whose mother sent him abroad at age 16 after an "intrigue" |
Don Juan |
100 |
October 18, 1989 |
| His sister Gretel won a pair of silver skates, but he didn't |
Hans Brinker |
200 |
October 18, 1989 |
| Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but Don Quixote named her this |
Dulcinea |
300 |
October 18, 1989 |
| This Chinese detective made his 1st appearance in 1925 in "The House Without a Key" |
Charlie Chan |
100 |
April 28, 1989 |
| Morgiana, this man's female slave, killed the 40 thieves by pouring boiling oil on them |
Ali Baba |
200 |
April 28, 1989 |
| The villain of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" isn't a southerner, he's from Vermont |
Simon Legree |
300 |
April 28, 1989 |
| He created dapper Nick Charles & hard-boiled Sam Spade |
Dashiell Hammett |
400 |
April 28, 1989 |
| This Thomas Hardy heroine becomes the mistress of a fanatic preacher named Alec |
Tess (of the d\' Urbervilles) |
500 |
April 28, 1989 |
| Puerto Rico's Don Q rum is named for him |
Don Quixote |
100 |
April 12, 1988 |
| Mark Twain based her on Laura Hawkins, who lived across the street from him in Hannibal |
Becky Thatcher |
200 |
April 12, 1988 |
| This young stag is the title hero of Felix Salten's classic story |
Bambi |
400 |
April 12, 1988 |
| He stabs himself after admitting he "loved not wisely but too well" |
Othello |
500 |
April 12, 1988 |
| A real 19th c. French-Canadian logger may have inspired tall tales about this tall lumberjack |
Paul Bunyan |
100 |
December 25, 1987 |
| In the "Arabian Nights" tales, Prince Houssain had 1 that could transport him anywhere he desired |
magic carpet |
200 |
December 25, 1987 |
| In the epic Lord Byron poem named for him, this Spanish lover romances a harem girl named Dudu |
Don Juan |
300 |
December 25, 1987 |
| Clifford Hepzibah Pyncheon inhabited this hexed Hawthorne house |
the house of the seven gables |
400 |
December 25, 1987 |
| Name shared by Odysseus' father & Ophelia's brother |
Laertes |
500 |
December 25, 1987 |
| Novel which features the Joad family, Dust Bowl farmers who move to California |
<i>Grapes of Wrath</i> |
100 |
December 17, 1986 |
| During his 7 voyages, he was sold into slavery, met the cyclops, & got stuck on 2 desert islands |
Sinbad |
200 |
December 17, 1986 |
| Wilfred, son of Cedric the Saxon, is the title character of this Sir Walter Scott novel |
<i>Ivanhoe</i> |
300 |
December 17, 1986 |
| In 1925 Anita Loos novel, hair color of Lorelei Lee |
blonde |
400 |
December 17, 1986 |
| She helped grandfather to tend goats & Klara, an invalid child, to walk |
Heidi |
500 |
December 17, 1986 |
| Longfellow's Indian heroine whose name means "laughing water" |
Minnehaha |
100 |
November 13, 1986 |
| Margaret Mitchell originally called this character "Pansy" |
Scarlett O\'Hara |
200 |
November 13, 1986 |
| The grandmother of this Hans Christian Andersen heroine wore a dozen oysters on her tail |
The Little Mermaid |
300 |
November 13, 1986 |
| Rebecca Randall is better known by the title of this Kate Douglas Wiggin children's book |
<i>Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm</i> |
400 |
November 13, 1986 |
| In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this was Tom Snout's occupation tho you may not give a "dam" |
tinker |
500 |
November 13, 1986 |