Books and Authors #1 Flashcards
1984
George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick’s film version and published after the release of the film.
87th Precinct
Ed mcBain
a series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain. McBain’s 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions
Absalom, Absalom
William Faulker
- Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen
Adam Bede
George Eliot
pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859
The Accidental Tourist
Anny Tyler
a 1985 novel
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award
Adonias
Percy Shelly
is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley’s best and most well-known works
The Admirable Crichton
James Barrie (1902)
Comic Stage Play
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
1605 book by Francis Bacon.
It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark TWain (set around 1845)
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury (Pulitzer)
a 1959 political novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, who is a former member of the Communist Party. The novel spent 102 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was adapted into a successful 1962 film starring Henry Fond
The Aeneid
Virgil
The African Queen
CS Forester
a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester, which was adapted to the 1951 film with the same name
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize.[1] The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
The Age of Reason
Jean-Paul Sartre
a 1945 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy The Roads to Freedom. The novel, set in the bohemian Paris of the late 1930s, focuses on three days in the life of a philosophy teacher named Mathieu who is seeking money to pay for an abortion for his mistress, Marcelle.
(Also name of a book by Thomas Paine)
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Deepak Chopra
Chopra’s Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was published in 1993.[9] The book and his friendship with Michael Jackson gained him an interview on July 12 that year on Oprah, which made him a household name
“controversial New-Age guru
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone (bio of Michealangelo 1961)
Geography
Ptolemy
Ptolemy’s other main work is his Geography (also called the Geographia). This also is a compilation of what was known about the world’s geography in the Roman Empire during his time
Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving (he lived in Spain for a time – 1829) Grenada
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (1865)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany.
In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.
All the Kings Men
Robert Penn Warren
first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King’s Men. It was adapted for film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949 version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Huey P. Long
Along Came a Spider
James Patterson (Alex Cross)
It was adapted into a movie of the same name in 2001, starring Morgan Freeman as Cross. About Af Am Forensic Psychologist
Alphabet Mysteries
Sue Grafton
The Ambassadors
Henry James (1903)
The American
Henry James
originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.
The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.
American Dictionary of the English Language
Noah Webster (First of many starting around 1828)
The American Language
HL Mencken
919, is H. L. Mencken’s book about the English language as spoken in the United States.
Inspired by Mark Twain
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser (1925)
Analects
Confucius
Andersonville
Mackinlay Kantor (PUlitzer 1956)
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov (1965 Nobel) depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
n epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature
Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel to the book, ‘Tis, was published in 1999, and was followed by Teacher Man in 2005
Angels and Demons
Dan Brown
a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown’s subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code; his 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol; and the 2013 novel Inferno.
Anne of Green Gables
LM Montgomery (1908)
Anna and the King of Siam
Margaret Landon
a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.In the early 1860s, Anna Leonowens, a widow with two young children, was invited to Siam (now Thailand) by King Mongkut (Rama IV), who wanted her to teach his children and wives the English language and introduce them to British customs. Her experiences during the five years she spent in the country served as the basis for two memoirs, The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870) and Romance of the Harem (1872).
Adapted into 1951 Stage Musical King and I
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (1873-1877)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Maxwell Anderson
a hit on the stage in 1948, but did not reach movie screens for 21 years. It opened on Broadway starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman, and became a 1969 movie with Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold. Margaret Furse won an Oscar for the film’s costume designs
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
n unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and in 1987 in the United States
Antigone
Sophocles
A tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BCE.
Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first
Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer (Pulitzer nonfic 1968) split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon.
Around the World in 80 Days
Jules Verne
is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works
Arrowsmith
Dodworth
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer - unaccepted 1926)
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,
The art of happinesss
Dalai Lama
The art of war
Sun Tzu
As I lay dying
William Faulkner
s a 1930
The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
s a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand’s fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.
The bad seed
William March
1954 novel by William March, the last of his major works published before his death.
Nominated for the 1955 National Book Award for Fiction, The Bad Seed tells the story of a mother’s realization that her young daughter has committed a murder
Ball Four
Jim Bouton (The book is a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season, spent with the Seattle Pilots (during the club’s only year in existence) and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade.
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope (Barsetshire series)
ublished in 1857, is the second novel in Anthony Trollope’s series known as the “Chronicles of Barsetshire”. Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents.
The Basketball Diaries
Jim Carroll (1978)
The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll and Mark Wahlberg as Mickey.
Battlefield earth
L Ron Hubbard
a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He also composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the “worst films ever made”
Be My Guest
Conrad Hilton (1957 Autobiography)
The Bad Luck of Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.
The Beautiful and the Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
first published by Scribner’s in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. As in Fitzgerald’s other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald’s relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald.
Being There
Jerzy Kosinski
a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1970.[1] Set in America, the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought-after political pundit and commentator on the vagaries of the modern world
Adapted into a Move in 1979. Melvin Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Peter Sellers was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
s a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.[1] Sartre’s main purpose is to assert the individual’s existence as prior to the individual’s essence. His overriding concern in writing the book was to demonstrate that free will exists
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
s the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas” in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical,
Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates (1980)
a magic realist novel by Joyce Carol Oates about the generations of an upstate New York family. It is the first book in Oates’ “Gothic Saga
Beloved
Toni MOrrison (Pulitzer)
a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988[2] and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award.[3] It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey.
Ben-Hur
General Lew Wallace
- Considered “the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century”
The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian
Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11. As of 2012, only Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 have matched the film’s wins
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and polemical approach.
Billions and Billions
Carl Sagan (scientific communicator) – phrase from series “Cosmos”
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990[1] and the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[2] and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize[3] and the 1989 National Book Award.[4] The story is told in the first person by Billy “Bathgate” Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz
Made into a movie in 1991 with Dustin Hoffman
Billy Budd
Herman Melville
is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924. Melville began writing the work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891.
he best-known adaptation is the opera, Billy Budd, with a score by Benjamin Britten and a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. It follows the earlier text of 1924. Since its premiere in December 1951, the opera has become a regular production at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York City. The libretto takes many creative liberties with elements of the novella’s plot.
The Birds of America
John J. Audubon
It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London.
The work consists of hand-coloured, life-size prints, made from engraved plates,
The Birds (Modern)
Daphne Du Maurier
novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of seabirds in kamikaze missions. The story is set in du Maurier’s native Cornwall shortly after the end of World War II. By the end of the story it has become clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault.
The Birds (Ancient)
Aristophanes
a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize.
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
1940s bestselling series about the stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of an Arab sheikh’s prized stallion after it comes into Alec’s possession, although later books furnish the Black’s backstory.
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator.
The Blind Side
Michael Lewis
2006 Book about American Football. Basis for 2009 book
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
is a 1985 Western (or anti-Western[1][2]) novel
Blue Back Speller
Noah Webster
Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
s a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Thomas Wolfe
s a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City
The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens’ writings; it ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984.
A book of common Prayer
Joan Didion
The novel is a story of both personal and political tragedy in the fictional Central American country of “Boca Grande.” 1977
