General Flashcards
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Richard Bachman is the pseudonym of what author? The the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacceptable to the public. This author therefore wanted to write under another name, in order to increase publication without over-saturating the market.
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Stephen King
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What is the term, derived from the Spanish for “rogue,” for a type of literary narrative, usually comic or satirical, that depicts the escapades of a single, likeable, roguish hero living by his (or her, but more often his) wits? English examples include Huckleberry Finn, A Confederacy of Dunces, and Moll Flanders, while the progenitor is widely considered to be the 1554 novella Lazarillo de Tormes.
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Picaresque
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What Australian-born writer, whose books The Shock of the New and American Visions were both serialized for television, was dubbed by the New Yorker as the “most famous art critic in the world,” a role he filled for Time magazine for more than 30 years?
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Robert Hughes
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The Tuck family finds a fountain of youth in this novel by Natalie Babbitt.
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Tuck Everlasting
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This author’s first book of tales in 1835 included “The Tinderbox” and “The Princess And The Pea.”
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Hans Christian Andersen
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This author, while primarily known for writing children’s books like “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” was also an avid artist and expert in the field of mycology (the study of fungi).
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Beatrix Potter
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Co-writing a children’s book can lead to some odd pairings. Name the co-author, not exactly associated with purity and childhood innocence, whose name has been redacted from the cover of the book seen here.
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Bill O’Reilly
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The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister by Raskolnikov.
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Crime and Punishment
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In the standard English version of “Jack and the Beanstalk”, what item does Jack trade in exchange for the magic beans?
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Cow
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If You Need Healing, Do These Things; The Miracle of Seed-Faith; and Something Good is Going to Happen to You! are works by what Pentecostal preacher and university founder?
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Oral Roberts
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Whittier is the last name of what cheerful and irrepressibly optimistic (and arguably naive and self-delusional) character created in 1913 by Eleanor H. Porter?
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Pollyanna
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What are the only two letters of the alphabet that each span two volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia?
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C, S
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The first novel in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, the story of a cynical failed wizard named Rincewind, is The Colour of what?
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Magic
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A brutal death in a vehicle accident kicks off the events that conclude the story of The Great Gatsby. Give the first name of either the character who dies in the accident or the character who was driving the car at the time.
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Myrtle, Daisy
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In this 1945 novel, Moses, a raven, tells the other creatures about a better life to come on Sugar-Candy Mountain.
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Animal Farm
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This author wrote and illustrated “The Tale of Pigling Bland”
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Beatrix Potter
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Wolf, this Washington Irving character’s dog, fails to recognize his master after a 20-year absence.
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Rip Van Winkle
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Boy: Tales of Childhood, which includes stories of Norwegian holidays, the author’s sadistic schoolmasters, and his childhood fantasies as an inventor of sweets, is the first volume of memoirs by what British writer?
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Roald Dahl
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What Anne Tyler novel, first published in 1985, tells the story of a middle-aged travel writer named Macon Leary who does not like traveling?
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The Accidental Tourist
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Irving Stone’s bestselling novel based on the life of an artist was made into a movie starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. Who was the artist, and what was the book’s title?
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Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstacy
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This wildly successful and scandalous novel (which would hardly earn the latter adjective today) was set in the fictional New England town of Tarbox. Author and title, please.
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John Updike, Couples
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Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle were two of the three co-authors of a hugely influential book first published in 1961. Who was their far better-known American collaborator?
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Julia Child
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What organization’s adventures were most famously described in the 1924 novel Beau Geste?
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French Foreign Legion
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Twenty-two years before he appeared in Closing Time, this character—usually known only by his surname—appeared in a much more famous novel by Joseph Heller. Name that character.
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John Yossarian
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Published in the U.S. in 1962, followed by a film version several years later, this novel included characters referred to as droogs, prestoopniks, and vecks. Quite a few of them occasionally engaged in "doing the ultra-violence."
A Clockwork Orange
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What first and last name are shared by two writers, respectively one of the most iconic American authors of the 1970s (I'm OK, You're OK) and of the 1980s (The Silence of the Lambs)?
Thomas Harris
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In this work by Franz Kafka, an unnamed traveler investigates an unusual form of capital punishment.
In The Penal Colony
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What author, currently working on Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, announced last year that its sequel, the tenth book in her best-selling series, will also be the last?
Diana Gabaldon
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American author M.F.K. Fisher wrote broadly about various topics, but she is best remembered today for (and the majority of her writing was) works on what subject?
Food
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"Walden" was written by this master pencil maker whose father owned a pencil factory.
Henry David Thoreau
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Philip Marlowe is the hard-boiled gumshoe of "The Big Sleep" by this author.
Raymond Chandler
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"The Naked & The Dead" and "The Executioner's Song" are books by this novelist.
Norman Mailer
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The 1930 book "Murder at the Vicarage" featured this female sleuth.
Miss (Jane) Marple
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First published in 1998, the Booker prize-winning novel *Amsterdam* is by which author?
Ian McEwan
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What is the first name of the heroine who jockeys the winning horse in the famous English steeplechase the Grand National in a 1935 Enid Bagnold novel (and subsequent film adaptation)?
Velvet
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This is the second and final novel to be written by Harper Lee. Though marketed to publishers as a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, it is believed by many to be a first draft of that debut novel.
Go Set A Watchman
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A novel of religious satire by C.S. Lewis first published in 1942 takes the form of a series of letters to a "Junior Tempter" named Wormwood, with advice on how best to draw a particular Englishman into sin and, eventually, into Hell. These letters are written by Wormwood's uncle, a senior-level devil, who goes by what name?
Screwtape
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"Droll Stories" is a collection of racy tales by this author of "La Comedie Humaine."
Honore de Balzac
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The New Pilgrims' Progress is the alternate title of what humorous Mark Twain travel narrative based on newspaper dispatches during his 1867 steamship voyage to Europe and the Holy Land?
The Innocents Abroad
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The title of the Aldous Huxley short story "The Gioconda Smile," from his Mortal Coils collection, references a work of art best known by what name?
Mona Lisa
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What is the anagrammatical title (nearly but not quite a semordnilap) of a satirical Utopian novel by English author Samuel Butler first published anonymously in 1872?
Erewhon
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Sons and A House Divided, the second and third installments of the House of Earth trilogy, are works by what Pulitzer and Nobel-winning American novelist?
Pearl S. Buck
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What name is shared by the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen from Greek legend, the saintly wife of Sicilian king Leontes in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, and (likely) literature's most prominent only child of English dentists?
Hermione
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hough she had written numerous books, including House of Incest, Winter of Artifice, and the Cities of the Interior series, what French-born American novelist did not achieve wide renown until the publication of her diaries written from 1931 to 1966, with their seven volumes published between 1966 and 1980?
Anaïs Nin
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This executive has written "Business at the Speed of Thought" and "The Road Ahead."
Bill Gates
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was neighbor, friend and mentor to this "Little Women" author.
Louisa May Alcott
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This 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright is known for its near-complete avoidance of the letter "e" throughout its 50,000 words.
Gadsby
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In Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*, what is the name of the euphoria-giving drug that citizens of the "world state" use recreationally and to suppress "troublesome" emotions?
Soma
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What individual replaces Jesus as the primary deity figure in Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*?
Henry Ford
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen," is the opening line from what novel?
1984
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While this 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbot novella was first written as a satire on Victorian cultural hierarchy, its more enduring contribution has been its examination of dimensions.
Flatland
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This author often wrote his stories in a non-linear fashion using index cards. This method was used to write his most famous 1955 novel.
Vladimir Nabokov
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This author wrote Gone With The Wind.
Margaret Mitchell
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The antagonist in this Stephen King novel is a 1958 Plymouth Fury.
Christine
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In his 1958 essay “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose”, he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician’s style.
Jack Kerouac
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This is the name given to a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. It's name features the playwright and author who mentioned it in many of his writings.
Chekov's Gun
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Roald Dahl wrote “constant twitching & jerking & snorting” were all signs of this alliterative disorder.
Shell shock
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“Runs” is the last word of this 1960 John Updike novel about a man running from his responsibilities.
Rabbit, Run
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In Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller, Clare Abshire DeTamble is this title spouse.
The Time Traveler's Wife
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This children’s author considered using the anagrams Edgar Cuthwellis & Edgar W.C. Westhill for his pen name.
Lewis Carroll
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“Circling the Sun” fictionalizes the love triangle of Beryl Markham Denys, Finch Hatton and this author of “Out of Africa”
Isak Dinesen
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A pilot, who serves as narrator, crash lands in a desert and encounters a solitary, golden-haired young boy, who describes his life on his home planet and his visits to ten other mostly uninhabited planets. In time, the rose-loving boy leaves his corporeal body to return home. This is the framework for what fable published in 1943?
The Little Prince
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Tiny people living beneath the floorboards and within the walls of a large house are the subject—and give their name to the title—of what 1952 novel by English author Mary Norton?
The Borrowers
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In a Henry James novel, Catherine Sloper’s fictional home is on this real Manhattan square
Washington Square
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William Styron came in for some criticism when he wrote in blackvoice in “The Confessions of” this man
Nat Turner
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This 1990 novel made into a blockbuster film says the Hammond Foundation “has spent $17 million on amber.”
Jurassic Park
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In Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here, what is the titular "it"?
A fascist takeover of the United States by a populist presidential candidate.
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The N.Y. Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman “one of the most influential business books ever written.”
Atlas Shrugged
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An early 2000s bestseller was about a memoir about a secret book club in this city that discussed works like “Lolita.”
Tehran
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“Never Let Me Go” is by this Japanese-born British writer, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro
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The "slave narrative" was a popular form of literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, and probably the most widely read work of the form was Narrative of the Life of what man, who wrote it in 1845 (while technically still a fugitive) and subsequently founded the abolitionist journal the North Star?
Frederick Douglass
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He drew inspiration from his life as a sailor for his novel “Lord Jim”
Joseph Conrad
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“The Bridge of San Luis Rey” earned this author a Pulitzer Prize
Thornton Wilder
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Irving Stone’s fictionalized biography of artist Vincent Van Gogh has this passionate three-word title.
Lust For Life
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His last two novels, “Omerta” and “The Family” were published after his death in 1999.
Mario Puzo
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The most prestegious honor in Portuguese-language literature is the prize named for which writer of Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads)?
Luís De Camöes
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“Kite Runner” Amir lives in the Wazir Akbar Khan district and takes part in the kite competition, all in this city.
Kabul, Afghanistan
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In Chicago there’s a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas works and his family’s apartment, just a few blocks away, in this novel
Native Son (Richard Wright)
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This author attended Lincoln college and based spy George Smiley in part on Rector Vivian Green.
John Le Carré
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“Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” and “The Laughing Man” are 2 of the “Nine Stories” put out by this author.
J.D. Salinger
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A stone hit the unfortunate winner of this 1948 Shirley Jackson tale in the side of the head.
The Lottery
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A nonfiction bestseller about death rituals around the world shares its title with this James Jones novel.
From Here To Eternity
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This Ann Patchett bestseller about opera & terrorism has been turned into a real opera.
Bel Canto
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“Catch as Catch Can” is a posthumous collection of stories by this real-life WWII bombardier.
Joseph Heller
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U.S. Army airmen seeking to be excused from WWII bombing missions due to mental derangement, but judged ineligible as the sanity of such a request proves their fitness, are central to the plot of what novel?
Catch-22
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She coined the term “Lost Generation” for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway.
Gertrude Stein
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What is the last name of the fictional persona invented by Washington Irving in 1809 to narrate his satirical A History of New York? This name became a term for Dutch-Americans residing in New York (and later, for any New Yorker).
Knickerbocker
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The Saga of an American Family is the subtitle of what 1976 historical fiction Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway best seller?
Roots
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Zuckerman Bound, a collection that includes the trilogy The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, and The Anatomy Lesson, along with the novella The Prague Orgy, is the work of what late American novelist?
Philip Roth
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The novels The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie, which are ordered here by plot chronology and all feature fictional frontiersman Natty Bumppo, are collectively known as what "Tales," after a nickname used for Bumppo in The Pioneers (the first novel published)?
The Leatherstocking Tales
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The name of what author, eventual TV producer, and reporter (at the time) for The Baltimore Sun has been redacted from the cover seen here? This particular book was written after the reporter in question spent a year with the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit.
David Simon
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Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay is the subtitle of what William Warner book that won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? The book's title comes from the meaning in Greek of Callinectes, the genus to which the blue crab belongs.
Beautiful Swimmers
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"All men...go with women, women like that accost them on the street and then they go together. In Paris they have big houses for that. Papa has been there."
These observations about prostitution by which writer were recently discovered on taped pages, alongside details concerning menstruation, contraception, sexuality, and pleasure? Her work has previously been republished to include references to masturbation, omitted by her father in the original edition.
Anne Frank
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The character Jules Maigret, who appeared in over 80 novels by French author Georges Simenon, held what profession?
Detective
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A 1933 James Hilton novel, which allegedly became in 1939 the first mass-market paperback, featured a utopian world that was FDR's source for the name of his presidential retreat ("Shangri-la," later Camp David). What is the title of that novel?
Lost Horizon
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A 1946 book by John Hersey, initially published as a full-issue article in an August 1946 issue of the New Yorker magazine, describes the harrowing experiences of six individuals the previous year in what city, after which the book is named?
Hiroshima
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Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower, Foreign Fruit by Jojo Moyes, and Dark in Death by J.D. Robb are all classified in what genre of novels, a term that in medieval times referred to allgenres of popular literature (as opposed to works for the elite written in Latin)?
Romance
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For her three works in the Broken Earth series (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), what American novelist has won the science fiction literary award known as the Hugo Award (in the Best Novel category) for three years running?
N.K. Jemisin
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A series of letters written by a young African American woman named Celie to God (interspersed with letters to and from other human characters) form the structure of what Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
The Color Purple
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Completes the title of David Lagercrantz’ book that continued Stieg Larsson’s series, “The Girl in…”
The Spider's Web
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He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953
Winston Churchill
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In this novel it’s Doc Daneeka who explains “Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy”
Catch-22
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His first novel, “Ready Player One”, became a bestseller and a Spielberg movie.
Ernest Cline
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This novel ends with Amy & Nick Dunne reunited – sure, she framed him for her murder, but now she’s pregnant.
Gone, Girl
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Accompanied by a dog named Bernie Kosar, John Smith is the protagonist of a series of young adult novels (with a film adaptation set in Paradise, Ohio) in which he is one of several alien refugees from the planet Lorien who are safe from their enemies unless they are attacked in a specific order. By what other name is he more commonly known?
Four / I Am Number Four
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In 2009, Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers’ Kindles.
1984
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There’s no author photo on 2013’s “Bleeding Edge”; the last known clear photos of him are from the 1950s.
Thomas Pynchon
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“Hank & Jim” tells of the 50-year friendship between these two Oscar-winning screen legends.
Henry Fonda, James Stewart
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The killer in this Thomas Harris novel is obsessed with a William Blake image of the title mythological creature.
Red Dragon
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Featured in several novels, a writer named Nathan Zuckerman was this author’s fictional alter ego.
Phillip Roth
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Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death.
John Steinbeck
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“Hadji Murad”, about a Chechen separatist fighter, appeared after this writer’s 1910 death in rural Russia.
Leo Tolstoy
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This Australian-born British writer is best known for authoring the Mary Poppins series of children's books.
P. L. Travers
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Part slavery memoir, part time-traveling fantasy, this Octavia Butler novel has a title that’s a synonym for family.
Kindred
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What name is missing the from the following titles of novels by Patricia Highsmith? ______ Under Ground, \_\_\_\_\_\_'s Game, The Boy Who Followed \_\_\_\_\_\_, ______ Under Water.
Ripley
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Five lines, usually made of amphibrachs and anapests, with two feet in each of the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others, with a strict rhyming scheme of aabba, is a verse form known by a name that is shared with what city?
Limerick
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Whose 1994 memoir, written as a letter to (and named after) her comatose daughter Paula, tells the story of the mother's extraordinary life—a childhood in Peru, Bolivia, Lebanon, and Chile; exile from her Chilean homeland following a 1973 coup; her career as a journalist and writer; and more?
Isabel Allende
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This memoir recounts what Elizabeth Gilbert did in Italy, India and Indonesia, respectively.
Eat, Pray, Love
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In the 1950s, who published the works Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, and Animus and Anima?
Carl Jung
120
The Inheritance Cycle, a fantasy tetralogy authored by Christopher Paolini, chronicles the heroic journey of a teenage boy who harnesses the power of a magical creature named Saphira in order to liberate the boy's kingdom from an evil despot.
Give the name of this boy, who shares his name with the first volume in the series (as well as an ill-advised cinematic adaptation). Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, the boy's name shares all but one letter with the name of Saphira's species.
Eragon
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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future, published in 1991, was written by what former Encyclopedia Britannica editor, NBC Today show correspondent, Columbia University English instructor, and U.S. Congress subcommittee confessor?
Charles Van Doren
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Graham Greene's novel, The Quiet American, about a love triangle between an aging British journalist, a young CIA operative, and a local woman, was a very early critique of American post-war foreign policy in what country, in which it is set?
Vietnam
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A line from the St. Crispin's Day speech on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt in Henry V also lends its name to what Stephen Ambrose book about paratroopers in WWII that was later turned into a big budgeted miniseries?
Band of Brothers
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Speechwriter Ted Sorenson admitted that he wrote the first draft of most of this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK.
Profiles In Courage
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Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is located within the state of Oceania, which is itself one of the three major powers (along with Eurasia and Eastasia) in what novel?
1984
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*The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose*; *Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life*; and *What I Know for Sure* are books by what author, who is probably better known for her success in other media?
Oprah Winfrey
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Charles Bogle, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, and Otis Criblecoblis were writing pseudonyms of what legendary performer, whose portrayals included Mr. Micawber, Larsen E. Whipsnade, Egbert Sousé, and Prof. Eustace P. Mcgargle?
W.C. Fields
128
One a Buddhist, one a South African Anglican, these two religious leaders co-wrote “The Book of Joy”.
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
129
W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit’s foot with this story of a dad, a son and three wishes gone bad
The Monkey's Paw
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Which Chinese novelist, successful in his native country since 1985, came to widespread attention in the Anglosphere in 2014 when his novel 三体 / Sān Tǐ (literally "three-body") was published by Tor Books in an English translation? Coincidentally, the translator—otherwise best known for his story "The Paper Menagerie"—shares the same family name.
Cixin Liu
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Ijon Tichy, Pirx the Pilot, and Dr. Kris Kelvin—who has been portrayed on film by Donatas Banionis and George Clooney—are three of the best-known characters in books by what writer, whose honorary membership in the Science Fiction Writers of America was controversially rescinded in the mid-1970s?
Stanislaw Lem
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"Wars don't end with a party. Some people who survive war go on with their lives, some come away stronger, some are shattered, but all are changed. We didn't want to lie to kids about that." This quote from a 2016 Entertainment Weekly interview is from the author of what 54-book series for young teenagers, of which the final entry The Beginning was published in 2001?
Animorphs
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Which dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, often regarded as a forerunner of Brave New World, has a title that is only two letters long, both in the original Russian and the English translation?
We
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What two words have been redacted from this book cover? The same words can refer to an oft-mentioned but rarely depicted part of Doctor Who lore.
Time War
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Mind-eating slake moths are the most memorable monsters in what novel by China Miéville, which takes its title from the principal transport hub of Bas-Lag, the city in which it is set?
Perdido Street Station
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In Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, a tragic young character named Pecola Breedlove believes that she would be loved if only she had what characteristic, which is referenced in the novel's title?
Blue Eyes ("The Bluest Eye")
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The 1979 autobiography *A Time to Heal* was written by what politician, who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1948 and served on the Warren Commission after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963?
Gerald Ford
138
A 1990 novel by Walter Mosley introduces his factory worker-turned-investigator, Easy Rawlins, searching for the elusive and mysteriously devilish Frenchwoman Daphne Monet, who wears what colorful titular garment?
Blue Dress
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Likely the most famous literary character to have suffered from kyphosis was named after a Latin term by which the first Sunday after Easter is sometimes known. What is his name?
Quasimodo
## Footnote
(_kyphosis_: excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing hunching of the back)
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The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, and The Other Wind are novels by Ursula K. LeGuin set in what fictional land, a chain of islands surrounded by uncharted ocean?
Earthsea
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Motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen collaborated on what book series, first published in 1993, compiling inspirational, true stories they had heard from their audience members?
Chicken Soup for the Soul
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What author tackled many controversial topics in her novels including racism in her book "Iggie's House", sexuality in "Forever", divorce in "It's Not the End of the World, Just as Long as We're Together", bullying in "Blubber", and menstruation in "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"?
Judy Blume
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A Terrifying True Story is the subtitle of what 1994 best-seller by Richard Preston, about the origins and incidents involving various ebolaviruses and marburgviruses?
The Hot Zone
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Dolores Haze is the real name of what young girl, the title character of a novel written in English in 1955, and self-translated to Russian in 1967 by the author himself?
Lolita
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A 1999 novel, and also a 2003 film and a 2008 play both inspired by the novel, all share a name with (and have fictionalized plot points based on) a painting in the collection of the Mauritshuis art museum in The Hague. What is that name?
Girl With A Pearl Earring
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The memoir 100 Years, 100 Stories, released in the weeks between the author's hundredth birthday in January 1996 and his death in March of that year, is a collection of anecdotes chronicling the life of what comedian?
George Burns
147
A short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in The New Yorker magazine in 1948, details a festive (and horrific) annual event in a small town in rural America. Per the story's title, what type of event is it?a
The Lottery
148
What two-word phrase, a term coined by academic Robin DiAngelo in 2011, is the title of her 2018 nonfiction bestseller with the subtitle Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism? Note, one of the two words in the phrase/title is the same as one of the words in the subtitle.
White Fragility
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Gonga the Gorilla, the exhaustively tattooed O.E. Parker, the toothless General Sash, and the murderous "Misfit" are among the many grotesque characters created by what Southern Gothic author?
Flannery O'Connor
150
Chamberlain, Maine's Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School hosts a memorable prom in this 1974 novel.
Carrie
151
Yukio Mishima's self-reflective 1949 novel was of a Mask, William Styron's 1967 Pulitzer winner was of Nat Turner, and Thomas DeQuincey's 1821 essay was of an English Opium-Eater. What word connects these works, and is also associated with autobiographies by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Saint Augustine?
Confessions
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The American Book Award-winning *The Testing of Luther Albright* was the debut novel from 2005 of an author who, according to Bloomberg, is the 23rd-wealthiest individual in the world in 2021. What **is** her name?
Mackenzie Scott (formerly Bezos)
153
*A Pale View of Hills* (1982) was the debut novel of what Nagasaki-born English author, who is probably best known for the Booker Prize–winning 1989 novel *The Remains of the Day*?
Kazuo Ishiguro
154
Multiple sci-fi concepts related to the warping of space have been named, for whatever reason, after the 4-dimensional hypercube. This image is the canonical explanation of one of those concepts, as seen in what 1962 novel?
A Wrinkle In Time
