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Set 2: Literature Trivia Flashcards

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No. 1 on the New York Times’ combined print & e-book nonfiction list in May 2019 was the long-awaited “Report” by this man

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Who is Robert Mueller?

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In 2019 this Rick Riordan title guy—”& the Olympians”, too—spent week 500 on the children’s series list, & that’s no myth

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Who is Percy Jackson?

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Dirk Pitt returned for book No. 25 in “Celtic Empire” by father-&-son Clive & Dirk this (& it’s not Pitt)

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Who is Cussler?

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Baseball writer Tyler Kepner took an in-depth look at 10 types of pitches in a book with this single letter as its title

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What is K?

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This comedian may have decided “Life Will Be the Death of Me”, but not before she made the bestseller list

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Who is Chelsea Handler?

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character in this work: Hrothgar, Wiglaf

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What is Beowulf?

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characters in this work: Lennie Small, George Milton

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What is Of Mice and Men?

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character in this work: Don Fernando, Dulcinea

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What is Don Quixote?

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characters in this work: Richard Parker, Orange Juice, Santosh Patel

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What is The Life of Pi?

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characters in this work By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden

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What is Blood Meridian?

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W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier

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Who is John Brown?

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Biographer: His “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.” came out in 1791, 7 years after his friend’s death

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Who is Boswell?

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Biographer: “The Pioneers”, the latest by David McCullough, features the settlers of this American territory just past the Ohio river

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What is the Northwest Territory?

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Biographer: Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie “The Immortal Life of” this woman

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Who is Henrietta Lacks?

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Biographer: His fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson appeared in 2012 & was followed by great anticipation of volume 5

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Who is Robert Caro?

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In the epilogue to “Moby-Dick”, this rescued narrator quotes from the book of Job: “and I only am escaped alone to tell thee”

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Who is Ishmael?

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Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby”

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Who is Nick Carraway?

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Though he takes his own life in “The Sound and the Fury”, Quentin Compson is back to narrate this author’s “Absalom, Absalom!”

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Who is Faulkner?

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In “The Book Thief”, the narrator isn’t a who per se but this, knocking at the door

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What is Death?

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Montresor, the narrator of this Poe story, lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry

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What is “The Cask of Amontillado?”

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Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell

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Who is Clifford (the big red dog)?

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She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”

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Who is Beverly Cleary?

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In Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, this mongoose faces off against 2 cobras to protect his human family

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Who is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

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Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure

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What is The Magic Tree House?

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Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object

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What is The Phantom Tollbooth?

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A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

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What is Brave New World?

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“A House Divided” completed Pearl Buck’s trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

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What is The Good Earth?

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A line from this novel: “Name’s Joad, Tom Joad”

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What is The Grapes of Wrath?

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This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s

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What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means “teen”

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What is A Clockwork Orange?

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Garry Wills’ 1992 “Lincoln at” this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous

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What is Gettysburg?

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The New Orleans Advocate reported a “flood of books” for this event’s 10th anniversary, including “Cooking Up a Storm”

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What is Hurricane Katrina?

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It’s the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry

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What is Lonesome Dove?

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“I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s “Fever 1793”, about an epidemic of this disease

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What is yellow fever?

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His 1815 novel “Guy Mannering” begins in the year “17–” with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries

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Who is Walter Scott?

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The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library

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What is The Library of Congress?

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This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967

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Who is Carl Sandberg?

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Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this singer laureate in 1974

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Who is John Denver?

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In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city’s first poet laureate

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What is San Francisco?

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In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate

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What is Oklahoma?

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Nonfiction book subtitle: With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”

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What is Helter Skelter?

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Nonfiction book subtitle: “A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”

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What is Freakonomics?

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Nonfiction book subtitle: About Louis Zamperini: “A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”

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What is Unbroken?

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Nonfiction book subtitle: By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”

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What is Lean In?

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Nonfiction book subtitle: Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”

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What is He’s Just Not That Into You?

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A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys

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What is the Lambda award?

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This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia

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What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Forget the love story—Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction

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Who are the Bolsheviks?

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Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England

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What is “Howl?”

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The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness

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Who is Daniel Defoe?

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The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle

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What is Hogwarts?

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The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech

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What is the Shire?

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Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy

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What is an apple?

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“It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood’s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero

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Who is Robin Hood?

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After this title character accepts Rochester’s proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall

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Who is Jane Eyre?

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Thornton Wilder’s novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius

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What is The Ides of March?

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“The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome

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Who is Spartacus?

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When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve “A Murder on” this famous road

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What is The Appian Way?

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In “The Eagle of the Ninth”, a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island

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What is Britain?

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This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor

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What is I, Claudius?

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Book Numbers: By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____”

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zero

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Book Numbers: “The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People”

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7

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Book Numbers: An international bestseller: “The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”

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100

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Book Numbers: From “The Charge of the Light Brigade”: “All in the valley of Death rode the ___”

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600

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Book Numbers: A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)

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206

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This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award

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What is The Right Stuff?

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The 2017 Nonfiction winner was Masha Gessen’s “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed” this superpower

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What is Russia?

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Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century “conveyance”

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What is The Underground Railroad?

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Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel

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What is Gravity’s Rainbow?

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He won Fiction Awards for “The Magic Barrel” & “The Fixer” but not for “The Natural”

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Who is Bernard Malamud?

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This Narnian lion appears in several other forms, including a lamb

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Who is Aslan?

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Jilted on her wedding day, this Dickens character teaches her ward Estella to despise men

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Who is Miss Havisham?

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Much of “The Color Purple” is made up of letters written by her to God

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Who is Celie?

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Hemingway’s collections “In Our Time” & “Men Without Women” feature this character based partly on Hemingway

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Who is Nick Adams?

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“The Good Earth” begins with Wang Lung’s marriage day—to this woman

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Who is 0-Lan?

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Natalie Y. Moore examined “The South Side: A Portrait of” this city “and American Segregation “

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What is Chicago?

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A gopher is on the cover of the book titled this comedy film: “The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story”

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What is Caddyshack?

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A nonfiction classic by Rabbi Harold Kushner is “When” these “Happen to Good People”

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What are bad things?

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Barack Obama’s first book was “Dreams from My Father”; his second was this “bold” bestseller that arrived in 2006

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What is The Audacity of Hope?

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He wrote of the loss of both his parents in a 5-week span in “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Who is Dave Eggers?

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Her first published book: 1811: “Sense and Sensibility”

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Who is Jane Austen?

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Her first published book:1920: “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”

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Who is Agatha Christie?

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Her first published book: 2005: “Twilight”

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Who is Stephanie Meyer ?

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Her first published book: 1940: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”

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Who is Carson McCullers?

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Her first published book: 1988: “The Bean Trees”

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Who is Barbara Kingsolver?

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Quotable Books: 1865: “She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face”

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What is Alice in Wonderland?

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Quotable Books: 1958: “It was some little while before I could bring myself to open the window, and ask Miss Golightly what she wanted”

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What is Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

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Quotable Books: 1990: “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose”

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What is Oh, The Places You’ll Go?

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Quotable Books: 1873: “Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!”

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What is Around The World in 80 Days?

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Quotable Books: A recent Pulitzer Prize winner set during WWII: “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever”

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What is All The Light We Cannot See?

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Subtitle:

Or, “The Parish Boy’s Progress,” which included picking a pocket or two.

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What is Oliver Twist?

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In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob.

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What is ‘Of Mice and Men’?

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This book with a lamb-free title marked the first appearance of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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What is Red Dragon?

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1949’s “The Kingdom of This World,” an early work in this style blending naturalism and fantasy, includes a manifesto of it

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What is magical realism?

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In St. Petersburg, it’s not far from Raskolnikov’s murder spree in this book to the bridge where he considers suicide.

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What is Crime and Punishment?

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In 1972, this author created the Kinte foundation.

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Who is Alex Haley?

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Thomas Bracken and Janet Frame are two authors from Dunedin in this country who bring that city to the forefront.

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What is New Zealand?

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Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it’s handed out annually by the Swedish Academy.

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What is the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Punny Classic Literature Titles: It’s the story of a weaving apparatus equipped with a pleasant panorama.

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What is a loom with a view?

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Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels include “A Legend of Montrose” and one about this alliterative Scottish outlaw.

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Who is Rob Roy?

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This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia and the ensuing Russian resistance.

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What is ‘War & Peace’?

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Inspiring the film “Rescue Dawn” was Dieter Dengler’s “Escape From” this Indochinese nation.

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What is Laos?

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Criticism of this gloomy novel and its loser title hero put Thomas Hardy off writing novels forever.

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What is ‘Jude the Obscure’?

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“The Boarding House” and “The Sisters” are two of the 15 stories appearing in this 1914 James Joyce collection.

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What is ‘Dubliners’?

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“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now,” he said in “Gone with the Wind.”

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Who is Rhett Butler?

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“The Road to En-Dor” (during WWI) and “Midnight Express” (later) are accounts of escaping a prison in this country.

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What is Turkey?

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This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled “A Story of the Buried Life.”

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What is ‘Look Homeward, Angel’?

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Peter Ustinov directed and starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel “Memed, My” this predatory bird.

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What is ‘Hawk’?

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This central character of “The Three Musketeers” was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs.

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Who is D’Artagnan?

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Encyclopedia Britannica calls his “The Hunting of the Snark” “nonsense literature of the highest order.”

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Who is Lewis Carroll?

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This Albert Camus novel begins with the discovery of a dead rat outside Dr. Bernard Rieux’s door; more dead rats follow.

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What is ‘The Plague’?

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In 1943 this aviator created “The Little Prince;” a year later, his plane disappeared during a mission.

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Who is Antoine de Saint Exupery?

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Born in 1799, this poet, novelist, and playwright is to Russian literature what Shakespeare is to English literature.

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Who is Alexander Pushkin?

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In Fred Gipson’s novel, this “colorful” dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s.

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Who is Old Yeller?

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Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book “Ulysses.

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Who is James Joyce?

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When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family

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WHO IS SANCHO PANZA?

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