A Book Within a Book
This battered school textbook, covered in handwritten notes and bearing the mysterious name “the Half-Blood Prince,” gives Harry an enormous advantage in Potions class.
What is Advanced Potion-Making?
Before becoming one of America's most famous authors, this Little Women author worked as a Civil War nurse and drew on that experience in her writing.
Who is Louisa May Alcott?
This novel follows a young fox named Tod and a hunting dog named Copper as their friendship is tested by the roles humans have given them.
What is The Fox and the Hound?
This Nicholas Sparks novel follows Noah and Allie, whose love story begins during a summer in North Carolina and continues across decades.
What is The Notebook?
In this novel, the title character's family believes that a mysterious illness can be treated through a mixture of folk remedies and old superstitions.
What is The Secret Garden?
This ancient textbook is the source of many of the magical instructions and stories that young Lyra encounters at Jordan College in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe.
What is The Subtle Knife?
This author of The Jungle Book and The Man Who Would Be King was born in India and worked as a newspaper editor and journalist before becoming famous for his fiction.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
This novel follows a young rabbit named Hazel who leads a group of rabbits away from danger in search of a new home.
What is Watership Down?
This novel by Jane Austen follows Anne Elliot, who gets a second chance at love when Captain Wentworth returns to her life years after their broken engagement.
What is Persuasion?
In this novel, an English physician travels to the island of Laputa and encounters bizarre approaches to science and medicine, including experiments intended to extend human life indefinitely.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
This fictional book in The Name of the Rose becomes central to the mystery at the monastery, as its dangerous contents are connected to a series of deaths.
What is The Second Book of Poetics?
This author of The Chronicles of Narnia spent much of World War I serving in the British Army and was wounded during the fighting.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
This children's novel follows a brave mouse who becomes a knight and sets out to rescue a princess.
What is The Tale of Desperaux?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This novel by Casey McQuiston follows a romance between the son of the U.S. president and a British prince, whose relationship begins as a political complication.
What is Red, White, and Royal Blue?
In this novel, the narrator undergoes a controversial medical treatment intended to cure him of violent behavior by conditioning him to feel physically ill when confronted with violence.
What is A Clockwork Orange?
This fictional book in The Book Thief is written by Max Vandenburg and given to Liesel, with its pages later transformed into the story of their friendship.
What is The Standover Man?
Before becoming a novelist, this author of The Martian worked as a programmer and software engineer and helped develop software for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Who is Andy Weir?
This novel by E. B. White follows a swan named Louis who learns to read and write and takes up music to pay off his family's debts.
What is The Trumpet of the Swan?
This historical romance by Diana Gabaldon sends a married World War II nurse through a mysterious set of standing stones into 18th-century Scotland, where she falls for Jamie Fraser.
What is Outlander?
This novel's title character is subjected to an experimental treatment intended to cure his psychological condition, with the procedure having profound effects on his identity and memories.
What is The Silent Paitient?
This fictional manuscript in House of Leaves is supposedly written by a blind man named Zampanò and examines a mysterious documentary about a house that is larger inside than outside.
What is The Navidson Record?
Before becoming famous for The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, this French author was elected to public office and became involved in the 1848 French Revolution, even helping to organize the National Workshops.
Who is Alexandre Dumas?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This novel by Anna Sewell is narrated by a horse who recounts his life, from his pleasant early years to the harsh treatment he experiences from some owners.
What is Black Beauty?
This novel by Sally Thorne follows two coworkers at a publishing company who are locked in a seemingly endless workplace rivalry that gradually becomes something else.
What is The Hating Game?
In this novel, a Victorian physician develops an unusual theory that a patient's psychological problems can be treated through isolation, rest, and complete avoidance of intellectual activity.
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?