Who wrote it?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
This British author created the boy wizard Harry Potter.
J.K. Rowling
Don Quixote was written by this Spanish author.
Miguel de Cervantes
The narrator spends the book trying to find out if Capitu cheated on him.
Dom Casmurro
The word “novel” comes from the Latin novus, meaning what?
New
Pride and Prejudice
This playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon was born in 1564 and wrote Hamlet and Macbeth.
William Shakespeare
The Alchemist is a novel by this Brazilian author.
Paulo Coelho
Two young lovers die due to a fatal misunderstanding.
Romeo and Juliet
The word “genre” comes from French, ultimately from Latin genus, meaning what?
Kind or type
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This British novelist fought in the Spanish Civil War and later wrote 1984 and Animal Farm.
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
This French author wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Victor Hugo
The “monster” tells his side of the story, revealing that he was made, not born evil.
Frankenstein
The word “poetry” comes from the Greek poiein, meaning what?
To make or create
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
This American author and poet was known for his dark tales and for dying mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849.
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tale of Genji, often called the world’s first novel, originated in this country.
Japan
A futuristic society that seems perfect is revealed to be a totalitarian nightmare.
1984
The term “tragedy” originally meant “goat song” in this ancient language.
Greek
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
This Russian novelist was exiled to Siberia before writing The Brothers Karamazov.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Kite Runner takes place primarily in this country.
Afghanistan
The “detective” we’ve been following turns out to be the murderer.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The word “encyclopedia” comes from Greek roots meaning what phrase?
A circle of learning