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This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler's List?
1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
Who is Agatha Christie?
This kid lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive”
What is 101 Dalmatians?
A young female horse
What is a filly?
This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener
What is Blink?
The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library
What is the Library of Congress?
With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”
What is Helter Skelter?
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.
What is Fight Club?
On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century
What are Science Fiction and Fantasy?
E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on “Twilight”
What is 50 Shades of Grey?
In scientific classification, it’s between order & genus
What is family?
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
What is Carrie?
This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967
Who is Carl Sandburg?
“A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”
What is Freakonomics?
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name
What is The Help?
It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver
What is Barbara?
The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane
What is Catch-22?
2 independent countries lie within the borders of this nation
What is Italy?
In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence
What is Neuromancer?
In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate
What is Oklahoma?
By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”
What is Lean In?
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Garry Wills’ 1992 “Lincoln at” this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous
What is Gettysburg?
Hospital attendant job with non-medical duties
What is an orderly?
“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land
What is Terabithia?
Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this folk singer with a capital city sounding name a co-laureate in 1974
Who is John Denver?
Made into a 2009 Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”
What is He's Just Not That Into You?
Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie “The Immortal Life of” this woman
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”
Who is Beverly Cleary?
5-letter piece of ornamental lace or embroidery found on a table
What is a doily?
In 2019 this Rick Riordan title guy—”& the Olympians”, too—spent week 500 on the children’s series list, & that’s no myth
Who is Percy Jackson?
Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his
Who is Abraham Lincoln?