With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”
What is Helter Skelter?
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle
What is Hogwarts?
The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech
What is the Shire?
The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane
What is Catch-22?
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel
What is Beloved?
Though he takes his own life in “The Sound and the Fury”, Quentin Compson is back to narrate this author’s “Absalom, Absalom!”
Who is William Faulkner?
“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land
What is Terabithia?
Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby”
Who is Nick Carraway?
This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
A line from this novel: “Name’s Joad, Tom Joad”
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
Who is Agatha Christie?
Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell
Who is Clifford (the big red dog)?
Much of “The Color Purple” is made up of letters written by her to God
Who is Celie?
This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award
What is The Right Stuff?
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
What is Brave New World?
“Pebble in the Sky” was his first novel, the “Foundation” of a long & prolific career writing science fiction
Who is Isaac Asimov?
She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”
Who is Beverly Cleary?
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler’s List?
It’s the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry
What is Lonesome Dove?
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
What is Firestarter?
This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967
Who is Carl Sandberg?
Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy
What is an apple?
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier
Who is John Brown?
Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel
What is Gravity’s Rainbow?