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It's the Stephen King novel in which a secluded hotel’s winter caretaker slowly descends into madness.
What is The Shining?
Shadow and Bone
Six of Crows
Ninth House
Who is Leigh Bardugo?
This Rachel Carson book is credited with helping to launch the environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
2014
A YA novel by John Green dealing with cancer.
What is the Fault in Our Stars?
Used as the title of his 1516 book, Sir Thomas Moore invented this word, meaning an ideal or perfect society?
What is utopia?
This classic, gothic horror novel is presented as a collection of letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings rather than a traditional narrative.
What is Dracula?
Beloved
Sula
Jazz
Who was Toni Morrison?
This one-word title was David McCullough's biography of the 33rd U.S. President.
What is Truman?
2016
All aboard to read this Paula Hawkins psychological thriller.
What is The Girl on the Train?
Coined as the capital of hell, and meaning "wild uproar, chaos," John Milton created this word for Paradise Lost.
What is pandemonium?
She is the author of Mexican Gothic.
Who is Silvia Moreno-Garcia?
Ghost
Long Way Down
The Boy in the Black Suit
Who is Jason Reynolds?
This Betty Friedan book is widely credited with launching the modern feminist movement in the U.S.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
2012
EL James' indie to trad publishing sensation, spice included.
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
This hyphenated, feline-inspired word, meaning someone who is afraid, was invented by Dorothy Parker.
What is scaredy-cat?
Appearing at this year's ECCC, he's the author of 2025's Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Who is Stephen Graham Jones?
Vicious
Vengeful
Victorious (forthcoming)
Who is V.E. Schwab?
Her Becoming was the #1 bestselling book of 2018.
Who is Michelle Obama?
2015
The long-awaited sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Go Set a Watchman?
Meaning a "rude, boorish person," this word appeared in Gulliver's Travels long before it was adopted as the name of a search engine in 1994.
What is yahoo?
This Koji Suzuki novel features a cursed videotape that brings death to viewers within seven days? Just like the movie adaptation.
What is The Ring?
Slaughterhouse-Five
Breakfast of Champions
Cat's Cradle
Who was Kurt Vonnegut?
Born Standing Up: A Comic's LIfe is his memoir.
Who is Steve Martin?
2017
Middle grade novel by R.J. Palaccio featuring a protagonist named Auggie.
What is Wonder?
It's a word invented by Robert Heinlein for his Hugo Award-winning novel Stranger in a Strange Land, meaning to understand at a visceral level.
What is grok?