Young Adult Fiction
This series features a daring archer who fights for her life in a dystopian gladiatorial-inspired game, televised for the amusement of the desensitized upper class.
What is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins?
This early 20th-century author is known for pioneering the modern fantasy genre with his tales of fellowship and adventure.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
This playwright's "Sonnet 18" starts with the line "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Who is William Shakespeare?
This titular middle grade character starts the narration of the first book of his series with the line “Look I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”
Who is Percy Jackson?
This Crash Course co-founder also wrote many YA novels such as The Fault in our Stars, Looking for Alaska, and Paper Towns.
Who is John Green?
This famous science-fiction novel by Frank Herbert about an intergalactic conflict over a spice named “melange” has been adapted for the screen 3 times as of 2021.
What is Dune?
Known for her poems on nature, death, and love, one of this American poet’s famous poems starts with the lines “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul.”
Who is Emily Dickinson?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” is the sentence that begins this famous Jane Austen novel.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
This Stephenie Meyer book is a retelling of her first hit vampire novel, this time from the perspective of the principal vampire love interest.
What is Midnight Sun?
Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states that this is “about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”
What is a towel?
Using a frame narrative, this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem details a sailor’s account of his treacherous journeys.
What is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
In this George Orwell novel “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
What is 1984?
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black is set on this collection of fictional islands.
What is "Elfhame"?
The title of this Philip Pullman series featuring young heroine Lyra Belacqua is pulled from a line in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
What is His Dark Materials?
This contemporary writer famously described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”
Who is Audre Lorde?
In this author’s most famous novel Frankenstein, the titular character’s creation states “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”
Who is Mary Shelley?