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100

Holden's sister who rode the carousel in Catcher in the Rye.

Who is Pheobe?

100

In 1962 Harper Lee visited the Hollywood set of her novel, modeled after Monroeville, Alabama.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird

100

Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel centered around a futuristic society

What is Brave New World?
100

Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.

What is 1984?

100

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

What is Pride and Prejudice?

200

The almost indistinguishable friends who betrayed Hamlet

Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

200

There have been various TV and movie adaptations over the years of this 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott

What is Little Women

200

In this novel by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff is hopelessly in love with Cathy Earnshaw.

What is Wuthering Heights?

200

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls these friends to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children in this Stephen King novel. 

What is It?

200

Mother died today.

What is The Stranger?

300

Leonie's friend who went on the road trip to Parchman in Sing, Unburied, Sing

Who is Misty?

300

This Jane Austen novel earned Emma Thompson the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995

What is Sense and Sensibility

300

This novel set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi is the first major work by William Faulkner.

What is The Sound and the Fury

300

This 1800s novel by Jane Auseten has been updated in the 1990's movie Clueless staring Alicia Silverstone. 

What is Emma?

300

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

What is The Great Gatsby?
400

A kind-hearted man who owns a gas dock and bait shop in Where the Crawdads Sing.

Who is Jumpin'?

400

Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is said to have its roots in this Joseph Conrad novella.

What is Heart of Darkness

400

In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn’t work at all

What is The Brothers Karamazov?

400

Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel. 

What is Beloved?

400

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

What is Metamorphosis?

500

She married the man whose proposal Elizabeth rejected in Pride and Prejudice.

Who is Charlotte Lucas?

500

Ernest Hemingway was said to have ranted that Spencer Tracy was “totally miscast” in the film version of this work of his.

What is Old Man and the Sea

500

This banned book by James Joyce was first published in 1922 by the owner of the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.

What is Ulysses?

500

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West in this novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What is Americanah?

500

“Happy families are all alike; unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way."

What is Anna Karenina?

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