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The famous address of fictional crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
What is 221b Baker Street?
This heroine is forced to compete in a series of violent games before inspiring a revolution.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
This children's book, adapted in 1971, 2005, and 2023, followed a young boy who wins a competition to tour a mysterious chocolate factory.
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
This Canadian author is a famous feminist who wrote The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This Stephen King book follows a recovering alcoholic as he moves his family to take a job as off-season caretaker in an isolated hotel.
What is The Shining?
This magical character accompanies hobbits on their adventures in Middle-Earth.
Who is Gandalf?
Most famously adapted in 1953 by Disney, this mischievous boy flies around his island home and fights an evil pirate.
Who is Peter Pan?
This British novelist and essayist is the author of White Teeth and On Beauty.
Who is Zadie Smith?
The titular train from the seminal murder mystery by Agatha Christie.
What is the Orient Express?
This globe-trotting spy has made a memorable name for themselves across 12 novels, 2 short story collections, and 25 films.
Who is James Bond?
What is The Martian?
This author wrote such influential modernist books as To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
Edgar Allen Poe chose this bird to torment a man in his famous short story of the same name.
What is a raven?
Captain of the whaling ship Pequod, this character is obsessed with his vendetta against a giant white sperm whale.
Who is Ahab?
Written by Phillip Pullman, this fantasy series about a world of humans and their daemons was adapted into a film and more recently a TV show.
What is His Dark Materials?
Set after the American Civil War, her book Beloved follows a formerly enslaved family being haunted by an evil spirit.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This novella follows Gregor, a young man who inexplicably finds himself transformed into a huge insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
The inspiration for a series of children's books written by her parents, this character mysteriously disappears and throws doubt on the innocence of her husband.
Who is Amy Dunne?
Spawning the 1939 classic film, this book about a young girl in a faraway land was the first of 13, as well as inspiring a hit Broadway musical told from the villain's perspective.
What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
Following a young Chinese man who begins studying translation in 19th century Oxford, her historical fantasy book Babel, or the Necessity of Violence took the internet by storm.
Who is R. F. Kuang?