Dystopian
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American Greats
YA Hits
English Greats
100

This author is well-known for his dystopian classics 1984 and Animal Farm.

Who is George Orwell?

100
This short story writer, poet, and novelist, is known for works like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, and The Masque of Red Death.

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

100

This American author is best known for the Great Gatsby. 

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

100

This author is famous for The Percy Jackson series, which he wrote to make his son's dyslexia and ADHD seem like a superpower. 

Who is Rick Riordan?

100

This author wrote famous plays like Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest.

Who is Shakespeare?

200

This famous book by Ray Bradbury is about the burning of books. 

What is Fahrenheit 451?

200

This author wrote the Harry Potter series, which started as little notes on scraps of paper.

Who is J.K. Rowling?

200

This American author and comedian wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Who is Mark Twain?

200

This author (who wrote The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, and Turtles All the Way Down) has a Tiktok-famous brother and is a longtime YouTuber.

Who is John Green?

200

This author wrote the Chronicles of Narnia and was a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Who is C.S. Lewis?

300

This author wrote a widely popular 3 book series about a dystopian United States where 24 children fight to the death every year.

Who is Suzanne Collins?

300

This author is best known for his Game of Thrones series. 

Who is George R. R. Martin?

300

This author's only book, To Kill a Mockingbird, is one of the most famous American novels.

Who is Harper Lee?

300

This author wrote the To All The Boys I've Loved Before series as well as The Summer I Turned Pretty, both of which had successful movie/TV adaptations.

Who is Jenny Han?

300

This mystery novelist is known as the Queen of Crime and started murder mysteries as we know them today. Her book, And Then There Were None (formerly known as 10 Little Indians) is one of the best-selling books of all time, and two of her movies were recently turned into movies (Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express).

Who is Agatha Christie?
400

This author's book, The Handmaid's Tale, was adapted into a widely-praised TV show.

Who is Margaret Atwood?

400

This author wrote the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?

400

This poet is known for her short poems about nature, mortality, and spirituality. She uses lots of interesting punctuation.

Who is Emily Dickinson?

400

Veronica Roth wrote this series, which had a movie adaptation so bad they didn't even make the final movie.

What is the Divergent series?

400

This author is best known for Frankenstein and is credited as one of the earliest creators of science fiction

Who is Mary Shelley?