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This author wrote many successful books, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

Who is Jane Austen?

100

Famous American author who wrote stories such as Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Who is Mark Twain?

100

The Harry Potter series and the Percy Jackson saga are examples of this kind of genre where you could find Dragons in Lithuania and the gorgon Medusa in New Jersey.

What is urban fantasy?

100

This bestseller written by a YouTube legend is about two teens with cancer and their journey to both love and death.

What is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green?

100

Known for his short horror stories, this well known author was also a poet and wrote such poems as The Raven and Annabel Lee.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

200

This author wrote a seven book series for kids that took place in World War II and took the characters to a magical world with Christian symbolism.

Who is C.S. Lewis?

200

This book about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe was said to have single handedly started the Civil War.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

200

Books like Anthem, the Divergent series, 1984, and Brave New World are all examples of this genre, usually set at a future date as a forewarning of what our society can become.

 What is dystopian?

200

This bestselling author has written many fantasy novels, one of her most successful series starting as a Cinderella adaptation on a fanfiction site about an assassin who marries the handsome prince.

Who is Sarah J. Maas?

200

This poet is well known for his plays, but was so good at poetry that his own style of sonnet writing was named after him.

Who is William Shakespeare?

300

Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Victorian London and is best known for what series starring this great mind in mystery literature.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

300

This US document was inspired by a pamphlet called Common Sense by Thomas Paine.

What is the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson?

300

Plays like Macbeth, Oedipus, Antigone, and Caesar are often known as this genre of play.

What is a tragedy?

300

For this author, it all started with an eleven year old boy with a scar and with him came a whole world of magic and seven years of school.

Who is J. K. Rowling? or What is Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling?

300

This ancient Greek poet is known as one of the most influential writers of all time and was also said to have been blind.

Who is Homer?

400

Author of bestselling mysteries starring the great detectives Mrs. Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Who is Agatha Christie?

400

This series follows a little girl and her family as she grows up travelling across the frontier in the late 1800s.

What is Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder?

400

Where one type of this genre can show a lot of violence and profanity, this specific genre is able to hold the readers in suspense and keep them interested without thrusting them into the action and the case is usually solved by an ordinary citizen.

What is a cozy mystery?

400

This story was written for the author's young, dyslexic son after he ran out of Greek myths to tell him when he went to sleep.

What is the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan?

400

This female poet hardly ever left her home, often wrote of death, and remained a bachelorette even in death.

Who is Emily Dickinson?

500

Charlotte Bronte wrote what novel that has been given many different adaptations over the course of television and movie history?

What is Jane Eyre?

500
This book by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a young man as the people close to him get wrapped up in adultery and murder.

What is The Great Gatsby?

500

This genre is one of the past and many authors hope to have their books added to the list among books such as Frankenstein and The Hobbit.

What is a classic?

500

This story follows a dystopian world where teens get trapped in a social experiment as the government hopes it'll help them find a cure for what's killing the population?

What is The Maze Runner series by James Dashner?
500

This American poet died at the age of 14 from a a rare form of muscular dystrophy but managed to publish a few poetry books in his lifetime in collections of Heartsongs.

Who is Mattie Stepanek