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100

Scout and Boo Radley are characters in this southern gothic novel.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

100

There have been numerous books in this genre written about this turtleneck-wearing, tech innovator Steve Jobs.

What is a biography?

100

This genre is one that made Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook, a multimillionaire.

What is romantic fiction?

100

Someone called me "Mountain Goat."

Who is Jeannette Walls?

100

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is this genre.

What is a sports biography?

200

"The Lottery" and "Flowers for Algernon" are examples of this genre.

What is a short story?

200

This is the nonfiction genre of an encyclopedia.

What is informational?

200

These works fit into this genre.  Anthem, Brave New World, and The Giver.

What is dystopian?

200

His plays are categorized as tragedy or comedy (and he wasn't too shabby at sonnet writing, either).

Who is William Shakespeare?

200

 The Princess Bride by William Goldman is an example of this fiction subgenre; it always tears at my heartstrings when Westley says  “as you wish” to Princess Buttercup, when he really means “I love you.” 

What is fantasy romance?

300

This is a horror by Stephen King, who taught us not to follow a clown with a red balloon into a drain.

What is It?

300

Night by Elie Wiesel and I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai are this type of nonfiction.

What is memoir?

300

This historical fiction/fantasy novel was adapted to be a graphic novel.

What is Kindred?

300

I was once married to Marilyn Monroe.  She was bewitching.

Who is Arthur Miller?

300

Sometimes I'm a sonnet, sometimes I'm an ode, and sometimes I'm written in free verse.  But I am always this.

What is poetry?

400

This novel is about a time-traveling writer transported to the antebellum south.

What is Kindred?

400

Sarah Koenig narrated the podcast Serial about Adnan Syed., characterized by this nonfiction genre.

What is true crime?

400

The Crucible can be identified as this genre.

What is historical fiction?

400

Her historical fiction/time travel novel was turned into a graphic novel.

Who is Octavia Butler?

400

Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet are Shakespearean this.

What is a tragedy?

500

This drama is an allegory for McCarthyism. The Rosenbergs could have vouched for that if they hadn't been executed.

What is The Crucible?

500

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is this type of creative nonfiction.

What is memoir?

500

This genre is characterized by talking or magical flora and fauna, delivers a message, and is allegorical.

What is a fable?

500

He wrote the science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451.

Who is Ray Bradbury.

500

The film Walk the Line is this subgenre.

What is a biopic?