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1811: “Sense and Sensibility”
Who is Jane Austen?
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
What is Brave New World?
With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”
What is Helter Skelter?
Thornton Wilder’s novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius
What is The Ides of March?
This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award
What is The Right Stuff?
1920: “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”
Who is Agatha Christie?
“A House Divided” completed Pearl Buck’s trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
What is The Good Earth?
“A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”
What is Freakonomics?
“The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome
Who is Spartacus?
The 2017 Nonfiction winner was Masha Gessen’s “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed” this superpower
What is Russia?
2005: “Twilight”
Who is Stephenie Meyer?
A line from this novel: “Name’s Joad, Tom Joad”
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
About Louis Zamperini: “A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”
What is Unbroken?
When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve “A Murder on” this famous road
What is The Appian Way?
Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century “conveyance”
What is The Underground Railroad?
1940: “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”
Who is Carson McCullers?
This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”
What is Lean In?
In “The Eagle of the Ninth”, a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island
What is Britain?
Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel
What is Gravity’s Rainbow?
1988: “The Bean Trees”
Who is Barbara Kingsolver?
Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means “teen”
What is A Clockwork Orange?
Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”
What is He’s Just Not That Into You?
This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor
What is I, Claudius?
He won Fiction Awards for “The Magic Barrel” & “The Fixer” but not for “The Natural”
Who is Bernard Malamud?