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A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.
What is Fight Club?
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener
What is Blink?
Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell
Who is Clifford (the big red dog)?
A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys
What is the Lambda award?
Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel “Shoeless Joe.”
What is Field of Dreams?
On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century
What are science fiction and fantasy?
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel
What is Beloved?
This author wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”
Who is Beverly Cleary?
This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, based on the memoir of the same name.
Who is Melissa McCarthy?
1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
Who is Agatha Christie?
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
What is Firestarter?
Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure
What is The Magic Tree House?
Forget the love story—Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this communist faction
Who are the Bolsheviks?
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”
What is Goodfellas?
It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver
What is Barbara?
This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado
What is Centennial?
In Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, this mongoose faces off against 2 cobras to protect his human family.
Who is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?
Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England
What is “Howl?”
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name
What is The Help?
At 15 she wrote a satirical “History of England” by “a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian”
Who is Jane Austen?
In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence
What is Neuromancer?
Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object
What is The Phantom Tollbooth?
The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness
Who is Daniel Defoe?