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David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

100

In this novel, a young orphan born in a workhouse joins a gang of pickpockets

Oliver Twist

100

A young girl becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in the coming-of-age story by Harper Lee.

To Kill a Mockingbird

100
These three sisters published their novels under the names Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
Who are Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte?
100

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.

dystopian novels

200

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

200

A black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend

Starr Carter

200

story of a young scientist who creates a monster in an scientific experiment

Frankenstein

200

When was the first Harry Potter book published?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in the U.K. on 26 June 1997.

200

Isaac Asimov is known for writing ... novels

science fiction

300

Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl

John Steinbeck

300

A young girl who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world.

Alice in Wonderland

300

A castaway spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued

Robinson Crusoe

300

Who is the best-selling fiction playwright of all time?

William Skakespeare

300

A central character who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

an anti-hero

400

The Blind Assassin, The Testaments, The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

400

JaneEyre's best friend at Lowood School

Helene Burns

400

A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

400

Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Winston Churchill

400

a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word

a euphemism

500

Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

500

In Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, this family travels from the dustbowl to California.

What is the Joad family?

500

Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.

1984

500

This novel, the author's only published work until recently, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.

To Kill a Mockingbird

500

two words used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings

an oxymoron