Classic Literature
Children's Literature
American Literature
British Literature
Book/Author
100

This classic written by Homer relates the adventures and life of Odysseus.

What is The Odyssey?

100

This bright wizard is the female best friend of Harry Potter.

Who is Hermione?

100

Name the four March sisters in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. 

Who are Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy?

100

This author wrote many popular children's books, including James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Matilda. 

Who is Roald Dahl?

100

This children’s book series by Ludwig Bemelmans takes place in “an old house in Paris that was covered in vines” where there “lived twelve little girls in two straight lines” and is famous for having the closing line “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.” 

What is Madeline?

200

Author of the political satire also loved as a children’s book titled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Who is Lewis Carroll?

200

The author of Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little

Who is E. B. White?

200

In Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" the U.S. is overthrown and replaced by this totalitarian state.

What is the Republic of Gilead?

200

This 20th Century author wrote, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” in the satirical beast fable "Animal Farm".

Who is George Orwell?

200

Author of children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.

Who is Maurice Sendak?

300

The fictional village of Highbury is the setting for this Jane Austen novel

What is Emma?

300

This sweet candy plays a large role in the book "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis.

What is a Turkish Delight?

300

Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in this famous museum.

The Louvre

300

The author who wrote the iconic opening line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Who is Jane Austen?

300

This author penned the American realist novel The Grapes of Wrath which was published in 1939 and portrayed the life of migrant farmworkers.

Who is John Steinbeck?

400

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights tells of a tragic romance between two lovers, ____ and _____.

Who are Catherine and Heathcliff?

400

This children’s story begins with a boat being wrecked in the middle of nowhere during a sea storm and a family’s survival as they live on an island. 

What is Swiss Family Robinson?

400

This American poet spent her entire life in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, writing nearly 1800 poems in her lifetime.

Who is Emily Dickinson?

400

Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes first appeared in this novel.

What is A Study in Scarlet?

400

The title of Stephen King's first published novel.

What is Carrie?

500

Mark Twain's characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live in this state. 

Where is Missouri?

500

The location where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, a coming-of-age story, live and write about. 

Where is Prince Edward Island?

500

This fictional town is the setting of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Where is Maycomb, Alabama?

500

The name of Charles Dickens’ last work, which was only half completed when he died.

What is The Mystery of Edwin Drood?

500

This famous Russian novelist was also a physician.

Who is Anton Chekhov?