Fast Facts
Who is Godric Gryffindor?
This daytime talk show megastar's book club recommended a total of 70 books leading to sales of over 55 million copies.
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express
What classic Leo Tolstoy novel, first released serially from 1873-1877, tells the story of a titular woman and her affair with Count Vronsky? Keira Knightley played the title character in a 2012 movie adaptation directed by Joe Wright.
Anna Karenina
This is the best-selling English language novel of all time.
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
Which Hunger Games did Haymitch win?
What is the 50th Hunger Games?
Team Edward! This author penned the famous Twilight series.
Who is Stephenie Meyer?
This novel follows an investigation carried out by 17-year old true crime enthusiast Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi, a high school student in the fictional town of Fairview, Connecticut.
What is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?
What 1847 Emily Bronte classic deals with two West Yorkshire families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and in particular the adopted Earnshaw, Heathcliff? It was also a 1939 William Wyler film with Oscar-winning cinematography, starring Laurence Olivier and David Niven.
Wutering Heights
This is currently the best selling children's book (and the series is still continuing to be written!)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
This is the name of the camp Celaena Sardothien is in at the beginning of Throne of Glass
What is Endovier?
Thestrals and Floo Powder are both forms of transportation invented by what internationally-renowned author?
Who is JK Rowling?
A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?
Life of Pi
What Shakespearean play, in which two couples wind up marrying, coined a modern day term for an unnecessary dispute?
Much Ado about Nothing
How old is the youngest ever comercially published author?
4 years old! (Dorothy Straight)
He was the youngest character in The Maze Runner.
Who is Chuck?
"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel, not nearly as well known as "A Christmas Carol" by which British author?
Who is Charles Dickens?
The winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal was ranked as the fourth best children's novel of all time by a 2012 US survey. What is this Lois Lowry-penned book which centers on protagonist Jonas's apprenticeship as his community's "Receiver of Memory?"
The Giver
What novel begins with the following line? “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like..."
The Catcher in the Rye
This is the longest-ever published novel at 4,215 pages.
In Search of Lost Time, or A la recherche du temps perdu
In Vampire Academy, Lissa specializes in this element.
What is Spirit?
This English writer was considered a pioneer of stream of consciousness writing. She wrote novels including "A Room of One's Own", "The Voyage Out", and "The Waves".
Who is Virginia Woolf?
What 2014 bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel opens with a performance of "King Lear," in which the death of the actor playing Lear is one of the first in an apocalyptic swine flu pandemic?
Station Eleven
Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky are both characters in what classic work of European literature? The book was partially released in serial format as "The Year 1805" and was published in its entirety in 1869.
War and Peace
The oldest book in the world, the Etruscan Gold Book, was written in about what year?
600 BCE