Quick Books
1903: A dog runs with wolves
What is The Call of the Wild?
This monarch who loses her tarts is a danger to Alice & others during her adventures in Wonderland
Who is the Queen of Hearts
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a portrait of him, its author
Who is James Joyce?
The title object being sought in Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October is one of these
What is a submarine?
In The Diary of a Young Girl, this author details life in hiding in German-occupied Amsterdam in World War II
Who is Anne Frank?
1847:
Heathcliff is a bad cat
What is Wuthering Heights?
In Henry VIII Shakespeare has this Spanish-born queen die when Elizabeth is born; in fact, it was 3 years later
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
He remembered things past when he went In Search of Lost Time
Who is Marcel Proust?
In Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, a young woman survives WWII in Asia and then starts a new life in this country's bush
What is Australia?
Truman Capote wrote this true crime work about the Clutter family murders in Kansas
What is In Cold Blood?
1813:
Ms. Bennet confronts two specific things
What is Pride and Prejudice?
In the third of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles", we meet Akasha, who has this title title
What is Queen of the Damned?
This screenwriter's marriage to Carl Bernstein gave her (& readers) Heartburn
Who is Nora Ephron?
In addition to the tales of his fabled detective, this man penned The White Company, an adventure of the Middle Ages
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
This author covers the Appalachian Trail in A Walk in the Woods and language in The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Who is Bill Bryson?
1939:
On the Joad again
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Dido, the queen of Carthage, is tragically tossed aside by her lover in this post-Troy epic
What is The Aeneid?
Thomas Wolfe's "A Story of the Buried Life" is called do this, "Angel"
What is Look Homeward, (Angel)?
In the future soldiers like Johnny Rico fight alien "bugs" in this Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel
What is Starship Troopers?
This book by Erik Larson covers the serial killer Herman Mudgett and architectect Daniel H. Burnham
What is The Devil in the White City?
1908:
Oh, the Rat & the Toad should be friends
What is The Wind in the Willows?
Queen Bramimonde is a Spanish Saracen queen who questions her faith in this "Song" of France
What is "The Song of Roland"?
He followed up Tropic of Cancer with Tropic of Capricorn
Who is Henry Miller?
A father and son try to avoid marauding cannibals on their trek in this Cormac McCarthy novel
What is The Road?
Before his extensive biographical series of Lyndon B. Johnson, this author covered Robert Moses in The Power Broker
Who is Robert Caro?