From Page to Screen
This YA dystopian series redefined the YA genre and was made into a film trilogy starring Jennifer Lawrence in 2012.
What is the Hunger Games?
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York."
What is The Bell Jar?
Following Greg Heffley this 17 book series was written by a '93 alumni.
What is The Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
This kid lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive.”
What is One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
By Angie Thomas, this 2017 book turned 2018 movie was banned follows Starr Carter and her life in two worlds.
What is The Hate U Give?
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.
What is Fight Club?
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
What is 100 Years of Solitude?
Elizabeth Acevado graduated with her MFA in 2015, and in 2018 would win the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for this debut novel.
What is Poet X?
E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on “Twilight”
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
John Green's debut novel banned for sexually explicit content follows Pudge and his eccentric friends at Culver Creek Preparatory High School.
What is Looking for Alaska?
This novella written by a classic horror author about unjust imprisonment was turned into a movie in 1994 featuring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
What is Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption?
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board."
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
An alumni of the Jimenez-Porter Writing House, Roseanne A. Brown debut novel follows the well known formula "A blank of blank and blank." This debut novel follows a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each.
What is A Song of Wraiths and Ruin?
The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane
What is Catch-22?
This 1949 classical novel was banned by the U.S. for "pro-communist" beliefs takes place in its titular year.
What is 1984?
The 1965 Frank Herbert science fiction novel involving the clash of factions contending for control over a bleak desert world.
What is Dune?
"124 was spiteful. Full of Baby's venom."
What is Beloved?
Brian Birnbaum a ‘10 alumni pulls from his experience as a child of deaf adults as he writes the story of a hearing son of deaf royalty, whose father is caught up in bribes and fraud, in this modern crime thriller set in Seattle in colorfully titled book.
What is Emerald City?
A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)
What is 206?
Known for its comical whimsey and vivid imagery, this 1865 children's novel was "Off with their heads!" for endorsing rebellion.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
The 1995 movie Clueless reinvents this classic novel by Jane Austen.
What is Emma?
"The boy's name was Santiago."
What is The Alchimist?
By '05 alumni, Bernard L. Dillard, this "blank 'Til blank" soap-operatic dramedy set in tense political times follows a history professor and the whirlwind that surrounds her family, associates and friends, delving into topics like race and sexual identity.
What is Two 'Til Midnight?
By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____”
What is zero?
One of the most banned books in the previous years this "memoir-manifesto" by George M. Johnson is a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey, and Virginia.
What is All Boys Aren't Blue?