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1 John Grisham 15x

2 The Great Gatsby 12x

3 Ulysses 11x

4 The Scarlet Letter 11x

5 Stephen King 10x

6 Of Mice and Men 10x

7 Goodnight Moon 10x

8 Gone with the Wind 10x

9 A Clockwork Orange 10x

10 War and Peace 9x

11 Tom Clancy 9x

12 Philip Roth 9x

13 Jane Eyre 9x

14 Heart of Darkness 9x

15 Catch-22 9x

16 Agatha Christie 9x

17 1984 9x

18 William Faulkner 9x

19 Where the Wild Things Are 8x

20 To Kill a Mockingbird 8x

21 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 8x

22 The Grapes of Wrath 8x

23 Sophie's Choice 8x

24 Anne Rice 8x

25 On The Road 7x

26 Lady Chatterley's Lover 7x

27 In Cold Blood 7x

28 F. Scott Fitzgerald 7x

29 Charlotte's Web 7x

30 All The King's Men 7x

31 Sister Carrie 7x

32 Wuthering Heights 6x

33 The Wind in the Willows 6x

34 The Little Prince 6x

35 The Firm 6x

36 The Da Vinci Code 6x

37 Stuart Little 6x

38 Remembrance of Things Past 6x

39 Pride and Prejudice 6x

40 Mark Twain 6x

41 Madeline 6x

42 Little Women 6x

43 John Updike 6x

44 Henry James 6x

45 Green Eggs and Ham 6x

46 From Here to Eternity 6x

47 Fahrenheit 451 6x

48 Exodus 6x

49 East of Eden 6x

50 Carrie Fisher 6x

Sample Clues

The murder of 2 Supreme Court justices begins this author's "The Pelican Brief"

John Grisham

1925: Driving. Non-Miss. Daisy

The Great Gatsby

In 1923, 500 copies of this James Joyce novel were burned by the U.S. Post Office

Ulysses

"The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne classic

The Scarlet Letter

1990 bestsellers included Sidney Sheldon's "Memories of Midnight" & this author's "Four Past Midnight"

Stephen King

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Ulysses (11) Grisham (11) Philip Roth (11) A Clockwork Orange (10) The Great Gatsby (9) Heart of Darkness (9) Catch-22 (9) Gone with the Wind (9) War and Peace (9) The Scarlet Letter (9)

American Literature 205

F. Scott Fitzgerald (9) William Faulkner (8) J.D. Salinger (7) John Steinbeck (7) Herman Melville (6) Mark Twain (6) Of Mice and Men (6) Kurt Vonnegut (6) The Grapes of Wrath (5) Jack London (5)

Mystery / Thriller 177

Stephen King (10) Agatha Christie (9) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (6) James Patterson (5) Hercule Poirot (4) John Grisham (4) Miss Marple (3) Misery (3) Spenser (3) Tom Clancy (3)

Children's Literature 150

Charlotte's Web (7) The Wizard of Oz (6) James and the Giant Peach (5) Dr. Seuss (5) The Cat in the Hat (5) Alice in Wonderland (4) The Wind in the Willows (3) L. Frank Baum (3) Salman Rushdie (3) Peter Pan (2)

British Literature 147

Thomas Hardy (6) Daniel Defoe (5) Dickens (5) George Orwell (5) Laura Ingalls Wilder (4) 1984 (3) Robert Louis Stevenson (3) Tolkien (3) Jane Eyre (3) Oscar Wilde (2)

Poetry 139

George Eliot (6) Mary Shelley (5) The Satanic Verses (4) (Allen) Ginsberg (3) Shel Silverstein (3) The Mill on the Floss (3) Edgar Allan Poe (3) Langston Hughes (3) "Leaves of Grass" (2) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2)

Shakespeare 40

Remembrance of Things Past (2) The Sound and the Fury (2) Macbeth (1) Geoffrey Chaucer (1) Twelfth Night (1) The Merchant of Venice (1) prologue (1) King Lear (1) Will (1) Birnam Wood (1)