Memorize these and recognize 6.9% of all Books & Authors clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exodus | 22 | A 1977 Bob Marley album |
| 2 | Genesis | 21 | "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" & there was much begat-ing |
| 3 | John Grisham | 15 | The murder of 2 Supreme Court justices begins this author's "The Pelican Brief" |
| 4 | Ulysses | 11 | In 1923, 500 copies of this James Joyce novel were burned by the U.S. Post Office |
| 5 | The Great Gatsby | 11 | 1925: Driving. Non-Miss. Daisy |
| 6 | Revelation | 11 | Seals, then trumpets, then "Babylon the great is fallen" |
| 7 | The Scarlet Letter | 10 | "The Custom-House" is an introductory section to this Hawthorne classic |
| 8 | Stephen King | 10 | Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine |
| 9 | Of Mice and Men | 10 | John Steinbeck, 1937: "Of ___ and ___" |
| 10 | Goodnight Moon | 10 | 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed |
| 11 | Gone with the Wind | 10 | Twelve oaks, the Wilkes family plantation |
| 12 | Daniel | 10 | DENIAL |
| 13 | A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 1962: Alex. Droogs. Nasty |
| 14 | Tom Clancy | 9 | "'Do not insult my intelligence. You know the story of Krazny Oktyabr as well as I'" is said in a 1988 novel written by this man |
| 15 | Ruth | 9 | Benedict or Westheimer |
| 16 | Philip Roth | 9 | His novel "Indignation" follows a student from his father's Newark butcher shop to college in Ohio |
| 17 | Judges | 9 | Ibzan of Bethlehem & Tola the son of Puah were 2 of these just leaders |
| 18 | Jane Eyre | 9 | After this title character accepts Rochester's proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall |
| 19 | Catch-22 | 9 | It begins, "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him" |
| 20 | Agatha Christie | 9 | She dedicated 1946's "The Hollow" to "Larry & Danae, with apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder" |
| 21 | 1984 | 9 | "'We, the party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?'" |
| 22 | William Faulkner | 9 | This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson |
| 23 | Where the Wild Things Are | 8 | One of President Obama's favorite children's books is this 1963 classic by Maurice Sendak |
| 24 | War and Peace | 8 | Among other events in this Tolstoy novel, the emperor Napoleon shouts, sneers & takes snuff |
| 25 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 8 | Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" features characters from this novel set 20 years earlier |
| 26 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | 8 | This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages |
| 27 | The Grapes of Wrath | 8 | John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| 28 | Sophie's Choice | 8 | Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn |
| 29 | Psalms | 8 | Poems that praise God |
| 30 | Job | 8 | The Lord gave a guy the business in a big way; his days "are spent without hope" |
| 31 | Heart of Darkness | 8 | In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball" |
| 32 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 8 | He dedicated "The Beautiful and Damned" to Shane, Leslie, George, Nathan & Maxwell Perkins for their literary help |
| 33 | Anne Rice | 8 | "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling |
| 34 | Song of Solomon | 7 | The Rose of Sharon & her beloved |
| 35 | Proverbs | 7 | "A bad workman blames his tools" & "All is fair in love and war" |
| 36 | On The Road | 7 | Dean says, "Think of it, Sal. I've never been to Chicago in all my life, never stopped" in this 1957 classic |
| 37 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | 7 | In 1959 a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Post Office could no longer confiscate copies of this D.H. Lawrence novel |
| 38 | In Cold Blood | 7 | Truman Capote: "Cold" |
| 39 | East of Eden | 7 | Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title |
| 40 | Charlotte's Web | 7 | This beloved children's novel has twice been adapted for the big screen |
| 41 | All The King's Men | 7 | 1946: "None of the Queen's Gals" |
| 42 | Sister Carrie | 7 | A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser |
| 43 | Wuthering Heights | 6 | Isabella Linton, Hareton Earnshaw |
| 44 | The Wind in the Willows | 6 | "This was a base libel on Badger, who... was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect" |
| 45 | The Little Prince | 6 | "If you please, draw me a sheep" requests the title kid in this 1943 Saint-Exupery fable |
| 46 | The Firm | 6 | Time said "The Pelican Brief" "is as close to its predecessor", this Grisham book, as can be without photocopying it |
| 47 | The Da Vinci Code | 6 | Secrets & conspiracies play out in this 2003 thriller graced by the eyes of the Mona Lisa |
| 48 | Stuart Little | 6 | E.B. White began this novel about a "mouse" for his 6-year-old niece; she was grown & reading Hemingway by its finish |
| 49 | Remembrance of Things Past | 6 | The remembered taste of a cake provides a turning point in this Proust work about memory |
| 50 | Pride and Prejudice | 6 | Jane Austen's "P and P" |
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