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Books & Authors.

One of the show's biggest topics with 4,840 clues across 40 seasons. The writers draw from 485 distinct answers, so breadth matters.

Total clues
4,840
Daily Doubles
306
6.3% of clues
DJ skew
58%
Final J!s
63
Stumper rate
18.3%
Avg value
$896
Key Answers 50 gimmes · 8 stumpers
Top answers 485 total answers
The answers every prepared player should know.
Answer Clues Stumper Avg $
01 John Grisham
15 0.0% $560
02 The Great Gatsby
12 16.7% $933
03 Ulysses
11 18.2% $873
04 The Scarlet Letter
11 0.0% $582
05 Stephen King
10 20.0% $600
06 Of Mice and Men
10 0.0% $980
07 Goodnight Moon
10 0.0% $440
08 Gone with the Wind
10 10.0% $460
09 A Clockwork Orange
10 0.0% $1,180
10 Tom Clancy
9 0.0% $325
11 Philip Roth
9 22.2% $822
12 Jane Eyre
9 11.1% $1,133
13 Heart of Darkness
9 0.0% $744
14 Catch-22
9 11.1% $867
15 Agatha Christie
9 0.0% $411
16 1984
9 0.0% $444
17 William Faulkner
9 33.3% $800
18 Where the Wild Things Are
8 0.0% $771
19 War and Peace
8 0.0% $400
20 To Kill a Mockingbird
8 0.0% $500
Sample clue Books & Authors
The murder of 2 Supreme Court justices begins this author's "The Pelican Brief"
What is — John Grisham
Sub-Areas 7 categories

Other

313 answers · 961 clues
On The Road 7 Lady Chatterley's Lover 7 John Irving 7 The Little Prince 6 Madeline 6 Little Women 6 John Updike 6 Henry James 6 Exodus 6 Carrie Fisher 6 Theodore Dreiser 5 The Red Badge of Courage 5 The Good Earth 5 The Age of Innocence 5 Ray Bradbury 5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5 Lord of the Flies 5 Jaws 5 Danielle Steel 5 The Velveteen Rabbit 5 The Pilgrim's Progress 5 Wonder Woman 4 Vanity Fair 4 True Blood 4 Their Eyes Were Watching God 4 The Outsiders 4 The Kite Runner 4 The Hunger Games 4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 4 The Executioner's Song 4 The Color Purple 4 the Civil War 4 The Brothers Karamazov 4 Stephen Hawking 4 San Francisco 4 Rebecca 4 Pippi Longstocking 4 Outlander 4 Norman Mailer 4 New York 4 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 4 Life of Pi 4 James Fenimore Cooper 4 James Clavell 4 Isaac Asimov 4 I, Claudius 4 Heaven 4 Frank Sinatra 4 Finnegans Wake 4 Field of Dreams 4 Don Quixote 4 D.H. Lawrence 4 Bill Cosby 4 Bernard Malamud 4 Atlas Shrugged 4 Around the World in Eighty Days 4 Anna Karenina 4 All Quiet on the Western Front 4 Alice Walker 4 A Passage to India 4

Mystery / Thriller

42 answers · 164 clues

American Literature

35 answers · 159 clues

British Literature

31 answers · 124 clues

Children's Literature

27 answers · 118 clues

Poetry

29 answers · 108 clues

Shakespeare

8 answers · 47 clues
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