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1 Don Quixote 23x

2 Robinson Crusoe 22x

3 Anna Karenina 22x

4 William Faulkner 22x

5 1984 21x

6 War and Peace 20x

7 Madame Bovary 20x

8 Little Women 20x

9 Ernest Hemingway 20x

10 The Scarlet Letter 19x

11 Jane Eyre 19x

12 Wuthering Heights 18x

13 Pride and Prejudice 18x

14 the Lord of the Flies 17x

15 Moby-Dick 16x

16 Gulliver's Travels 16x

17 David Copperfield 16x

18 Jack London 16x

19 The Sun Also Rises 15x

20 The Count of Monte Cristo 15x

21 Sherlock Holmes 15x

22 Great Expectations 15x

23 F. Scott Fitzgerald 15x

24 Charles Dickens 15x

25 Uncle Tom's Cabin 14x

26 The Old Man and the Sea 14x

27 Hester Prynne 14x

28 Frankenstein 14x

29 A Tale of Two Cities 14x

30 The Canterbury Tales 13x

31 The Brothers Karamazov 13x

32 On the Road 13x

33 Mark Twain 13x

34 Huckleberry Finn 13x

35 Heart of Darkness 13x

36 Crime and Punishment 13x

37 Rudyard Kipling 13x

38 Captain Ahab 13x

39 Ulysses 12x

40 Treasure Island 12x

41 The Three Musketeers 12x

42 Gulliver 12x

43 Gone with the Wind 12x

44 Dracula 12x

45 Catch-22 12x

46 Beowulf 12x

47 Animal Farm 12x

48 Death in Venice 12x

49 A Passage to India 12x

50 The Time Machine 11x

Sample Clues

In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous

Don Quixote

This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself"

Robinson Crusoe

"Vronsky had never had a real home life... his father he scarcely remembered"

Anna Karenina

For 37 years Ole Miss has held an annual conference on this writer & Yoknapatawpha

William Faulkner

This dystopian novel opens in April in London, "chief city of Airstrip One"

1984

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Anna Karenina (23) Don Quixote (23) War and Peace (21) Madame Bovary (20) Little Women (18) The Count of Monte Cristo (18) 1984 (17) Robinson Crusoe (17) the Lord of the Flies (17) Dr. Frankenstein (16)

Poetry 663

Edgar Allan Poe (19) Mary Shelley (13) Robert Frost (10) William Butler Yeats (9) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (9) George Eliot (8) Dante (8) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (8) Virgil (7) a sonnet (7)

British Literature 455

Rudyard Kipling (15) Thomas Hardy (14) Charles Dickens (14) David Copperfield (14) Jane Eyre (11) Virginia Woolf (10) J.R.R. Tolkien (10) Jane Austen (9) Oscar Wilde (8) Jonathan Swift (7)

American Literature 416

Ernest Hemingway (20) William Faulkner (18) F. Scott Fitzgerald (16) Herman Melville (14) Mark Twain (13) Willa Cather (11) Nathaniel Hawthorne (11) The Sun Also Rises (11) The House of the Seven Gables (10) Jack London (10)

Children's Literature 248

Peter Pan (8) the Brothers Grimm (7) Oz (6) Narnia (5) Frank Baum (5) Hans Christian Andersen (5) C.S. Lewis (5) The Cat in the Hat (5) Charlotte's Web (5) The Wizard of Oz (4)

Mystery / Thriller 194

Sherlock Holmes (15) Stephen King (8) Professor Moriarty (6) Philip Marlowe (5) Dr. Watson (4) The Hound of the Baskervilles (4) Hercule Poirot (4) Raymond Chandler (3) Ellery Queen (3) Agatha Christie (3)

Shakespeare 176

William Shakespeare (8) The Tempest (7) The Old Man and the Sea (6) Hamlet (6) Macbeth (6) Romeo and Juliet (4) Iago (4) Prospero (3) Henry VIII (3) Puck (3)