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1 Ernest Hemingway 19x

2 Don Quixote 18x

3 Little Women 17x

4 Anna Karenina 17x

5 William Faulkner 17x

6 1984 16x

7 Sherlock Holmes 15x

8 Robinson Crusoe 15x

9 Madame Bovary 15x

10 Jane Eyre 15x

11 Pride and Prejudice 14x

12 Moby-Dick 14x

13 David Copperfield 14x

14 Huckleberry Finn 13x

15 Hester Prynne 13x

16 Gulliver's Travels 13x

17 Rudyard Kipling 13x

18 F. Scott Fitzgerald 13x

19 Charles Dickens 13x

20 War and Peace 12x

21 The Sun Also Rises 12x

22 The Scarlet Letter 12x

23 Mark Twain 12x

24 Frankenstein 12x

25 Catch-22 12x

26 Wuthering Heights 11x

27 Uncle Tom's Cabin 11x

28 Sir Walter Scott 11x

29 Sinclair Lewis 11x

30 On the Road 11x

31 Edgar Allan Poe 11x

32 The Pilgrim's Progress 11x

33 A Passage to India 11x

34 Ulysses 10x

35 The Three Musketeers 10x

36 Oliver Twist 10x

37 Lord of the Flies 10x

38 Gulliver 10x

39 Fahrenheit 451 10x

40 Dorian Gray 10x

41 Brave New World 10x

42 Jack London 10x

43 Captain Ahab 10x

44 Nathaniel Hawthorne 10x

45 Treasure Island 9x

46 The Old Man and the Sea 9x

47 The Count of Monte Cristo 9x

48 The Brothers Karamazov 9x

49 Ivanhoe 9x

50 Heart of Darkness 9x

Sample Clues

At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down

Ernest Hemingway

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

Don Quixote

Katharine Weber's retelling of this 19th c. novel features just 3 sisters, & Beth is a pet turtle who dies

Little Women

Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character

Anna Karenina

Wallstreet Panic Snopes is one of the few honest members of the vicious Snopes family created by this novelist

William Faulkner

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Anna Karenina (18) Don Quixote (18) Sinclair Lewis (16) Little Women (15) Madame Bovary (15) The Three Musketeers (13) Moby-Dick (13) War and Peace (13) Frankenstein (13) the Lord of the Flies (12)

Poetry 540

Edgar Allan Poe (13) Mary Shelley (12) William Butler Yeats (9) Robert Frost (9) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (8) George Eliot (7) Dante (7) a sonnet (7) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (7) John Keats (6)

British Literature 373

Rudyard Kipling (15) David Copperfield (13) Thomas Hardy (12) Charles Dickens (12) Jane Eyre (10) Virginia Woolf (9) Jane Austen (6) J.R.R. Tolkien (6) Jonathan Swift (6) The Picture of Dorian Gray (6)

American Literature 346

Ernest Hemingway (19) F. Scott Fitzgerald (14) William Faulkner (13) Nathaniel Hawthorne (12) Mark Twain (12) Willa Cather (11) Herman Melville (11) The Sun Also Rises (10) The House of the Seven Gables (8) The Grapes of Wrath (6)

Children's Literature 210

Peter Pan (8) the Brothers Grimm (7) Oz (6) Frank Baum (5) Hans Christian Andersen (5) C.S. Lewis (5) Charlotte's Web (5) The Wizard of Oz (4) The Cat in the Hat (4) Narnia (3)

Mystery / Thriller 149

Sherlock Holmes (15) Professor Moriarty (6) Philip Marlowe (5) Stephen King (4) Hercule Poirot (4) Dr. John Watson (3) Raymond Chandler (3) The Hound of the Baskervilles (3) Agatha Christie (3) the Hardy Boys (2)

Shakespeare 135

William Shakespeare (6) The Old Man and the Sea (5) Macbeth (5) The Tempest (5) Romeo and Juliet (4) Prospero (3) King Lear (3) Iago (3) a sonnet (3) Santiago (2)