Nonfiction

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1 Carl Sagan 6x

2 Mount Everest 4x

3 Nixon 4x

4 the Civil War 3x

5 Silent Spring 3x

6 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus 3x

7 J. Edgar Hoover 3x

8 Ebola 3x

9 Chicken Soup 3x

10 A Brief History of Time 3x

11 Churchill 3x

12 Wounded Knee 2x

13 West Point 2x

14 Thomas Wolfe 2x

15 Theodore White 2x

16 the sinking of the Titanic 2x

17 The Perfect Storm 2x

18 the Lusitania 2x

19 the Dalai Lama 2x

20 the Cuban Missile Crisis 2x

21 Studs Terkel 2x

22 Sapiens 2x

23 Profiles in Courage 2x

24 Nellie Bly 2x

25 Mind 2x

26 Margaret Mead 2x

27 John Steinbeck 2x

28 John Reed 2x

29 Joan Didion 2x

30 Jimmy Carter 2x

31 Jane Goodall 2x

32 Howard Stern 2x

33 Henry Kissinger 2x

34 Helter Skelter 2x

35 Gilda Radner 2x

36 French Cooking 2x

37 Freakonomics 2x

38 Fast Food Nation 2x

39 Erma Bombeck 2x

40 David Halberstam 2x

41 Darwin 2x

42 Charles Kuralt 2x

43 cancer 2x

44 But Were Afraid to Ask 2x

45 Betty Friedan 2x

46 a cookbook 2x

47 (Richard) Wright 2x

48 Noah Webster 2x

49 Theodore Roosevelt 2x

50 Ted Kennedy 2x

Sample Clues

In 1973 this astronomer published his 1st book for general readership, "The Cosmic Connection"

Carl Sagan

Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" tells of a tragedy at this location

Mount Everest

Stephen Ambrose looked at this president's "Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990"

Nixon

Shelby Foote is best known for his 3-volume history of this conflict

the Civil War

Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing"

Silent Spring

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Other 579

Carl Sagan (6) Nixon (4) Mount Everest (4) Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (3) Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (3) Ebola (3) John F. Kennedy (3) J. Edgar Hoover (3) John Krakauer (3) Chicken Soup (3)

American Literature 10

John Steinbeck (2) Chernow (1) Mark Twain (1) Civil Disobedience (1) the Kennedys (1) Innocents (1) (Henry David) Thoreau (1) Ernest Hemingway (1) Charley (1)

Poetry 6

Aristotle (1) Silent Spring (1) Stephen Hawking (1) A Brief History of Time (1) David Frost (1) the Universe (1)

Children's Literature 5

Prozac Nation (1) Annie Oakley (1) The Peter Pan Syndrome (1) C.S. Lewis (1) From the Tree (1)

British Literature 4

the '50s (1) capitalism (1) Hugo Chávez (1) Billy Wilder (1)

Mystery / Thriller 3

Tom Clancy (1) Pinkerton (1) John Grisham (1)

Shakespeare 1

Henry V (1)