| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $200: Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities sense & sensibility |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $400: His work at a V.A. hospital led to his first novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Before taking us into the Chocolate Factory & the Great Glass Elevator, he penned "The Gremlins" (Roald) Dahl |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: These "Papers" started out as captions for another's art, but ended up being Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1200: Written in 1943, this beatnik's "The Sea is My Brother" took a long road to publication, finally seeing print in 2011 Jack Kerouac |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1600: One man's rebellion against a world run by machines is the plot of "Player Piano", this author's first Vonnegut |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $5,000 (Daily Double): This title of James Baldwin's debut novel comes from a spiritual Go Tell It On the Mountain |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $200: 1884:
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $400: 1859:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $600: Page 001 (not 007):
"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning" Casino Royale |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $800: 1878:
"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" Anna Karenina |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $1000: 1952:
"Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail" The Natural |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: A Christie mystery: "It was 5:00 on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train..." Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1200: E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1600: 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs" A Clockwork Orange |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents" Paul Clifford |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "The Pickwick Papers"(1836-1837) (Charles) Dickens |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
(1962) Ken Kesey |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1200: "The Scarlatti Inheritance"
(1971) Robert Ludlum |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1600: "Buddenbrooks"
(1901) Thomas Mann |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $2000: "The Bluest Eye"
(1970) Toni Morrison |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $200: Orwell: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..." Animal Farm |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind..." The Great Gatsby |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $600: Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'" War and Peace |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: Golding: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down...and began to pick his way toward the lagoon" Lord of the Flies |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: Bronte: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" Jane Eyre |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "The Time Machine"
(1895) H.G. Wells |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: "Look Homeward, Angel"
(1929) Thomas Wolfe |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1200: "Sister Carrie"
(1900) Theodore Dreiser |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1600: "The Natural"
(1952) Bernard Malamud |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $2000: "Adam Bede"
(1859) George Eliot |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $200: "The Hunt for Red October"
(1984) Tom Clancy |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "Carrie"
(1974) Stephen King |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $600: "The Naked and the Dead"
(1948) Norman Mailer |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): "A Time to Kill"
(1989) John Grisham |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1000: "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"
(1893) Stephen Crane |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | FIRST NOVELS $400: With the publication of "Jaws", he was called "The most successful first novelist in literary history" Peter Benchley |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | FIRST NOVELS $800: Ken Kesey's work in the mental ward of a V.A. hospital provided background for this novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | FIRST NOVELS $1200: She wrote "White House Pets" & a biography of her father before turning to fiction with "Murder in the White House" Margaret Truman |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | FIRST NOVELS $1600: We've checked the facts & it's true, Jay McInerney shot to fame with this first novel about living life in NYC's fast lane Bright Lights, Big City |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | FIRST NOVELS $3,400 (Daily Double): Larry McMurtry took the title of this first novel from William Butler Yeats' famous epitaph Horseman, Pass By |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $200: "Interview with the Vampire" (1976) Anne Rice |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "Catch-22" (1961) Joseph Heller |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $600: "Lord of the Flies" (1954) William Golding |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: "Horseman Pass By" (1961) Larry McMurtry |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1000: "King Rat" (1962) James Clavell |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $200: Stephen King's first published novel was this tale of a tormented telekinetic teen Carrie |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Amy Tan's first novel, it told of 4 Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters The Joy Luck Club |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $600: Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $800: K is for "Keziah Dane", her first novel published in 1967 Sue Grafton |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): I order you to name this first novel by Pat Conroy about tough Marine Corps colonel Bull Meecham The Great Santini |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: A young girl's trial testimony against her rapist inspired his novel "A Time to Kill" John Grisham |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" Mario Puzo |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1200: Oui! Oui! in 1863 this science fiction pioneer published his first novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1600: Stephen Crane's first novel told the story of this "Girl of the Streets" Maggie |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $2000: He wrote his first novel, "Junkie", under the pen name William Lee; "Naked Lunch" would follow (William S.) Burroughs |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $100: Xavier Herbert's debut novel, "Capricornia", explores the lives of Aborigines in this country's northern Outback Australia |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $200: This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh Tennessee Williams |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $300: This 19th century New Englander later tried to destroy all the copies of his anonymous first novel, "Fanshawe" Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Not surprisingly, Ireland is the setting for this "Circle of Friends" author's first novel, "Light A Penny Candle" Maeve Binchy |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $500: This Auchincloss used the pen name Andrew Lee in his first novel, "The Indifferent Children" Louis Auchincloss |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $100: Few have heard of his first novel, "The Snake's Pass", but everyone knows his "Dracula" Bram Stoker |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $200: His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road" Jack Kerouac |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $300: This "Brideshead Revisited" author's career was ascendant when he published his first novel, "Decline And Fall" Evelyn Waugh |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $500 (Daily Double): Sadly, the manuscript of her very first novel was destroyed in a fire in Nanking Pearl S. Buck |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | FIRST NOVELS $500: He was poet-in-residence at the University of South Carolina when he delivered his first novel, "Deliverance" James Dickey |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $200: The heroine of this "Beloved" author's first novel, "The Bluest Eye", wishes her eyes were blue Toni Morrison |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: The pirate hero of his first novel, "Cup of Gold", is a far cry from Tom Joad John Steinbeck |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $600: A house party in the country is the setting for this "Brave New World" author's first novel, "Crome Yellow" Aldous Huxley |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $800: 4 years after graduating from Duke, this "Sophie's Choice" author published his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness" William Styron |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $1000: We don't know "Who's Afraid of" reading her first novel, "The Voyage Out" Virginia Woolf |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Marooned!" would have been an appropriate title for this first novel by Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FIRST NOVELS $400: This "Ragtime" author's first novel, 1960's "Welcome to Hard Times", was a western E.L. Doctorow |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FIRST NOVELS $600: His first novel, "Almayer's Folly", is autobiographical, like "Lord Jim" Joseph Conrad |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FIRST NOVELS $800: His first novel was "The Man Within"; "The Third Man" came later Graham Greene |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: His first novel, 1984's "Neuromancer", made him a leader of the cyberpunk movement William Gibson |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $200: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream..." The Old Man and the Sea |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: "The Salinas Valley is in northern California." East of Eden |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $600: "It was Wang Lung's marriage day." The Good Earth |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: "Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns, stands a rusty wooden house..." The House Of The Seven Gables |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $200: This Dane's first novel "The Improviser", was published the same year as his first book of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $400: In this first Tom Clancy novel, the captain of a Soviet sub decides to defect with his ship The Hunt for Red October |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $600: Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippian find a publisher for "Soldier's Pay", his first novel William Faulkner |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $800: He introduced intelligence agent George Smiley in 1961's "Call for the Dead" John le Carré |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: Later a Bertolucci film, this first novel by Paul Bowles is considered a model of existential fiction The Sheltering Sky |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $100: "Carrie" Stephen King |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $300: "This Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $400: "The Naked and the Dead" Norman Mailer |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | FIRST NOVELS $500: "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | FIRST NOVELS $100: "Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Interview with the Vampire" Anne Rice |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | FIRST NOVELS $300: "The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | FIRST NOVELS $400: "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee |
| #2701, aired 1996-05-06 | FIRST NOVELS $500: "The Bridges of Madison County" Robert James Waller |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $200: "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm..." Gone with the Wind |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" Love Story |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $600: "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently..." The Grapes of Wrath |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Rebecca |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them." Fear of Flying |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $200: This author's 1st book, "Betty Zane", was an historical novel about his mother's ancestors Zane Grey |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $400: The actual title of his 1st novel is "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" Charles Dickens |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $600: "Valley of the Dolls" Jacqueline Susann |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: Stephen King's 1st published novel, it was made into a 1976 movie starring Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: This California novelist's 1st book was "Cup of Gold", a fictionalized account of Sir Henry Morgan John Steinbeck |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Catch-22" Joseph Heller |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $400: "Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $600: "Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $800: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" James Cain |
| #1013, aired 1989-01-18 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: "The Tin Drum" Günter Grass |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "The Time Machine" H.G. Wells |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | FIRST NOVELS $400: "The Torrents of Spring", published the same year as "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | FIRST NOVELS $600: "King Rat" James Clavell |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" Carson McCullers |
| #883, aired 1988-06-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: "Other Voices, Other Rooms" Truman Capote |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | FIRST NOVELS $200: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | FIRST NOVELS $400: "Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | FIRST NOVELS $600: "Wuthering Heights" Emily Brontë |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | FIRST NOVELS $800: "The Big Sleep" Raymond Chandler |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | FIRST NOVELS $1000: "Appointment in Samarra" John O'Hara |
