| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch" isn't set in the world of baseball but rather this other sport soccer |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: Haruki Murakami borrowed from the Beatles for the bestseller "Noruwei no Mori", this in English Norwegian Wood |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Robert Pirsig's 1974 tale of a trip involving father & son bonding is titled "Zen and the Art of" this Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: This 1997 novel finds Inman exiting from the Civil War & sojourning across a ravaged land back to his love Cold Mountain |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: The title of this Don DeLillo novel refers to sirens & various sounds from TVs & other appliances White Noise |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale & discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first" a wardrobe |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: The title structure of this Virginia Woolf novel is across the bay from the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye To the Lighthouse |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: Umberto Eco named this 1988 thriller for an object that demonstrates the Earth's rotation Foucault's Pendulum |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: Sections in this Barbara Kingsolver book include "Genesis" & "Exodus" The Poisonwood Bible |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble the pearl |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger" (Albert) Camus |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" A Room with a View |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States Being There |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: In 1996 Oprah's Book Club read this Toni Morrison novel with a biblical title Song of Solomon |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: The prologue to this Ralph Ellison novel says, "People refuse to see me" Invisible Man |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: This Faulkner tale gets its title from a soliloquy in "Macbeth" The Sound and the Fury |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,400 (Daily Double): "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: This novel begins on the porch of Tara Gone with the Wind |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: He wove "Charlotte's Web" (E.B.) White |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Jack Handey's first collection Deep Thoughts |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: He began a trilogy with "The Golden Compass" Philip Pullman |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: John Howard Griffin darkened his skin & went South to write it Black Like Me |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1958 this beloved author helped found Beginner Books Dr. Seuss |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | 20th CENTURY LIT $1200: "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" & "Ironweed " are books in his Albany Cycle (William) Kennedy |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | TEENS IN HISTORY $400: The diary that she received for her 13th birthday in 1942 became one of the most famous books of the 20th century Anne Frank |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress Riders of the Purple Sage |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $400: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book "Portnoy's Complaint" |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: In 1929 William Faulkner made a lot of "noise" in the literary world with this book "The Sound and the Fury" |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Over a decade before Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique", this woman wrote "The Second Sex" Simone de Beauvoir |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: 2067 will be the 100th anniversary of his "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: If we say books published in 1915, you should make "The Rainbow" connection with this author D.H. Lawrence |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: This author of the "Deadly Sin" novels also wrote several books featuring playboy sleuth Archy McNally Lawrence Sanders |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | ON THE INDEX OF FORBIDDEN BOOKS $400: Entering the list in the 20th century were all the works by this Existentialist, including "No Exit" Sartre |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her books include "I Lost It At The Movies" & "5001 Nights At The Movies" Pauline Kael |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: Fruity first name of acclaimed Japanese author Yoshimoto, whose books include "N.P.", "Amrita" & "Kitchen" Banana |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: Books by this Norwegian include "The South Pole" & "First Crossing of the Polar Sea" Amundsen |
| #416, aired 1986-04-14 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: On the books since 1940, the Smith Act makes it unlawful to advocate this overthrow of the government |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: An "ineffable quality", this 3-word title represents "the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery" day after day The Right Stuff |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "I felt his spurs in my side & I heard his battle cry" is a line from this 1982 book that became a stage sensation & later a movie War Horse |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: William Goldman asked his daughters what he should write about; they said these 2 things, which he combined The Princess Bride |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: "Books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers" is a line from this novel Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury) |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: Chapter I of this book tells us: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood..." Angela's Ashes (by Frank McCourt) |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: In a classic book, this title phrase precedes the words "which had swept through Georgia" Gone with the Wind |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: This 1972 book, a bestseller in 2005, begins, "We were somewhere around Barstow... when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by Hunter Thompson) |
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