| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: Ayn Rand is thought to have based the architect in this novel on Frank Lloyd Wright The Fountainhead |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: "The Curious Case of" this title Fitzgerald short story character is that he ages backwards Benjamin Button |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1200: This 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner begins, "It was Wang Lung's marriage day" The Good Earth |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $2000: His 1912 novel "Riders of the Purple Sage" is considered one of the best Westerns (Zane) Grey |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $5,000 (Daily Double): This book with a facial feature in its title was Toni Morrison's debut novel The Bluest Eye |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: This dino-bestseller came with a prologue: "The Bite of the Raptor" Jurassic Park |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: One-word titles by her include "Sula", "Beloved" & "Paradise" (Toni) Morrison |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1200: His final novel, 1962's "Island", was about a different brave New World, a utopian society in the Pacific (Aldous) Huxley |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1600: Critics hailed her "My Cousin Rachel" as another "Rebecca" du Maurier |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $2000: John Hersey won a 1945 Pulitzer Prize for his tale of Allied-occupied Italy called "A Bell for" this town Adano |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $200: This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $600: You might say young Charlie McGee lit up this 1980 Stephen King novel Firestarter |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): William Peter Blatty really turned heads with this 1971 bestseller The Exorcist |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1000: This novel has been described as "the final, notoriously obscure, wondrously perplexing work of James Joyce" Finnegans Wake |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: Time magazine's 1939 review of this novel was titled "Oakies" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: It was the nickname of the sadistic Sergeant James R. Judson in "From Here to Eternity" "Fatso" Judson |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1200: As this 1943 Ayn Rand novel begins, Howard Roark has just been expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology The Fountainhead |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: It's no mystery that this Englishwoman wrote romantic fiction under the pen name Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction Dashiell Hammett |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $400: The OED lists the first use of "robotic" in a 1941 tale by this author in Astounding Science Fiction Isaac Asimov |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: Though it's fiction, this first Henry Miller novel tells of the adventures of Henry Miller in Paris Tropic of Cancer |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | FICTION $400: This James Michener novel explored life in Colorado from prehistoric times to the 20th century Centennial |
