| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: Known primarily for his crime novels, he started out writing western tales like "Hombre" & "3:10 to Yuma" Elmore Leonard |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley Brave New World |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: "A House Divided" completed Pearl Buck's trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means "teen" A Clockwork Orange |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The number of missions Yossarian must fly to complete his service keeps going up in this satirical novel Catch-22 |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Boris Pasternak novel concludes with an epilogue & "The Poems of" the main character Doctor Zhivago |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Born with a very low IQ, Charlie Gordon undergoes surgery that increases his intelligence in this Daniel Keyes novel Flowers for Algernon |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This novel about Scottish drug users is written in dialect like "Ma eyes burrow intae the back ay her heid" Trainspotting |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: "Go Tell It on the Mountain", about the 14-year-old son of a preacher, was this author's first novel (James) Baldwin |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: This book by Tolkien begins by telling us the title figure lived in a hole in the ground The Hobbit |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: Alex, the narrator of this novel by Anthony Burgess, speaks Nadsat, a combination of Russian & Cockney English A Clockwork Orange |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Paul Baumer hopes to come out of World War I alive in this anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: Don't ask a librarian for Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead"; this 1945 novel is not actually a sequel Brideshead Revisited |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): A domesticated dog reverts to its wild state in "The Call of the Wild"; the opposite happens in this other book by Jack London White Fang |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The title of this Aldous Huxley novel comes from a line of Miranda's in "The Tempest" Brave New World |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "Mrs. Woolf", about Virginia, is one section of this "timely" Michael Cunningham novel The Hours |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1600: A 1969 novel says, "His reward...the respectful title of 'Don', and sometimes the more affectionate salutation of" this Godfather |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Trotter is the last name of the title boy in this book by Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $2000: This novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera was first published in French, as "L'Insoutenable Légèreté de L'Être" The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | "U.S.", EH $1000: This author whose early 20th century novels argued for social reform ran unsuccessfully for Californla governor Upton Sinclair |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: James Michener's novel about this country centers on a village on the Vistula River Poland |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" is the opening passage, & about the most comprehensible part, of this Joyce novel Finnegans Wake |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1200: Just before his death in 1975, Rex Stout published "A Family Affair", his final book about this portly detective Nero Wolfe |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1600: At 900+ pages, his 1998 novel "I Know This Much is True" is one hefty read (Wally) Lamb |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $2000: Yakov Liebermann, the hero of this Ira Levin novel, was based on Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal The Boys from Brazil |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Mick, a sensitive tomboy, is one of the longing-filled characters in the 1940 novel "The Heart Is" this The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: A young girl's trial testimony against her rapist inspired his novel "A Time to Kill" (John) Grisham |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: In the Stephen King book, Annie Wilkes loves company, but only author Paul Sheldon's Misery |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena" (Mario) Puzo |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: The 8,000-copy first printing of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel sold out in a week A Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NOVELS $1200: In "The Master", Colm Tóibín enters the mind of this great 19th & 20th century novelist Henry James |
| #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" |
| #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 |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $100: In a 1961 Joseph Heller novel, "There was only one catch and that was" this Catch-22 |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The narrator of his "Remembrance of Things Past" is named Marcel Marcel Proust |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $300: The 8,000-copy first printing of this 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel sold out in a week One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Catherine Marshall novel became a TV series with Kellie Martin teaching in the Appalachians Christy |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $500: This E. Annie Proulx novel gives the "News" on Quoyle, a sad man with a huge chin The Shipping News |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $100: Major Major is commander of an Air Force squadron in this WWII novel Catch-22 |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Bestsellers of 1998 included her novels "Mirror Image" & "The Long Road Home" Danielle Steel |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $300: Chief Bromden, a mental patient, narrates this 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The slogan "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad" appears in this 1945 novel Animal Farm |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): This 1906 novel is set in Packingtown, the nickname for Chicago's Union Stockyards The Jungle |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Some highbrow critics "Kurt"ly dismiss his sci-fi novel "The Sirens of Titan" as a lesser work Kurt Vonnegut |
| #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 |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Hemingway set "A Farewell to Arms" in WWI & "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in this war the Spanish Civil War |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "The Magician of Lublin", by this Yiddish language Nobel Prize winner, is set in his native Poland Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Ex-reporter Allen Drury wrote this 1959 novel about a Senate confirmation battle Advise and Consent |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $100: In its last chapter, the hero tells his father, "Love means never having to say you're sorry" "Love Story" |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Ralph survives on the island but Piggy is less lucky in this William Golding classic "Lord of the Flies" |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $300: Albert Camus' French work "L' Etranger" has been translated as "The Outsider", but more commonly as this "The Stranger" |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: Norman Mailer was just 25 when this 1948 bestseller, his first novel, was published The Naked and the Dead |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $500: Saul Bellow's title characters include Herzog, Humboldt & this man, "The Rain King" Henderson |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Active as a lawyer from age 21, he used a dictating machine to write his Perry Mason novels Erle Stanley Gardner |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: A collector of his novels would own copies of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" & "The Collector" John Fowles |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: This "Heart of Darkness" author's "Nostromo" takes place in the fictional country of Costaguana Joseph Conrad |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: In Mary McCarthy's "The Group", Kay Strong marries one week after graduation from this college Vassar |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Manfred de Spain appears in "The Town", "The Mansion" & "The Reivers" by this author (William) Faulkner |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: Both her "The Member of the Wedding" & "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" feature adolescent tomboys Carson McCullers |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Tyrone Slothrop, a character in his "Gravity's Rainbow", is also called Ian Scuffling & Rocketman (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: As of 1994, 5 of his novels had been filmed, 4 with Helena Bonham Carter, including "A Room with a View" (E.M.) Forster |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: It's subtitled "The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind" Scarlett |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This Mario Puzo saga of the Corleones was one of the best-selling novels of the 1970s The Godfather |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600 (Daily Double): It's the pen name under which Stephen King wrote the 1984 novel "Thinner" Richard Bachman |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: James Michener's "The Eagle and the "Raven" is a novel about Santa Anna's clash with this Texas statesman Sam Houston |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was based on this scandal of the 1920s Teapot Dome |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Budd Schulberg's novel "The Disenchanted" is based on the life of this "Great Gatsby" author F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: This author is known for novels set in the Orient; "King Rat" was his first James Clavell |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: According to the title of an Ayn Rand novel, "Atlas" did this Shrugged |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: He called "The Loved One" "a little nightmare produced by the...high living of a brief visit to Hollywood" Evelyn Waugh |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: "The Mansion" completed this Southern author's Snopes Trilogy William Faulkner |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: Most of William Faulkner's novels are set in an imaginary county in this state Mississippi |
| #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 |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: "I've killed my brother" is said near the end of this 1952 book with a Biblical title & a plot echoing a Biblical story East of Eden |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: In a 1989 novel, Jing-Mei Woo says, "My father has asked me to be the fourth corner" in this title group the Joy Luck Club |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: A line from this 1995 novel is "The infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald" Wicked |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: In 1940 House Representative from Oklahoma Lyle Boren denounced it as a "dirty, lying, filthy manuscript" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #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) |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Penned by a British author, it became a No. 1 bestseller in the U.S. in 1959, 31 years after it was initially banned Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: "A Girl from a Different World" & "Train to the Urals" are chapters in this 1957 work Doctor Zhivago |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Chapters in this 1953 thriller include "Dossier for M", "Pink Lights and Champagne" & "The Game is Baccarat" Casino Royale |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | WORDS IN 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Words found in this 1945 fable include brood, baying, bleating, comrade, tyranny & rebellion Animal Farm |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967 Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: It begins, "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'" The Satanic Verses (by Salman Rushdie) |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: The phrase that's the title of this novel comes from the translation of the Hebrew word Beelzebub Lord of the Flies |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: With the same initials as the author, Harry Haller is the loner protagonist of this 1927 German novel Steppenwolf (by Hermann Hesse) |
| #3018, aired 1997-10-15 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: After success writing in English, he & his son Dmitri translated some of his earlier Russian novels Vladimir Nabokov |
