| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $1600: A chapter that follows Rorschach in this graphic novel draws inspiration from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" the Watchmen |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $800: In the first chapter of this novel by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza Cordero says that her family used to live in an apartment on Loomis The House on Mango Street |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1200: The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" Tom Jones |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | STOUT $600: In Chapter 1 of this novel, Piggy is described as a fat boy with asthma who wears specs the Lord of the Flies |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $3,000 (Daily Double): "In the Empty Courtroom" is a chapter in this novel in which Joseph K. is inexplicably arrested The Trial |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | CLASSIC LITERATURE $400: "Hester at Her Needle" is a chapter in this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | BOOKS OF THE 1940s $2,000 (Daily Double): In Chapter 1 of this Betty Smith novel, we're told that the one in Francie Nolan's yard "was neither a pine nor a hemlock" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Chapter I of this Gaston Leroux novel, we learn of a private box in the theatre always reserved for the title figure Phantom of the Opera |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHAPTER IN THE NOVEL $200: "The Pequod Meets the Rose-bud" Moby-Dick |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHAPTER IN THE NOVEL $400: "The World According to Marcus Aurelius" & "The World According to Bensenhaver" The World According to Garp |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHAPTER IN THE NOVEL $800: "Marius Enters the Darkness" Les Misérables |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHAPTER IN THE NOVEL $1,000 (Daily Double): For kids:
"Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle" & "Winter in Dorfli" Heidi |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHAPTER IN THE NOVEL $1000: "Train to the Urals" Doctor Zhivago |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | A COLORFUL CATEGORY $400: The last chapter of this dystopian novel, in which Alex renounces his past, was removed in the first U.S. publication A Clockwork Orange |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $600: Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, "Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house" Anna Karenina |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | GONE WITH THE WIND: THE NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): In the last chapter, Scarlett plans a return to Tara & yearns to see this woman, now her "last link with the old days" Mammy |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | LITERARY LOCALES $200: A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in Chapter VI of this novel Gone With the Wind |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $800: "The Golden Beaches of Nome" is a chapter title in the novel "Alaska" by this author James Michener |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in chapter VI of this novel Gone with the Wind |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | AMERICAN LIT $200: Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $400: In chapter one of this E.M. Forster novel, Lucy complains that her window doesn't overlook the Arno A Room with a View |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | BOOKS INTO MOVIES $400: Book 9, chapter 5 of this Fielding novel became a famous erotic eating scene in the movie Tom Jones |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: A chapter from "Life on the Mississippi" was intended for this "Tom Sawyer" sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $300: Chapter 16 in this binational novel is called "Still Knitting" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #2075, aired 1993-09-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the last chapter of this Steinbeck novel, Rose of Sharon delivers a stillborn child The Grapes of Wrath |
