| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $600: A biography subtitled "Her True Story" is journalist Andrew Morton's look at this princess Princess Diana |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $200: Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller "The Boys of Summer" is a nostalgic look at this team before it headed west the (Brooklyn) Dodgers |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $400: By prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, "Helter Skelter" reveals the facts behind the crimes of this so-called family Manson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $800: "Hearts Insurgent" is an abridged form of the novel called him "the Obscure" Jude |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1200: Yann Martel named the tiger in "Life of Pi" after this shipwreck victim in Edgar Allan Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Richard Parker |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1600: A billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is on the road to West Egg in this 1925 novel The Great Gatsby |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $2000: "Girl with curious hair", with a tale of a "Jeopardy!" win streak, is a story collection by this late author of a looong novel (David Foster) Wallace |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BOOKS OF 1990 $400: Alan Moore's dystopian look at a near-future England is called "V for" this Vendetta |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $5,000 (Daily Double): Nixon's famed trip is covered in "On China", a look at Sino-U.S. relations by this former Secretary of State Kissinger |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $1600: "Imperial Twilight" by Stephen Platt takes a look at the relations between Britain & this nation during the Opium Wars China |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS $800: "Hunting Monsters" takes a scientific look at the myths behind creatures like Bigfoot, dragons & this "plesiosaur" the Loch Ness Monster |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $200: Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" features characters from this novel set 20 years earlier To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $400: In 1932 Pearl Buck's "Sons" was a No. 3 bestseller; this other Buck book held the top spot The Good Earth |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $600: "GEB" is devotees' name for Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher," this composer Bach |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $800: "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" was a 1984 offering from this British satirical sci-fi writer Douglas Adams |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1000: Norman Mailer said a novel by this man didn't have the right stuff: "It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is 1,500" Tom Wolfe |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $400: Noam Chomsky took a critical look at JFK in "Rethinking" this mythical place Camelot |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $600: (Hi, I'm Doug Savant.) John Irving moved me with his look at good & evil in the novel "A Prayer for" this Christ-like character Owen Meany |
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