| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $200: 1851:
Nantucket. Sea. Revenge. Madness. Oops. Adrift Moby-Dick |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $400: A young girl blows into town & kills a woman; does poppies to the point of unconsciousness & later kills a second woman before leaving The Wizard of Oz |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $600: A Bumppo in the road; Cora does not stay alive, no matter what occurs; hey... where'd everyone go? The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $800: Twain travel; Merlin mentioned; knights on bikes; we're gonna get medieval on your mind A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $1000: Miller's crossing some lines; a wild ride through 1930s Paris with Tania & Boris; smuggled into the states Tropic of Cancer |
| #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 $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 |
| #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 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: A novel by John Dos Passos titled this year includes a look at the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOW ANGELIC $2000: Something of a self-portrait, Eugene Gant is the hero of this 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $400: "Oh, fiddle-dee-dee! But look at Mrs. Merriwether. She's selling pies to Yankees and that's worse than running a sawmill" Gone With the Wind |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | BOOKS TO BROADWAY $400: "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" is based on 70 pages of this 1,400-plus page Tolstoy epic
"'Cause it’s a complicated Russian novel / Everyone’s got nine different names / So look it up in your program..." War and Peace |
| #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 $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 |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $400: An island-set game of clones;
DNA should have stood for "do not attempt";
this place is a zoo! Jurassic Park |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $1200: Fans of 3.14 might feel misled;
a man with a story to tell;
tiger, tiger, floating bright Life of Pi |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $1600: Arrakis' new governor is a duke;
sometimes, the tooth can be nasty, especially one filled with poison Dune |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $2000: Macondo mayhem;
7 generations of fun & inbreeding;
how can realism be so magical? One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A NOVEL LOOK $2,800 (Daily Double): Major Major Major Major problems;
not crazy about flying;
quite the paradox Catch-22 |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | OH, LOOK AT THE TIME $1600: A 1991 Douglas Coupland novel, or a nickname for the generation born in the U.S. after 1965 Generation X |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WEST SIDE STORY $1600: This Bret Easton Ellis novel set on L.A.'s West Side has as an epigraph "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west" Less Than Zero |
| #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 |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward, Angel |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes from the Tony-nominated musical The Color Purple performs a cappella.)
"Like a blade of corn/
Like a honeybee/
Like a waterfall/
All a part of me/
Like the color purple/
Where do it come from?/
Open up your eyes/
Look what God has done"
This woman says "The Color Purple" changed her life; she loved the novel, acted in the film & is one of the producers of the Broadway musical Oprah Winfrey |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | THEATRICAL ANGELS $1200: The original Broadway cast of this play based on a Thomas Wolfe novel featured Tony Perkins as Eugene Gant Look Homeward, Angel |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: This 2002 bestselling novel takes a comic look at those who raise the kids of the fabulously wealthy in NYC The Nanny Diaries |
| #3328, aired 1999-02-10 | HENRY JAMES' BOSTONIANS $800: Basil thinks Doctor Prance would look like this novel's Esmeralda, "If she... only had a goat" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | GARY WRITES A NOVEL $1000: For this cover photo, Gary grew a goatee to look more like this author, seen here: John Steinbeck |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $200: This Anne Rice character laments, "If I'm starved for blood I look like a perfect horror" Lestat the vampire |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | LITERATURE $800: He subtitled his autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel" "A Story of the Buried Life" Thomas Wolfe |
| #2278, aired 1994-06-29 | LITERATURE $800: This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward Angel |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1,200 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis won a 1926 Pulitzer Prize for his novel about this doctor, but refused it Arrowsmith |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | AWARDS $300: Ketti Frings won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for a play based on this Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $500: Steve Martin said this Carrie Fisher novel "makes 'Moby Dick' look like a big, fat, dumb book" Postcards from the Edge |
| #981, aired 1988-12-05 | 1ST NOVELS $400: His 1st novel, "Typee", was subtitled "A Look at Polynesian Life" Herman Melville |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | SOUTHERN AUTHORS $600: Thomas Wolfe subtitled this "seraphic" novel "A Story of the Buried Life" Look Homeward, Angel |
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