| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns Louis L'Amour |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She published her early novels like "The Bluest Eye" & "Sula" while working as an editor at Random House Toni Morrison |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $800: South American politics & magic realism are big in her novels, like "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love & Shadows" (Isabel) Allende |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $2000: In novels like "American Psycho" & "Glamorama", he's the chronicler of people with more money than is good for them (Bret Easton) Ellis |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS $800: The graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy" is a memoir of this "Star Trek" actor's time in an American WWII internment camp George Takei |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: "Miss Lonelyhearts" was one of his satiric novels of the 1930s (Nathanael) West |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: "The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $200: It's alternately titled "Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" Little Women |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $400: The battle in this Stephen Crane novel is believed to have been based on the Battle of Chancellorsville Red Badge of Courage |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Dreiser novel lives up to its title: Clyde dies in the electric chair for murdering his pregnant girlfriend An American Tragedy |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: This Heinlein novel begins, "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger in a Strange Land |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | NOVELS WITH CONFLICT $1000: "Rabble in Arms" by Kenneth Roberts the American Revolution |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1984 a Presidential Medal of Freedom went to this author of "Hondo" & dozens of other Western novels Louis L'Amour |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | SCI-FI NOVELS $200: In "Steelheart" this Midwestern American city has been transformed into steel; even Lake Michigan has turned to metal Chicago |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $800: This 19th century author of coming of age novels was featured on a 1940 postage stamp Louisa May Alcott |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $200: It was first published in England in 1851 under the title "The Whale" Moby-Dick |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $400: Following "Tuesdays with Morrie", Mitch Albom published his first novel, "The Five People You Meet" here in Heaven |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: New patient Randle Patrick McMurphy shakes things up at a psychiatric hospital in this novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Howard Roark is the visionary architect in this novel The Fountainhead |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: The Old Testament gave William Faulkner the title of this novel, this novel! about Thomas Sutpen Absalom, Absalom! |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote 2 novels: "Not Without Laughter" & "Tambourines to Glory" (Langston) Hughes |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | FEMALE AUTHORS $2000: "The Hundred Secret Senses" is one of her novels exploring Asian-American family relationships Amy Tan |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $400: When he was just 24, Stephen Crane published this novel about Union soldier Henry Fleming The Red Badge of Courage |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Oprah said that this Alice Walker novel was life-changing for her & she was honored to play a role in the movie The Color Purple |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1200: Perfect beach reading in 1951 was this James Jones novel set in Hawaii just before Pearl Harbor From Here to Eternity |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $4,200 (Daily Double): "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" is a query from this 1979 novel Sophie's Choice |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $1000: This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, & "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd Donna Tartt |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: In John Grisham's comic novel "Skipping" this holiday, Luther & Nora Krank try to avoid the holiday chaos & frenzy Christmas |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: This Pat Conroy novel tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister Savannah & their violent South Carolina family Prince of Tides |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1200: This 1961 Irving Stone novel is subtitled "A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo" The Agony & the Ecstasy |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1600: This 1851 novel begins, "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: His books "Little Children" & "Election" have been made into movies Tom Perrotta |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: She wrote a couple of famous "teen" novels, "O Pioneers!" from 1913 & "My Antonia" from 1918 Willa Cather |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN BOOKS $3,600 (Daily Double): Kilgore Trout, the fictional author of several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels, is a character in many of his books Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: Among his historical novels are "Burr" & "1876" (Gore) Vidal |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $1600: Time put his violent western tale "Blood Meridian" on a list of the 100 best novels since 1923 Cormac McCarthy |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | UNIQUELY AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre) |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $2,500 (Daily Double): Named for latitudinal lines, these 2 novels were penned by Henry Miller while he was in Paris Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: The Snopes family appeared in 6 of his novels, including "The Hamlet", "The Town" & "The Mansion" Faulkner |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: "Dragon's Teeth", one of 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, won this muckraker the Pulitzer Prize for 1942 Upton Sinclair |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1600: Donald Goines wrote 4 novels about an urban revolutionary named for this father of modern Kenya Jomo Kenyatta |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels Louis L'Amour |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NOVELS $800: Pearl is the product of adultery in this classic of American lit The Scarlet Letter |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Amy Tan's first novel, it told of 4 Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters The Joy Luck Club |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $200: A nameless black protagonist narrates this 1952 classic by Ralph Ellison Invisible Man |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $400: The name of this Toni Morrison novel (& its title character) comes from the simple inscription on a headstone Beloved |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: H.L. Mencken said, "No romantic novel ever written in America... is one half so beautiful as" this one by Willa Cather My Antonia |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $800: This author's "An American Tragedy" was based on a real-life murder case Dreiser |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: The title of this 1962 Faulkner novel refers to 3 young men who steal a car & take it for a joy ride The Reivers |
| #3840, aired 2001-04-20 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: "Henry St. John, Gentleman" is set in this Virginia valley at the onset of the American Revolution Shenandoah Valley |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: Chief Conanchet is a major character in "The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish", an 1829 novel by this American author James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: "Song of Solomon" was the first of her novels to have a male protagonist Toni Morrison |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | AMERICAN LIT $800: "District of Columbia" was the second trilogy of novels by this author of the trilogy "U.S.A." John Dos Passos |
| #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 |
| #3392, aired 1999-05-11 | SAUL BELLOW'S LIBRARY $800: Bellow's favorite of his own novels, "Henderson the Rain King", tells of an American's adventures on this continent Africa |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Octavia Butler writes novels like "Clay's Ark" & "Patternmaster" in this genre Science fiction |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes "Run", "is Rich" & "at Rest" Rabbit |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $500: The Gibbsville of many of his novels & short stories is based on his own hometown of Pottsville, Penn. John O'Hara |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST $500: The 6 Earl Derr Biggers novels about this Chinese-American detective were first serialized in the Post Charlie Chan |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: As the first, it jump-started John Updike's series of novels about Harry Angstrom Rabbit, Run |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: Of the 2 remaining members of his tribe, only Chingachgook survives this 1826 Cooper novel "The Last Of The Mohicans" |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: A series of travel guides provides the title of this 1985 Anne Tyler novel "The Accidental Tourist" |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Key West smuggler Harry Morgan is the protagonist of his novel "To Have And Have Not" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: During WWII Gene & Finny become friends at prep school in this John Knowles novel "A Separate Peace" |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Twain novel, a New Englander saves himself by predicting a solar eclipse "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924 Zane Grey |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $500: This tough Irish-American lead character of 3 James T. Farrell novels of the '30s dies in the third one at 29 Studs Lonigan |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | AMERICAN LIT $800: "Deathtrap" playwright who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby" & "A Kiss Before Dying" Ira Levin |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | NOVELS $800: This American's first novel "Player Piano", was reissued as "Utopia 14" in 1954 Kurt Vonnegut |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: His "Growth" trilogy of novels includes "The Turmoil", "The Magnificent Ambersons" & "The Midlander" (Booth) Tarkington |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): John Updike has won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for novels about this title character Rabbit Angstrom |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: She wrote what she called "rubbishy novels" before the success of "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel "The Women of" this "Place" won an American Book Award & became a TV miniseries Brewster Place |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: Ole E. Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth" is set on the American frontier but was 1st published in this language Norwegian |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He wrote good later novels like "Cass Timberlane", but earlier ones like "Babbitt" are more famous Sinclair Lewis |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $100: For playing hooky, this title character is sentenced to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence Tom Sawyer |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: As this novel opens, Hester Prynne is led to the pillory, where she is to stand for 3 hours The Scarlet Letter |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $300: In "Moby Dick" Ishmael hears Father Mapple's sermon about this Old Testament figure Jonah |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: This Norman Mailer novel is regarded as one of the best by an American about WWII The Naked and the Dead |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | AMERICAN NOVELS $500: After WWII, Ralph Ellison obtained a Rosenwald Fellowship that enabled him to write this novel Invisible Man |
| #1940, aired 1993-01-29 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $600: This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 novels under the pseudonym John Sedges Pearl Buck |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: Erica Jong's "How to Save Your Own Life" was a sequel to this 1973 novel Fear of Flying |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: The Reverend L.M. Birkhead of Kansas City was advisor to Sinclair Lewis on this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $600: This Carson McCullers novel told the story of John Singer, a man who cannot hear or speak The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: His first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" Truman Capote |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: This 1925 Anita Loos novel is subtitled "The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: Bruce Gold is the title character of this Joseph Heller satire on American values Good as Gold |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: The 1st American novel to sell more than 1 million copies was this 1852 antislavery work Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: This 1st novel in a trilogy was followed by "Men Against the Sea" & "Pitcairn's Island" Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: James Michener novel in which an American pilot in the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese girl Sayonara |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: His 1873 novel "The Gilded Age", was co-written by fellow Hartford, Conn. writer Charles Dudley Warner Mark Twain |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1,700 (Daily Double): This Allen Drury novel about confirming a Sec'y of State was the fiction best seller of 1960 Advise and Consent |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Max Brand is best known for writing "Destry Rides Again" & a series of novels about this physician Doctor Kildare |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: She wrote "Rubbishy Novels" under the pen name A.M. Barnard before & after "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: This 1936 novel by W.D. Edmonds depicts life in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution Drums Along the Mohawk |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: In "Of Mice & Men", George & Lenny are migrant workers in this state California |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $400: Temple Drake is the strange heroine of his novel "Sanctuary" & its sequel "Requiem for a Nun" (William) Faulkner |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $600: According to the title of Alan Gurganus' novel, the "Oldest Living Confederate Widow" does this Tells All |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $800: Babbitt & Dodsworth both live in this fictitious town known as the Zip City Zenith |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: "The Making of Americans", a novel by this female expatriate, has no dialogue & no action Gertrude Stein |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | MODERN NOVELS $600: His novel "The Walking Drum" is set in 12th c. Europe, tho he usually wrote about the American West Louis L'Amour |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: 1 of the 2 novels by Thomas Wolfe with "Home" in their titles Look Homeward, Angel (or You Can't Go Home Again) |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1965 Lillian Hellman re-issued 5 of his detective novels Dashiell Hammett |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | NOVELS $400: The avuncular title character of this 1852 American novel dies after a brutal beating Uncle Tom |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | NOVELS $800: This seagoing saga is the only one of Kipling's novels with an American setting Captains Courageous |
| #1063, aired 1989-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Disgusted with novels of his time, this "Deerslayer" author took up writing to show he could do better James Fenimore Cooper |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | AUTHORS $1000: "Dragon Seed" author who wrote several novels with an American setting using the pen name John Sedges Pearl Buck |
| #984, aired 1988-12-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: No matter who writes the Nancy Drew novels, this name is always credited as the author Carolyn Keene |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Adventuresome as his novels, he spent freely sailing the South Seas & building his home, "Wolf House" Jack London |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Angered by American piracies of his novels, he put down the U.S. in his “Martin Chuzzlewit” Charles Dickens |
