| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $600: "A Room to India" A Room with a View & A Passage to India |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $600: In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug The Outsiders |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $500: Also a noted essayist, he gave us the books "Charlotte's Web" & "Stuart Little" E.B. White |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers" Stuart Little |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1000: In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" a trumpeter swan |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $200: It's the third entry in the "Twilight" saga Eclipse |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $400: There's a direction & a paradise in this double-"E" Steinbeck title East of Eden |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $600: Gail Carson Levine reimagined "Cinderella" with the heroine under a curse of obedience in this double-"E" title Ella Enchanted |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $800: A pistol-wielding panda adorns the cover of this bestseller about the importance of proper punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title heroine of this 1816 novel wrongly believes herself to be a gifted matchmaker Emma |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | DETECTIVE FICTION $400: With bestsellers like the "Women's Murder Club" series, this author was one of the first to sell over 1 million e-books Patterson |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $800: E.L. James gained fame with this type of writing that puts the writer's favorite characters from books, TV, etc. in new adventures fan fiction |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: 3 young E.T.s appear as humans & attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show Roswell |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eudora Welty said this E.B. White book about "friendship on earth, affection and protection" was "just about perfect" Charlotte's Web |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | PEN NAMES $1200: Erika Leonard wrote "Twilight" fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon & the "Fifty Shades" books under this name (E.L.) James |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $200: In 2013 this racy E.L. James trilogy was pulled from library shelves in Florida only to return due to public demand Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | BOOKS WITH ANIMAL POVs $2000: "Traveller" examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of this man's closest companion--his horse Robert E. Lee |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Among this educator's many books is "Up from Slavery", his autobiography published in 1901 (Booker T.) Washington |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT $1600: In books by Julie Kagawa, Meghan discovers that she's half-this & also that the word can be spelled with a middle "E" fae (or faerie) |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | BOOKS TO BROADWAY $2000: Turning this man's "Ragtime" into a musical won Terrence McNally the Tony for Best Book (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: Last name of Susan Eloise, who in "Tex" created McCormick brothers Tex & Mason S.E. Hinton |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | BOOKS $200: E.L. James added to her oeuvre with "Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by" him Christian Grey |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: At birth, this title E.B. White character "could have been sent by first class mail for three cents" Stuart Little |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | ONLINE LEARNING $2,000 (Daily Double): Michael Hart started e-books & Project Gutenberg when he typed this famous document into a computer on July 4, 1971 the Declaration of Independence |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $1000: This female M.E. created by Patricia Cornwell celebrated her 25th anniversary in 2015 with "Depraved Heart" Kay Scarpetta |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS $800: 1st E.L. James book in series. That one messed-up couple! Tarzan eyes wide as Tarzan read but Tarzan adult! Can handle! Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $800: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Thursday we rolled the D-I-C-E, as in these, "racy books named after a Victorian garment" bodice ripper |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $800: He wove "Charlotte's Web" (E.B.) White |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $400: A Florida county pulled this 2011 E.L. James book from libraries, but it came back "in response to public demand" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1000: (I'm Chris Wallace.) The influence of the title country house on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes is at the heart of this E.M. Forster book, my favorite novel Howards End |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $400: E.L. James:
"____ Shades of Grey" Fifty |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Hi, I'm Jane Curtin.) I loved "World's Fair", a 1985 autobiographical novel by this author whose initials stand for Edgar Lawrence (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | "AND" BOOKS FOR SHORT $600: Jonathan Safran Foer:
"E.L. and I.C." Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this E. M. Forster novel refers to a country house, not to someone's death Howards End |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | STOP THE PRESSES! $800: In 2011 this online retailer announced that its sales of e-books exceeded its sales of hardbacks & paperbacks Amazon |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $200: E.B. White:
"The Trumpet of the ____" Swan |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $400: This novel by Sinclair Lewis is a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion Elmer Gantry |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $800: The title character of this Austen novel realizes she loves Mr. Knightley Emma |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $1200: Around 418 B.C. Euripides wrote a play named for this "complex" woman of myth Electra |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $1600: The name of this Samuel Butler novel is an anagram of "nowhere" Erewhon |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1952 novel was based in part on the story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | ROOMY BOOKS $400: In 1908 he gave us "A Room with a View" E.M. Forster |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | KIDDY LIT $1000: E.H. Shepard's illustrations of this imaginary creature in the Winnie-the-Pooh books resemble an elephant a heffalump |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | PAGE BURNERS $800: The Book of Revelation inspired a group to burn R.E.M. CDs & books about this title Wizard of Hogwarts Harry Potter |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | CHILDREN IN LITERATURE $1600: This author wrote for The New Yorker while penning books about Fern Arable & Stuart Little (E.B.) White |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | TEENS IN BOOKS $2000: Rusty-James, whose brother is Motorcycle Boy, is the troubled hero of this teen classic by S.E. Hinton "Rumble Fish" |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEET MISTER"E" $800: Sometimes (well, most of the time) it's just a mystery to figure out this "American Psycho" author's books Bret Easton Ellis |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: E.M. Forster's experience as a secretary to an Indian prince was put to good use in this 1924 novel A Passage to India |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: Explorer "of Arabia" who wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Lawrence |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | TOUGH STUFF $800: This publishing company founded in 1939 made Gertrude the Kangaroo its mascot Pocket Books |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | E BEFORE I $400: Containing 12 books, it's Virgil's magnum opus "The Aeneid" |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | DAN RATHER $500: The title of one of Dan's books on broadcast journalism states that "The Camera Never" does this Blinks |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The Book of Daniel" was based on the espionage trial of this couple Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | BOOKS BY WOMEN $1000: S.E. Hinton published this young adult novel about Greasers & Socs when she was only 17 The Outsiders |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: "Bad Man From Bodie" was the British title of this "Ragtime" author's first novel "Welcome To Hard Times" E.L. Doctorow |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | 1989 BOOKS $1000: Mobster Dutch Schultz is a character in this novel by E.L. Doctorow "Billy Bathgate" |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: 7 years after creating Stuart Little, E.B. White spun this tale about a spider "Charlotte's Web" |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS $100: The number of Snow White's dwarfs or T.E. Lawrence's "Pillars of Wisdom" 7 |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | UNUSUAL BOOKS $400: This most common letter in English isn't used in Ernest Vincent Wright's 50,000-word novel "Gadsby" E |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | UNUSUAL BOOKS $500: N.E. Thing Enterprises has produced 3 "Magic Eye" books where you stare at patterns that do this form 3D pictures (come out in 3D accepted) |
| #1981, aired 1993-03-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: E.M. Forster set this novel in the city of Chandrapore, on the banks of the Ganges A Passage to India |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | SPELLING $200: When you write an essay, you might use one of these books of synonyms; Roget compiled a famous one T-H-E-S-A-U-R-U-S |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He feared that he would never write another novel after "A Passage to India", & he was right E.M. Forster |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | BOOKS $1000: James Thurber & this "Charlotte's Web" author co-wrote the 1929 spoof "Is Sex Necessary?" E.B. White |
| #952, aired 1988-10-25 | BOOKS $400: Richard Adams' novel "Traveller" is a tale of the Civil War as seen thru the eyes of this man's horse Robert E. Lee |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: E.B. White's "Little" mouse who made his debut in 1945 Stuart Little |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Of S.C. Foster, E.M. Forster , or C.S. Forester, the one who wrote "A Passage to India" E.M Forster |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: 1951 novel about Robert E. Lee Prewitt's life in Hawaii in 1941 From Here to Eternity |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: The fiction best seller of 1982 was a storybook about this friendly alien E.T. |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $100: Wm. E.E. Owens' "One Man vs. the Establishment" has been rejected by a record 137 of these publishers |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $200: Calling him an anti-red rebel, E. Berlin schools banned this rodent's comic books in 1954 Mickey Mouse |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $1000: Banned in St. Paul in 1946, this E. Caldwell novel was readily available across river in Minneapolis God's Little Acre |
| #188, aired 1985-05-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: A.E. Housman & Ezra Pound are well-versed in this form of literature poetry |
| #126, aired 1985-03-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: Scott Joplin wrote "ragtime" music, but this guy wrote the book E. L. Doctorow |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | PEOPLE $500: Type of fiction penned by presidential offspring M. Truman & E. Roosevelt mystery books |
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