| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $1000: Porphyrophobia:
This, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel the color purple |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $800: In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets society red he can eat 50 eggs Cool Hand Luke |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | SILENCE! $1000: Said in this novel: "Buffalo Bill's name is William Rubin... he was referred to me in April or May 1975, by my patient Benjamin Raspail" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $400: Intellectuals change society in "What Is to Be Done?", an 1863 novel by Chernyshevsky that planted the seeds of this 1917 event the Russian Revolution |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel D'Artagnan |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $1200: An outbreak of a certain disease features in this 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $2000: His novel "Women in Love" recounts the lives & romances of the Brangwen sisters D.H. Lawrence |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ASK FORGIVENESS $200: Hester Prynne in this novel asks Arthur Dimmesdale's forgiveness & he says, "May God forgive us both" The Scarlet Letter |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: Wole Soyinka's "The Interpreters" follows 5 young men who return home to this country after studying abroad Nigeria |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Justin Quayle carefully tends to his plants while seeking his wife's killer in this John le Carré thriller The Constant Gardener |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $11,200 (Daily Double): The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute Moll Flanders |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $400: A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $600: Erich Segal wrote this tearjerking 1970 novel set at Harvard & was also a translator of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus Love Story |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $800: This 1964 novel by Louise Fitzhugh introduced readers to the title girl sleuth who made observations in her notebook Harriet the Spy |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $200: "Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" in this novel The Hunger Games |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023 Black Cake |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $800: Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel "Erik Dorn" & then wrote for the movies with this director's "Spellbound" Hitchcock |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $1600: This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life (Tom) Wolfe |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $1200: Following the publication of this controversial 1988 novel, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $1600: In Hermann Hesse's futuristic final novel, Josef Knecht has long been consumed with mastering this title competition the Glass Bead Game |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $1600: Published in 1924, her novel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year Edna Ferber |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $400: The "Dolls" in this Jacqueline Susann novel are the pills taken by 3 young women as they cope with their lives & careers in NYC Valley of the Dolls |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $400: Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel Rosemary's Baby |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $600: A Vonnegut novel much about mortality:
"Death" Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $800: That pesky Pazuzu sure causes some head turning in a film franchise based on this 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty The Exorcist |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $1200: Both this 2002 Naomi Watts film & the 1991 Japanese novel on which it is based are firm arguments for streaming over VHS The Ring |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $1200: In this Cormac McCarthy novel John Grady Cole & his pal Rawlins are hired to tame some equines All the Pretty Horses |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $2000: Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1200: In this Giles Foden novel, a doctor working for Idi Amin is a witness to much of the dictator's madness The Last King of Scotland |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $400: Now an idiom for any sort of adventurous path, this colorful route in a 1900 novel was "very uneven" at times the Yellow Brick Road |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $2000: "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep" is the balm at the end of this Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson novel Gilead |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Chapter 43 of this novel explains "How the Artful Dodger Got into Trouble" Oliver Twist |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: 2020's "The Mirror & the Light" completed Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Thomas Cromwell that began with this lupine novel Wolf Hall |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $1200: Ayn Rand influenced many with this novel about architect Howard Roark and his uncompromising individualism The Fountainhead |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $2000: Businessman & dad Swede Levov navigates the turbulent '60s in this Philip Roth novel with a calm title American Pastoral |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LITERATURE $2000: William Styron wrote the historical novel "The Confessions of" this leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1200: In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia Shangri-La |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $400: Vicarius Christi in Latin, this title is also the title of a novel about a Medal of Honor winner turned Chief Justice turned pope Vicar of Christ |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $1200: "I am Carlo Ventresca... the late pope's camerlengo" is an introduction in this Dan Brown novel with title opposites Angels and Demons |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $1600: In Donna Woolfolk Cross' novel about the legend of the 9th century woman known as pope her, she passes as brother John Pope Joan |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | POPE FICTION $4,600 (Daily Double): Andrew Greeley's "Novel of Papal Election" has this colorful title, the signal that a new pope has been chosen the White Smoke |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $600: In Switzerland, you can visit the schoolhouse of little Johanna Spyri, best known as the author of this novel Heidi |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $400: Hammett is famous for his 1930 novel about this coveted title object that was made by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo the Maltese Falcon |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $100: Never heard of his 1847 novel "Omoo"? Well, maybe you know "Moby-Dick", the novel this author published four years later Melville |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $200: Wow! Edith Wharton wrote a novel titled "Fast and Loose"?! That sounds a bit racier than her 1920 novel "The Age of" this Innocence |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $300: The 1929 novel "Cup of Gold" isn't on your Kindle? You might be more familiar with "The Grapes of Wrath", also by this author John Steinbeck |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $400: "The Edible Woman" doesn't ring a bell? It was Margaret Atwood's debut novel before she wrote this 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $500: Her 1912 novel "Alexander's Bridge"? Not so famous. "O, Pioneers!" & "My Ántonia"? She's in the canon now Willa Cather |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $1000: Patchett who wrote the 2023 novel "Tom Lake"; Meryl narrated the audiobook Ann (Patchett) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $1500: While working the night shift at a hospital, Ken Kesey got the idea for this novel, which later became a Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $800: Jurgis' journey through capitalism & exploitation takes him from worker to strikebreaker in this Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $2000: The striking miners have the sympathy of this French realist author in his 1885 novel "Germinal" Émile Zola |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $800: The Patent Office wants to make sure that this is "new, useful & non-obvious" invention |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1600: At one point in this novel, Ignatius Reilly regales his mom with an anecdote about his carsickness A Confederacy of Dunces |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $11,600 (Daily Double): In a Robert Graves novel, this emperor introduces himself with some of his nicknames, like "The Idiot" Claudius |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $2000: This Nobel-winning Mexican poet is a character in the meta-graphic novel "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires" Octavio Paz |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SISTERHOODS $200: The beloved March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy--are the heroines of this classic novel Little Women |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | "LOL" $400: In 1955, a U.K. Sunday Express editor declared this novel by Vladimir Nabokov "the filthiest book I have ever read" Lolita |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $600: Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, wrote a novel about a mermaid called this, also the name of her watery blue birthstone Aquamarine |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1,000 (Daily Double): Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one? amethyst |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? $2000: German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist Bildungsroman |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $800: The book that started it all, 1993's "Along Came a Spider", was this author's first novel to feature detective Alex Cross (James) Patterson |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $1600: "The Escapists" comic series features an "Amazing" superhero conjured up in this novel by Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | NOVELS $2000: His sci-fi story "Burning Chrome" & his novel "Neuromancer" had some of the first uses of the term "cyberspace" Gibson |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In this 1955 novel the title character impersonates Dickie Greenleaf The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $300: Ernest Hemingway's "The Moon Also Sets" The Sun Also Rises |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $1500: Jane Austen's "Shame and Impartiality" Pride and Prejudice |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $800: (John Green presents the clue.) In "The Grass", part two of my novel "Paper Towns", a copy of "Leaves of Grass" by this poet may hold clues to Margot & her whereabouts Walt Whitman |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $1000: (John Green presents the clue.) In my first novel, "Looking for Alaska", Miles "Pudge" Halter has an obsession with famous last words; my favorite are those of this Irish writer in 1900, something to the effect of, "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" Wilde |
| #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 |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $400: The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody The Shining |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $600: Richard Bellingham, a real governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, turns up in this novel & lets Hester keep her child The Scarlet Letter |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Pirates be roaming in the novel titled this condition "in Jamaica" a high wind |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history blood |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This sweeping, multi-decade Colleen McCullough novel includes an ill-fated affair between a priest & a young woman The Thorn Birds |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: A group of Yanks & Aussies await the arrival of nuclear fallout from the Northern Hemisphere in this Nevil Shute novel On the Beach |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $400: Louis de Pointe du Lac, not Lestat, is the title undead being queried in this novel Interview with the Vampire |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sylvia Plath novel about an annoying floppy-eared outcast from Naboo The Bell Jar Jar Binks |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $200: This house in Massachusetts is actually on Turner Street, not Pyncheon Street as in the 1851 novel House of the Seven Gables |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | READING RAINBOW $1000: Julien Sorel is the amoral hero of this novel by French author Stendhal The Red and the Black |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | 4 N LANGUAGE $2000: Inopportune or untimely, like the title "Woman" in a Dominick Dunne novel Inconvenient |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $2000: Type of "Wine" mentioned in the title of a 1957 Ray Bradbury novel dandelion |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $600: Sylvia Plath died one month after this novel of hers was published The Bell Jar |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $400: "The Parish Boy's Progress" is the subtitle of this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $800: Nell Trent's grandfather runs the title establishment at the opening of this novel The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $400: Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel "Spin", about her historic 19th-century trip around the world on one of these bicycle |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BABY BOOKS $400: Later editions of this novel have included a chapter of its rumored sequel "Buttercup's Baby" The Princess Bride |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $800: 2008:
Simon Beaufoy, from the novel "Q & A" by Vikas Swarup Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1983:
James L. Brooks, from the novel by Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $2000: Survivors escape to Bronson Beta in the 1933 Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer novel "When" this happens Worlds Collide |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $5,600 (Daily Double): It's the real name of the planet referred to in the title of a 1965 Frank Herbert novel Arrakis |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $800: Dr. Bernard Rieux fights a rising epidemic (which symbolizes the Nazi occupation of France) in this Camus novel La Peste (The Plague) |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $1600: In the original French, the first line of this Camus novel is "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" The Stranger |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan Atonement |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $400: Margaret Mitchell went to the Atlanta library while writing this novel to fact-check if iodine was used in Civil War hospitals Gone With the Wind |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | LIBRARIES $1000: She wrote "I was 6 when my father walked me to my first library"; she was 37 when her novel "The Joy Luck Club" was published Amy Tan |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $200: Dr. Constantine examines the corpse aboard this 1934 title conveyance, which had a "Murder on" it the Orient Express |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $600: Alexander Smollett is the captain of the Hispaniola in this Stevenson adventure Treasure Island |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $1000: A 13-year-old boy is drawn into the underworld of art in "The Goldfinch" by this author Donna Tartt |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $800: (Justin Long presents the clue.) The burial of Stephen King's daughter's cat Smucky helped inspire this novel that the author has said is just as dark as can be Pet Sematary |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $1600: 7th graders Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia & Stacey founded this club in a 1986 kids novel; around 250 titles later, it's still in business the Baby-Sitters Club |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The men upon the floor were going about their work. Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them" Upton Sinclair |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TITLE WOMEN $1200: Frontwoman for a fictional '70s rock band in a novel & streaming series:
her "& the Six" Daisy Jones |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $400: In his first-ever TV interview, Cormac McCarthy sat down with Oprah Winfrey after she selected this bleak novel for her book club The Road |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $1500: A 1988 New York Times review counted over 275 diverse characters in "Alaska", the "latest huge novel" by this author Michener |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister" Crime and Punishment |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $1000: This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award The Corrections |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $400: Agatha Christie brought this brilliant Belgian to life in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel Hercule Poirot |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FIRE Z $1000: Take the Z off the case in a type of mystery novel with little violence & it becomes this word for shy coy (from cozy) |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $400: This title is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $800: "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin"' to do this To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $1600: This numeric title "required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name" Catch-22 |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $2000: "'I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that"' this wealthy title man "'is acquainted with M. de Villefort"' the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $5,000 (Daily Double): "She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at" this symbol The Scarlet Letter |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Thomas Hardy gave up writing fiction after this gloomy novel about Jude Fawley Jude the Obscure |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | I'M BLUE $400: In this novel, a character is described as having "the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet" Dune |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $1200: "Ghost Stories", a graphic novel from Canadian Jeff Lemire is set in a town outside this city, across the river from Detroit Windsor |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $2000: Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time Czechoslovakia |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $200: The second paragraph of this novel mentions a sea-chest belonging to the old sailor, Billy Bones Treasure Island |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $1000: How to re-educate violent people like Alex in this novel? "My top glazz-lids were pulled up & up & up & I could not shut my glazzies" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: In the title of a John le Carré novel, these 2 occupations precede "Soldier, Spy" Tinker & Tailor |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $600: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) The perfect vacation read & one my sister Barbara & I still talk about is "Summer Sisters", a novel for adults by this woman who is beloved for her young adult fiction Judy Blume |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I recommended a 2022 novel that's as Gothic & mysterious as you can get; it's named for & set at this branch of the Met that's dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages the Cloisters |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $2000: "What you need is a gramme of soma. All the advantages of Christianity & alcohol; none of their defects" is from this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | BEHIND THE BOND $800: This Bond novel was once titled "The Richest Man in the World" Goldfinger |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance" The Invisible Man |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | BEHIND THE BOND $1200: The title of this James Bond novel was inspired by a De Beers advertising tag line Diamonds are Forever |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $400: A novel, writing the clue for us: "This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure" The Hobbit |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $800: Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition the temperance movement |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | TV $2000: This Starz prequel TV show depicts the younger Marquise de Merteuil & Vicomte de Valmont from a novel of romantic intrigue Dangerous Liaisons |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $2000: The rock band The Airborne Toxic Event got its name from this Don DeLillo novel that became a movie in 2022 White Noise |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | GOING DUTCH $800: Mary Mapes Dodge won lasting fame for her 1865 novel about this Dutch boy & "the Silver Skates" Hans Brinker |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $2000: Later a movie, Roddy Doyle's first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band The Commitments |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: Book 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels is "The Cardinal of" this place The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $800: This Kazuo Ishiguro novel is narrated by Stevens, longtime head butler at Darlington Hall The Remains of the Day |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1000: Her "Everything I Never Told You" is a moving novel of a Chinese-American family in Ohio dealing with the loss of a child Celeste Ng |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $5 (Daily Double): This novel:
Stranded astronaut Mark Watney The Martian |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $200: This novel:
16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who has cancer The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $600: This Pulitzer Prize-winner: Celie, who writes letters to God & to Nettie The Color Purple |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $800: "The Bell Jar":
Esther Greenwood, this author's alter ego (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | NARRATOR OF THE NOVEL $1000: This downer of a novel:
14-year-old Susie Salmon, from heaven, because she's been murdered The Lovely Bones |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $800: Time to Tolstoy with you; title woman is shunned by Russian society for her adultery; surprise! The guy gets no flak Anna Karenina |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1600: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution Fagin |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: 2022's "The Candy House" is a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (Jennifer) Egan |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $2000: Tereza loves Tomas, who also has a mistress named Sabina, in this novel by Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| #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 |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $400: His work at a V.A. hospital led to his first novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $800: He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel Flaubert |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $1600: This was revealed as Offred's real name on TV's "The Handmaid's Tale", but not in the novel June |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This term for a tricky no-win situation comes from the title of a 1961 novel catch-22 |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $400: Collectively, Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha live up to the title of this 19th century novel The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $1200: In a 1969 novel Sonny, Michael & Fredo are brothers in this family you should really never take sides against the Corleones |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $1000: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) In 1988, I starred in the movie "Bright Lights, Big City," based on the novel this man famously wrote in the second person McInerney |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $1000: "The Castle of" this place, written in 1764 by Horace Walpole, is said to be the first Gothic novel in the English language Otranto |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $1600: He wrote the novel "True Grit" but his funnier books like "The Dog of the South" won him a cult following (Charles) Portis |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $400: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course, which offers dozens of free educational videos on YouTube, & in one video titled "Don't Reanimate Corpses!", I talk about the Romantic movement in English lit & this novel in particular Frankenstein |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $1000: Louis XIV deals with a family "problem" (well, for Louis, anyway) by giving Philippe the title headwear in this Dumas novel The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $1000: This novel set in the 1920s asks, "'What do you know about Lady Brett Ashley, Jake?"' The Sun Also Rises |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $1600: This divorcing doctor is "in trouble" in a novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner & the FX adaptation Fleishman |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $2000: Of this novel about the floundering Wheelers, Richard Yates said his title meant that the this of 1776 hit a dead end in the 1950s Revolutionary Road |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $6,000 (Daily Double): Nora Ephron's novel about the end of a marriage bemoans "mysteries like... neuritis, neuralgia, acid indigestion &" this title condition heartburn |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | PAGE TO SCREEN WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $400: Shoeless Joe steps up to the plate in the novel "Shoeless Joe" & in the movie version with this title Field of Dreams |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $1200: He was not so thrilled when his novel "The Corrections" was selected for Oprah's Book Club Franzen |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $1600: 1993's "Pigs in Heaven" is a sequel to her first novel, "The Bean Trees" Kingsolver |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | AUTHORS $2000: Terrorists take hostages at a party in the South America-set novel "Bel Canto" by this woman Patchett |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS $400: Called the first detective novel by a Black author, "The Conjure-Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher is set in this Upper Manhattan area Harlem |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $800: The novel "A Man Called Ove" became a 2023 movie starring Tom Hanks as "A Man Called" this palindromic name Otto |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $2000: A boy steals a painting of a bird after a museum bombing in this Donna Tartt novel & its film adaptation The Goldfinch |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $800: The gamekeeper's little garden in this D.H. Lawrence novel features "double daffodils" that "rose in Tufts" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LITTLE $200: A novel by Marion Dane Bauer about an undersized wolf pup is titled this, the smallest animal in a litter Runt |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $400: Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote the historical novel "The Last Days of" this doomed city near Naples Pompeii |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $800: This semi-autobiographical novel by Larry McMurtry is set in the small town of Thalia, Texas during the 1950s The Last Picture Show |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $1200: The character of Monroe Stahr in this 1941 novel was based on Irving Thalberg The Last Tycoon (by Fitzgerald) |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $2000: This French author penned "The Last of Cherie", a novel about a man who was once in a relationship with an older woman Colette |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | NOVELS $400: In the '90s this novel was unavoidable, down to a parody called "The Ditches of Edison County" about lonely housewife Pancetta The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | NOVELS $5,600 (Daily Double): The mysterious Anne Catherick strongly favors a certain color in this novel by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | LITERATURE $1600: A letter this author began writing to her grandfather evolved into her first novel "The House of the Spirits" Allende |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $400: The + the Babylonian goddess of love & war + a recipe of ingredients for a chemical substance The Ishtar Formula |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $800: The + a legendary king of the Geats + either of the 2 main divisions of the Christian Bible The Beowulf Testament |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1200: The + the third sign of the zodiac + a synonym for an autograph The Gemini Signature |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1600: The + a city in southern Afghanistan home to Ahmad Shah's tomb + a chess opening involving a sacrifice The Kandahar Gambit |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | BUILD YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $2000: The + the last name of Abe Lincoln's Secretary of War + a disaster (originally, a type of bottle) The Stanton Fiasco |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $8,000 (Daily Double): Min Jin Lee's novel "Pachinko" follows generations of a Korean immigrant family overcoming bias in this other Asian nation Japan |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $400: In this Dickens novel, Sydney Carton loves Lucie Manette so much that he replaces her husband on the guillotine A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE $800: Rose of Sharon is pregnant & subsequently abandoned by her spouse in California in this Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: The 2022 film version of this antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque received 9 Oscar nominations All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | NOVEL COUNTRIES $800: "Buddenbrooks" &
"The Book Thief" Germany |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: (I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | NOVEL COUNTRIES $2000: The basis for a movie: "The Whale Rider" New Zealand |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | NONFICTION $1200: In Jo Walton's novel "The Just City", Athene creates a community based on this Plato work of philosophy The Republic |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $600: It's the musical version of an 1838 novel about a young orphan who joins a criminal gang Oliver! |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $1000: Though finished in 1957, the hefty novel about him would not be published in the Soviet Union for 30 years Doctor Zhivago |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "HOLD" UP $1000: Marc Behm's novel about a private detective obsessed with the woman he's trailing is titled this, proverbially what beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $200: Thomas Hardy promised his editor a pastoral novel & indeed set it, as the title says, "Far from" this group the Madding Crowd |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $1000: As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula Women in Love |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $200: The title of this Ken Kesey novel comes from a children's rhyme & follows "One flew east, one flew west" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel Atlas Shrugged |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel The Age of Innocence |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $1000: Despite the title of Sandra Cisneros' beloved novel, there is no street of this name in Chicago (avenue, yes) Mango Street |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $600: In this novel Winston Smith finally gets in line with the party & learns to think like everyone else 1984 |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $400: "Interview with the Vampire" Anne Rice |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $800: This variety of prose narrative:
"a short story padded" a novel |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1200: "The Name of the Rose" Eco |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: Introducing George Smiley,
"Call for the Dead" (1961) John le Carré |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: The title of Gabrielle Zevin's novel about young game designers is this repetitive line from "Macbeth" expressing weariness Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | TALES $1,200 (Daily Double): "Down on its right side toppled the bed of the Roman's chariot" in this oft-filmed novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ" Ben-Hur |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $800: Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title The Tin Drum |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet Virgil |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $200: Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel chocolate |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $400: (I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in "Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice |
| #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 |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $200: This novel by Johanna Spyri begins, "The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range..." Heidi |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $600: By its title, this Lois Lowry Y.A. novel needs a receiver, & his name is Jonas The Giver |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $400: Set in Melbourne, Nevil Shute's 1957 novel "On the Beach" finds much of the world destroyed by this man-made disaster a nuclear war |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $1600: Early in this novel Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz informs humanity Earth will be destroyed for a hyperspatial express route The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET $2000: John Wyndham's novel about "The Day of" these meat-eating plants sees most of humanity blinded before being featured on the menu the Triffids |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | TRANSPORTATION, IN VARIOUS FORMS $3,000 (Daily Double): "With an air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train" in this novel Murder on the Orient Express |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $800: A trap door leads to a "subterraneous" vault in 1764's "The Castle of Otranto", cited as the first novel in this spooky genre Gothic |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $400: Isla Nublar off Costa Rica sets the scene of this 1990 Michael Crichton novel that bioengineers some terror Jurassic Park |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1200: The Sprawl is a rough city with an artificial gray sky in "Mona Lisa Overdrive", a novel from this cyberpunk master Gibson |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1600: In a Dennis Lehane novel, this title place is home to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane & you may be stuck there Shutter Island |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $800: The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntary swim after being tossed into the sea The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $1000: Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her nameless baby, described by the title adjective of this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $400: Priest Andrew Greeley's first novel, about an archbishop with secrets such as a daughter, was called "The Cardinal" these Sins |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WRITERS OF THE CLOTH $1600: Rabbi Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen" is a coming-of-age story within this Orthodox Jewish sect the Hasidic Jews |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FANTASY SPORTS $1000: This author says in "Sirens of Titan" that the children of Mars "spent most of their time playing German batball" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $400: Working at a publishing house, T.S. Eliot wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting this novel but did praise the pigs Animal Farm |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $1000: "The Kullervo Symphony" sounds like a thriller novel but in 1892, was this man's first large-scale orchestral piece Sibelius |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $800: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame South Bend |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $2000: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway Nebraska |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Found in the title of an 1870s novel, it's the old-fashioned name for the mirror seen here a looking-glass |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $800: This 1925 novel about a futuristic city in 2026 became an art deco sci-fi silent movie by Fritz Lang Metropolis |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | GIFTS FOR THE SPORTS FAN? $800: This 1987 Tom Clancy novel would make even the most curmudgeonly Belichick fan happy Patriot Games |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | IRISH AUTHORS $1200: It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit, & the title "Road" where Maeve Binchy set a novel Tara |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $200: "Whatever our souls are made of, (Heathcliff's) and mine are the same" in this novel; with Linton, not so much Wuthering Heights |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | LITERARY VILLAINS $1000: Avians abound both in the villain named Blue Duck & the title of this Larry McMurtry novel featuring 2 former Texas Rangers Lonesome Dove |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $800: Opening at the Tower of London, this novel about a mistress to a Tudor king was filmed with Scarlett Johansson as Mary (not Anne) The Other Boleyn Girl |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $1600: The title woman of this Virginia Woolf novel hears Big Ben strike just as she starts out on a walk Mrs. Dalloway |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $2000: This 1932 novel begins in 2540 A.D. at the Central London Hatchery where children are being created artificially Brave New World |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $3,400 (Daily Double): This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: Spoiler alert:
This duo in the title of a Stevenson novel are actually the same guy Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $800: In this classic of American lit, the mischievous title boy lives with Aunt Polly, who opens the novel by calling his name The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | AUNTIE HERO $1600: This semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens features Betsey Trotwood, an aunt of the title character David Copperfield |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $800: "Closing Time" is Joseph Heller's sequel to this satirical novel about the absurdities of war Catch-22 |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | NOVEL KEYWORDS $200: What the Dickens?: Orphans;
criminals;
kidnapping victims; London Oliver Twist |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | NOVEL KEYWORDS $400: From 1939:
Migrant agricultural laborers;
rural families; depressions;
labor camps;
California The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $800: A misfit computer hacker teams up with a reporter in Sweden in this 2005 novel, the first in a series The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1600: A canine is the main character of this 1903 novel set in part in Canadian gold rush country The Call of the Wild |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1200: 1972's Nebula for Best Novel was "The Gods Themselves"; it was written by this prolific "master of science fiction" Asimov |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $1000: John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic Grendel |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) The title of my novel about Aza & how her OCD affects her life comes from a philosophical joke in which the Earth is flat & resting on the shell of a reptile, & what is that reptile standing on? It's these all the way down turtles |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $800: (John Green presents the clue.) One meaning of this novel's title is the phenomenon where mapmakers put fake places on their maps as a copyright trap to see if anyone is copying their maps Paper Towns |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $1000: (John Green presents the clue.) I wrote alternating chapters with David Levithan for a novel that follows two very different teens--one gay & one straight--who share this same name Will Grayson |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: From the same year she completed her quartet about the undead, her novel "The Host" deals with aliens taking over human minds Stephenie Meyer |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This native of Jackson, Mississippi wrote the novel "Delta Wedding" about a southern plantation family Eudora Welty |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $4,000 (Daily Double): This Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel takes place in South America amid the outbreak of disease Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $1600: William S. Burroughs admitted that he wrote this controversial 1959 novel under the influence of drugs Naked Lunch |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $2,000 (Daily Double): Author Richard Wright played the role of Bigger Thomas in a 1951 film based on this novel of his Native Son |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | THEY'RE "N"TITLED $2000: In 2020 Colson Whitehead won a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for this novel The Nickel Boys |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: This last name of Arthur is the title of a Pulitzer-winning novel & precedes "is Lost" for a 2022 sequel Less |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FORMIDABLE FANTASY $500: "Dragonfly in Amber" is the sequel to this novel about Claire Randall traveling through time in Scotland Outlander |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERARY GEMS $1000: In a Wilkie Collins novel, one of Alex' favorites, Colonel Herncastle foolishly steals this title gem from the head of a Hindu idol the Moonstone |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $400: This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LANGUAGES $800: Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote the novel "Meshugah" in this language Yiddish |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $800: In this 1954 novel, a tale of survival, the "littluns" build sandcastles; Roger & Maurice revel in "kicking them over" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $1600: A passage in this novel relays, "Gurney saw Fremen spread out across the sand there in the path of the worm" Dune |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | BESTSELLERS $800: The title of this heartbreaking young adult novel by John Green about Augustus & Hazel is based on a line from Shakespeare The Fault in Our Stars |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $600: James Ellroy took on the real-life unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed this, in his novel of the same name the "Black Dahlia" |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | GARDEN VARIETY STORIES $1000: This Umberto Eco novel is set in Italy in 1327 The Name of the Rose |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: The Hundred Years' War novel "1356" features this heir to the English throne, known for armor not suited for hot, sunny days Edward the Black Prince |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $400: The title of this 1950 children's fantasy book concerns an animal, a person & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1200: This James Patterson cop was back on the bestselling beat but on the wrong side of a murder trial in "The People vs." him Alex Cross |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1600: In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack William Faulkner |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AMERICAN LIT $5,000 (Daily Double): Loosely based on historical events, this 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel is subtitled "The Evening Redness in the West" Blood Meridian |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | LEARNING $800: This author's MasterClass sessions offer a case study of his novel "The Graveyard Book" (Neil) Gaiman |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $100: A line from this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury: "The books leapt & danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $200: The title of this Dostoyevsky novel refers to murder & 8 years of hard labor in Siberia Crime and Punishment |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $300: The first Nebula Award winner for Best Novel was this Frank Herbert novel set on the desert planet Arrakis Dune |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $500: From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island Lord of the Flies |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1200: No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills The Valley of the Dolls |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | LETTER, PERFECT $400: It precedes "Claudius" in the title of a 1934 historical novel by Robert Graves I |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $400: A Philip Marlowe novel: "The Big" this Sleep |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $800: Scott Turow's debut novel:
"Presumed" this Innocent |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: John Lindqvist's novel "Let the Right One In", about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films a vampire |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $400: The Battle of Yonkers is a zombie win in this Max Brooks novel, but humans, do not despair! World War Z |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1200: The blindfold returns in--& on--"Malorie", the sequel to this "avian" horror novel Bird Box |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $2000: This Canadian tells of Snowman, possibly the last human, in her novel "Oryx and Crake" Atwood |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $1600: This classic 1934 novel opens, "I am living at the Villa Borghese", Henry Miller's name for Paris' Villa Seurat Tropic of Cancer |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $800: In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" 1984 |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $3,600 (Daily Double): "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is an underground novel in this Philip K. Dick book set in a conquered America The Man in the High Castle |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $600: In the movie version of this World War I novel, Paul Bäumer is shot reaching for a butterfly on the battlefield All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $800: It's the title of a novel by E.B. White & the sound heard here The Trumpet of the Swan |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | OIL THINGS CONSIDERED $1200: Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!" was the basis for this movie that won Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar There Will Be Blood |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $800: In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy The Time Traveler's Wife |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: A work by James Fenimore Cooper sometimes called the first espionage novel has this simple title The Spy |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: This oldest member of the 3 Musketeers in Dumas' novel is revealed to be the Comte de la Fere Athos |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous Mary Shelley |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $800: As first mate on the Pequod, he considers killing Ahab before what happens, happens & never gets to open his own java place Starbuck |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1200: In France, a Roma woman is framed for murder... but Phoebus is still alive! & she loves the guy! Does her name ring a bell? Esmeralda |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1600: Things are looking up for this Bernard Malamud ballplayer when he strikes out "The Whammer" early in "The Natural" (Roy) Hobbs |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $2000: He is described as "Prometheus who changed his mind"; now you say the first sentence of "Atlas Shrugged" (John) Galt |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1200: Alison Weir's "Innocent Traitor" is a historical novel of this teen who had a solid week-&-a-bit run as queen in the 1550s Lady Jane Grey |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1600: Look for leaping flames on the cover when you seek out "The Splendor Before the Dark", Margaret George's novel about this Roman emperor Nero |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MY DEAR WATSON $400: At the start of an 1884 novel, he has been adopted by 2 sisters, Widow Douglas & Miss Watson Huckleberry Finn |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $800: Acclaimed as "The One-Eyed!" & "The Bandy-Legged!", this character in a 19th century novel is elected "Pope of the Fools" Quasimodo |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | SOMETHING TO READ $1600: A gamekeeper takes the place of a baronet in this scandalous 1928 novel, written near the end of D.H. Lawrence's life Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | NOVEL NOTES $200: Keen Kerouac;
passing Paradise;
country crossing On the Road |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | NOVEL NOTES $400: Super sub;
Atlantis, around;
visionary Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | NOVEL NOTES $800: Gripping Golding; seeming savages;
Simon sees Lord of the Flies |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | NOVEL NOTES $1000: King kills;
executing executioners; Coffey coda The Green Mile |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: Songs in the musical based on this Bret Easton Ellis novel include "Killing Time", "Killing Spree" & Huey Lewis' "Hip To Be Square" American Psycho |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: William Makepeace Thackeray not only wrote this novel but illustrated it when it was serialized in the 1840s Vanity Fair |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $200: In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $600: Divorced herself, Olivia Goldsmith wrote this novel about a group of women plotting against their ex-husbands The First Wives Club |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | STORIES OF THE SOUTH $1200: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid & nanny The Help |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $200: Geraldine Brooks' "March" is narrated by the father from this classic 1860s novel Little Women |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: Ayn Rand is thought to have based the architect in this novel on Frank Lloyd Wright The Fountainhead |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This adjective is used to indicate a novel has been written in the form of letters epistolary |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $2000: His 1912 novel "Riders of the Purple Sage" is considered one of the best Westerns (Zane) Grey |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $5,000 (Daily Double): This book with a facial feature in its title was Toni Morrison's debut novel The Bluest Eye |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: This 1997 novel finds Inman exiting from the Civil War & sojourning across a ravaged land back to his love Cold Mountain |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $2000: The title of this Don DeLillo novel refers to sirens & various sounds from TVs & other appliances White Noise |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $300 (Daily Double): You dug the musical with Cosette, Javert & all the sad songs; now it's time to pry open this Victor Hugo novel from 1862 Les miserables |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $400: Over the years, this novel about Holden Caulfield has been frequently challenged for its sex & profanity; I'm in! The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $1600: An Englishwoman named Adela Quested falsely accuses Dr. Aziz of assault A Passage to India |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $2000: Starting in 1939, this esteemed British actor was on the case as Sherlock Holmes in a series of films Basil Rathbone |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $7,000 (Daily Double): High-ranking Father Latour passes away in a Santa Fe cathedral Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical first novel was called "Go Tell It on" this the Mountain |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $500: Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" the color purple |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $400: The elevator pitch for this 1952 novel is basically "Cain & Abel, but in the Salinas Valley" East of Eden |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $400: In the first line of the novel "Jaws", it's how "The great fish moved... through the night water" silently |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $400: Several nurses figure in his novel "A Farewell to Arms", including Miss Van Campen Hemingway |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $1600: In "The Rose of Sebastopol", Rosa Barr is part of Florence Nightingale's nursing retinue in this war the Crimean War |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $2000: Hana reads to Almasy, the title character of this 1992 novel; Hana's lover Kip later wants to murder him The English Patient |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | 5 HEARTS $1600: In a novel by this man, Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh is known as "The Heart of Midlothian" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $400: Mary Shelley wrote, "I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing" in this 1818 novel; spark infused! Ooooops Frankenstein |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | "SECOND" CHANCES $800: A 1984 novel that starts, "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this..." uses this point of view second person |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $200: Cervantes published the first volume of this novel about a delusional hero in 1605 Don Quixote |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1600: His last novel, "Quatre-vingt-treize", is set during 1793 amidst the French Revolution Hugo |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: This novel begins, "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him" Catch-22 |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $400: The title character of this Anna Sewell novel is instructed by his mother Duchess, "Lift your feet up well when you trot" Black Beauty |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $4,800 (Daily Double): Mollie, who misses wearing ribbons in her mane & eating sugar cubes, represents the petite bourgeoisie in this novel Animal Farm |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | QUICK! NOVELS! $2000: Celeste Ng burned up the bestseller lists with this, her second novel Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | PEN NAMES $800: Ramona Lofton, whose novel "Push" became the movie "Precious", goes by this gem of a byname Sapphire |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The original version of this novel made vampires seem a real threat; an editor said people are jumpy from Jack the Ripper--go easy Dracula |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $600: In this Jane Austen novel, Elizabeth is the favorite daughter of Mr. Bennet, but airheaded Lydia is her mom's choice Pride and Prejudice |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This 1851 novel mentions New Zealand Tom & Don Miguel, 2 famous contemporaries of the title sea creature Moby-Dick |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | READING RAINBOW $1600: Shirley is the last name of the orphan sent to live with Matthew & Marilla Cuthbert in this 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | READING RAINBOW $2,000 (Daily Double): In this novel little Pearl tells her mom "The sunshine does not love you... because it is afraid of something on your bosom" The Scarlet Letter |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $1600: In an Alistair MacLean novel, Keith Mallory must scale the cliffs of this island & quell the title "Guns" there Navarone |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $400: Mary Margaret Kaye's novel "The Far Pavilions" takes place in this country during the time of the Raj India |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: This Robert Louis Stevenson novel recounts the adventures of Scottish orphan David Balfour Kidnapped |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Lin Haire-Sargeant's novel "H" imaginatively fills in the blanks in this character's 3-year absence from a Bronte novel Heathcliff |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Part I of a 17th century novel is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo" this character "of La Mancha" Don Quixote |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | DO YOU FEEL A FIRST DRAFT? $800: F. Scott Fitzgerald called his 1922 short story "Winter Dreams" "a sort of first draft" of the idea for this novel from 3 years later The Great Gatsby |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | DO YOU FEEL A FIRST DRAFT? $1600: A draft of this Philip Roth novel begins with Alexander Portnoy narrating an obscene slideshow projected by his analyst Portnoy's Complaint |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: This novel by Andy Weir about a stranded astronaut was originally self-published The Martian |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: "The Sicilian" by this author is another novel set in his universe of the criminal Corleone clan Mario Puzo |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | "C"HARACTER STUDY $1600: This beloved educator of a 1934 novel teaches at the fictional Brookfield School Mr. Chips |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $400: This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung The Good Earth |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $1000: This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | QUIZ BOWL $800: Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" has been called "the greatest novel about" this subject the Dust Bowl |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $400: "Some Pig" is one of the messages that shows up in the title object of this 1952 novel Charlotte's Web |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $800: In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil Gulliver's Travels |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $3,200 (Daily Double): This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark All the King's Men |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $200: In a novel by Herman Wouk, unstable Captain Queeg of the USS Caine faces this title event The Caine Mutiny |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Seven Gables accepted) |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $200: Huck Finn was introduced in this novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $400: Stephenie Meyer said the idea for this first novel came to her in a dream Twilight |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $800: Jim Hawkins is the boy hero & narrator of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $1000: This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the troubled marriage of Dick & Nicole Diver Tender is the Night |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | ICE CREAM $1000: A teen named Lina is in Tuscany for the summer in Jenna Evans Welch's novel called "Love &" this Italian ice cream Gelato |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | NOVEL "T"s $2,000 (Daily Double): The nameless narrator of this, Wells' first novel, finds himself in the year 802,701 The Time Machine |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | LITERARY CASTLES $800: This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place Kafka |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE $600: In 1906 he brought the meat-packing industry to its knees with his novel "The Jungle" Upton Sinclair |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE $800: In 2012 the Horror Writers Assoc. said Richard Matheson's "I Am" this lived up to its name as "vampire novel of the century" I Am Legend |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $600: Hemingway's "To Have & Have Not" is less remembered as a novel than as the film that kindled the romance of these 2 co-stars Bogie & Bacall (Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall) |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | THE SCARF $800: The title of this 2003 novel mentions a different fashion house, but editor Miranda Priestly is rarely, without an Hermès scarf The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $4,600 (Daily Double): Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | LITERARY DOCTORS $4,000 (Daily Double): This German author's novel "Doctor Faustus" reimagines the doc as a 20th century composer Thomas Mann |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $200: Spoiler for a 15-year-old book! this house-elf doesn't make it all the way through "The Deathly Hallows" Dobby |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $600: Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $800: Sadly, the "Flowers for" this tiny Daniel Keyes character are for his grave Algernon |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $2000: Much of this thriller based on a James Dickey novel was filmed in Northeastern Georgia & on the Chattooga River Deliverance |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | THE NIFTY '50s $400: Ian Fleming took a gamble & introduced James Bond in this novel Casino Royale |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $800: The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash The English Patient |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $600: A classic work of literary criticism is Ian Watt's "The Rise of" this form: "Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding" the novel |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $800: A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work The Boys |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1200: Matthew Goode played Ozymandias in the film version of this graphic novel; Jeremy Irons played the role on HBO Watchmen |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1600: Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl" Chloë Grace Moretz |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $2000: This 2017 movie with Charlize Theron as a badass spy was based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City" Atomic Blonde |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SCI-FI CHARACTERS $1600: In Kameron Hurley's novel, Dietz is reduced to particles & beamed to war in this title corps, sounding like one in a Tennyson poem the Light Brigade |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $1000: The title of this semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin comes from a traditional hymn Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $1200: At the beginning of this Bronte novel, this orphaned title character is sent to the Lowood Institution, where she is mistreated Jane Eyre |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $2000: In this John Irving novel, the eccentric Dr. Wilbur Larch runs an orphanage The Cider House Rules |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $200: Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field the color purple |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $800: In a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a boy named Hassan The Kite Runner |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1000: In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold The Alchemist |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $600: Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood Sense and Sensibility |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $200: Fantasy via furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $400: A classic tale that makes points about censorship Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $600: The author's sole novel, published in 1963 The Bell Jar |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $800: Lowry goes low, south of the border Under the Volcano |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | PICTURE THE NOVEL $1000: Dances with Woolf To the Lighthouse |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island '42 |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $400: In a dystopian novel he's the supreme ruler of Oceania Big Brother |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $800: A cargo ship named the Tsimtsum sails from India in this novel by Yann Martel Life of Pi |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | LITERARY SHIPPING $1,000 (Daily Double): In a Paul Gallico "Adventure" novel, this liner is capsized by a tidal wave & the survivors climb up to the hull to find a way out the Poseidon |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): A strange discovery on the Moon sets off a secret mission to a moon of Saturn in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: The bridge & train seen here are crossing this Thai river made famous by a 1952 novel & a 1957 movie the River Kwai |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THEIR LAST NOVEL $800: The experimental "Finnegans Wake" James Joyce |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THEIR LAST NOVEL $1600: This German finished with "The Glass Bead Game" Hermann Hesse |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THEIR LAST NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Reivers"; he died in Mississippi a month after it was published William Faulkner |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $1000: In "War Horse", the novel & film, he's the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I Joey |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $2000: A flu pandemic leads to the collapse of civilization in this novel by Emily St. John Mandel, later an HBO Max miniseries Station Eleven |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TAYLOR'S VERSION $600: This screen legend played Angela Vickers in "A Place in the Sun", the movie version of the novel "An American Tragedy" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SCI-FI TRILOGIES $2000: The first in a Cixin Liu trilogy, this numerical novel is partially set during China's Cultural Revolution The Three-Body Problem |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | HUNDREDS $600: This movie about the Battle of Thermopylae was based on a Frank Miller graphic novel 300 |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: A 2012 novel subtitled "The Woman Who Loved Tarzan" reimagines the story but from her point of view Jane |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: When we meet Jason Bourne in this 1980 Ludlum novel, he has no memory of who he is The Bourne Identity |
| #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 |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Though written first, Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" takes place 20 years after the events of this novel To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This Stephen King novel says, "I, Georgie, am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the dancing clown" It |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Kya Clark is known as "The Marsh Girl" in this Delia Owens novel that spent over 2 years on the bestsellers list Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Angie Thomas was still in college when she wrote a story that became this novel about a police shooting The Hate U Give |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL $600: A variety of feldspar, this mineral is a June birthstone & is also mentioned in the title of a Wilkie Collins novel a moonstone |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: This Camus novel was inspired by a run-in his friend had with 2 Arab men on a beach The Stranger |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: Fitting its title well, Elinor, the oldest Dashwood girl in this Austen novel, has a good head on her shoulders Sense and Sensibility |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: In the sci-fi novel "Gideon the Ninth", Gideon is a cavalier bonded to Harrowhark, one of these bone-raising conjurers a necromancer |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: This enchantress from the "Odyssey" is the sympathetic heroine of a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller Circe |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $200: In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster Dracula |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $400: Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel Robinson Crusoe |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century Sir Walter Scott |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2000: At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot This Side of Paradise |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | EVERYTHING IS GOLDEN $400: Premiering in 2010 the opera "The Golden Ticket" is an adaptation of this beloved novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $400: Characterized by an expanding economy & political corruption, the Gilded Age takes its name from an 1873 novel by him Mark Twain |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $400: 1957:
Ayn been working on the Transcontinental Railroad shrugged |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $800: 1960:
Regarding the title, dad says it's a sin to do it kill |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $1200: 1960:
Updike's Mr. Angstrom gets moving run |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $1600: 1926:
Hemingway's World War I vet has... medical issues rises |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | THE VERB IN THE NOVEL TITLE $2000: 1934:
James M. Cain's title mentions a very determined mail delivery guy rings |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | FAN FICTION? $400: The 1997 novel "Memoirs of" one of these devotes some pages to the necessary skill of fan dancing Geisha |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1200: His final novel, 1962's "Island", was about a different brave New World, a utopian society in the Pacific (Aldous) Huxley |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $600: Pat Conroy wrote this blockbuster novel that became a film starring Barbra Streisand & Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS $1600: "Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage Voyager |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $200: Here's this 1850 novel quite literally The Scarlet Letter |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $1000: A first novel dealing with the Second World War The Naked and the Dead |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | THROWING SHADE $2000: In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree" Hesse |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $200: The first line of this novel is the immortal "Call me Ishmael" Moby-Dick |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BOSH $600: "Bosh" comes from a word for "nothing" in this language; the 1834 novel that popularized the word opens at the foot of Mount Ararat Turkish |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $800: "But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series Anne of Green Gables |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind" The Time Machine |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $2000: Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding Tom Jones |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200: In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night The Queen's Gambit |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby High Fidelity |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn Sophie's Choice |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: Gore Vidal's novel with this title follows the presidential election in the year of the nation's centennial 1876 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: " Everything I Never Told You" is the debut novel by this author of "Little Fires Everywhere" Celeste Ng |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: 2019's "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by this man better known for nonfiction Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $400: The title ghost of this Toni Morrison novel gets her name from a headstone that's missing the word "Dearly" Beloved |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES $800: Arrrr! Jim Hawkins be dealin' with pirates in this 1883 novel Treasure Island |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $5,200 (Daily Double): Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel Dangerous Liaisons |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1991 novel by Canadian Douglas Coupland gave a name to a whole cohort born around the same time Generation X |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: The character of chaos theorist Ian Malcolm was introduced in this Michael Crichton novel about a unique island attraction Jurassic Park |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: Sequels to this novel about children trained as soldiers include "Xenocide" & "Children of the Mind" Ender's Game |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: The title structure of this Virginia Woolf novel is across the bay from the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye To the Lighthouse |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | KID LIT $600: This novel begins with a minister, his wife & their 4 kids shipwrecked on an island in the East Indies The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $200: 19th century /
Once titled "First Impressions" /
Is Darcy the one? Pride and Prejudice |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $400: Dust Bowl to Cali /
No kicks on Route 66 /
The Joad to ruin The Grapes of Wrath |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | HAIKU THAT NOVEL! $800: Oasis, by Cline /
Praise... "Wonka meets 'The Matrix'" /
--USA Today Ready Player One |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $200: "Trimalchio in West Egg" was a working title for this novel The Great Gatsby |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $300 (Daily Double): In this novel, Miss Havisham dies after the faded wedding dress she wears catches fire Great Expectations |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $1000: This novel sees Wang Lung go from peasant to landowner The Good Earth |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This novel recounts a single day--June 16, 1904--in the life of Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus Ulysses |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Newland Archer arrives fashionably late to the opera as this novel set in 1870s New York begins The Age of Innocence |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $400: "Jo Meets Apollyon",
"Meg Goes to Vanity Fair" Little Women |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $800: "The Old Pyncheon Family",
"The Arched Window" The House of the Seven Gables |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $1200: "The Choices of Master Samwise" The Lord of the Rings |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | SQUID GAME $1,600 (Daily Double): In this classic Jules Verne novel, the Nautilus encounters "an immense school of squid" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $1600: From 1989:
"Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game",
"Jing-mei Woo: A Pair of Tickets" The Joy Luck Club |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $2000: A Pulitzer winner from 2014:
"Boy with a Skull",
"The Anatomy Lesson" &
"Park Avenue" The Goldfinch |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: This classic by Stephen Crane has been called "the first modern war novel" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $600: In this Ralph Ellison novel, the protagonist hides in a manhole to escape a Harlem riot Invisible Man |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: In its original French, this novel is titled "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Leo in this L.P. Hartley novel is this title person, carrying messages to further an illicit love affair The Go-Between |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $200: In a David Hazan graphic novel, the Sheriff of Nottingham is after a serial killer & terrorists lurk in this forest Sherwood Forest |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $400: The title femme of this Flaubert novel is married to a country doctor named Charles Madame Bovary |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $1000: The title character in this Paulo Coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago The Alchemist |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $3,000 (Daily Double): Dr. Bernard Rieux treats the first victim of the title disease in this Camus novel The Plague |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: "Sex and Vanity" is this alliterative author's first novel outside the universe of "Crazy Rich Asians" Kevin Kwan |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | PROSE $1600: This "sanguine" novel by Cormac McCarthy describes the villainous Judge Holden as "a great shambling mutant" Blood Meridian |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: She set her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" on the Isle of Skye Virginia Woolf |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: A Hulu miniseries was based on this John Green novel, with Miles Halter in search of the titular Ms. Young Looking for Alaska |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Pierre La mure's 1950 novel "Moulin Rouge" was based on the life of this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $1200: George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $400: Bernadine, Gloria, Robin & Savannah are "Waiting to" do this, the title of a Terry McMillan novel exhale |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $2000: The title of this Salman Rushdie novel refers to Saleem Sinai & other babies born at the stroke of 12 on August 15, 1947 Midnight's Children |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $1200: "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling Anne Rice |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $2000: Tom Wolfe was the white-suited author of "The Right Stuff"; Thomas Wolfe wrote the 1940 novel "You Can't" do this Go Home Again |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $800: A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers" Heinlein |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: The 2021 novel "Nick" by Michael Farris Smith tells of this Nick before his time as the narrator of "The Great Gatsby" Nick Carraway |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $1600: Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos Children of Men |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $600: The Amity Police Department gets a call that Christine Watkins hasn't returned from a late night swim in this novel Jaws |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE $2000: "The Lost Symbol" is Dan Brown's third novel to feature this professor of symbology (Robert) Langdon |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | SUBTITLES $2000: "Mad About the Boy": Helen Fielding's third novel about her Bridget Jones |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $200: It's said that the character of Snowball the pig in this novel represents Leon Trotsky Animal Farm |
| #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 |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Experimental James Joyce novel requested from the hotel front desk to rouse you from sleep in the morning Finnegans Wake-up call |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Third time's the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel, "The Goldfinch" Donna Tartt |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: She dedicated her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", "To my mother and the memory of her mother" Amy Tan |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $1200: The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel "Wonder Boys" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor Michael Chabon |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | LITERARY PROFESSORS $2000: Her 1925 novel "The Professor's House" is set largely in New Mexico, not her familiar Nebraska Willa Cather |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: "While Justice Sleeps" is the first novel under her own name by this Georgia voting rights activist & romance novelist Stacey Abrams |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $2000: On Prince Edward Island, you can visit the farm that inspired this 1908 novel, a classic of Canadian literature Anne of Green Gables |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $800: The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel joins "The Brotherhood", which renames him, but we never learn his old or new name Invisible Man |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $1600: This Somerset Maugham novel whose title refers to the sharp & difficult path to salvation was Alex Trebek's favorite book The Razor's Edge |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2,400 (Daily Double): This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel's birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name Exodus |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $800: This novel about a canine says, "A monster came to the small town of Castle Rock" Cujo |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $1000: Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back! Shane |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | HUNTER/GATHERER $400: Later a crime novelist, Evan Hunter wrote the school-set novel titled "The Blackboard" this Jungle |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won for this beloved 1938 novel whose title refers to the age of a pet fawn The Yearling |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $400: In a Robert Cormier young adult novel, this title "War" involves a candy sale at a prep school The Chocolate War |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | AWARD-WINNING WOMEN $2000: In 1983 Gloria Naylor won a National Book Award for her first & best known novel, "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $2,600 (Daily Double): Roald Dahl imagined the cherries in his Buckinghamshire orchard getting bigger & bigger, inspiring this 1961 novel James and the Giant Peach |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $400: Let's go with the Flaubert! This 1857 novel details a truly sad state of affairs Madame Bovary |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $800: Last name of Paul who wrote the novel "The Mosquito Coast" & his nephew, who starred in the 2021 TV adaptation Theroux |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $400: At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color" The Rainbow |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | READING THE DETECTIVES $600: 1948 Los Angeles is the setting for "Devil in a" this, the first novel featuring Easy Rawlins Blue Dress |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | HISTORICAL FICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): Published in 1859, this novel takes place in Paris & London during the French Revolution A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM $1000: In a George Eliot novel title, a mill is on this river the Floss |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $200: In this novel, Mark Watney recounts: "Ares 1 crew... came back heroes... Ares 2 did the same thing... Ares 3. Well, that was my mission" The Martian |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $400: "'Toad Hall,' said the Toad proudly, 'is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence"' is a line in this novel The Wind in the Willows |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $600: "I felt very still and very empty", she wrote in "The Bell Jar" (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $800: In this novel 17-year-old Augustus Waters introduces himself as having had "a little touch of osteosarcoma" The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $1000: "Everyone was angry with" this woman, the titular first wife of a Daphne du Maurier novel, "when she cut her" mass of dark hair Rebecca |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $200: This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | TRAIN STATIONS $400: In 2014 Waverley Station in this capital was adorned with quotes from Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novel it's named for Edinburgh |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1000: This novel has been described as "the final, notoriously obscure, wondrously perplexing work of James Joyce" Finnegans Wake |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $800: "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a Gothic novel by this author also known for her short stories Shirley Jackson |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | WRITING THE GOVERNESS $1600: A rich heir hires a governess for his daughter in Michel Faber's novel "The" this color "Petal & the White" crimson |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | FLORIST'S READING LIST $800: "Petals on the Wind" & "If There Be Thorns" are sequels to this V.C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | FLORIST'S READING LIST $1200: A single mother commits murder using poison from this white flower mentioned in the title of Janet Fitch's novel oleander |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | HONOR $600: The title of his novel "The Brethren" refers to 3 ex-judges doing time in a Florida federal prison John Grisham |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $400: Tom is the first name of this talented Mr., the villain of a 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel Mr. Ripley |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $800: Anton Chigurh is the implacable, coin-tossing hitman in this Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $2000: In a Thomas Hardy novel, Alec d' this brings young Tess to ruin Urbervilles |
| #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 |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $2000: John le Carre received a warm reception & international acclaim with this 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $1000: Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft Lord of the Flies |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $400: Appearing in the novel "The Hustler", Minnesota Fats was a legendary player of this game pool |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $1200: A real unsolved & brutal killing in 1947 Los Angeles haunts this "colorful" James Ellroy novel The Black Dahlia |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $1600: A body is found on a bridge in 1896 New York in this Caleb Carr novel whose title is an old term for a psychiatrist The Alienist |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $2000: When it comes to hard-boiled murder & Frank Chambers icing a dame's husband, this 1934 James M. Cain novel always delivers The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $1200: Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this Illuminated |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $2000: First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $400: A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel The Maltese Falcon |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $1200: This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest Zorba |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $1600: Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Michael Ondaatje novel, a badly burned plane crash victim remembers a fateful love affair The English Patient |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $800: In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $1000: It's the original title of Sapphire's novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones Push |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $400: The movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was based on a novel with this other character in the title Charlie |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $800: Released in 1961, this live-action Disney film that was remade in 1998 was based on the German novel "The Double Lottie" The Parent Trap |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $1200: Colson Whitehead's novel about these "Boys" is based on abuse & worse at a real reform school in the Jim Crow Era Nickel |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Set in rural Georgia, this novel told in the form of letters won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Color Purple |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $800: Young Ms. Welsch is the note-taking title girl of this 1964 novel by Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $400: This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half" passing |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $2000: A hillside cable railway; in the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", it's one of a character's favorite words funicular |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $800: Buck Mulligan, who routinely chides Stephen Dedalus in this novel, was based on James Joyce's pal Oliver St. John Gogarty Ulysses |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1200: Neal Cassady was called the "Adonis of Denver" by Allen Ginsberg & was the model for Dean Moriarty in this novel On the Road |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Jane Austen described the title character of this novel as "handsome, clever, and rich... with very little to distress or vex her" Emma |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Stephen King said a dream gave him the idea for this novel about a woman who holds a writer prisoner Misery |
| #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 |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS $400: A symbologist & a cryptologist deal with a murder at the Louvre in this novel The Da Vinci Code |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | RECENT FICTION $200: In Salman Rushdie's "Quichotte", a spin on this classic novel, a salesman travels the U.S. with his imaginary son Sancho Don Quixote |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title a hat |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole" (Stephen) King |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1600: Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel David Copperfield |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $2000: The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation Catch-22 |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $7,800 (Daily Double): This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating Pollyanna |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1200: Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell Charlotte Brontë |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1600: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a "contemporary retelling of" this Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $9,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel The Invisible Man |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $600: In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title Rumble Fish |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | LITERATURE $800: The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street The House of the Seven Gables |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $200: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $1000: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: Patrick Bateman is the charming title killer in this novel American Psycho |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2,400 (Daily Double): In this novel inspired by a painting, Griet is the title 17th century portrait sitter the Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $1200: This German-Swiss author's 1919 novel, "Demian", was published under the pen name Emil Sinclair (Hermann) Hesse |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $2,000 (Daily Double): His novel "Rites of Passage" echoed the survivalist theme of an earlier work about boys marooned on a remote island (William) Golding |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $2000: Incomplete at his death, Albert Camus' novel "The First Man" is set in France & this country of his birth Algeria |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | FICTION $600: "The Amber Spyglass" is the concluding novel in this Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BOOKS OF 1990 $2000: 1990 saw the release of "Postmortem", Patricia Cornwell's first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner Scarpetta |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | LITERARY SUBTITLES $200: The prologue to a trilogy, this novel is subtitled "There and Back Again" The Hobbit |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | LITERARY SUBTITLES $800: This novel's "The Modern Prometheus" refers to the Titan who created man out of clay Frankenstein |
| #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 |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $1600: You can't book a room at this title Wes Anderson establishment, nor read the novel of the same title that appears in the film The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $200: 8 decades after his death, a 2007 graphic novel told the adventures of this man, "The Handcuff King" Houdini |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | FRENCH LITERATURE $400: One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $400: "Twilight Man" is a graphic novel biography about this writer & "the Birth of Television" Rod Serling |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $600: The graphic novel about this pop & rock icon is subtitled "Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams" David Bowie |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $800: These "Papers" started out as captions for another's art, but ended up being Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $5,000 (Daily Double): This title of James Baldwin's debut novel comes from a spiritual Go Tell It On the Mountain |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $400: "Jo's Journal" Little Women |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $800: "Hester and the Physician" The Scarlet Letter |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $1600: In this "familial" work: "The First Interview with Smerdyakov" The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $2000: By H.G. Wells, "The Reversion of the Beast Folk" The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Siege of La Rochelle" & "Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword" The Three Musketeers |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $800: Her husband Scott told an editor not to praise her novel "Save Me the Waltz" too highly, as it would not be good for her mental state Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $400: In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel The Jungle |
| #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 |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $1600: In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | LITERATURE $2000: In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet Possession |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In this novel by Edith Wharton, the title character & Mattie Silver crash their sled in the woods Ethan Frome |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION $400: One big difference between this 1963 Pierre Boulle novel & the film version--no half-buried Statue of Liberty at the end Planet of the Apes |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION $600: The only graphic novel on Time magazine's list of 100 Best Novels of All Time was this one featuring Rorschach Watchmen |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1200: The title refers to a high-flying rocket in this third Ian Fleming James Bond novel Moonraker |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $1600: Marine officer & disciplinarian dad Bull Meecham in this third book by Pat Conroy calls himself this, the novel's title The Great Santini |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL $400: Percy Jackson, in his first novel The Lightning Thief |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL $600: Miss Lucy Westenra, the first victim in Great Britain Dracula |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL $800: Raskolnikov Crime and Punishment |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $800: Things were bleak in this 1954 novel even before the airplane full of kids crashes on an island--they were fleeing a nuclear war Lord of the Flies |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $2000: In this Walter Farley novel, Alec bonds with the title horse when they are shipwrecked together The Black Stallion |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $800: In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang betrays his wife O-Lan for another woman The Good Earth |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $1200: A soldier is horribly wounded in the WWI novel he "Got His Gun", published 2 days after World War II began Johnny |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | 1930s LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel Lost Horizon |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $600: The youngest of the Bennet sisters, Lydia is 15 when this Jane Austen novel begins & 16 when she elopes with Wickham Pride and Prejudice |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $800: E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel A Passage to India |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $2000: The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture The Waste Land |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $1200: Whistle a happy tune & name this Pierre Boulle World War II P.O.W. novel that was made into an Oscar-winning film Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $2000: 4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River & scary locals Deliverance |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #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 |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States Being There |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1000: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" Speak |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $2000: This breed of terrier was named for a character in a 19th century novel the Dandie Dinmont terrier |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | BESTSELLERS $400: In a novel by Matt Haig, infinite books line the shelves of "The Midnight" this title place; most offer another story of reality a library |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $2000: Hermann Hesse's last novel, "Das Glasperlenspiel" translates to this title in English The Glass Bead Game |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $1200: Seen here is one of the classic meanies in all of lit, this villain of a Dickens novel Bill Sikes |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The blind monk Jorge of Buroos is the antagonist in this novel set in a Benedictine monastery The Name of the Rose |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $400: The 20th novel in Patrick O'Brian's seafaring saga is called "Blue at the Mizzen", referring to a flag hoisted upon this a mast |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | I'LL REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, TOO $2000: In this fairy-tale-influenced Gregory Maguire novel, the vain stepmother is Lucrezia Borgia Mirror, Mirror |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | THAT'S FIT TO PRINT $1000: The first published novel by this author of "The Moonstone" was 1850's "Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome" Wilkie Collins |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $1200: Lon Chaney haunted the title theater in the 1925 film version of this Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The long & the short of 1952 for this sci-fi man? A novel, "Foundation and Empire", & "The Martian Way", a McCarthyism allegory Asimov |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $2000: James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor From Here to Eternity |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $400: The title teen's prom night is extra-excitiing in this 1974 debut novel Carrie |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1200: The narrator of this Nabokov novel tells us that at age 13 he loved a girl named Annabel Lolita |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1600: Husband Alexei is the odd man out in this novel that ends with a terrible way to catch a train Anna Karenina |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $1600: This author from Prague never visited the U.S. & it shows when the Statue of Liberty holds aloft a sword on page 1 of his novel "Amerika" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $400: One letter off from "Hamlet", the title of this bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell honors Shakespeare's son Hamnet |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: 2020's "Malorie" is a sequel to this novel that was the basis for a Netflix movie starring a blindfolded Sandra Bullock Bird Box |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $2000: "The Lying Life of Adults" was a 2020 novel by this pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $400: In this novel George Orwell wrote, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it" 1984 |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $1200: "The Last Real Record Store On Earth" is a song from this musical based on a Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $2000: Douglass Wallop's novel "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" inspired this sporty musical Damn Yankees |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | BURNED BOOKS $1200: After discovering her husband Ted Hughes' infidelity, this poet burned the manuscript to "Falcon Yard", her second novel (Sylvia) Plath |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $400: Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" bears the name of a tragically rebellious offspring of this biblical king David |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title Lord of the Flies |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $1000: This Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel title is a twist on "Through a Glass Darkly", from Paul's letter to the Corinthians A Scanner Darkly |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: Renton, Sick Boy & Begbie are 3 of the junkies at the heart of this debut novel by Irvine Welsh Trainspotting |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $800: Jules Verne's first novel was "Cinq Semaines en Ballon", or this long "in a balloon" Five Weeks |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $5,000 (Daily Double): In an 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel this member of the title trio is alphabetically last Porthos |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | HAPPY TRAILS! $1200: In this 1985 novel Larry McMurtry reimagined the history of the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail out of Texas Lonesome Dove |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $1600: It followed "penny" in the name of an old-timey novel dreadful |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1600: In this Khaled Hosseini novel, Amir lives in San Francisco, but tells the reader of his youth in Afghanistan The Kite Runner |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HEMINGWAY $1200: (Ken Burns narrates the clue.) Hemingway portrayed his friends in this first novel; Harold Loeb became the unattractive Robert Cohn, whose name begins the book The Sun Also Rises |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: Oprah was one of the original producers of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel The Color Purple |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $200: In Kipling's first novel, "The Light That Failed", an artist suffers this fate from the delayed effects of a war wound blindness |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $400: It's no big shocker that this book set on Arrakis was Best Novel in 1965 Dune |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $1000: Later a Natalie Portman film, this novel deals with 4 women who must explore Area X & the odd creatures within Annihilation |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1980s $1600: A man can't stop losing weight in "Thinner" , a Stephen King novel published under this pseudonym Bachman |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $2000: She said what she likes most about her novel "The Outsiders" is "how it has taught a lot of kids to enjoy reading" (S.E.) Hinton |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $400: "Dragonfly in Amber", a sequel to this novel, finds Claire back in the 1960s, seeking what happened to Jamie in the 1740s Outlander |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $600: In the title of a Seth Grahame-Smith parody novel, Abe Lincoln has this unusual title job added to his traditional duties vampire hunter |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $400: In a Victor Hugo novel, he tells Esmeralda, "Don't leave the church... they would kill you and I should die" Quasimodo |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $600: Secretary Della Street is introduced in the 1933 first novel of this defense attorney who almost never loses a case Perry Mason |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | THAT'S TOTALLY LIT $800: Nikolai Kirsanov represents the older generation, Bazarov the younger one in this generationally titled novel by Turgenev Fathers and Sons |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $200: Its author shouldn't "waste his strength on such purposeless and unequal doings as these rambling volumes about spermaceti whales" Moby-Dick |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $400: H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant" The Great Gatsby |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $600: "Characterization in general is weak... nor is the commander strongly drawn. Again, the aunts are best... it lacks imagination" The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $800: Oh, Heathcliff! "The only consolation which we have in reflecting upon" this Bronte work "is that it will never be generally read" Wuthering Heights |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $1000: "The trial and the melodramatic conclusion" of this "seem contrived. But (the) insight into Southern mores is impressive" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford) Brave New World |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $1600: John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction Light in August |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | 17th CENTURY LIT $1600: An early English novel is "Oroonoko, or, the Royal" this, about an African prince sold to a Suriname plantation Slave |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $800: Elizabeth in his novel "The Pioneers" is based on his sister Hannah, who died when she fractured her skull falling off a horse James Fenimore Cooper |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | SWORDS $200: In novel & legend he pulls out "the sword in the stone", revealing that he is the next king Arthur |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $2000: "The Prime of" Muriel Spark's writing was this novel, penned in less than a month, according to the author The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $400: "The Proposal" at the beginning of Jasmine Guillory's novel happens on the JumboTron of this Los Angeles baseball stadium Dodger Stadium |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $1600: Not only did Reese put this Celeste Ng novel about drama in the suburbs on her list, she produced & starred in the Hulu adaptation Little Fires Everywhere |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $400: The angst-ridden Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $800: Her, in "The Hunger Games" trilogy Katniss (Everdeen) |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | "CRACK"LE $800: An 1878 dime novel was titled "Kit Carson Jr.," this type of marksman "of the West" a crack shot |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1200: Patrick Bateman, in this author's "American Psycho" (Bret Easton) Ellis |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1600: 5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue Room |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $2000: A guy with this first name, the same as the author, in the multi-part "Remembrance of Things Past" Marcel |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $200: Michael Chabon's novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" has this country collapsing in 1948 & refugees moving to Sitka, Alaska Israel |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES $1600: Great wealth was held by but a few while large numbers of people lived in poverty in this 1800s "Age" with a novel name the Gilded Age |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FEELING LITERARY $600: A biographical novel by Irving Stone:
"The ____ & the ____" The Agony & the Ecstasy |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $400: In this novel an inmate named Abbe Faria helps Edmond Dantes plot his escape from prison The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE $5,000 (Daily Double): James Clavell set "Tai-Pan" in China; this 1975 novel of his is set in Japan in 1600 Shogun |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $200: Former NFL tight end Roberta Muldoon is a character in this John Irving novel The World According to Garp |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | LITERATURE $400: Griffin, the main character in this Wells novel, describes himself as "almost an albino", if he could have been seen The Invisible Man |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | BIOGRAPHIES $800: "A Fiery Heart" is the subtitle of Claire Harmon's bio of this oldest novel-writing Brontë sister Charlotte Brontë |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $800: Hercule Poirot was dropped from the 1946 play version of this cruise-set novel & "Death" in the title became "Murder" Death on the Nile |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | MUSICAL THEATER $2000: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) This musical, based on an E.L. Doctorow novel, weaved together the stories of several characters & historical figures at the turn of the 20th century Ragtime |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $400: Alexander Rostov is under house arrest in the Metropol, a hotel across from the Kremlin, in the novel "A Gentleman in" this city Moscow |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $800: This Ian McEwan novel follows the consequences of a lie 13-year-old Briony Tallis tells & her attempts to make up for it Atonement |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $2000: Ken Follett says his most popular book is this novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England The Pillars of the Earth |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: This novel with a biblical title by Toni Morrison follows the life of a character named Milkman Dead Song of Solomon |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $200: This 1984 film based on a Frank Herbert novel was not a prequel to "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" Dune |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | IT'S A LONG STORY $800: Dmitry is arrested & convicted for his dad's murder in this Dostoyevsky novel, but Smerdyakov actually committed the crime The Brothers Karamazov |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | 2-LETTER LIT $800: Surname of physician Julius, antagonist of a 1958 Fleming novel No |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Potter novel involving Arizona's NBA squad Order of the Phoenix Suns |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1600: "Redhead By the Side of the Road" is a 2020 novel by this author of "The Accidental Tourist" (Anne) Tyler |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $2000: Norman Mailer was just 25 when he published this classic novel of World War II The Naked and the Dead |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | BROOKLYN '99 $1000: This 1999 novel about a detective with Tourette's by Brooklyn native Jonathan Lethem was the basis of a 2019 Edward Norton film Motherless Brooklyn |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | FICTIONAL SCHOOLS $2000: This 4-letter word for an elite boarding school is the title of Curtis Sittenfeld's novel about the Ault School prep |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: The lead character of this 2008 novel owes her last name to the heroine Bathsheba Everdene in "Far From the Madding Crowd" The Hunger Games |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $400: The infamous 1938 radio adaptation of this H.G. Wells novel moved the action from England to Grovers Mill, New Jersey The War of the Worlds |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $800: Muriel the goat in this novel was probably inspired by George Orwell's own pet goat Muriel Animal Farm |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $2000: "A screaming comes across the sky", begins this 1973 Thomas Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1600: The end of this novel hints at cannibalism aboard a lifeboat whose occupants were people, not a boy & zoo animals the Life of Pi |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $2000: Turns out the doctors of the title place of this Dennis Lehane novel have been manipulating a U.S. marshal, who is really an inmate Shutter Island |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $200: Fences of this wire invented for cattle are a constant in the internment camp novel "When the Emperor was Divine" barbed wire |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $600: In this 1990 novel raptors "hit the fence, take a shock. They never seem to mind" Jurassic Park |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE QUESTION $1600: Ms. Fox heads to Antarctica without telling her family, in answer to the title of this film based on a novel by Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This writer once said his first book wasn’t an important novel, but it ranks among the great ones, & its line, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” is among the most haunting of the 20th century Ralph Ellison |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $200: "Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed" Assassin's Creed |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $600: In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created Around the World in 80 Days |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $1600: "Bestsellers" says the paperback revolution of the '60s began with cheap copies of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $1000: This woman dreamed a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" & a novel was born Mary Shelley |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $1200: In 1863 he published a novel about "The Cossacks", who also get plenty of mention in his next, more epic, work (Leo) Tolstoy |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): His adventure novel "Une Ville Flottante", "A Floating City", takes place on a steamship, not under the sea Jules Verne |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | JUMP $1200: In this movie based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Alice doesn't want to go with Magua, so she leaps from a cliff to her death The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | ON MY READING LIST $1600: All of the novels in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series beginning with this 1965 novel Dune |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PAPERBACK WRITER $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2020 this late, great writer was back on the paperback bestseller list with "The Bluest Eye", her debut novel Toni Morrison |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Smitten with the title character, a Polish refugee, Stingo narrates this William Styron novel Sophie's Choice |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $400: John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $800: Thomas Gray's line "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" gave this Thomas an 1874 novel title Thomas Hardy |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $800: This Dumas novel suggests that the prisoner is actually the twin brother of Louis XIV The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this French novel, a singer named Christine longs to see beneath the mask of the title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author James Patterson |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1200: In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel The Satanic Verses |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Laszlo & Gyorgy Biro of Hungary used a novel tip when making this easy-to-use implement in the 1930s a ballpoint pen |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $2000: This Donna Tartt bestseller begins, "While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years" The Goldfinch |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $400: Anna, Vronsky may be something now, but he is easily distracted--you bet on the wrong horse Anna Karenina |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $800: Emma, your marriage to a country doctor won't fulfill you, but neither will your affairs with Leon & Rodolphe Madame Bovary |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $1200: Dagny, you will fall in love with John Galt even though you are a stand-in for Ayn Rand's vision of capitalism Atlas Shrugged |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $1600: Miss Kenton, even all the Nazis at Darlington Hall couldn't bring you & Stevens the butler together The Remains of the Day |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE $2000: Lily, I think you should wait one more day for Lawrence Selden--at least tell him the debts are paid The House of Mirth |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $200: This novel about an Alabama rape trial won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $800: Alabama U.S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens wrote the 1860 novel "The Rivals", about the feud between these 2 historic duelists Hamilton & Burr |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $1600: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title "Lover" in this scandalous 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $2000: In a WWI-set novel by C.S. Forester, Rose Sayer & uncouth Captain Charlie Allnutt are thrown together on this title boat The African Queen |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | BLOCKBUSTERS $1000: Based on a novel by Boris Pasternak & clocking in at more than 3 hours, this 1965 film was a hit at the box office Doctor Zhivago |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1200: This author based the novel "The Magic Mountain" on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife's bronchitis Thomas Mann |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial" (James) Michener |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $2000: A book about the hero's formative years is this kind of "education novel" a bildungsroman |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: Many think Frances Hodgson Burnett based the overgrown wild of this 1911 novel on Great Maytham Hall in Kent The Secret Garden |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $800: Near the end of this Hemingway novel, Jake & Brett each have 3 martinis at a bar in Madrid The Sun Also Rises |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2,200 (Daily Double): In a Kurt Vonnegut novel, Bonnie, a cocktail waitress at the Holiday Inn, calls martinis this, the book's title breakfast of champions |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $400: Hard-boiled favorite about a pilfered avian:
"HEELS OF CATTLEMAN" The Maltese Falcon |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $600: The future after Ford: "WARNED VERB OWL" Brave New World |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $800: About young German soldiers:
"NO FRET STREWN QUAIL TELETHON" All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | IN THE ROUGH DRAFT $2000: The book "A First Draft Version of" this last Joyce novel shows that parts are not only incomprehensible, but illegible too Finnegans Wake |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | NOVEL $200: This exercise, whose name is from the Sanskrit for "union", is now being done with goats, and we're not kidding yoga |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | NOVEL $400: Sort of a woodland Shazam, the Song Sleuth app helps nature lovers identify these by their calls birds |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | NOVEL $600: The new adaptive type of this alliterative auto feature slows you down when the car ahead of you brakes cruise control |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | I'M JUST THE "GO" BETWEEN $1600: The town where you grew up won't be the way you remember it, as we learn from this 1940 novel title You Can't Go Home Again |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $400: Charlotte Bronte wrote "Shirley" as well as this more famous novel with the heroine's name as the title Jane Eyre |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $800: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia & the scheming Becky Vanity Fair |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH $1200: In this Carl Sagan novel, astrophysicist Ellie wants a message from outer space; she gets one & goes on quite the adventure Contact |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH $4,000 (Daily Double): In a Larry Niven novel, a motley crew of explorers travel to this ribbon-like "world" that encircles a star Ringworld |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | SPEED READING $1600: Oddly, "Never act in haste" is the moral of the 1892 adventure novel "The Dash for" this Sudanese capital Khartoum |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | SPEED READING $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the 4-letter title of Lisa Patton's novel about students caught up in the frenzy of matching students with sororities Rush |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $600: Silent Cal took in the founding of CBS & the publication of this 1925 novel set in East Egg, Long Island The Great Gatsby |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $800: This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss The Invisible Man |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $400: Worst tropical island vacation ever; this little Piggy should have stayed home; British schoolboys won't be British schoolboys Lord of the Flies |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $800: No bull from Finch; a Jem of a story; Boo! To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $1200: Gotta fly; Major Major Major Major problems; war is Heller Catch-22 |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $1600: Here comes the Barnes; where there's a will, there's a Hemingway; Romero the torero The Sun Also Rises |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $2000: Utopia (not!); I ain't goin' nowhere; the Butler did it (in 1872) Erewhon |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $800: Lisbeth Salander has a Chinese symbol inked on her hip & a wasp on her neck as well as the design mentioned in the title of this novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska My Antonia |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death The Big Sleep |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $2000: Naturally, apple picking is featured in this 1985 John Irving novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | SUMMER READING $800: In the prequel novel "Summer & the City", this Candace Bushnell character discovers New York City Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that's an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965 Around the World in Eighty Days of Our Lives |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $200: The 2019 film of "Little Women" replicated Orchard House, where this author wrote & set the novel (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: The painting seen here, depicts a scene from this Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE $2000: The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was originally stolen from an Indian shrine The Moonstone |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $800: Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital" Doctor Zhivago |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MULTIPLE "CHOICE" QUIZ $800: The title of a 1979 novel, this is a decision where either option will end in sacrifice Sophie's Choice |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE $3,456 (Daily Double): Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek bleak |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: Harrison Ford plays John Thornton, rescuer of sled dog Buck, in the 2020 adaptation of this Jack London novel The Call of the Wild |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $800: In Brian K. Vaughan's graphic novel "Y: The Last Man", the "Y" stands for one of these, as most of the guys have dropped dead a chromosome |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $400: A 2006 landmark at the gate of Chicago's Union Stockyards honors the 100th anniversary of this Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: J.M. Barrie followed the play about this "boy who wouldn't grow up" with a novel about him "and Wendy" Peter Pan |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $1000: This Republican ex-Speaker of the House co-wrote the alternate history novel "1945", published in 1995 Gingrich |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | BOOKS OF THE DEAD $1600: He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published (Stieg) Larsson |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | BOOKS OF THE DEAD $2000: Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English The Trial |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | CHILDREN'S LIT $800: In this novel by Scott O'Dell, a girl named Karana is alone on the title isle Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY $400: One of FDR's closest advisors, Harry Hopkins helped shape this "novel" umbrella program of economic relief & stimulus the New Deal |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $1600: In this Edith Wharton novel, the aptly named May Welland Archer wins an archery contest at the Beaufort House The Age of Innocence |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | ARCHER $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 2008 novel she gets angry at the Gamemakers & shoots an arrow into a pig they are about to eat Katniss Everdeen |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $2000: John Fowles interrupts himself in this novel he wrote, commenting on the lives of the 1867 lovers at the heart of the action The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $800: The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her Rebecca |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $1000: This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre" Wide Sargasso Sea |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | LIT-POURRI $600: The title felony in this Dostoyevsky novel is the murder of a mean old woman who supposedly no one will miss Crime and Punishment |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $2000: In this Sara Gruen novel, later a movie, Jacob & Marlena plan to flee the traveling circus they both work for Water for Elephants |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $800: Jonathan & Mina Harker are characters in this classic novel from 1897 Dracula |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $2000: In a novel by Charlotte Bronte, Bertha Mason, first wife of this man, didn't get out of the house much Rochester |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $400: "The Book and the Sword" is a Wuxia novel, a Chinese story about these "arts" martial arts |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | RETURNS $800: In an 1840s Dumas novel, he is falsely accused of being a Bonapartist & jailed at the chateau d'If; he returns for revenge though... the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: This musical featuring the hero Jean Valjean was adapted from a 1,200-page novel Les Miserables |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $800: This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Sense and Sensibility |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $1600: At the beginning of a Virginia Woolf novel, it's where Mrs. Ramsay tells her son James he may go if the weather is fine to the lighthouse |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): Hazel is the leader of the rabbits & the brother of Fiver in this beloved novel by Richard Adams Watership Down |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | COLLEGE TALES $400: Julia Whelan's novel "My Oxford Year" follows the young American recipient of one of these scholarships Rhodes |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | COLLEGE TALES $800: The 2015 novel "Cow Country" is set in one of these alliterative institutions AKA a junior college a community college |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | ART HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name The Goldfinch |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | ATLANTIS $1600: A stop in Atlantis is barely a blip on the itinerary in this 1870 Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | DREAM BOATS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Astraea, a Roman slave galley from an 1880 novel Ben-Hur |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: The prologue to this Ralph Ellison novel says, "People refuse to see me" Invisible Man |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,400 (Daily Double): "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | A NOVEL PASSAGE $400: "And now, gentlemen, it's one for all and all for one. That's our motto, and I think we should stick to it" The Three Musketeers |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | A NOVEL PASSAGE $800: "The report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm" Gulliver's Travels |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | A NOVEL PASSAGE $1200: "On a mental ward. Miss Ratched's ward! The reekerputions will be... devastating!" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | A NOVEL PASSAGE $2000: "Mother died today. or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure" The Stranger |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $400: Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel Animal Farm |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1200: This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later The Lost Weekend |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1600: Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s Pearl Buck |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $800: Melquíades is an old writer who represents García Márquez, the actual author of this 1960s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $2000: "Charcoal Joe" was the 14th novel by Walter Mosley featuring this private investigator Easy Rawlins |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | THEIR FINAL NOVEL $200: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (Charles) Dickens |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | THEIR FINAL NOVEL $400: "Jude the Obscure" (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | THEIR FINAL NOVEL $800: "Hornblower During the Crisis" Forester |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $400: Like the protagonist in the early part of Dumas' novel, the judges of the newly created Prix Monte-Cristo are these prisoners |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $1200: 2019 Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke is perhaps best known for the novel this player's "Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" the goalie |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: The 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction went to Naomi Alderman for this sci-fi novel where women get shocking abilities The Power |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LITERARY TWINS $200: In this 1954 novel, identical twins Sam & Eric are eventually just called Samneric by the other castaways Lord of the Flies |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $1200: "'Marge, you must understand that I don't love you', Tom said into the mirror in Dicky's voice" is a line from this Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $200: In the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, Marvin is a paranoid this, which rhymes with paranoid android |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: For this novel James Hilton based the teacher named Chipping partly on his schoolmaster father Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $600: The 2 main female characters in this Edith Wharton novel are the proper May Welland & the exotic & daring Ellen Olenska Age of Innocence |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LITERARY LEE $1600: Hermione Lee, later this woman's biographer, picked up her novel "The Waves" at age 8 & thought, "This is my language" Virginia Woolf |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $800: You know whose fault it really is that Augustus Waters dies of cancer in this novel? John Green! The Fault in Our Stars |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1200: Spoiler alert! Lennie Small doesn't live to see the end of this novel (& no rabbits were harmed in the making of the clue) Of Mice and Men |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1600: Schoolboys Gene & Finny are the best of friends; one doesn't make it out of this John Knowles novel alive A Separate Peace |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $400: In Kerouac's novel "The Subterraneans", a version of this beat poet & friend appears as the character Adam Moorad Ginsberg |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $800: This word for the Buddhist doctrine of universal truth precedes "Bums" in a Jack Kerouac novel about drifters on the West Coast Dharma |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $1600: William Burroughs credited Kerouac with the title of this 1959 novel that faced controversy upon publication Naked Lunch |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $2000: In the novel "On the Road", this "heavenly" character is the narrator & Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: In 1988 she scored her first No. 1 bestseller with "Queen of the Damned", the third novel in her Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | WINTRY READING $800: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr! Siberia |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | WINTRY READING $1600: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition hypothermia |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1200: This Dave Eggers novel about an uber-powerful Internet company that links everything became a Tom Hanks film (The) Circle |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $400: 1,200+ pages? Gimme the gist of this novel...the French invade Russia, m-hm ...500 characters?! ...Prince Andrey Bolkonsky...got it! War and Peace |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $1200: Dickens' tale of a seemingly endless lawsuit is contained in the 900+ pages of this "homely" novel Bleak House |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | TL;DR $2000: Nearly living up to its name, this novel by David Foster Wallace boasts nearly 1,100 pages, including 10 on the disassembly of a bed Infinite Jest |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | UNFILMED NOVELS $1200: He refused offers to film "Foucault's Pendulum", perhaps because of his experience with the film of his first novel (Umberto) Eco |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | * $600: You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director J.J. Abrams |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | SIN-OPSIS $800: In a Jeffrey Eugenides novel, each of the lovely Lisbon sisters commits this, which a priest in the book calls a mortal sin suicide |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF $1000: "The Girl Who Lived Twice" is the latest novel featuring this tattooed heroine introduced by Stieg Larsson Lisbeth Salander |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: This British author of a famous dystopian novel was the grandson of a prominent biologist & the brother of 2 more biologists Huxley |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $200: Richard Hooker's "Novel About Three Army Doctors" was the basis for a film & a TV show, both with this name M*A*S*H |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES $400: It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; "The Catcher in the Rye" is one a bildungsroman |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $200: In 1910, less than a century after this novel was published, it had its first film adaptation with Augustus Phillips at the title scientist Frankenstein |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $1200: Mark Haddon got the title of this novel from an observation made by Sherlock Holmes in an 1892 story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this novel Mark Watney says, "I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did" The Martian |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1200: Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $2000: Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title
But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair" Graham Greene |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $400: He wrote the screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" & adapted his own novel "Marathon Man" for the movies William Goldman |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $400: In this Audrey Niffenegger novel, Clare is married to Henry, who suffers from Chrono-Displacement Disorder The Time Traveler's Wife |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1600: She wrote the novel "Big Little Lies", the basis for an HBO series (Liane) Moriarty |
| #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 |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS $1600: "Lethal White" is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel J.K. Rowling has written using this pseudonym Robert Galbraith |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $200: Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also American |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | BEHIND THE LITERATURE $1000: Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen Virginia Woolf |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $6,000 (Daily Double): This author based a 1962 novel on personal experience working in a hospital's psychiatric ward Ken Kesey |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $1200: Terry McMillan could breathe a sigh of relief after this 1992 novel made its way up the charts Waiting to Exhale |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | 1990s BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The author of this 1996 "Novel of Politics" was listed as anonymous Primary Colors |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, after learning there are no grownups, Jack says, "We'll have to look after ourselves" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES $400: The novel "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella was the basis of this 1989 film Field of Dreams |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $400: This Victor Hugo novel begins in 1482 The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | WRITERS GO WAY BACK $1000: This 1880 Lew Wallace novel takes place during the life of Christ Ben-Hur |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | BOOKS FILMED WITH DIFFERENT TITLES $1200: The film "Blade Runner" was based on this Philip K. Dick novel whose title is a 6-word question Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | THE WRECK OF THE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $2000: Fitzgerald was 44 when he died of a heart attack before he could finish this "Last" novel about a Hollywood producer The Last Tycoon |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this Pierre Boulle novel, chimps & gorillas rule & men live like beasts Planet of the Apes |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $2000: The Apostles Peter & Paul & the Roman emperor all show up in this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel whose title is a question Quo Vadis |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS $400: This show about the bionic Steve Austin was based on the novel "Cyborg" The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #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 |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty" Foucault's Pendulum |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $1200: Doc's, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel "Native Son" poolroom |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | LITERARY LOCALES $400: This 1934 novel by Henry Miller is set north of the line of latitude in its title, in the seamier parts of Paris Tropic of Cancer |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | LITERARY PASSINGS $1600: In this novel by Camus, Meursault kills an Arab on a beach; he's not entirely sure why The Stranger |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400 (Daily Double): Esther Greenwood is a college student & aspiring poet in the 1950s who suffers a mental breakdown in this auto-biographical novel The Bell Jar |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This 1952 Steinbeck novel about the Trask brothers is a retelling of the biblical story of Cain & Abel East of Eden |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LITERARY WORKS OF THE 1820s $800: 2 characters in her novel "The Last Man" are portraits of her late husband & of Lord Byron (Mary) Shelley |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LITERARY WORKS OF THE 1820s $4,000 (Daily Double): Jane Webb Loudon wrote the 1st novel about one of these creatures, including the line "'Weak, feeble worm!' exclaimed Cheops" a mummy |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WHO WROTE IT? $200: The novel "Catch-22" (Joseph) Heller |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $1600: 1999: John Irving, from his novel The Cider House Rules |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $200: Orphan asylum / "Or, the Parish Boy's Progress" / How Dickensian! Oliver Twist |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $400: No man's on island / Schoolboys have a bad field trip / Simon says please stop Lord of the Flies |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $600: A year in the life / Cigarettes, accounted for / Is Darcy the one? Bridget Jones's Diary |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $800: Morlocks & Eloi / Man, the years really fly by! / A Wells of info The Time Machine |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | BRITISH NOVEL HAIKU $1000: A Woolf epistle / Clarissa explains it all / Let's meet the "Mrs." Mrs Dalloway |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $200: When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that" Catcher in the Rye |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $400: 9-year-old Oskar Schell searches for clues about his father who died on 9/11 in the novel "Extremely Loud &" this Incredibly Close |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $800: In an 1884 novel Jim is held as an escaped slave after rafting down this river the Mississippi |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $2000: "I've never been in a boat before", says Mole to the Rat as the 2 head down a river in this Kenneth Grahame novel The Wind in the Willows |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $600: The German army sent him to the Western Front & in 1929 he published a novel about it (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $1000: This tough guy detective writer also wrote a novel for children called "The Day the Sea Rolled Back" Mickey Spillane |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: 1920:
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Agatha Christie |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1600: 1940:
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson) McCullers |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: 1988:
"The Bean Trees" Barbara Kingsolver |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: This author known for her gender-disparity test wrote the graphic novel memoir "Fun Home" (Alison) Bechdel |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | A GENERIC TITLE $2000: The movie "A Place in the Sun" was based on this U.S. novel An American Tragedy |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | GHOSTWRITERS $1600: Alexandre Dumas gets the credit for this 1844-45 novel of revenge, but it was Auguste Maquet who outlined the plot The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $400: This 1818 novel has been adapted as a ballet with an experimentalist named Victor & the discovery of galvanism Frankenstein |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1200: Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century "conveyance" The Underground Railroad |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1600: Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $200: The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | UNDER THE... $400: Stephen King novel in which Chester's Mill, Maine is sealed off from the rest of the world Under the Dome |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | CUBA LIBRO $800: Oscar Hijuelos wrote a novel about the title "Kings" of this Cuban ballroom dance mambo |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $800: In 1798's "Wieland", the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: "In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes" spontaneous combustion |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | BOOK NUMBERS $1000: A Temperance Brennan novel: "___ Bones" (referring to the number of bones in the body) 206 |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $400: Thornton Wilder's novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius The Ides of March |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANCIENT ROME FICTION $2000: This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor I, Claudius |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | KIDD STUFF $2000: This 3-named author went back to the 19th century in her novel "The Invention of Wings" Sue Monk Kidd |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $1000: Amybeth McNulty stars in the series "Anne with an E", a grittier take on this 1908 Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $800: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $2000: The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness Daniel Defoe |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | KURT VONNEGUT $400: In Vonnegut's novel the title "Breakfast of Champions" refers to this vermouth cocktail a martini |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | KURT VONNEGUT $600: 2019 is the 50th anniversary of this Vonnegut novel loosely based on his experiences during the firebombing of Dresden Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was "The Hornet's Nest", his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South Jimmy Carter |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: "A House Divided" completed Pearl Buck's trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME $1200: It's the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME $2000: His 1815 novel "Guy Mannering" begins in the year "17--" with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries Walter Scott |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS: A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & "got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them" a wardrobe |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: It's this character who's spoken of in the line "Reader, I forgave him at the moment & on the spot" Mr. Rochester |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LITERARY CLICHÉS: Many mystery fans blame "The Door", a 1930 Mary Roberts Rinehart novel in which a servant kills a nurse, for this 4-word cliché the butler did it |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms & a location guide The Secret Garden |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter 100 of this novel introduces the one-armed Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby Moby-Dick |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | 20th CENTURY LIT: Squashing the allegory theory, the daughters of the author of this novel say it's "just a story about rabbits" Watership Down |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | LITERATURE: In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" Ulysses |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES: This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | NOVELS: "Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared" The Three Musketeers |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NOVEL LOCALES: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the Valley of Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal Shangri-La |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns" Holden Caulfield |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 20th CENTURY FICTION: The author's foreword to this novel says, "When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa" Death on the Nile |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | LITERARY MOVIE ROLES: Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley Anna Karenina |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | 1980s BESTSELLERS: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience" (William) Faulkner |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LITERARY THRILLERS: The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it's narrated by one of 007's paramours The Spy Who Loved Me |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city St. Petersburg |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This character from an 1851 novel "was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge" Captain Ahab |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | LITERARY PRONOUNS: Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1 It |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BOOKS OF THE 1950s: A special edition of this 1953 novel came with an asbestos binding Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVELS: Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain The Sun Also Rises |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: A laboratory known as the House of Pain is on Noble's Isle, the title setting of this novel The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements" Dracula |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | MOVIE & BOOK TITLES: This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | BESTSELLING NOVELS: For help with research, the author of this 2003 novel acknowledged the Louvre, Catholic World News & "five members of Opus Dei" The Da Vinci Code |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father Frankenstein |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | NOVEL QUOTES: A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy" The Natural |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: The writing of this novel, the author's first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The 1877 novel "Garth", about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor's crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter 1 of this 1954 British novel is entitled "The Sound of the Shell" Lord of the Flies |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FUTURISTIC FICTION: Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon's innovations inspired this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The author of this novel thought of calling it "Silence in the Water" Jaws |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: In a 1989 novel, Jing-Mei Woo says, "My father has asked me to be the fourth corner" in this title group the Joy Luck Club |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | CHILDREN'S LIT: In 2017 the Maine farm & barn that inspired this classic 1952 novel were put up for sale Charlotte's Web |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | UNREAL ESTATE: Some of the features of this title place of an 1883 novel are Mizzen-Mast Hill & Captain Kidd's Anchorage Treasure Island |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | 1950s FICTION: The New York Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman "one of the most influential business books ever written" Atlas Shrugged |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | BESTSELLING NOVELS: This 1990 novel made into a blockbuster film says the Hammond Foundation "has spent $17 million on amber" Jurassic Park |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition" Animal Farm |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | NAME THE NOVEL: "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet" Frankenstein |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NOVELS OF THE 1960s: The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film You Only Live Twice |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude" Gabriel García Márquez |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins Oliver Twist |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Much of this novel takes place on the island of Despair, off the coast of South America, from 1659 to 1686 Robinson Crusoe |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945" Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | NOVELS: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film The Old Man and the Sea |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | LITERARY REFERENCES: An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content 451 |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: "Wherever I sat...I would be sitting under the same glass" this, the title of the author's only novel The Bell Jar |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | NOVELS: In a Spanish translation of this novel, Chapter 1 begins, "Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: When we first meet her in the novel, she's wearing a green dress with 12 yards of fabric & matching slippers from Atlanta Scarlett O'Hara |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS: In a British novel this young character's last words are, "Which is better--to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?" Piggy |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | IN THE NOVEL: The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS: In an 1887 novel this narrator's old wartime injury is in his shoulder; in an 1890 novel by the same author, it's in his leg Dr. Watson |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel Treasure Island |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | LITERARY QUOTES: More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, "The blood is the life" Dracula |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | BRITISH NOVELS: Local legend says that Top Withens, the Yorkshire farmhouse seen here, may have been an inspiration for this novel Wuthering Heights |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES: He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: A line from this 1995 novel is "The infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald" Wicked |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: This lawyer from a famed 1960 novel shares a name with an ancient Roman renowned for his wisdom Atticus Finch (from To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | LITERATURE: Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character's brother, has been unfaithful Anna Karenina |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | BOOK REVIEWS: A 2008 review of this novel, later filmed, compared it to "Battle Royale" & said it's "a future we can fear" The Hunger Games |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | AUTHORS & FILMMAKERS: This author had a bitter feud with Michael Moore over the title of a 2004 documentary Ray Bradbury |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: "His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met" Don Quixote |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | BESTSELLING BOOKS: This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it The Fault in Our Stars |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | NOVEL WORDS: This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED a muggle |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | FICTIONAL LOCALES: Featured in a 1933 novel, it may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock Shangri-La |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way" Agatha Christie |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS: His "spinal column was curved"... the "head was between the shoulder-blades and... one leg was shorter than the other" Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS: Winning for 1999, this New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel John Irving |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you... beneath" the picture was this 5-word quote Big Brother is watching you |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | NOVEL TITLES: The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | 21st CENTURY NOVELS: In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling" Life of Pi (by Yann Martel) |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | NOVEL TITLES: These are not found in the Koran, & the angel Gabriel told Muhammad that they were not revealed by God the Satanic Verses |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | LITERARY INFLUENCES: The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier The Age of Innocence |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman" Siddhartha |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NOVELS: This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | 1950s FICTION: John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier On the Road |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | FRENCH LITERATURE: An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | GREAT NOVELS: A preface to this novel called it "rustic all through... Moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of Heath" Wuthering Heights |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | LITERARY TITLE PLACES: An 1831 novel says that Charlemagne laid the first stone of this title place, "old queen of our cathedrals" Notre Dame |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | BRITISH NOVELS: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS: In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed Anna Karenina |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel (Edna) Ferber |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In the 1st chapter of this 1939 novel, "When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | LITERARY FIRST LINES: "You better not never tell nobody but God", begins this 1982 novel, whose film version garnered 11 Oscar nominations The Color Purple |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | FICTION: A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled Catch-22 |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | WAR NOVEL & MOVIE TITLES: Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge The Thin Red Line |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | NOVEL TITLES: The title of this scandalous novel set in 1930s Paris symbolizes "the disease of civilization" Tropic of Cancer |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | AUTHORS: His multi-novel series is based on Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Stephen King |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: In 2011, in the preface to the 75th anniversary edition, Pat Conroy called this novel "the last great... victory of the Confederacy" Gone with the Wind |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | LITERATURE: This 1928 novel was partly based on the author's wife Frieda & her affair with Angelo Ravagli Lady Chatterley's Lover (by D.H. Lawrence) |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets Anglicized Robinson Crusoe |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 1930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel's first epilogue says, "The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful" War and Peace |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: "A Girl from a Different World" & "Train to the Urals" are chapters in this 1957 work Doctor Zhivago |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | BRITISH NOVELISTS: In his journals he described how he once set 2 groups of boys against each other, likely inspiring his 1954 novel William Golding |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962 John Steinbeck |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel Bram Stoker |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | FROM NOVEL TO FILM: First published in 1880 & made into a film in 1907, 1925 & 1959, it was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope Ben-Hur |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?" Moby-Dick |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | NEW SPORTS: In 2008, Middlebury College in Vermont won its 2nd straight championship in this sport introduced in a 1997 novel Quidditch |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In an 1877 novel Mrs. Gordon initially suggests the name Ebony for this title character Black Beauty |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | RECENT BOOKS: In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Chapter II of this novel says, "My eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians" Dracula |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | 1970s BESTSELLERS: The preface to this novel says its title is a trademark phrase of General Mills, used on a cereal product Breakfast of Champions |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, the title object "ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness" The Scarlet Letter |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE: The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba" Islands in the Stream |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | STORY INSPIRATIONS: The 1949 shooting of Philly 1B Eddie Waitkus by Ruth Steinhagen inspired this novel, later a 1984 film The Natural |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | 1950s LITERATURE: In 2007 this novel celebrated its 50th anniversary as its manuscript, a 120-foot-long scroll, toured the U.S. On the Road |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: Molly, the wife in this 1922 novel, represents a modern-day Penelope Ulysses |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: The house in Canada seen here inspired this beloved novel that's celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008 Anne of Green Gables |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | NOVELS: Amazon.com said this novel, set in Iowa, was "the romantic classic of the 1990s" The Bridges of Madison County |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a 1914 novel, as a boy he could "drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid descent to the ground" Tarzan |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | ENGLISH LIT: The line "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us" is found in the 1st paragraph of this 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken Jules Verne |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | SCIENCE FICTION: A recent re-issue of this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel includes an introduction by Michael Crichton The Lost World |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | CHARLES DICKENS: The title setting of this novel includes figures in china, iron & ivory; suits of armor; old carvings & furniture The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | AUTHORS: Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include "Jungle Battles", "His Own Kind" & "The Call of the Primitive" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | AMERICAN PUBLISHING: The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this $30,000 |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | FICTION: This 1953 novel contains the famous recipe 3 measures of Gordon's, 1 of vodka; shake it until it's ice-cold Casino Royale |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He's the character mentioned in the first line of "Atlas Shrugged" John Galt |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | LITERARY QUOTES: In an 1859 novel, Charles Dickens called this object "the sharp female newly-born" the guillotine |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham |
| #5189, aired 2007-03-15 | NOVEL TITLES: "In the souls of the people" these "are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch Harper Lee |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | ANIMALS: The world's largest invertebrate, it plays a prominent part in an 1870 French novel & a 1954 film the giant squid |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" Frankenstein |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | FROM BOOK TO FILM: Among the many movies that have premiered here at Radio City Music Hall was this 1962 film based on a novel by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | LITERARY TITLE OBJECTS: In an 1868 novel, this mysterious title object is believed to sparkle or dim depending on lunar phases the Moonstone |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: "Annie" Sadilek, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, inspired the title character in this 1918 novel of the Great Plains My Antonia (by Willa Cather) |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..." The Jungle |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LITERARY HISTORY: Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1930 mystery novel "The Door" turned blaming this character into a cliche the butler |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions Fagin |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: This real man inspired a 1719 novel character & a poem that says, "I am monarch of all I survey" Alexander Selkirk |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: "The Pastor and His Parishioner" is Chapter 17 of this classic novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The image seen here is part of Faulkner's original text of this 1930 novel As I Lay Dying |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | BRITISH NOVEL CHARACTERS: W.E. Henley, the amputee who wrote the brave poem "Invictus", inspired this character in an 1883 book Long John Silver |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | LITERATURE: In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall Gone with the Wind |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | FRUIT: This fruit of North America shares its name with a literary character who debuted in an 1876 novel the huckleberry |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom" The Scarlet Letter |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES: Wilton, Connecticut, a quiet, affluent town near New York City, was the basis for this title town in a 1972 novel Stepford |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "A Bird's Eye View of Paris" & "The Bells" are chapters in this 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: The main library at the University of Northern Colorado is named for this alumnus who wrote an epic of Colorado in 1974 James Michener (the novel was "Centennial") |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | AMERICAN NOVELS: Chapter III of this 1826 novel is prefaced by a quote from the poem "An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Catcher in the Rye" (the narrator being Holden Caulfield) |
| #4235, aired 2003-01-17 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began" Ragtime |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was "Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires" The Great Gatsby |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A line in her first novel reads, "I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty" Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book Shangri-La |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | 1950s FICTION: One of the most influential books of our time, this 1,100-page novel was originally called "The Strike" Atlas Shrugged |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | TV & LITERATURE: "The Fugitive" was based in part on this 1862 novel in which a detective relentlessly pursues the fugitive hero Les Misérables |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: The phrase that's the title of this novel comes from the translation of the Hebrew word Beelzebub Lord of the Flies |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | '90s BESTSELLERS: This novel grew out of a series of personal columns that first ran in the Independent of London Bridget Jones's Diary |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: John Steinbeck originally called this 1937 short novel "Something That Happened" Of Mice and Men |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: "The Mute" was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers) |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | FAMOUS PHRASES: This expression comes from a 1956 novel about Frank Skeffington's final run for mayor "the last hurrah" |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | LITERARY TREES: In a famous novel this type of tree grows beneath a bedroom window at Tara magnolia |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | BRITISH LITERATURE: This 1901 novel named for its hero opens at the Lahore Museum Kim |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Chapter XVI of this novel concerns "The Inn Which He Took for a Castle" "Don Quixote" |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BRITISH LITERATURE: The original title of this 1895 novel was "The Chronic Argonauts" The Time Machine |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The book of Jonah is quoted before Chapter One of this 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | 1998 DISCOVERIES: Discovered by a student, the largest known one of these fills as many pages as a good-sized novel a prime number |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: With the same initials as the author, Harry Haller is the loner protagonist of this 1927 German novel Steppenwolf (by Hermann Hesse) |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | 19th CENTURY FICTION: The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave Thomas Jefferson |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The hero of this playwright's Absurdist novel "Watt" works for a mysterious Mr. Knott, who never appears Samuel Beckett |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MYSTERY NOVELS: The first line of dialogue in this 1930 novel is spoken to secretary Effie Perine, "Yes, sweetheart?" The Maltese Falcon |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | BRITISH NOVELS: This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention" The Time Machine |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS: Candice Bergen, Joanna Pettet, Kathleen Widdoes & Joan Hackett debuted as college alumnae in this 1966 film The Group |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | AUTHORS: He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success Jules Verne |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Olga Ivinskaya, who passed away in Moscow in 1995, was the inspiration for this character Lara |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This first American writer to earn $1 million received only $2,000 for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike Jack London |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | FAMOUS NOVELS: The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy" Animal Farm |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: The next-to-last line spoken by this man is "I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't" Rhett Butler |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Though not named in the title, Oliver Mellors is the title character of this 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter XI of this 1826 novel is prefaced by a Shakespearean quote: "Cursed be my tribe, if I forgive him" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | AUTHORS: Once rejected as too far-fetched, his 1863 novel "Paris in the 20th Century" was published for the 1st time in 1994 Jules Verne |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | BEST SELLERS: The title of this 1987 novel comes from the burning of valuables in Florence, Italy in the 1490s Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | LITERARY LANDMARKS: A home built in 1668 at 54 Turner St. in Salem, Massachusetts inspired this 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS: The first Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by a woman, it became a movie in 1993 The Age of Innocence |
| #2167, aired 1994-01-25 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The first sentence of this 1957 novel is "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #2128, aired 1993-12-01 | U.S. HISTORY: Frank Harris' 1908 novel "The Bomb" deals with this 1886 U.S. incident the Haymarket Riot |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | PUBLISHING: Last name of the Scottish brothers who began publishing textbooks in 1843 & put out their first novel in 1855 MacMillan |
| #1915, aired 1992-12-25 | WORLD LEADERS: At age 25 in 1908, this future European leader wrote his only novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" Benito Mussolini |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | OSCAR WINNING FILMS: It ends as the main character, Don Birnam, begins work on a new novel, "The Bottle" The Lost Weekend |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | EUROPEAN NOVELS: A BBC Radio musical called "The Blooms of Dublin" was based on this novel Ulysses |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The heroines in this novel perform an original melodrama called "The Witch's Curse" Little Women |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrative in this 1851 novel contains a dissertation on cetology Moby-Dick |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | LITERARY SEQUELS: "Perchance to Dream" is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this 1939 Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | NOVELS: Hemingway novel that begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton" The Sun Also Rises |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: Striking soft chords on the piano, he says, "Like the painting of a sorrow; a face without a heart" Dorian Gray ("The Picture of Dorian Gray") |
| #1265, aired 1990-02-16 | AMERICAN NOVELS: Chapter 15 of this 1881 novel is entitled "Tom as King" The Prince and the Pauper |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He died at age 28, just 5 years after his Civil War novel was published Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | OPERA: Based on a French novel by Henri Murger, its title refers to the carefree life artists lead La bohème |
| #1078, aired 1989-04-19 | THE PULITZER PRIZE: 3 years after this William Kennedy novel won a Pulitzer Prize, it came out as a film starring Meryl Streep Ironweed |
| #679, aired 1987-07-16 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 19th century novel whose alternate title is "Life Among the Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | LITERATURE: Title of this 1940 novel is taken from the words of John Donne, which begin "No man is an island" For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #312, aired 1985-11-19 | LITERATURE: 1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later The Old Man and the Sea |
