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Novels/Novellas
Determining work and author from characters, descriptions, or quotes.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Characters: Milo Minderbinder, Major Major, Snowden, Yossarian | CATCH 22 by Joseph HELLER |
| Description: Examines the absurdity of war and military life through World War II bombers who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home, set on island of Pianosa | CATCH 22 by Joseph HELLER |
| Description: at the end, a starving man is breastfed by a woman who had given birth to a stillborn child; former preacher Jim Casy dies during a strike; the Joad Family flees the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression | The GRAPES OF WRATH by John STEINBECK |
| Characters: Myrtle Wilson, Daisy Buchanon, Nick Carraway | The GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott FITZGERALD |
| Characters: Alyona Ivanovna, Porfiry Petrovich, Rodion Raskolnikov | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY |
| Description: a villain in this novel claims he was told to wind a clock by the ghost of his wife, Maria; Svidrigailov seeks out the protagonist; Porfiry suspects Raskolnikov killed a pawnbroker | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY |
| Description: visiting diplomats are humiliated for wearing pearl jewelry in their hats; title location is a crescent-shaped island and indicates an imaginary ideal society | UTOPIA by Thomas MORE |
| Characters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth, the March sisters | LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May ALCOTT |
| Description: protagonist, Edna Pontellier, moves into the "pigeon house", befriends the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz and begins an affair with Alcee Arobin while her husband Leonce is away on business | The AWAKENING by Kate CHOPIN |
| Description: protagonist sleeps at Robber's Cave on the way home from Tahlequah, Oklahoma; title refers to plant seen near the grave of Little Anne, who died after Old Dan is killed by a mountain lion | WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by Wilson RAWLS |
| Description: violinist Grete is repulsed by the transformation of her brother, Gregor Samsa | The METAMORPHOSIS by Franz KAFKA |
| Description: title character tells housekeeper to open an old schoolroom so he can hide a shameful item; Sibyl Vane nicknames the main character "Prince Charming", main character kills painter Basil Hallward; a painting helps to maintain youth | The PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar WILDE |
| Description: Phil Connor rapes Ona, the wife of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who works at a Chicago meatpacking plant; unintentionally led to factory reform | The JUNGLE by Upton SINCLAIR |
| Description: the sentence "124 was spiteful" opens this novel; describes a house "full of a baby's venom"; Paul D. moves in with Denver and her mother at 124 Bluestone Road; a dead child's spirit haunts Sethe | BELOVED by Toni MORRISON |
| Description: Guitar Banes shoots a man named Pilate and gets into a fight with Milkman Dead | SONG OF SOLOMAN by Toni MORRISON |
| Description: Clyde Griffiths' desire for Sondra Finchley leads him to plan to murder his previous girlfriend; by Theodore Dreiser | AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore DREISER |
| Description: a court sentences the emotionally detached narrator Meursault to death for shooting an Algerian; by Albert Camus (kam-OO) | The STRANGER by Albert CAMUS |
| Description: author criticized Joseph Conrad's racism; residents of Umuofia burn down a missionary church; its sequel is the novel No Longer at Ease; Okonkwo is banished from Umuofia; Nigerian author | THINGS FALL APART by Chinua ACHEBE (ah-CHAY-bay) |
| Description: protagonist wins fight with Spitz to become group leader; after his master's murder the protagonist joins a pack of wolves to become "The Ghost Dog"; set in Alaska | The CALL OF THE WILD by Jack LONDON (protagonist is Buck) |
| Description: Thomas Sutpen marries Ellen Coldfield and later courts Ellen's sister Rosa after Ellen's death; by William Faulkner | ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William FAULKNER |
| Description: the Bundrens make a journey to bury a woman named Addie; by William Faulkner | AS I LAY DYING by William FAULKNER |
| Description: mentally ill woman is confined to the upstairs rooms of a mansion; title character loves Mr Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall | JANE EYRE by Charlotte BRONTE (need at least "C" on first name or you will get a prompt) |
| Description: protagonist establishes an alibi by moving a clock back 45 minutes in Monsieur de Treville's office; illegal duel prompts Cardinal Richelieu's guards to confront the title characters, who befriend the duellist d'Artagnan | The THREE MUSKETEERS by Alexandre DUMAS |
| Description: character given title "The Boss" after claiming to cause an eclipse; Hank Morgan uses a gun to kill a knight and becomes an enemy of Merlin; man from Hartford travels back in time to Camelot | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by Mark TWAIN |
| Description: protagonist buys record "Little Shirley Beans" for his sister; his late brother Allie wrote poetry on his baseball glove; protagonist expelled by Mr Antolini from Pencey Prep | The CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. SALINGER (protagonist is Holden Caulfield) |
| Description: protagonist is often referred to as "the youth", his friend Jim Conklin is killed during a Civil War battle; title refers to a wound that will counteract cowardice | The RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen CRANE (protagonist is Henry Fleming) |
| Description: title creature is the hearse "not made by mortal hands" from Fedallah's prophecy; a gold doubloon is nailed to a ship's mast and offered to the first man to spot the title creature; narrator survives shipwreck by hanging on to a coffin | MOBY DICK by Herman MELVILLE |
| Characters: Queequeg, Pequod (the ship), Ishmael (narrator), Captain Ahab | MOBY DICK by Herman MELVILLE |
| Description: one character dies of gangrene after wearing wooden clogs; beings say "so it goes" after someone dies and place the protagonist in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore; Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time" | SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt VONNEGUT |
| Description: written under the pseudonym "A Lady"; John Willoughby deserts Marianne for a richer woman; title refers to the traits held by sisters Marianne and Elinor | SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane AUSTEN |
| Description: Elizabeth changes her opinion of Mr. Darcy, who is the focus of a grudge held by the devious Mr. Wickham | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane AUSTEN |
| Description: about Belbo who is abducted by a secret society; 1988 novel named after a scientific device | FOUCAULT'S (FOO-koh'z) PENDULUM by Umberto ECO |
| Description: "The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates" is a section of this novel about a group of immigrants in San Francisco who play mahjong; by Amy Tan | The JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy TAN |
| Description: about an English thief who accidentally marries her own brother after being transported to the colony of Virginia; by Daniel Defoe | MOLL FLANDERS by Daniel DEFOE |
| Description: protagonist gives birth to daughter Ella Lorena after purchasing and managing a sawmill to pay taxes on her plantation, Tara; 1936 novel depicts Civil War experiences of Scarlett O'Hara | GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret MITCHELL |
| Description: describes "tan shoes" of Blazes Boylan who is having an affair with an opera singer; concludes with words "yes I said yes I will Yes" as Molly remembers she agreed to marry Irishman Leopold Bloom; takes place entirely on June 16, 1904 | ULYSSES by James JOYCE (do NOT confuse with the Tennyson poem) |
| Description: Johannes Pafuri's eye twitch fails to convict him in a trial in which the lawyer Mr. Carmichael works "pro deo"; Stephen travels by rail and looks for his sister Gertrude, who has become a prostitute; Absalom Kumalo murders Arthur Jarvis | CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Alan PATON |
| Description: title character stays on the ship Demeter with crates of dirt to regain strength and controls mental patient Renfield; Lucy Wenestra's illness diagnosed by Abraham Van Helsing; Jonathan Harker engaged to Mina | DRACULA by Bram STOKER |
| Description: A governess believes a home is haunted in this novella written by the 19th century author of The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James | The TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry JAMES |
| Description: moneylender Wick Cutter appears in this novel in which Jim Burden befriends a Bohemian immigrant girl in Nebraska; by Willa Cather | MY ANTONIA by Willa CATHER |
| Description: the title character renames a horse Rocinante and is obsessed with romances of chivalry; title character tilts at windmills he believes to be "hulking giants" | DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de CERVANTES |
| Description: the author's book Death in the Afternoon is about bullfighting, which is also practiced by the Spaniard Romero in this other novel by the same author | The SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest HEMINGWAY |
| Description: Marley, the protagonist's partner, was dead to begin with; ends with the phrase "God bless us, everyone!"; protagonist visited by 3 spirits | A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles DICKENS |
| Description: describes white statue resembling a winged sphinx which has a pedestal where the title object is hidden; Weena, a member of the Eloi, adores this novel's protagonist who starts a fire to scare the Morlocks; about a trip to the 8,028th century | The TIME MACHINE by H.G. WELLS |
| Description: set in Macondo; magical realist novel about the Buendia family's decline; Colombian author | ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel GARCIA Marquez (yes, need the "middle name" at least) |
| Description: a woman marries Jody Starks in Eatonville then runs away with a man called "Tea Cake"; African-American author created Janie Crawford in this novel | THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale HURSTON |
| Description: Brother Juniper witnesses the death of several people when the title structure collapses in this 1927 novel by Thornton Wilder | The BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton WILDER |
| Description: one character in this book fears his wife is sleeping with a "jerkline skinner" named Slim; another character accidentally breaks the neck of Curley's wife as he strokes her hair; Lennie dreams of living off "the fatta" the land | OF MICE AND MEN by John STEINBECK |
| Description: this novel, along with parts of Elmer Gantry (another novel by this author), is set in the city of Zenith in the fictional state of Winnemac | BABBITT by Sinclair LEWIS |
| Description: its villain uses the Golden Cap to summon winged creatures; according to common interpretation, this book is a populist allegory that represents William Jennings Bryan as a cowardly animal; Dorothy visits a magic land | The WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ or The WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank BAUM |
| Description: protagonist attends a performance of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor where she is irked by her husband's inability to follow the plot; after her marriage to Charles breaks down, the title character takes arsenic | MADAME BOVARY by Gustave FLAUBERT |
| Description: in this novella, the addendum "with sheets" is added to a rule that forbids sleeping in beds; its "Seven Commandments" are eventually altered to say that some beings are "more equal than others"; allegory depicting barnyard uprising | ANIMAL FARM by George ORWELL |
| Description: novel about a "World State" where the residents are pacified with a drug called soma; the author compared this fictional drug to LSD in the essay "<this novel title> Revisited"; Bernard Marx meets John the Savage | BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous HUXLEY |
| Description: Professor Faber helps the protagonist who flees from a "Mechanical Hound"; protagonist recites the poem Dover Beach to his wife and her friends; Guy Montag is a fireman | FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray BRADBURY |
| Description: Esther Greenwood works as an intern at Ladies' Day in this novel by Sylvia Plath | The BELL JAR by Sylvia PLATH |
| Description: uses animal husbandry term "freemartin" to describe women made sterile by hormones administered at "hatcheries"; an old edition of Shakespeare's plays shapes the mindset of John the Savage; futuristic dystopia | BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous HUXLEY |
| Description: after taking off his pants to squeeze under a fence, a character in this novel is shocked to return and find them neatly folded; Jem has his arm broken by Bob Ewell and his unconscious body is carried home by Boo Radley | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper LEE |
| Characters: Atticus, Jem, Boo Radley, Scout, the Finch family | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper LEE |
| Description: narrator meets Owl Eyes in the library during a party hosted by his rich neighbor; the title character is shot and found dead in his pool; Daisy Buchanon hits Myrtle Wilson with her car | The GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott FITZGERALD (narrator is CARRAWAY) |
| Description: a servant named Zillah angers her employer by opening a "haunted" room to the guest Mr. Lockwood; the estate of Thrushcross Grange is contrasted with the novel's title location; Catherine marries Heathcliff | WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily BRONTE (if author wanted, need at least the E in Emily or it is a prompt) |
| Description: a character kills a rat with a skillet, causing his sister to faint; Jan Erlone hires Boris Max to defend the protagonist after he smothers Mary Dalton with a pillow; Bigger Thomas is sentenced to death | NATIVE SON by Richard WRIGHT |
| Description: a knight named Wilfred uses the alias "Desdichado" while competing at a tournament in this historical novel | IVANHOE by Sir Walter SCOTT |
| Description: the title character smears blood from a hog around his father's property to fake his death; at the end, the title boy vows to "light out for the territory" to get away from Aunt Sally; the title character helps a slave named Jim escape | The ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark TWAIN |
| Description: the mysterious gift of a piano causes the title woman to gossip about her Highbury neighbor, Jane Fairfax: Jane Austen's novel about a title matchmaker | EMMA by Jane AUSTEN |
| Description: title character performs in a play by Clare Quilty after being abused by the narrator Humbert Humbert; Russian author | LOLITA by Vladimir NABOKOV |
| Description: protagonist fears "C. diff", a microbial infection; missing billionaire Davis Pickett is sought by protagonist Aza Holmes, a girl with anxiety disorders; an endless stack of reptiles inspires the novel's title | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN by John GREEN |
| Description: servants called "flappers" use prods to redirect the attention of the absent-minded Laputians; Irish author | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan SWIFT |
| Description: title refers to an alteration that must be made to the protagonist's clothes due to her sin; Pearl is conceived during an illicit affair between Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne, the wife of Roger Chillingworth | The SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE |
| Description: a sailor called "Black Dog" asks if a man with a cut cheek is at the Admiral Benbow Inn; a map with red crosses marked by Captain Flint leads to the title location; one character is pirate Long John Silver | TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis STEVENSON |
| Description: Claudia MacTeer narrates much of this novel about Pecola Breedlove; written by Toni Morrison | THE BLUEST EYE by Toni MORRISON |
| Description: Ernest Hemingway depicts Robert Jordan's experiences during the Spanish Civil War | FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest HEMINGWAY |
| Description: antagonists in this 1954 novel set up a stronghold at a promontory called Castle Rock; epileptic character named Simon is killed after being identified with "the beast"; Jack and his hunters chase Ralph | LORD OF THE FLIES by William GOLDING |
| Description: Frank Shabata kills his wife and her lover in a drunken rage in this novel about the Bergson family by Willa Cather | O PIONEERS! by Willa CATHER (My Antonia is much more important to know) |
| Description: protagonist learns that a dead man named Gerard Duval was a printer by looking through a pocketbook; several characters wear boots once owned by Kemmerich; narrator is Paul Baumer; World War I novel | ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Erich Maria REMARQUE |
| Description: Miss Havisham, a spinster abandoned on her wedding day, raises an adopted daughter named Estella, who is pursued by Pip | GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles DICKENS |
| Description: title character framed for a crime at Lantern Yard and moves to Reveloe; by George Eliot | SILAS MARNER by George ELIOT |
| Description: a scholar researching a Key to All Mythologies marries Dorothea; by George Eliot | MIDDLEMARCH by George ELIOT |
| Description: the accused witch Esmeralda is executed after being turned over to authorities by Claude Frollo in this 1831 novel; protagonist is the title deformed character | The HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME by Victor HUGO (protagonist is QUASIMODO) |
| Description: the unnamed narrator is forced to participate in a "battle royale" before attending college; by Ralph Ellison | INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph ELLISON (you cannot say THE INVISIBLE MAN, that is a separate novel by HG WELLS) |
| Description: Mark Twain outlined the "literary offenses" of the author of this novel; Cora Munro is killed during a fight that also leads to the death of the noble warrior Uncas; part of the author's Leatherstocking Tales | The LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fennimore COOPER |
| Description: describes a "sly-looking solicitor named Mr. Whymper who arranges to sell eggs and triggers protests among a group of hens; Boxer exhausts himself to build a windmill; chief villains are pigs | ANIMAL FARM by George ORWELL |
| Description: the author drew upon his own experiences to write this novel about the World War I ambulance driver Frederic Henry | A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest HEMINGWAY |
| Description: the title character of this novella is crippled after he and Mattie Silver try to kill themselves by sledding into a tree; written by the author of The Age of Innocence | ETHAN FROME by Edith WHARTON |
| Description: William Boldwood receives a playful valentine from Bathsheba Everdene; Bathsheba declines the marriage proposal Gabriel Oak in this novel by Henry James | FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by Henry JAMES |
| Description: Michael Henchard drunkenly auctions off his family; set in a fictional British town | The MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE by Henry JAMES |
| Description: the title character is seduced by Alec and bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy; title character works as a dairymaid when she meets and marries Angel Clare, who rejects her after learning of her past | TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES by Henry JAMES |
| Description: while listening to a speech praising the famers near Yonville, the title woman holds hands with Rodolphe Boulanger; her husband, a doctor named Charles, dies soon after she swallows arsenic | MADAME BOVARY by Gustave FLAUBERT |
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