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Authors & Works
Literature Quizbowl
| Famous Works | Author |
|---|---|
| Little Women, Little Men, Good Wives, Jo's Boys | Alcott, Louisa May |
| The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) | Alighieri, Dante |
| Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma | Austen, Jane |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The First Next Time | Baldwin, James |
| The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog | Bellow, Saul |
| Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles | Bradbury, Ray |
| In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's | Capote, Truman |
| My Antonia, O Pioneers! | Cather, Willa |
| The Awakening | Chopin, Kate |
| And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders | Christie, Agatha |
| Shogun, Tai-pan, Noble House | Clavell, James |
| Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph |
| The Prince of Tides, The Lord is Discipline, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini | Conroy, Pat |
| The Last of Mohicans, The Deerslayer, the Pathfinder, The Pioneers | Cooper, James Fenimore |
| The Chocolate War, I am Cheese, Fade, Tenderness | Cormier, Robert |
| The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | Crane, Stephen |
| Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Timeline | Crichton, Michael |
| Robinson Curse, Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana | Defoe, Daniel |
| A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times | Dickens, Charles |
| Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov | Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
| An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie | Dreiser, Theodore |
| The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexandre |
| The Lord of the Flies | Golding, William |
| Invisible Man, Shadow and Act, Going to the Territory | Ellison, Ralph |
| The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August; Absalom, Absalom! | Faulkner, William |
| The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Tanglewood Tales | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms | Hemingway, Ernest |
| Catch-22 | Heller, Joseph |
| Iliad, The Odyssey | Homer |
| Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Hugo, Victor |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Hurtson, Zora Neale |
| Brave New World, Island | Huxley, Aldous |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp | Irving, John |
| The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The American, The Turn of the Screw | James, Henry |
| Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake | Joyce, James |
| The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle | Kafka, Franz |
| On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur | Kerouac, Jack |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Demon Box | Kesey, Ken |
| The Jungle Book, Just so Stories, Kim | Kipling, Rudyard, |
| Darkness at Noon | Koestler, Arthur |
| Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterly's Lover | Lawrence, D.H |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper |
| It Can't Happen Here, Main Street, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth | Lewis, Sinclair |
| The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Martin Eden, The Sea Wolf | London, Jack |
| The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Reflections in the Golden Eye | McCullers, Carson |
| Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Omoo, Bartleby the Scrivener | Melville, Herman |
| Gone with the WInd | Mitchell, Margaret |
| Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Sula, Song of Soloman | Morrison, Toni |
| Lolita | Nabokov, Vladimir |
| Animal Farm, 1984 | Orwell, George |
| The Bell Jar, Lady Lazarus, Daddy | Plath, Sylvia |
| The Chosen, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev, In The Beginning, The Gift of Asher Lev | Potok, Chaim |
| Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Virtue of Selfishness | Rand, Ayn |
| The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey | Salinger, J.D |
| Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Julius Caesar, Othello, Kind Lear, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare, William |
| The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic | Silverstein, Shel |
| Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Ajax, Electra | Sophocles |
| The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, The Red Pony | Steinbeck, John |
| Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, Saving Fish From Drowning, The Valley of Amazement | Tan, Amy |
| Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit | Tolkien, J.R.R |
| War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Cossacks | Tolstoy, Leo |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Twain, Mark |
| Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Verne, Jules |
| Aeneid, Bucolics, Georgics | Virgil |
| Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titans, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| The Color Purple | Walker, Alice |
| All King's Men, Band of Angels, Night Rider, At Heaven's Gate | Warren, Robert Penn |
| The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau | Wells, H.G |
| The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome | Wharton, Edith |
| Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan | White, E.B |
| Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River, You Can't Go Home Again, The Web and the Rock | Wolfe, Thomas |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Test | Wolfe, Tom |
| Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, The Voyage Out | Woolf, Virginia |
| A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie | Williams, Tennessee |
| A Doll House, Ghosts, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck | Ibsen, Henry |
| The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall | Camus, Albert |
| The Raven, To Helen, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah | Achebe, Chinua |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte, Emily |
| White Noise, Underworld, The Names, Libra, The Angel Esmeralda | DeLillo, Don |
| 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Men Without Women | Murakami, Haruki |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death; I'm Nobody! Who are you?; "Hope" is the thing with Feathers; Wild Nights- Wild Nights!; I Felt a Funeral, In my Brain | Dickinson, Emily |
| Jane Erye | Bronte, Charlotte |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey | Bronte, Anne |
| The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls | Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas | Milton, John |
| The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride | Atwood, Margaret |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of being Earnest | Wilde, Oscar |
| Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Saint Joan | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In Time of Cholera | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| Our Town, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Skin of Our Teeth | Wilder, Thornton |
| The Waste Land, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral | Eliot, T.S. |
| Madame Bovary, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Salammbo, Sentimental Education | Flaubert, Gustave |
| Vanity Fair, The History of Henry Esmond | Thackeray, William Makepeace |
| Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Buddenbrooks, Joseph and his Brothers | Mann, Thomas |
| The Pilgrim's Progress, The Holy War | Bunyan, John |
| The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, All my Sons | Miller, Arthur |
| Beowulf | unknown author |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
| Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| The Rime of Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar | Tennyson, Alfred |
| Waiting for Godot | Beckett, Samuel |
| The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton |
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