Books

The hero Beowulf faces a monster known by this name.

The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo was originally published in which language?

In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack steals three treasures from the giant: a bag of gold, golden-egg laying hen, and what?

Famed husband and wife authors the Berenstains wrote books about what animal?

Who wrote the poem, “The Raven,” featuring the repeated line, “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore”?

Which John Grisham thriller was adapted into a 1993 film staring Tom Cruise?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print with which novel?

How many lines are there in a sonnet?

Which 2009 novel tells the story of black maids working in white households in Mississippi during the early 1960’s?

Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Who wrote the poem "‘Twas the Night before Christmas"?

Author Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement?

Agatha Christie's favorite fictional detective (along with Miss Marple) was Hercule Poirot. What was his nationality?

Who wrote the noir classic The Maltese Falcon?

The Little Engine That Could is a classic children’s story that makes repeated use of what mantra?

Which novel did Toni Morrison win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with in 1988?

In The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield worries about how this animal survives the winter in New York.

What was the name given to the area that was settled by Hobbits in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Hobbit?

Introduced by Donald J. Sobol in 1963, what brainy boy-detective works for 25 cents a day plus expenses?

His first big success as a novelist came with the publication of Carrie.

Who recited "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy’s inauguration?

Who is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?

What romance author is currently the bestselling author still alive?

What is the seventh and final installment in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series?

In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, what is the name of the main character, who is haunted by the headless horseman?

EB White was inspired to write what children’s book, after his bedroom was swarmed by baby spiders?

In Oliver Twist, what food does Oliver famously ask for more of when he says: “Please, Sir, I want some more”?

Who wrote The Iliad?

Don Quixote was written in which language?

In 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop what monumental event?

Published in 1968, what novel by Philip K. Dick, was adapted into the sci-fi classic film Blade Runner?

His short stories included a Franklin, a Sailor, a Pardoner, and a Plowman.

Chronologically, this novel comes first in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series.

Who is the hero of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series?

Put the three cantos of The Divine Comedy in the correct order.

What is the name of the poor, sad donkey whose tail keeps falling off in AA Milne’s children’s literary classic?

Mark Twain’s beloved characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn reside in which state?

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?

The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine are two books by which British science fiction author?

Sir Walter Scott is known for his historical novels about which country?