Librarian

A book about John Lennon would fit into what literary genre?

Biography

The film "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on a play by who?

William Shakespeare

What is the name of the hunchback in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”?

Quasimodo

What is the name of the system which is used to keep books organized in libraries?

Dewey Decimal System

Which novel involves a deranged man fighting a windmill?

Don Quixote

Which novel involves a ship of sailors trying to catch a giant whale?

Moby Dick

Which of these is NOT a house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

Huvamuva

Which of these novelists was French?

Jules Verne

Who invented the printing press?

Johannes Gutenberg

Who is the author of the 1960 book “Green Eggs and Ham”?

Dr. Seuss

Who is the author of the classic 1960 book "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

Harper Lee

Who wrote the children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?

Roald Dahl

Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Which famous author never finished any of his novels before he died at age 40?

Franz Kafka

Who wrote the books about the private detective Mike Hammer and sold over 130 million copies?

Mickey Spillane

On what book was Francis Ford Coppola's film "Apocalypse Now" based?

The Heart of Darkness

Which of the following publishers is known for its art books?

Taschen

Who wrote David Copperfield?

Charles Dickens

What breed of dog is the bosun in Sea Crow Island?

St. Bernard

Which of these authors managed to kill his wife when playing at William Tell?

William S. Burroughs

Which of the following is NOT one of the Harry Potter's friends?

Gregory Goyle

Who wrote "The War of the Worlds" about an attack on Earth by creatures from space?

HG Wells

In which country is the plot in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" located?

Italy

According to its title, in which Shakespeare play is the Merchant active in?

Venice

In which book can you read about D'Artagnan?

The Three Musketeers

What kind of creature is Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit"?

Dragon

In which decade did Astrid Lindgren write about The Brothers Lionheart?

1970s

What is the name of the main character in The Neverending Story?

Bastian

What is the name of the feared magician's prison in the Harry Potter books?

Azkaban

What's the name of the author who has written about Thomas Lynley?

Elisabeth George

Who wrote "The Wind on the Moon"?

Eric Linklater

In which novel does the stingy Ebenezer Scrooge appear?

A Christmas Carol

What is the stocky, spectacle-clad boy who represents civilization and intelligence in William Golding's novel Lord of the flies called?

Piggy

Which of these ISN'T a country in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Elidor

In which book by Jane Austin do we meet Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?

Pride and Prejudice

Who is the author known for his "Canterbury Tales"?

Geoffrey Chaucer

What series of books is Lucy Maud Montgomery best known for?

Anne of Green Gables

Which well-known author was born in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

Mark Twain

What is the name of the author of the bestseller Roots?

Alex Haley

In which language is Pippi Longstocking known as "Fifi Brindacier"?

French

Who wrote the legendary novel "The naked and the dead"?

Norman Mailer

Who wrote the book "Gone With the Wind"?

Margaret Mitchell

In what type of store does Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity take place to a large extent?

Record Store

Who wrote the best-seller 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' which has also been turned into a feature film directed by Tom Tykwer?

Patrick Suskind

Whom in the following quartet was not one of the three musketers?

Thasos

What year was the egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1988

Which of these books was NOT written by Truman Capote?

The Rules of Attraction

What is the name of Joseph Hellers satirical war novel published in 1961?

Catch 22

Which of the following titles is an autobiography by August Strindberg?

Inferno

According to tradition, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Homer

What is the name of Romeo's best friend who is killed in a duel in Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet?

Mercutio

Which of these flowers is part of the title of one of James Ellroy's detective stories?

Dahlia

What was the name of Pinocchio's doll maker?

Gepetto

Who does Hamlet avenge in Shakespeare's play?

His father

Which author made his debut with the novel "Poor Folk", sometimes called "Poor People"?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Who is the name of Babar the Elephant's wife, who is also his cousin?

Celeste

What profession has Anna Wulf, the main character in Doris Lessing's novel "The Golden Notebook" got?

Writer

In which century was Jules Verne active?

19th century

Which decade did George Orwell write his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighy-Four?

1940's

In which city does Paul Auster's 1980s trilogy take place?

New York

Who wrote "The Jungle" in 1906?

Upton Sinclair

Who wrote the book "The Old Man and the Sea"?

Ernest Hemingway

What is the name of the writer that made the novel "Mansfield Park", that also have been turned into a movie?

Jane Austen

What is the name of the old fisherman in Ernest Hemmingway's classic novel The old man and the sea?

Santiago

The poet Ezra Pound worked for almost half a century with this masterpiece, but it remained unfinished when he died in 1972.

Cantos

Who wrote the novel series In Search of Lost Time?

Marcel Proust

Who wrote "The Canterville Ghost"?

Oscar Wilde

What is the profession of the main character Harry Friberg in Stieg Trenter's detective stories?

Photographer

As a result of what illness is Jane Austin thought to have died?

Addison's disease

Which famous author has published a few of his novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?

Stephen King

What "Non-Country" did Thomas Moore describe in 1516?

Utopia

What is the name of Frank Herberts Sci-fi novel from 1965 which was filmed by David Lynch in 1984?

Dune

What dance did Strindberg write about?

The Dance of Death

Who made her debut with the novels "White Teeth" and some years later was awarded a prize for "On Beauty"?

Zadie Smith

George Orwell volunteered and was wounded in a war against fascism. Which war was this?

Spanish Civil War

What kind of animal is Paddington in Michael Bond's children's books?

A bear

What is the last name of main male character in The Da Vinci Code?

Langdon

What is the name of George Orwell's dystopian futuristic novel from 1949?

1984

Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?

Jonathan Swift

How is the literary character Robin Goodfellow more usually known?

Puck

Which of the following is NOT one of the Bronte sisters?

Jane

Which of the following fairytales was not published by the Brothers Grimm?

Goldilocks

Who wrote the novels The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare?

Alistair MacLean

What respected author wrote "Moon Palace" and "Mr. Vertigo"?

Paul Auster

In 1940 he directed the film version of John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath".

Darryl F. Zanuck

What city was named "World Book Capital City 2005-2006" by UNESCO?

Montreal

Christopher Isherwood said 'Goodbye' to this city in a book published in 1939.

Berlin

Who wrote the sensational book "The Second Sex"?

Simone de Beauvoir

Who wrote "The Serious Game"?

Hjalmar Soderberg

Which birthday does Bilbo celebrate in the beginning of Lord of the Rings?

His 111th

Which of the following authors does NOT write detective stories?

Terry Brooks

Where does the detective book writer Minette Walter's come from?

Great Britain

Which author wrote "I, Robot" and the Foundation Trilogy?

Isaac Asimov

What is the first name of the Colombian Literature Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez?

Gabriel

Who wrote the collection of poems "Leaves of Grass"?

Walt Whitman

What is the name of the author of the novels about the stone age girl Ayla?

Jean M. Auel

What is the name of the fantasy author who wrote "The Belgariad"?

David Eddings

Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?

Victor Hugo

Who wrote the critically acclaimed "White Teeth"?

Zadie Smith

To what classic novel is the book Scarlett the sequel?

Gone with the Wind

What is a Decameron?

A collection of tales

Which collective name are authors Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs usually filed under?

The Beat Generation

Who made use of the pseudonym Voltaire?

Francois-Marie Arouet

Which of the following is NOT a novel by Leo Tolstoy?

Poor Folk

What is the name of the jealous king in "A Thousand and One Nights"?

Shahryar

“Anna Karenina” was written by who?

Leo Tolstoy

“Dubliners” is a book by who?

James Joyce

In what year was “War and Peace” written?

1867

“James and the Giant Peach” was written by who?

Roald Dahl

“Slaughterhouse Five” was written by who?

Kurt Vonnegut

“The Great Gatsby” is told through the point of view of what character?

Nick Carraway

“The World According to Garp” was written by who?

John Irving

What is the largest library in the world?

British Library

Which of these books is about a man’s obsessions with a 12-year-old girl?

Lolita

Who wrote “The Metamorphosis”?

Franz Kafka

Which of these writers committed suicide at age 30?

Sylvia Plath

What is the largest library in the United States?

Library of Congress

Which of these books earned a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1961?

To Kill a Mockingbird

Who wrote the book "In Cold Blood"?

Truman Capote

The novel "Pale Fire" was written by who?

Vladimir Nabokov

Who wrote "Finnegan's Wake"?

James Joyce

"The Da Vinci Code" was written by who?

Dan Brown

In "Romeo and Juliet", what was Romeo's last name?

Montague

"To the Lighthouse" is a book by who?

Virginia Woolf

The novel "Lord of the Flies" was written by who?

William Golding

"Being and Time" was written by who?

Martin Heidegger

Which of these libraries was in Egypt?

Library of Alexandria

Who wrote "A Clockwork Orange"?

Anthony Burgess

In which Shakespeare play do we meet the Montague and Capulet households?

Romeo and Juliet

Who has written the book Angels & Demons?

Dan Brown

In which century was the epic Beowulf written?

8th

What do the initials BFG stand for in the book with the same name?

Big Friendly Giant

Who wrote "The English Patient", which was later made into a film?

Michael Ondaatje

Who wrote "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man"?

Irwin Shaw

Which of these books was NOT written by Bret Easton Ellis?

About a Boy

What is the name of the writer that made her debut 1985 with the partly autobiographical novel "Oranges are not the only fruit"?

Jeanette Winterson

What country did Dante, who wrote Divine Comedy, come from?

Italy

What is the name of the big game hunter who's the protagonist in 15 books by H. Rider Haggard - one being King Solomon's mines?

Allan Quatermain

Which poet and playwright was born 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon?

William Shakespeare

Whose first book was "White Teeth"?

Zadie Smith

Who was Dante's cicerone in the underworld?

Vergilius

Where does Nadine Gordimer come from, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991?

South Africa

What is the name of the drug that is distributed to the people in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"?

Soma

What was the last play Shakespeare wrote before his death?

Henry VIII

In which Shakespeare play do we meet Viola dressed as a man?

Twelfth Night

Who has written the science fiction novel The Children of Men?

P. D. James

Which of the following Shakespeare works is not a comedy?

King Lear

Which well-known author took his own life in 1961?

Ernest Hemingway

What was the name of the creator of Tarzan?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Who wrote the books about Mary Poppins?

P.L. Travers

Who wrote the fantasy books about Shannara?

Terry Brooks

Who wrote the novel Stand by Me?

Stephen King

Where was Charles Dickens born?

Portsmouth

Which of the following is a character in Alexander Dumas's "The Three Musketeers"?

Athos

What detective story writer wrote among other things "The Black Dahlia" and "L.A. Confidential"?

James Ellroy

About what city does the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk usually write?

Istanbul

What did Miss Smilla have a certain feeling for, according to Peter Hoeg's novel?

Snow

Which of the following is NOT a book by Stephen King?

The Exorcist

What is the name of the main character in the novel classic by James Joyce, "Ulysses"?

Bloom

In which of Shakespeare's plays are the words "Et tu, Brute? uttered?

Julius Caesar

Author Edgar Rice Burroughs is mainly famous for his 24 novels about...?

Tarzan

Robert Bloch wrote a novel in 1960 about the insane motel owner Norman Bates, which was later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. What was the book called?

Psycho

Which of the following four titles is not a novel by John Grisham?

The Taylor of Panama

Who wrote the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Ken Kesey

Which of the following novels is not set on a desert island?

The old man and the sea

The author Nikolai Gogol has written a famous short story about a piece of clothing, what?

A coat

What is the name of the main character in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Ichabod Crane

Which author wrote about the character Captain Nemo?

Jules Verne

What is the name of Gabreil Garcia Marques' big novel, that gave him a Nobel price in 1982?

One Hundred Years of Solitude

What is the Alexandre Dumas book about the wrongly sentenced Edmond Dantès called?

The Count of Monte Christo

Bodleian Library is located in what English city?

Oxford

“Light in August” was written by who?

William Faulkner

“Middlemarch” was written by who?

George Eliot

“Mrs. Dalloway” was written by who?

Virginia Woolf

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” was written by who?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paulo Coelho wrote which of these books?

The Alchemist

The Library of Alexandria is thought to have been built in what century BC?

3rd

"The Revolt of Mamie Stover" was written by who?

William Bradford

“The Thorn Birds” was written by who?

Colleen McCullough

“The World According to Garp” was written by who?

John Irving

Which of these is a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky?

Crime and Punishment

Which of these is not a book by Jane Austen?

Wuthering Heights

Which of these libraries was in Nineveh, Assyria?

Royal Library of Ashurbanipal

Who is the author of the 1869 book “War and Peace”?

Leo Tolstoy

Who is the author of the 1920 book "Women in Love"?

D.H. Lawrence

Who wrote "Invisible Man"?

Ralph Ellison

Who wrote the 1940 book "Native Son"?

Richard Wright

Who wrote the 1953 short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

Flannery O'Connor

Who wrote the book “A Death in the Family”?

James Agee

When was Salman Rushdie's satirical novel "The Satanic Verses" first published?

1988

Which of these books was written by the Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown?

Angels and Demons

Who wrote "Tales of Mother Goose"?

Charles Perrault

Who wrote the book that the film "The Green Mile" was based on?

Stephen King

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, what is Juliet's last name?

Capulet

What was the name of the writer who wrote the acknowledged novel "The History of Love"?

Nicole Krauss

Which Irish author wrote Dracula in 1897?

Bram Stoker

Who wrote the book "Sophie's World"?

Jostein Gaarder

In what city is the plot in Albert Camus' novel "The Plague" taking place?

Oran

Which author wrote "Everything is illuminated" that was later turned into a film starring Elijah Wood?

Jonathan Safram Foer

Thomas Pynchon is the name of an interesting and secretive cultural personality. What does he do?

Author

About whom did Alexandre Dumas the elder write?

The Count of Monte Christo

Who wrote the book "The Idiot"?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whom of the following four has not become famous for writing science fiction?

John le Carré

Who wrote "Orlando", about a person who is both man and woman?

Virginia Wolf

Who writes under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson?

Michael Chrichton

What is the name of the heroine who appears in several of Jackie Collins' romantic novels?

Lucky Santangelo

In which of these four Agatha Christie novels is Miss Marple the main protagonist?

4:50 from Paddington

Who wrote the books that the Jurassic Park movies are based on and also created the television drama series ER?

Michael Crichton

What pseudonym did Stephen King use when he wrote "The Long Walk"?

Richard Bachman

Which is J.M. Barries most famous litterary character?

Peter Pan

In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character Shylock appear?

Merchant of Venice

What is the name of the main character in Franz Kafka's "The Trial"?

Josef K

What is Harry Potter's owl's name?

Hedwig

What George Orwell novel does the expression "Big Brother is watching you" come from?

1984

In which country was Agatha Christie's moustachioed "Hercule Poirot" born?

France

What is that terrifies the town Castle Rock in the book "Cujo" by Stephen King?

A dog

Which of the following is NOT a novel by Hunter S. Thompson?

On the Road

Who wrote the best-selling The Da Vinci Code?

Dan Brown

Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

Oscar Wilde

Who wrote the novel "Hanna's Daughters"?

Marianne Fredriksson

Who wrote the book "The Sun also Rises"?

Ernest Hemingway

In whom is the young Werther unhappily in love?

Lotte

About whose upbringing did Castiglione write in a famous book from 1528?

The Courtier