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Life of Pi
Yann Martel won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for writing this adventure novel which features a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland is known as one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Who was is written by?
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On the Origins of Species
Charles Darwin wrote this book in 1859 that contradicted creationism.
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola wrote a screenplay based on what gangster crime novel by Puzo?
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Douglas Coupland
Generation X:Tales for an Accelerated Culture was written as a frame narrative by which author from Vancouver?
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The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings is the sequel to what children's fantasy novel also called There and Back Again?
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The Satanic Verses
In 1988 Salman Rushdie was almost assassinated for writing this book in which the magical realism genre is used.
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A Clockwork Orange
This book, by Anthony Burgess, is set in a dystopian and not-so-distant future English society. It was later made into a feature film by Stanley Kubrick.
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Alice Munro
What is the name of the author who wrote Lives of Girls and Women in the short story cycle format?
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Ulysses
Irish writer James Joyce used a stream-of-consciousness technique and a lexicon of 30,030 to write this novel which takes place in Dublin in 1904.
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American Psyco
This novel, by Bret Easton Ellis, is told in the first person by a shallow and materialistic Manhattan businessman. It's Controversial because of its graphic descriptions of cannibalism, murder, and torture.
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak wrote this novel, named after its protagonist Yuri Zhivago, that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Anne of Green Gables
What is the name of the novel about a red-haired orphan from P.E.I by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
In this novel the Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the story of a family that founds the town of "Macondo" for 100 years.
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The Harry Potter Series
This popular series for children has been banned and burned for depicting witchcraft.
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Fight Club
David Fincher adapted this novel, by Chuck Palahniuk, into a movie in which the protagonist suffers from insomnia and meets a mysterious man named "Tyler Durden" while on a plane.
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Dracula
What is the name of the gothic novel Bram Stoker wrote in epistolary format?
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Leonard Cohen
This poet, musician, and author from Montreal won the Prince of Asturias Award for literature in 2011.
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Lolita
This book, written in 1955 by Vladimir Nabokov, is disputed for its narrator instigating a sexual relationship with his twelve year old stepdaughter.
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Trainspotting
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh wrote this book about a group of heroin addicts in the form of several short stories. The novel is written in a combination of Scots, Scottish English, and British English.
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