Put your literary knowledge to the test with these fun book trivia covering a range of authors and book genres. From classic novels trivia to YA trivia to children’s literature trivia, there’s something here for every book fan. Let’s dive right into the literature trivia questions and answers. Enjoy!
Literature Trivia Questions and Answers
Who wrote the dystopian novel “1984”?
Who authored “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”?
What is the headmaster’s name in J.K Rowling’s “Harry Potter”?
Who wrote the classic novel “The Great Gatsby”?
What is the name of the protagonist in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”?
In what year was Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea” first published?
What novel centers around marriage during the Victorian era, describing the fascination that a group of sisters has over one man?
In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” what is the name of Holden Caulfield’s little sister?
What classic novel tells the story of a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their attempt to govern themselves, with disastrous results?
Who wrote the autobiography The Story of My Life, chronicling her experiences as a deaf-blind woman?
What is Mark Twain’s most famous novel about two boys who take a journey down the Mississippi River?
What is the name of the 1974 book that is often regarded as the top-selling true crime book of all time? It was co-authored by the prosecutor who worked on Charles Manson’s 1970 trial and shares its title with a Beatles song that was seen as a significant influence on the development of heavy metal music.
In what year was “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” published?
In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, what is the name of Don Quixote’s squire?
What is the title of John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an impoverished family living in California during the Great Depression?
Who wrote the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”?
What is the title of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel about a wrongly convicted man who escapes from prison and falls in love with a gypsy girl?
In what year was the first edition of Emily Bronte’s novel “Wuthering Heights” published?
Who wrote the book “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in 1890?
What is the title of Henry Fielding’s 1749 comic novel about a young man who sets out on a quest to better himself and find his true identity?
What is the title of Herman Melville’s 1841 novel that tells the story of Ishmael, a sailor aboard a whaling vessel called Pequod captained by Ahab?
In what year was the novel “Moby Dick” first published?
Who wrote the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” which was first published in 1967?
What is the title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel that explores themes of morality, free will, and the nature of evil through the story of a young man who commits a double murder?
Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby” which was first published in 1925?
What is the title of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel about the romantic entanglements of the Bennet sisters?
Who wrote the novel “1984” which was first published in 1949?
What is the title of Charles Dickens’ novel about a young orphan named Pip who rises from poverty to wealth?
Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” which was first published in 1951?
What is the title of Mary Shelley’s novel about a scientist who creates a living creature from the dead?
Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” which was first published in 1960?
What is the title of Mark Twain’s novel about the adventures of a young boy named Huck Finn and a runaway slave named Jim?
Who wrote the novel “The Lord of the Rings” which was first published in 1954-55?
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel about the lives of several Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic Wars?
Who wrote the novel “Jane Eyre” which was first published in 1847?
What is the title of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel that explores the inner lives of several characters over the course of a single day?
Who wrote the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” which was first published in 1880?
What is the title of the third book in the series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
Who wrote the novel “The Sound and the Fury” which was first published in 1929?
What is the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel that depicts a dystopian future society?
Who wrote the novel “A Tale of Two Cities” which was first published in 1859?
A “craniectomy” on Violet Baudelaire is attempted for a live audience in an operating theater in the eighth instalment of what morbidly funny series of children’s books?
Who wrote the novel “The Scarlet Letter” which was first published in 1850?
What is the title of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play about the declining fortunes of a southern family?
Which classic book by J. M. Barrie opens with the line “All children, except one grew up”?
Who wrote the novel “Beloved” which was first published in 1987?
What is the title of Arthur Miller’s 1949 play about the Salem witch trials?
Who wrote the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” which was first published in 1876?
What is the title of Sylvia Plath’s only novel, which was published posthumously in 1963?
Who wrote the novel “Middlemarch” which was first published in 1871-72?
What is the title of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel about a dystopian future where women are subjugated?
Who wrote the novel “Invisible Man” which was first published in 1952?
What is the title of Truman Capote’s 1966 non-fiction novel about the murder of a Kansas family?
Who wrote the novel “The Crying of Lot 49” which was first published in 1966?
What is the title of D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel about the relationship between two women?
Who wrote the novel “The Iliad” which is an ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War?
What is the title of Willa Cather’s 1913 novel about a Swedish immigrant family in Nebraska?
Who wrote the novel “Little Women” which was first published in 1868?
What is the title of James Joyce’s 1922 novel that follows the inner thoughts and experiences of its main character over the course of a day?
Who wrote the novel “Catch-22” which was first published in 1961?
What is the title of Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel about a young black woman growing up in the rural South?
Who wrote the novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” which was first published in 1886?
What is the title of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 novel about a butler reflecting on his life in service to a prominent British family?
Who wrote the novel “The Awakening” which was first published in 1899?
What is the title of Stephen King’s 1977 novel about a young girl with telekinetic powers?
Who wrote the novel “Les Miserables” which was first published in 1862?
What is the title of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel about a young black girl growing up in Ohio?
Who wrote the novel “The Age of Innocence” which was first published in 1920?
What is the title of John Keats’ 1819 collection of poems, which includes “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
Who wrote the novel “Gulliver’s Travels” which was first published in 1726?
What is the title of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel about a man who commits murder and struggles with guilt and punishment?
Who wrote the novel “The Color Purple” which was first published in 1982?
What is the title of J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel about a disillusioned teenager named Holden Caulfield?
Who wrote the novel “The Awakening of Spring” which was first published in 1891?
What is the title of Charles Dickens’ 1850 novel about the life of a young boy named David Copperfield?
What is the title of Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel about American expatriates in Paris?
What is the title of Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novel about a man named Marlow who travels up the Congo River to meet a mysterious figure named Kurtz?
Who wrote the novel “The Red Badge of Courage” which was first published in 1895?
What is the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel about a dystopian future society?
Who wrote the novel “The Portrait of a Lady” which was first published in 1881?
What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel about the lives of wealthy young people in the 1920s?
What is the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1967 novel about the rise and fall of a small town in Colombia?
Who wrote the novel “The Trial” which was first published posthumously in 1925?
What is the title of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel about a family of tenant farmers during the Great Depression?
Who wrote the novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” which was first published in 1969?
What is the title of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel about a road trip across the United States?
Who wrote the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” which was first published in 1890?
What is the title of Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel about a former slave who escapes to Ohio and experiences supernatural events?
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel about a woman who has an affair and struggles with societal norms and personal morality?
What is the title of Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel about the French Revolution?
Who wrote the novel “The Stranger” which was first published in 1942?
What is the title of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel about a day in the life of a woman named Clarissa Dalloway?
Who wrote the novel “Winesburg, Ohio” which was first published in 1919?
What is the title of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel about a woman named Hester Prynne who is ostracised for committing adultery?
Who wrote the novel “Things Fall Apart” which was first published in 1958?
What is the title of Truman Capote’s 1966 novel about the murder of a wealthy Kansas family?
Who wrote the novel “The Lord of the Rings” which was first published between 1954 and 1955?
What is the title of Toni Morrison’s 1977 novel about the life of a black girl named Pecola Breedlove?
What is the title of John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel about two migrant workers named George and Lennie who dream of owning their own farm?
Who wrote the novel “The Canterbury Tales” which was first published in the 14th century?
What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short story about a man who walls up his wife’s body in the cellar of their home?
Who wrote the novel “Heart of Darkness” which was first published in 1899?
What is the title of James Joyce’s 1916 collection of short stories set in Dublin, Ireland?
What is the title of George Orwell’s 1949 novel about a totalitarian society in which citizens are constantly under surveillance?
What other novels did Margaret Mitchell have published before Gone with the Wind?
Which story authored by Washington Irving has the character Ichabod Crane?
In the dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, what planet do many humans leave Earth for?
In Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, the phrase “Who is John Galt?” means what?
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