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- 5. Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel 'Blood ___' has been called the greatest single book since Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'
- 6. Title animals in Sara Gruen's 2006 historical novel set in a 20th-century circus
- 12. Surname of sisters Bean and Liz in Jeannette Walls' 2013 novel 'The Silver Star'
- 13. The titular house inherited by Gilly Ramsey in Mary Stewart's 1988 fantasy novel
- 14. The Commonwealth of ___ is the titular setting for this 2016 Ann Patchett novel
- 15. A 1996 collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by Junot Diaz
- 20. In 2009, the BBC's Finlo Rohrer called 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. ___ "the defining work on what it is like to be a teenager."
- 21. 'The Sword in the Stone' by author ___ follows the boyhood of King Arthur
- 22. Yaa Gyasi's 2016 debut novel that won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- 23. Gifty, the protagonist in Yaa Gyasi's 2020 novel 'Transcendent Kingdom', is a PhD candidate in this field
- 26. 'The Shell ___', a 2002 collection of short stories by Anthony Doerr
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- 1. Setting for Anthony Doerr's 2014 historical novel 'All The Light We Cannot See'
- 2. Number of stories in J.D. Salinger's 1953 collection of short fiction
- 3. This 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart is the first in a series covering the Arthurian legend
- 4. 'The ___ Castle' is Jeannette Walls' 2005 memoir detailing her dysfunctional and nomadic upbringing
- 7. This 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 8. Entertainment Weekly called this 2004 sequel to 'Plainsong' by Kent Haruf "storytelling at its best"
- 9. Sara Gruen's 2015 novel 'At The Water's Edge' involves the search for this Scottish cryptid
- 10. This 2019 novel by Ann Patchett follows the lives of the Conroy siblings over five decades
- 11. This T.H. White novel, first published in 1940, is the third book in The Once and Future King series
- 16. The protagonist's family name in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'
- 17. 2007's 'The Brief ___ Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Diaz
- 18. Fictional setting of Jane Austen's 'Emma'
- 19. Sue Monk Kidd's 2014 novel 'The Invention of Wings' is set during the ___ period of American history
- 24. All of Kent Haruf's novels, including 2000's 'Plainsong', are set in this eastern Colorado town
- 25. Surname of the three beekeeping sisters in Sue Monk Kidd's 'The Secret Life of Bees'
