AP Lit Crossword 2024

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