Book Club Review 2025

2. The crime BOSS of the Corleone family (Vito's title)
5. The fictional setting of Hard Times
8. The crop grown on Karen Blixen's plantation in British East Africa
12. The philosophical system centered on "Fact" criticized in Hard Times.
13. The final destination of the Tibetan Lama's spiritual quest in Kim: the River of the
14. The first name of the author of Robinson Crusoe
16. The name of the consigliere (advisor) to Don Vito Corleone
18. The working-class gang to which Ponyboy Curtis belongs
19. The tribe of people, including Kamante, with whom Karen Blixen formed deep connections in Africa

1. Mary's sickly cousin at Misselthwaite Manor, who is cured by the garden
3. Thomas Gradgrind's profession at the beginning of Hard Times
4. The Bohemian immigrant woman whose life story is told by Jim Burden
6. The street urchin protagonist of the Rudyard Kipling novel
7. The novel is set in the 1940s and 1950s in this major American city (The Godfather).
9. The first name of the author of Hard Times
10. The author of The Outsiders, who used initials to disguise her gender
11. Josiah Bounderby boasted of being a self-made ______
14. Ponyboy Curtis's oldest brother, who acts as a paternal figure in The Outsiders
15. The novel is set in the 1940s and 1950s in this major American city (The Godfather).
17. The initially sour and neglected protagonist of The Secret Garden