Across
- 3. Bestselling novel of all time
- 8. Mr. Underhill's real name, in Middle Earth
- 9. This author's biography inspired a wildly popular musical
- 13. Bestselling series of all time
- 14. spell her name correctly or expect a slate to the head
- 16. Elizabeth Zott's cooking show gives "lessons" in this
- 19. after surviving a shipwreck, Pi shares a lifeboat with this animal
- 20. A former Chicago cop solves mysteries set in this Wisconsin vacation spot
- 21. The missing March girl--Jo,Meg,Amy
- 26. World's bestselling living author
- 28. Main character in The Killing Floor, Child's first novel
- 29. Where a tree grows, according to Betty Smith
- 30. Nora Roberts took on this pen name when she started writing mysteries
- 31. Geography of Louis L'Amore novels
Down
- 1. Field of Dreams based on this novel, also baseball player
- 2. C.S. Lewis's friend who also wrote a thing or two
- 4. Terry Pratchett's flat planet
- 5. Considered the father of science fiction
- 6. Belgian sleuth with fantastic mustache
- 7. Fictional village of Louise Penny fame
- 10. The clocks were striking this number as Orwell's 1984 opens
- 11. Dickens's "inimitable" nickname
- 12. Jane Austen's unfinished novel
- 15. If a "vacation" on the "beach" is your "happy place," read this author
- 17. Colorful name of Fourth Wing protagonist
- 18. readers have been finding ___ in cooking since 1936, with 9 editions and counting
- 22. Bestselling novel of 2024
- 23. In addition to eating and loving, what Gilbert does in her popular memoir
- 24. ACOTAR abbreviates the popular fantasy romance series by this author
- 25. Stephen King's bloody debut novel
- 27. Krakauer takes his readers up Everest where the air gets ____