Great American Read Crossword

This title by Jane Austen has been remade countless times. One of the most recent is the contemporary retelling by Curtis Sittenfeld called Eligible.
This beloved children’s book series started out written on a napkin.
This Dan Brown book started a popular movie series that stars Tom Hanks. TheDa
The Alex Cross Mysteries series by this author has 25 books (and counting!).
In this author’s sci fi classic we learn “the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42."
This Hoosier is the author of Looking for Alaska and other titles, including The Fault in Our Stars.
This French novella has been translated into 300 languages and voted the best book of the 20th century in France.
This classic details the lives of the March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
The Hunt for Red October was this author’s debut novel.
S.E. Hinton was 15 when she began writing this classic about conflict between two rival gangs.
The popular coffee chain Starbucks is named after a sailor who served under Captain Ahab in this Herman Melville classic.
The working title of this Margaret Mitchell book was Tomorrow is Another Day, after Scarlett O’Hara’s iconic last line.
This Dickensian classic featuring Pip, Mrs. Joe, and Miss Havisham was first published as a serial in Dickens’ weekly literary magazine.
This author’s novel The Joy Luck Club narrates the lives of four Chinese immigrant families whose mothers play mahjong together.
This novel by Michael Creighton sparked five blockbuster movies about a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.
The Guinness Book of World Records says this author of And Then There Were None is the best-selling novelist of all time.
A spider named Charlotte writes messages about a pig named Wilbur in her web in the classic by this author.
This Toni Morrison book is dedicated to “Sixty Million and more,” the number of Africans and their descendants who died in the Atlantic slave trade.
This series by Stephanie Meyer had readers declaring they were Team Edward or Team Jacob.
Master of horror Stephen King imagines a post-apocalyptic world in this book.
In this western classic, retired Texas Rangers who run the Hat Creek Cattle Company move their cattle from Texas to Montana.
This book series by Diana Gabaldon has been turned into a popular television show starring Sam Heughan as dashing Highland hero Jamie Fraser.
The full title of this classic is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.
Paulo Coelho’s book about an Andalusian shepherd boy who believes he has prophetic dreams and follows them to Egypt.
This book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about a Nigerian woman explores racism in the US.
We never learn the name of the narrator in this book by Daphne du Maurier.
This Ernest Cline novel is set in the future but takes readers deep in to 1970s and 1980s nostalgia.
The Joads join thousands of other “Okies” heading west to look for work in this classic set during the Great Depression.
This Pulitzer-winning book by Alice Walker is #17 on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned Books List: 2000-2009.
This popular book and TV series by George R.R. Martin has spawned memes with the captions “Winter is Coming.”