Classic Novels & Novelists Trivia Word Search

This American author wrote Invisible Man, exploring identity and race in 20th-century America.

Great Expectations' orphaned protagonist, raised by his blacksmith brother-in-law, is named this.

The obsessed sea captain who hunts the white whale in Moby-Dick is named this.

Robinson Crusoe's companion on the island, rescued from cannibals, is named after the day they met.

This orphan boy famously asks for more gruel in a workhouse in a Dickens novel named after him.

Animal Farm's power-hungry pig, who gradually becomes indistinguishable from the humans, is named this.

This mischievous boy, Huck Finn's friend, gives his name to an earlier Twain novel.

The Scarlet Letter's protagonist, forced to wear a scarlet "A" for adultery, is named this.

This Russian author wrote the sprawling epics War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Wuthering Heights' brooding, vengeful anti-hero is named Heath'_ _ _ _ _.'

This English author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

This delusional Spanish nobleman sets out on knightly adventures, famously tilting at windmills.

Dr. Jekyll's violent, uninhibited alter ego is named this.

The reluctant hobbit hero of Tolkien's first Middle-earth novel is named this.

1984's protagonist, who works rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth, is named this.

Dorothy's loyal little dog, who accompanies her to the Land of Oz, is named this.

This American author wrote The Catcher in the Rye.

The exiled sorcerer-duke who controls a magical island in Shakespeare's The Tempest is named this.

Frankenstein's monster-creating scientist has this first name.

This English author wrote Robinson Crusoe, based partly on a real castaway's story.

Shakespeare's Scottish general is driven to murder a king by prophecy and ambition in a play often called "the Scottish play."

Fahrenheit 451's protagonist, a book-burning fireman who begins to question his job, is named Guy this.

The Catcher in the Rye's cynical, alienated teenage narrator is named this.

Slaughterhouse-Five's protagonist becomes "unstuck in time," reliving moments from his life out of order; he's named this.

This orphaned governess falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester in a novel named after her: Jane '_ _ _ _.'

Homer's epic about the final weeks of the Trojan War is titled this.

This American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms.

A Kansas farm girl swept away by a tornado into a magical land is named this.

The mysterious, vengeful submarine captain in Verne's undersea adventure is named this.

This one-legged, charismatic pirate leads a mutiny in Treasure Island.

This French author wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

This English author wrote Frankenstein at just eighteen years old.

Shakespeare's Danish prince famously contemplates a skull and a fateful choice in a play named after him.

Scout's principled lawyer father in To Kill a Mockingbird is named this.

To Kill a Mockingbird's young narrator, who watches her father defend a wrongly accused man, is named this.

The Count of Monte Cristo's protagonist, seeking revenge after wrongful imprisonment, was originally named '_ _ _ _ _ _' Dantès.

This American author wrote Beloved, a haunting novel about the legacy of slavery.

This young solicitor's visit to Transylvania sets Dracula's plot in motion; his journal entries open the novel.

Wuthering Heights' willful heroine, torn between two very different suitors, is named this.

Pride and Prejudice's sharp-witted protagonist is named this.

This English author wrote The Wind in the Willows, featuring Mole, Ratty, and Toad.

This American author wrote Fahrenheit 451, about a future where books are burned.

The Metamorphosis's protagonist, who wakes up transformed into a giant insect, is named this.

This French author wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

This American author created the magical land of Oz in a series beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Gatsby's unattainable love interest, married to the brutish Tom, is named this.

The mysterious, wealthy title character of Fitzgerald's most famous novel is named this.

Les Misérables follows this ex-convict as he seeks redemption while pursued by a relentless inspector.

This author wrote A Wrinkle in Time, in which a young girl travels through space to rescue her father.

This English author wrote the dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm.

This English author wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration.

Poe's tale about a crumbling, doomed aristocratic family is titled The Fall of the House of this.

Peter Pan's magical island home, where children never age, is called this.

This Irish author wrote the satirical adventure novel Gulliver's Travels.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past is titled this.

Victor Hugo's tragic bell-ringer, Quasimodo, lives high in the towers of this famous medieval Parisian cathedral.

This ancient Greek poet is traditionally credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey.

This American author wrote the whale-hunting epic Moby-Dick.

This Irish author wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

This English author created Winnie-the-Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood.

A respectable doctor secretly transforms into a violent alter ego in Stevenson's famous novella; the doctor's surname is this.

This American poet and memoirist wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

This Irish author wrote the vampire novel Dracula.

This Scottish author wrote Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

This honey-loving bear of "very little brain" lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.

This vain young man stays eternally youthful while his portrait ages and reveals his moral corruption.

This English author wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World.

This curious young girl follows a white rabbit down a hole into a fantastical world.

This grinning, fading feline guides Alice through a fantastical world in Lewis Carroll's novel.

This eccentric, jilted bride in Great Expectations still wears her wedding dress decades later.

This American author of gothic short stories and macabre verse wrote The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.

Homer's epic about a hero's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War is titled this.

This ship's surgeon finds himself among six-inch-tall people, then among giants, in Swift's satirical novel.

Moby-Dick's narrator, who survives the doomed voyage, introduces himself with a famous three-word command.

The Victorian novelist known by the pen name George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, was in fact a woman; her real surname is the answer.

This mischievous fairy causes romantic chaos with a magic flower in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Emily and Charlotte, novelist sisters who wrote Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, share this surname.

This Scottish author created the boy who never grows up in Peter Pan.

Mark Twain's young protagonist rafts down the Mississippi with the enslaved man Jim.

The Great Gatsby is narrated by this Midwestern transplant, Gatsby's neighbor.

This English author wrote A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

This Czech-born author wrote The Metamorphosis, about a man who wakes up as an insect.

This miserly, ghost-visited protagonist of A Christmas Carol eventually reforms his ways.

Crime and Punishment's Russian author is known by the first name '_ _ _ _ _ _.'

This American author wrote The Scarlet Letter, set in Puritan New England.

This Spanish author wrote the classic novel Don Quixote.

The Grapes of Wrath follows this migrant family fleeing the Dust Bowl for California.

The centuries-old Transylvanian vampire count at the heart of Stoker's novel is named this.

This English author created Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

This shipwrecked sailor spends 28 years alone on a deserted island in Defoe's novel named after him.

To Kill a Mockingbird's author is Harper '_ _ _.'

This American author wrote the darkly comic, time-hopping novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

A Wrinkle in Time's determined young protagonist is named this.

Hamlet's tragic love interest, who drowns after losing her father and her sanity, is named this.

The Great Gatsby's author is known by his middle name, '_ _ _ _ _.'

This French author wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Shakespeare's star-crossed young lover from the House of Montague is named this.

This American author wrote The Grapes of Wrath, chronicling the Dust Bowl migration.

This English author, writing under a pen name, created Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The brooding, secretive love interest in Jane Eyre, hiding a secret in his attic, is named this.