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This category is for fiction published in the 20th and 21st centuries. Quizzes are found under the names of the individual authors. Science Fiction and Mystery and Detective fiction have their own categories.
category Adams, Richard category Albom, Mitch
category Allende, Isabel category Andrews, V.C.
category Angelou, Maya category Atwood, Margaret
category Auel, Jean M. category Barry, Dave
category Binchy, Maeve category Blackstock, Terri
category Bradford, Barbara Taylor category Burgess, Anthony
category Capote, Truman category Clancy, Tom
category Collins, Jackie category Connolly, John
category Cooper, Jilly category Cornwell, Bernard
category Crichton, Michael category Cussler, Clive
category Dailey, Janet category Dart, Iris Rainer
category Davies, Robertson category De Bernieres, Louis
category DuMaurier, Daphne category Elton, Ben
category Fielding, Helen category Fitzgerald, F. Scott
category Flagg, Fannie category Follett, Ken
category Forster, E. M. category Forsyth, Frederick
category Fraser, George Macdonald category Giffin, Emily
category Golding, William category Grisham, John
category Haddon, Mark category Haley, Alex
category Hamilton, Laurell K. category Harris, Robert
category Harris, Thomas category Heller, Joseph
category Hemingway, Ernest category Herriot, James
category Hosseini, Khaled category Hurston, Zora Neal
category Irving, John category Ishiguro, Kazuo
category Jakes, John category Jeffrey Archer
category Johnstone, William W. category Jonker, Joan
category Kay, Susan category Keyes, Marian
category Kidd, Sue Monk category Kingsolver, Barbara
category Knowles, John category Koontz, Dean
category Lamb, Wally category Le Carre, John
category Lee, Harper category Leroux, Gaston
category Lessing, Doris category Letts, Billie
category Marquez, Gabriel Garcia category McCafferty, Megan
category McCarthy, Cormac category McCourt, Frank
category McCullough, Colleen category McEwan, Ian
category Mitchell, Margaret category Morrison, Toni
category Nabokov, Vladimir category Oates, Joyce Carol
category Orwell, George category Palahniuk, Chuck
category Paton, Alan category Pendleton, Don
category Picoult, Jodi category Plath, Sylvia
category Potok, Chaim category Rand, Ayn
category Salinger, J. D. category Sebold, Alice
category Sheldon, Sidney category Sinclair, Upton
category Smith, Wilbur category Spark, Muriel
category Sparks, Nicholas category Steel, Danielle
category Steinbeck, John category Tartt, Donna
folder The Beat Generation (3) category Thomas, Dylan
category Townsend, Sue category Tyler, Anne
category Updike, John category Uris, Leon
category Vonnegut, Kurt category W.E.B. Griffin
category Weiner, Jennifer category Wharton, Edith
category Wiesel, Elie
Editors: agony, MotherGoose, LeoDaVinci, looney_tunes Quiz Search:
1 Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas
Visit or revisit some of the most important 20th century North and South American authors and works. Some of these you may have encountered in school; others are well worth an investigation all of your own.
Average
10 Q
lola0177
Apr 07 12
468 plays
2 Best Selling Fiction 2000-2009
Welcome to some of my favorite fiction. These are books worth reading and reading again.
Tough
10 Q
Duchess716
Sep 03 09
939 plays
3 New Classics in Literature
Great books don't have to be very old to be classics. Some are actually relatively new. Let us take a look at some modern classics.
Average
10 Q
triviaking162
Nov 04 11
687 plays
4 Twentieth Century Books
This quiz deals mostly with European literature in the twentieth century.
Difficult
10 Q
ijsbek
Sep 23 12
351 plays
5 Olympia Press
Olympia Press was a 1950s-1960s publishing house that published various controversial American and European books. Although many of its publications are considered simply pornographic, others are renowned as modern classics.
Tough
10 Q
echomikeromeo
Jan 16 07
309 plays
6 Literature of the last 50 years
This quiz exclusively contains questions on American literature of the last 50 years
Difficult
15 Q
gnossos
Apr 26 01
1653 plays
7 Remo And Chiun
Some questions from the Destroyer series of books (by various authors).
Difficult
15 Q
awkins
Jun 01 00
222 plays
8 Books Through Teenagers
I give you a description of a book from the point of view of a teenage boy or girl. You give me the book. Less information is supplied each time, so it gets harder.
Average
15 Q
notheridesbus
Sep 17 11
363 plays
9 New-Age Writers are Great Fun
Yes, indeed they are!
Tough
10 Q
sweetwheat
May 16 01
477 plays
10 Very Recent Authors
As someone who works in a bookstore, I thought I deserved to do a quiz about this. And to those of you who shop in bookstores, please remember that just because you think a book is well known does not mean it is.
Tough
15 Q
SarahJC
Jun 30 01
1206 plays
11 Fiction from the last 20 years (roughly!)
These are some questions based on my favourite recent novels. Some of them might be a bit random!
Very Difficult
10 Q
vh219
Sep 15 02
828 plays
12 Contemporary Fiction
Questions about several different novels, all written in the Mid Eighties through current. Enjoy, and if there's anything here you haven't read, CHECK IT OUT!
Impossible
10 Q
curve66
Sep 24 00
990 plays
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Last Updated Jan 10 13 8:56 AM

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* Who is the 'Walt Disney' character who appears in a number of the books?
* Who is Remo's biological father?
* What singer was Chiun infatuated with?
* What is the name of the killer software?
* Who was Remo's fiancee before he was 'executed'?


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