ROUND 2: Guess the Book With Help From the Library of Congress! -The Toast

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Please post your scores in the comments. HONOR SYSTEM, kids. Honor system! Only the nerdiest shall prevail. If you have a degree in library science, please assign yourself a two-point penalty. If you missed Round One, catch up here.

1. Brothers and sisters
Genetic engineering
War games

2. Murder victims
Millionaires
Islands
Devon (England)

3. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Illegitimate children
Women immigrants
Married women
Puritans
Adultery
Revenge
Clergy
Boston (Mass.)–History–Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

4. Murder
Algeria

5. Astronauts
Astronautics

6. Igbo (African people)
British–Nigeria
Men–Nigeria
Race relations

7. Villages–France
France–Social life and customs–19th century

8. Compulsive behavior
Addicts

9. Vietnam War, 1961-1975–United States
Belief and doubt
Mothers–Death
Male friendship
Predestination
Birthfathers
Young men
Boys
New Hampshire

10. African American women
Women slaves
Infanticide
Ohio

11. Murder–Kansas–Case studies.

12. Fathers and daughters
Political refugees
Shipwreck victims
Magicians
Islands
Spirits

13. Religions
Conduct of life
Puberty

14. Beat generation

15. Juvenile delinquency
Homeless persons
Friendship
Buried treasure

16. Women–Georgia
Plantation life
Georgia–History–Civil War, 1861-1865

17. Passivity (Psychology)
Genetic engineering
Totalitarianism
Collectivism

18. Fate and fatalism
Reincarnation

19. People with mental disabilities
Gifted persons
Brain–Surgery

20. Industrial accidents
College teachers
Stepfamilies
Death
Middle West

21. Survival
Regression (Psychology)
Islands
Boys

22. Survival
Television programs
Interpersonal relations
Contests

23. African American women
Florida

24. Poets
Americans–Spain
Self-realization
Art and literature
Madrid (Spain)

25. Fathers and daughters
Race relations
Trials (Rape)
Girls
Southern States


Answers: (1) Ender’s Game (2) And Then There Were None (3) The Scarlet Letter (4) The Stranger (5) The Right Stuff (6) Things Fall Apart (7) In Search of Lost Time (Swann’s Way) (8) Infinite Jest (9) A Prayer for Owen Meany (10) Beloved (11) In Cold Blood (12) The Tempest (13) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (14) On the Road (15) Holes (16) Gone with the Wind (17) Brave New World (18) Cloud Atlas (19) Flowers for Algernon (20) White Noise (21) Lord of the Flies (22) The Hunger Games (23) Their Eyes Were Watching God (24) Leaving the Atocha Station (25) To Kill a Mockingbird

Gillian Brassil hopes to one day contribute to the field of 'Disco dancing -- Juvenile literature.'

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