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Match the Opening Lines

Can you match these BookBrowse 2023 Best of Year books to their opening lines?
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Historical Novels with Strong Women

How well do you know your historical fiction? See if you can identify these seven historical novels featuring strong women that BookBrowse has reviewed.
Quiz author: Lisa Butts
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First Lines of Pulitzer Prize-Winners

How well do you know the Pulitzer Prize-winners? Take our quiz and see if you can match the opening lines to the right book!
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Quiz: Collective Nouns for Birds

Do you know what a flock of starlings is called? How about a group of owls, peacocks or swans? Test your knowledge with our avian-orientated quiz!
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Before They Were Famous Authors

Before they became famous for their writing, what unexpected jobs did Harper Lee, John Grisham, Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov and Douglas Adams do?
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Pen Names of Famous Authors

Can you match these seven authors to their pseudonyms?
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English Literary Locations

Test your knowledge of famous English literary locations with our 7-question quiz.
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