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Who wrote 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'?

William L. Shirer Click to see the answer

Who wrote the book 'Complete Hip and Thigh Diet'?

Rosemary Conley

Who directed the film adaptation of 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption'?

Angelina Jolie

How many J. M. Coetzee books appear in '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'?

10

Who wrote 'The Power of Positive Thinking' in 1953?

Norman Vincent Peale

Who wrote a book of 'Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals'?

Linda McCartney

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The book 'The Devil in the White City' features tales of which serial killer?

H. H. Holmes Click to see the answer

Who wrote 'The Almagest', a mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

Ptolemy

Who was the former Beirut hostage who wrote 'An Evil Cradling'?

Brian Keenan

Which scientist collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book 'Why War?'?

Albert Einstein

Whose works include 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' and 'The Right Stuff'?

Tom Wolfe

Who wrote a best-selling science book called 'A Brief History of Time'?

Stephen Hawking

Which Norman Mailer book is based on a protest march?

The Armies of the Night

In what year was Paula Deen's The Deen Family Cookbook first published?

2009

Who purchased the film rights to 'The Devil in the White City' in 2010?

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Who wrote 'The Devil in the White City'?

Erik Larson Click to see the answer

Who wrote the book 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat'?

John Gribbin

Who wrote 'The Pilgrims Progress'?

John Bunyan

Merriam-Webster is a name associated with which sort of books?

Dictionaries

In what year was 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption' first published?

2010

Who co-authored 'The Communist Manifesto' with Karl Marx?

Friedrich Engels

Rhonda Byrne wrote which best selling self help book in 2006?

The Secret

What is the name of Andy McNab's 1993 book about a patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq?

Bravo Two Zero

In what year was 'The Devil in the White City' originally published?

2003

In which city is the Bodleian library?

Oxford

In what year was 'The Joy of Cooking' first published?

1931

Who wrote the book 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption'?

Laura Hillenbrand

Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?

Utilitarianism

In what decade was the 'Oxford English Dictionary' first published?

1920s

Who published the book 'Le Guide culinaire' in 1903?

August Escoffier

The book 'The Devil in the White City' is set in which US city?

Chicago

Which author wrote biographies about Princess Diana, Tom Cruise and Monica Lewinsky?

Andrew Morton

Who collaborated with Maurice Joyant to write 'Art de Cuisine'?

Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec

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The first public library in America was opened in what year?

1698 Click to see the answer

Which internet CEO wrote the best selling book 'Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead'?

Sheryl Sandberg

Which basketball legend titled his autobiography 'Driven from Within'?

Michael Jordan

Who wrote 'Into Thin Air', 'Into the Wild' and 'Under the Banner of Heaven'?

Jon Krakauer

The Lady In The Van' is the memoir of which playwright?

Alan Bennett

The book 'Call the Midlife' is the biography of which BBC radio presenter?

Chris Evans

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In what year was Julia Child's second cookbook released?

1968 Click to see the answer

What is the title of John Bunyan's famous work?

Pilgrim's Progress

Over 1 million copies have been sold of the motivational book 'Awaken The Giant Within', but who wrote it?

Anthony Robbins

Who wrote 'The Fire Next Time' and 'Notes of a Native Son'?

James Baldwin

Who wrote 'The Armies of the Night'?

Norman Mailer

In which decade did Guinness start to publish its book of Records annually?

1960s

Which writer wrote a book about bullfighting entitled 'Death in the Afternoon'?

Ernest Hemingway

Who wrote an 1861 'Book of Household Management'?

Isabella Beeton

In what year was the first Los Angeles Times Cookbook published?

1902

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Who wrote the book 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking'?

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In which century did Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi write the 'Kitab al-Tabikh'?

13th

The book '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' features an introduction from who?

Peter Ackroyd

The book 'The Devil in the White City' features tales of which architect?

Daniel Burnham

In what year was the Settlement Cookbook by Simon Kander published?

1903

Which ancient civilisation wrote the oldest known cookbook on clay tablets?

Babylonians

Which writer changed his name to distance himself from a relative in the Salem witch trials?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In what year was 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking' originally published?

2012

How did Alfred Nobel initiate the Nobel Prize?

Requested in his will

Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'?

Germaine Greer

The title of the autobiography of which soccer player is titled 'Commitment'?

Didier Drogba

Which Russian wrote of 'War and Peace'?

Leo Tolstoy

Whose 1896 'The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book' has stayed in print for over a century?

Fannie Farmer

In which year was the first vegetarian cookbook supposedly written?

1812

Who wrote the official biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs life?

Walter Isaacson

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Who was the author of 'Das Kapital'?

Karl Marx Click to see the answer

Which London road is associated with book sellers?

Charing Cross Road

Who wrote 'The Prince', a famous work that redefined the beliefs of cynicism in the Italian Renaissance?

Niccolò Machiavelli

Who wrote the motivational book 'How to Win Friends & Influence People'?

Dale Carnegie

Who published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in 1841 and 1844?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which politician published the memoirs entitled 'You Can't Say That'?

Ken Livingstone

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Who left school at 16, studied cookbooks at the British Museum, and now has her own supermarket line of food?

Delia Smith Click to see the answer

Which MP has written a well-received biography of William Pitt the Younger?

William Hague

Who wrote the 2010 cookbook 'Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home'?

Nigella Lawson

Who wrote the book 'The Audacity of Hope'?

Barack Obama

The first public library in America was opened in what state?

South Carolina

Who wrote the book 'The Birds of America'?

John James Audubon

The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen was written in what state?

New York

Who wrote the inspirational best selling book 'The Secret'?

Rhonda Byrne

Who was the author of the first known cookbook to be written by an American?

Amelia Simmons

Whose non-fiction work includes 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album'?

Joan Didion

Who released a 'Complete Cookery Course' in 1986 and an illustrated 'Complete Cookery Course' in 1989?

Delia Smith

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