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Select the books written by American authors; ignore those written by authors from the United Kingdom.
There are 15 correct entries. Get 3 incorrect and the game ends.
The Joy Luck Club No Country for Old Men The Thirty-Nine Steps Death in the Afternoon Profiles in Courage Twice Told Tales The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Shroud for a Nightingale Outlander Death Comes for the Archbishop Slaughterhouse-Five The Ipcress File The Mask of Dimitrios The Lonely Bones The Guns of August Beloved The Last Hurrah About a Boy Travels with CharleyThe Power and the Glory A Confederacy of Dunces The Casual VacancyInnocents Abroad
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US authors:
Mark Twain wrote "Innocents Abroad" about his five month long trip to Europe with a group of American travelers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" is a collection of his short stories.
Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" centers around events in the first month of World War I.
Ernest Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" is a non-fiction account of the history and traditions of bullfighting.
Alice Sebold's book "The Lovely Bones" is the account of a murdered teenage girl, who watches from heaven as her family comes to terms with her death.
John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" is the account of his trip around the US with his dog Charley to see his country one last time before dying.
Edwin O'Connor wrote "The Last Hurrah" about the final losing campaign of an old-style politician in a changing environment.
Cormac McCarthy wrote "No Country for Old Men" about a drug deal that failed and the chase for money stolen from the scene of the murders.
Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" is a collection of sixteen related stories about four Chinese immigrant mothers and each one's daughter.
Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is the tale of a former slave and the abuses she had received.
John Kennedy Toole's posthumous book "Confederacy of Dunces" became a cult classic about the travails of Ignatius J Reilly and his work experiences.
Diana Gabaldon's book "Outlander" was the first of a series of books about Claire Randall, who time travels between the 20th century and 18th century Scotland.
Washington Irving wrote "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent", a collection of short stories that included "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".
Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is the story of a strict missionary priest sent to reform the Church in New Mexico and how he changed during his lifetime.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five" as a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of Billy Pilgrim during and after World War II.
John Kennedy wrote "Profiles in Courage" about courageous actions by politicians for the good of the country, even at the expense of their own political life.
UK Authors:
Graham Greene wrote "The Power and the Glory" about a "whiskey priest" in a time of religious persecution in Mexico.
J.K. Rowling, in her first novel after the Harry Potter series, wrote "The Casual Vacancy" about a special election for a House of Commons seat in a working-class district.
Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August" centers around events in the first month of World War I.
Nick Hornby wrote "About a Boy", a coming of age story.
John Buchan wrote the thriller "The Thirty-Nine Steps", in which the protagonist evades capture to foil a plot against the Greek government.
Eric Ambler wrote the thriller "The Mask for Dimitrios".
The "Shroud for a Nightingale", written by P.D. James, is a mystery novel about the investigation of the deaths of two nursing students.
Len Deighton's book "The Ipcress File"is a Cold War spy thriller
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