Best-Selling Books of 2017 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Origin

The fifth in Dan Brown's 'Robert Langdon' series of mystery-thriller novels, this one put the cryptographer protagonist in Spain to solve a murder mystery involving a significant religious secret. The book, following his 2013 novel "Inferno", ended up being a major seller for 2017, topping the "New York Times" best-seller list for three weeks in the end of October.

It was Brown's seventh novel overall though a decade later, he claimed to have a dozen novels in the series planned out.

Answer: Norse Mythology

"Norse Mythology" discusses exactly that, and Gaiman's non-fiction look into the stories of the Norse Gods only serve to bolster the tellings of his own earlier and most popular works like "American Gods" which, in 2017, ended up getting adapted into a TV show on the U.S. Starz network.

Much of "Norse Mythology" roots itself in the retellings of major stories and figures in the pantheon including Thor, Odin, Loki, and Ragnarok.

Answer: Into the Water

The second novel under Paula Hawkins' name (she wrote four before that under the name Amy Silver), "Into the Water" had great buzz in mid-2017 coming off the major release and adaptation of her earlier thriller, "The Girl on the Train", which ended up becoming a box office hit.

The thriller, following a teenage girl and murders in a UK river, ended up becoming a "New York Times" best-seller in May 2017 and lasted there for three consecutive weeks. In 2015 and 2016, "The Girl on the Train" lasted a combined twenty-six weeks at the top of the same list.

Answer: What Happened

Following Clinton's loss during the 2016 American election, Clinton wrote this thick memoir, releasing it ten months after the votes were tallied in an attempt to be candid about her run as the first female Presidential candidate. Ultimately, it would be Clinton's third memoir (after "Living History" and "Hard Choices") and her seventh book release overall.

While it was well-reviewed, others saw it as her opportunity to place blame on certain external factors affecting her campaign.

Answer: The Woman in Cabin 10

Author Ruth Ware followed up her debut mystery, "A Dark, Dark Wood", with two more novels in 2017 (at least internationally), the first being the bestseller "The Woman in Cabin 10" and the second being "The Lying Game". The former, about a travel writer embroiled in some odd events on a cruise in the North Sea, ended up becoming a major mystery read, gaining traction overseas in early 2017 and being likened to the locked-room works of Agatha Christie.

Answer: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

This small collection of articles, all by famed scientific mind Neil deGrasse Tyson, was compiled and released in 2017 to a fair bit of fanfare, partly due to his returning popularity in pop culture. The book, despite being about more complex scientific topics, ended up becoming a "New York Times" best-seller in the non-fiction category, topping the charts for a month because of its tendency to distill its content and appeal to those with a fleeting interest in the cosmos.

Answer: Carve the Mark

Written by teen author Veronica Roth, "Carve the Mark" was the first of her full novels not to be part of the "Divergent" trilogy or its subsequent side-stories. Set in a completely separate sci-fi universe, it follows the story of two people of different warring factions as they seem to form a relationship based on their compatible gifts despite the obvious expected animosity.

It certainly doesn't help that one of them has the power to cause pain with their touch. Roth originally wrote the book as the first in a duology.

Answer: Sleeping Beauties

An interesting instance involving a famous author, "Sleeping Beauties" was a full collaboration between Stephen King and his younger son, Owen King, both of whom fleshed out a story set in an Appalachian women's prison and which involved a weird sleeping sickness affecting only the female residents of the town. Women that fell asleep in this way would end up cocooned in a weird substance and, when awakened unnaturally, would go mad.

It was Stephen King's fifty-sixth full-length novel. King has also collaborated on short stories with his older son, Joe Hill, who had a short story collection, "Strange Weather", released in 2017 as well. "Sleeping Beauties" topped the "New York Times" Best-Sellers list for a week in October.

Answer: Artemis

Named after the Greek Goddess, "Artemis" follows a woman who gets locked into a unique situation involving the first city created on the Moon, and it's Andy Weir's second major novel release, the first being the major sci-fi hit "The Martian", which was released in 2011 and quickly got a movie adaptation directed by Ridley Scott. "Artemis", being highly-anticipated upon being announced, was also very quickly optioned for film.

Answer: Turtles All the Way Down

Highly-anticipated, and the first since Green's popular novel "The Fault in Our Stars", "Turtles All the Way Down" centered on a 16-year-old character named Aza who battled her OCD while adventuring with a friend, searching for a missing person and stumbling upon much more.

Although John Green's earlier works, many of which ended up finding film adaptations in the years between "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Turtles", fell into a pigeonhole of being somewhat melancholy or tragic, "Turtles All the Way Down" was seen as a bit more down-to-earth.