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Less Literate Lit Slits

  1. The Mists of Avalon -- Marion Zimmer Bradley

  2. 1984 -- George Orwell

  3. Bloom County Babylon -- Berke Breathed

  4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -- Judy Blume

  5. Good Omens -- Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

  6. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein

  7. Flowers in the Attic -- VC Andrews

  8. Dracula -- Bram Stoker

  9. The Silver Chair -- CS Lewis

  10. Winnie-the-Pooh -- AA Milne

  11. Where the Sidewalk Ends -- Shel Silverstein

  12. On a Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony

  13. I Am the Cheese -- Robert Cormier

  14. The Outsiders -- SE Hinton

  15. The Westing Game -- Ellen Raskin

  16. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler -- EL Konigsburg

  17. The Sandman: Dream Country -- Neil Gaiman (also accepted "Calliope")

  18. Mary Poppins -- PL Travers

  19. The Last Unicorn -- Peter S. Beagle

  20. Interview with the Vampire -- Anne Rice

  21. Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card (*)

  22. Carrie -- Stephen King

  23. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood

  24. Alice in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll

  25. The BFG -- Roald Dahl

  26. Anne of Green Gables -- LM Montgomery

  27. The Tao of Pooh -- Benjamin Hoff

  28. Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell

  29. The Chosen -- Chaim Potok

  30. The Thorn Birds -- Colleen McCullough

  31. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller

  32. Pippi in the South Seas -- Astrid Lindgren

  33. Johnathan Livingston Seagull -- Richard Bach

  34. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

  35. Black Beauty -- Anna Sewell

  36. Encyclopedia Brown -- Donald J. Sobol

  37. Neuromancer -- William Gibson

  38. Dragonsong -- Anne McCaffrey

  39. The Glass Menagerie -- Tennessee Williams

  40. The Book of Merlin -- TH White

  41. A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle

  42. Little Town on the Prairie -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

  43. The Fellowship of the Ring -- JRR Tolkien

  44. The Catcher in the Rye -- JD Salinger

  45. Trixie Belden (and the Red Trailer Mystery) -- Julie Campbell (also accepted Kathryn Kenny)

* That's ENDER'S GAME, the now-classic science fiction novel, not WATERSHIP DOWN, the nifty one about wild rabbits. Unbelievable how many teams (4!) made that same error....