Headscratchers / Literature

A collection of Headscratchers pages for all things Literature and Folklore.

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• 11/22/63
• 13 Reasons Why
• The 39 Clues
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The ABC Murders
• Aesop's Fables
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
• After Man: A Zoology of the Future
• Airborn
• Alex Rider
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• All the Wrong Questions
• American Gods
• And Then There Were None
• Angels & Demons
• Angels of Music
• Animal Farm
• Animorphs
• Anita Blake
• Artemis
• Artemis Fowl
• Apprentice Adept
• Atlas Shrugged
• At the Mountains of Madness
• Avalon: Web of Magic
• Axis of Time
• Babar
• The Baby-Sitters Club
• The Bad Unicorn Trilogy
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• The Beast Player
• The Belles
• The Belgariad
• Belisarius Series
• The Berenstain Bears
• The BFG
• Biting the Sun
• Blindsight
• Bloodsucking Fiends
• The Books of Ember
• Borrasca
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Brave New World
• Brave Story
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Brokeback Mountain
• A Brother's Price
• Brown's Pine Ridge Stories
• The Cambist and Lord Iron
• Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
• Candle Cove
• Captain Underpants
• Carrie
• Castle in the Air
• The Casual Vacancy
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Chaos Walking
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
• Charlotte's Web
• Chrestomanci
• Christine
• A Christmas Carol
• The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
• The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• The Chronicles of Narnia
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • The Silver Chair
  • The Horse and His Boy
• Chronicles of the Kencyrath
• Ciaphas Cain
• The Cinder Spires
• Circleverse
• The Circus of Doctor Lao
• The City Without Memory
• A Civil Campaign
• The Clique
• A Clockwork Orange
• Codex Alera
• The Cold Equations
• Coraline
• The Cosmere
  • Elantris
  • Mistborn
    • Mistborn: The Original Trilogy
    • Wax and Wayne
  • The Stormlight Archive
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• A Court of Thorns and Roses
• Cradle Series
• Cthulhu Mythos
• Cujo
• The Culture
• Curious George
• Cybernetrix
• A Dance to the Music of Time
• The Darkangel Trilogy
• The Dark is Rising
• Darkover
• The Dark Tower
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Death Gate Cycle
• Death on the Nile
• Deepgate Codex
• The Defence of Duffer's Drift
• Deltora Quest
• Deptford Mice
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Dinotopia
• Dirk Gently
• A Dirty Job
• Discworld
  • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
  • Carpe Jugulum
  • Feet of Clay
  • The Fifth Elephant
  • Going Postal
  • The Giving Tree
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Hogfather
  • Interesting Times
  • I Shall Wear Midnight
  • Jingo
  • The Last Continent
  • The Light Fantastic
  • Lords and Ladies
  • Making Money
  • Men at Arms
  • Monstrous Regiment
  • Night Watch Discworld
  • Pump Six and Other Stories
  • Raising Steam
  • Reaper Man
  • The Shepherd's Crown
  • Soul Music
  • Thief of Time
  • The Truth
  • Thud!
  • Unseen Academicals
  • Wyrd Sisters
• Divergent
• The Divine Comedy
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• A Dog's Purpose
• Dolores Claiborne
• Dork Diaries
• Dracula
• Dragaera
• Dragonlance
• Dragonriders of Pern
• The Draka
• Dream Park
• The Dresden Files
  • Storm Front
  • Small Favor
  • Changes
  • Cold Days
  • Skin Game
  • Peace Talks
  • Battle Ground (2020)
• Dr. Seuss
  • Daisy-Head Mayzie
• Dune
• Earth Abides
• Earth's Children
• Eclipse Hunter
• The Edge Chronicles
• The Elenium
• Ella Enchanted
• Emberverse
• Emma
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Enchanted Forest Chronicles
• Encyclopedia Brown
• Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Xenocide
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Eternity Road
• Everworld
• Evillious Chronicles
• Evolution
• The Expanse
• The Exorcist
• Fablehaven
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Familiar
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• The Farside Trilogy
• Father Brown
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Faust
• Fear Street
• Fevre Dream
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Fighting Fantasy
• The Fionavar Tapestry
• The First Law
• Five Little Pigs
• Flatland
• Flowers in the Attic
  • Petals on the Wind
  • If There Be Thorns
  • Seeds of Yesterday
• The Forever War
• Forgotten Realms
• Foundation
• Frankenstein
• Fred, The Vampire Accountant
• From a Certain Point of View
• Garrett, P.I.
• Gentleman Bastard
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Gerald's Game
• ghostgirl
• The Girl in 6E
• The Girl Who Owned a City
• The Giver
• The Godfather
• The Gods Themselves
• Gone
• Gone with the Wind
• Good Omens
• Goosebumps
• Gormenghast
• Gossip Girl
• Graceling Realm
• Gravity Falls: Journal 3
• The Great Divorce
• Green Eggs and Ham
• The Guardians of Childhood
• Guardians Of Gahoole
• The Guardians of Time Trilogy
• The Halfblood Chronicles
• Hallowe'en Party
• Handbook for Mortals
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Harry Potter
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Heechee Saga
• Heralds of Valdemar
• The Heroes of Olympus
• His Dark Materials
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Hobbit
• Holes
• Honor Harrington
• The Host (2008)
• The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
• House of Leaves
• The House of Night
• Howl's Moving Castle
• The Hunger Games
• Hush, Hush
• I Am Legend
• I Am Number Four
• I, Robot
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
• Illuminatus!
• Immortals After Dark
• Incarnations of Immortality
• In Search of the Castaways
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• The Infernal Devices
• Inheritance Cycle
• The Inkworld Trilogy
• InterWorld
• The Invisible Man
• Iron Druid Chronicles
• Iron Widow
• Island of the Lizard King
• It
• Ivanhoe
• Jack Reacher
• James Bond
  • Moonraker
  • The Man with the Golden Gun
• Jane Eyre
• Jane Yellowrock
• The Jenkinsverse
• The Jewel Kingdom
• John Dies at the End
  • This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
• Johnny the Walrus
• Judge Dee
• Jumper
• Junie B. Jones
• Jurassic Park
• The Kane Chronicles
• Keeper of the Lost Cities
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Keys to the Kingdom
• Kirby (Light Novel)
• Knight Life Series
• Kushiel's Legacy
• Land of Oz
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• The Laundry Files
• Laura Caxton
• Left Behind
• The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Let the Right One In
• Life of Pi
• The Light of Other Days
• The Littles
• Little Dorrit
• Little Princess
• A Little Princess
• Little Women
• Lolita
• Lone Wolf
• The Long Earth
• The Long Walk
• Looking for Alaska
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
  • Books
• Lord Peter Wimsey novels
• Lost Souls (1992)
• The Lost Symbol
• The Lost World
• The Lovely Bones
• The Lunar Chronicles
• Macdonald Hall
• Madeline
• Magic Kingdom of Landover
• The Magic Treehouse
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
• Malazan Book of the Fallen
• Man After Man
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Magic Ex Libris
• Magic 2.0
• Malory Towers
• Mansfield Park
• Marley & Me
• The Martian
• Mary Russell
• Matilda
• Maximum Ride
• The Maze Runner
• Mercy Thompson
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• The Midnight Meat Train
• Midnighters
• The Millennium Trilogy
• Les Misérables
• Miss Bindergarten
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Mister B. Gone
• The Mists of Avalon
• Moby-Dick
• Mockingbird
• Molly Moon
• The Monk
• Monster Island
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• The Mortal Instruments
• Murder on the Orient Express
• A Murder Is Announced
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• My Sister's Keeper
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles
• My Sweet Audrina
• The Narrows
• The Naughtiest Girl
• Nemesis Saga
• Neuromancer
• The Neverending Story
• Neverwhere
• Night Shift
  • Trucks
• The Night's Dawn Trilogy
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Northanger Abbey
• Not Quite Human
• October Daye
• Of Mice and Men
• Old Kingdom
• Oliver Twist
• Origami Yoda
• Oryx and Crake
  • Maddaddam
• Out of the Dark
• The Outsiders
• The Pact
• Parasite Eve
• Partials
• Pen Pal
• The Pendragon Adventure
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Persuasion
• Pet Sematary
• Phryne Fisher
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Plague Year Series
• Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
• The Powder Mage Trilogy
• Pretty Little Liars
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Prince
• The Prince and the Pauper
• The Princess Diaries
• Project Hail Mary
• Quintaglio Ascension
• The Railway Series
• Rapunzel
• The Raven Cycle
• Ready Player One
• The Reckoners Trilogy
• The Redemption of Althalus
• Redwall
• Remembrance of Earth's Past
• Remnants
• Replay
• Replica
• The Riftwar Cycle
• The Ring
• Ringworld
• The Rithmatist
• Rivers of London
• Roadside Picnic
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Room
• S.
• The Salvation War
• The Scarlet Gospels
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• The Scholomance
• The School for Good and Evil
• The Screwtape Letters
• Second Apocalypse
• The Secret Garden
• Secret Series
• The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
• The Selection
• Sense and Sensibility
• Septimus Heap
• Serendipity Books
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Seven Per Cent Solution
• Shades of Magic
• The Shadow of Kyoshi
• The Sharing Knife
• Sherlock Holmes
  • A Study in Scarlet
• The Shining
• Shirley
• Shopaholic
• The Silmarillion
• Skyward
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Snow Crash
• The Snow Queen
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• A Song of Ice and Fire
• The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries
• Soon I Will Be Invincible
• Sound! Euphonium
• The Spellmonger Series
• Spellsinger
• Sphere
• The Stand
• Star Darlings
• Star Wars Legends
  • Clone Wars Gambit
  • Darth Bane
  • Darth Plagueis
  • The Hand of Thrawn
  • Jedi Academy Trilogy
  • Revan
  • Shadows of the Empire
  • Tales of the Bounty Hunters
  • The Thrawn Trilogy
  • X-Wing Series
  • Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
• The Stepford Wives
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Sunshine
• Swan Song
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
• Sword of Truth
• The Tale of Despereaux
• Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
• Tam Lin
• Tarzan
• Temeraire
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• The Terror
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Three Musketeers
• Timeline-191
• The Time Machine
• TimeRiders
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• The Tomorrow Series
• Tortall Universe
• Tower and the Hive
• The Trials of Apollo
• Treasure Island
• Tsuyokute New Saga
• The Twilight Saga
• The Underland Chronicles
• Under the Dome
• Unwind
• Vampire Academy
• Venus in Furs
• Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War
• The Virgin Suicides
• Wait Till Helen Comes
• The War Against the Chtorr
• The War of the Worlds
• The Warded Man
• Warrior Cats
• Watership Down
• Way Station
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• The Wheel of Time
• Where Things Come Back
• Wild Cards
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Wingfeather Saga
• The Witcher
• The Witches
• World War Z
• Worm
• The Worst Witch
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Wuthering Heights
• Xanth
• Young Wizards
• The Zombie Survival Guide

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