Headscratchers / Literature

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

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• 11/22/63
• The 39 Clues
• A Brother's Price
• 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
• Angels & Demons
• Angels of Music
• Animal Farm
• Animorphs
• Anita Blake
• Artemis Fowl
• Apprentice Adept
• At the Mountains of Madness
• Atlas Shrugged
• Avalon: Web of Magic
• Axis of Time
• Babar
• The Baby-Sitters Club
• The Bad Unicorn Trilogy
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• The Belgariad
• Belisarius Series
• The Bible
• Biting the Sun
• Blindsight
• Bloodsucking Fiends
• The Books of Ember
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Brave New World
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Browns Pine Ridge Stories
• The Cambist and Lord Iron
• Carrie
• Castle in the Air
• The Casual Vacancy
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Cay
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chrestomanci
• Christine
• A Christmas Carol
• The Cinder Spires
• Agatha Christie
  • The ABC Murders
  • And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)
  • Five Little Pigs
  • A Murder Is Announced
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Chronicles of the Kencyrath
• Ciaphas Cain
• Circle of Magic
• The Circus of Doctor Lao
• A Civil Campaign
• Classical Mythology
• The Clique
• A Clockwork Orange
• Codex Alera
• The Cold Equations
• Coraline
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Cthulhu Mythos
• Cujo
• The Culture
• Curious George
• The Cosmere
• Cybernetrix
• The Darkangel Trilogy
• The Dark Is Rising
• Darkover
• The Dark Tower
• A Darker Shade Of Magic
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Death Gate Cycle
• 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
  • The Fifth Elephant
  • Going Postal
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Hogfather
  • Interesting Times
  • I Shall Wear Midnight
  • Jingo
  • The Light Fantastic
  • Lords and Ladies
  • Making Money
  • Men at Arms
  • Monstrous Regiment
  • Night Watch
  • Raising Steam
  • Reaper Man
  • The Shepherd's Crown
  • Soul Music
  • Thief of Time
  • The Truth
  • Thud!
  • Unseen Academicals
  • Wyrd Sisters
• Divergent
• The Divine Comedy
• A Dog's Purpose
• Darth Plagueis
• Dracula
• Dragaera
• Dragonlance
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Dolores Claiborne
• Dragonriders of Pern
• The Draka
• The Dresden Files
  • The Dresden Files Archive
  • The Dresden Files Archive 2
  • Small Favor
  • Skin Game
• Dr. Seuss
• Dune
• Earth Abides
• Earth's Children
• Eclipse Hunter
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Edge Chronicles
• Elantris
• The Elenium
• Ella Enchanted
• Emberverse
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Enchanted Forest Chronicles
• Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Xenocide
  • Children of the Mind
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Er Ist Wieder Da
• Eternity Road
• Everworld
• Evillious Chronicles
• Evolution
• The Expanse
• Fablehaven
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Familiar
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• The Farside Trilogy
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Faust
• Fevre Dream
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Fighting Fantasy
• The Fionavar Tapestry
• The First Law
• Flatland
• Flowers in the Attic
• The Forever War
• Forgotten Realms
• Foundation
• Frankenstein
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Garrett, P.I.
• Gentleman Bastard
• Gerald's Game
• ghostgirl
• Ghosts
• The Girl in 6E
• The Girl Who Owned a City
• The Giver
• Gone
• Good Omens
• Goosebumps
• Gossip Girl
• Gormenghast
• Green Eggs and Ham
• The Guardians of Childhood
• Guardians Of Gahoole
• The Guardians of Time Trilogy
• The Halfblood Chronicles
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Hand of Thrawn
• 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
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Molly Vs Bellatrix
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Slytherin House
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Hogwarts And Ministry Of Magic
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Voldemort's Final Duel
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Wand Disarmament
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Luna's Bedroom Wall
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Wizarding Prejudice
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Sirius And Grimmauld Place
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Severus Snape: Good or Bad?
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Hermione And Her Parents
    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Albus Dumbledore: Good or Bad?
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows The Deathly Hallows
    • Harry Potter Epilogue
    • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Unsorted Examples
• 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 Hound Of The Durbervilles
• House of Leaves
• The House of Night
• Howl's Moving Castle
• The Hunger Games
• Hush, Hush
• I Am Number Four
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
• Illuminatus!
• Immortals After Dark
• Incarnations of Immortality
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• The Infernal Devices
• Inheritance Cycle
• The Inkworld Trilogy
• Interworld
• The Invisible Man
• Iron Druid Chronicles
• It
• Ivanhoe
• Jack Reacher
• Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Mansfield Park
  • Emma
  • Persuasion
• Jane Eyre
• Jane Yellowrock
• Jedi Academy Trilogy
• John Dies at the End
  • This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
• Judge Dee
• Jumper
• Junie B. Jones
• The Kane Chronicles
• Keep The Aspidistra Flying
• Keys to the Kingdom
• King Arthur
• 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
• Les Misérables
• Life of Pi
• The Littles
• Little Dorrit
• Little Women
• Lolita
• Lone Wolf
• The Long Earth
• The Long Walk
• Looking for Alaska
• The Lorax
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
  • Lord Of The Rings Books
  • Lord Of The Rings Films
• Lord Peter Wimsey novels
• The Lost Symbol
• The Lost World
• The Lovely Bones
• Lunar Chronicles
• Madeline
• Madeleine L'Engle
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• 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
• George R.R. Martin
• The Martian
• Mary Russell
• Matilda
• Maximum Ride
• The Maze Runner
• Mercy Thompson
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• The Midnight Meat Train
• Midnighters
• The Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Mistborn
  • Mistborn: The Original Trilogy
  • Wax and Wayne
• 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
• My Sister's Keeper
• The Narrows
• The Naughtiest Girl
• Nemesis Saga
• Neuromancer
• The Neverending Story
• Neverwhere
• The Night's Dawn Trilogy
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Not Quite Human
• October Daye
• Of Mice and Men
• Old Kingdom
• Oliver Twist
• 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
• 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
• The Prince
• Quintaglio Ascension
• The Railway Series
• Rapunzel
• Ready Player One
• The Reckoners Trilogy
• The Redemption of Althalus
• Redwall
• Replica
• Remnants
• Replay
• Revan
• Ringworld
• The Rithmatist
• Rivers of London
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Room
• S.
• The Salvation War
• The Scarlet Gospels
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• The School for Good and Evil
• The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
• Septimus Heap
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Seven Per Cent Solution
• Shadows of the Empire
• The Sharing Knife
• Sherlock Holmes
• Shirley
• Shopaholic
• The Silmarillion
• Simona Ahrnstedt
• 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
• The Spellmonger Series
• Spellsinger
• The Stand
• Star Darlings
• Star Wars Expanded Universe
• The Stormlight Archive
• Swan Song
• The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
• Sword of Truth
• Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
• Tam Lin
• Tarzan
• Temeraire
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• 13 Reasons Why
• Thirteenth Child
• The Thrawn Trilogy
• The Three-Body Problem
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Three Musketeers
• Timeline-191
• TimeRiders
• The Time Machine
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Tom Clancy
• The Tomorrow Series
• Tower and the Hive
• The Trials of Apollo
• Tsuyokute New Saga
• Turkey City Lexicon
• Twilight
• The Underland Chronicles
• Under the Dome
• Unwind
• Vampire Academy
• Venus in Furs
• Victoria
• The War Against the Chtorr
• The War of the Worlds
• The Warded Man
• Warrior Cats
• Watership Down
• Way Station
• 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
• Wuthering Heights
• Xanth
• X-Wing Series
• Young Wizards
• The Zombie Survival Guide
• Little Princess.

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