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Literature by Letter - B

Can you identify these answers related to literature that start with the letter B?
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Kestrana
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First submittedOctober 26, 2016
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Tale of Grendel often considered the oldest English poem
Beowulf
A non-fictional account of a person's life
Biography
Harry Potter villain, Ms. Lestrange
Bellatrix
Where Sherlock Holmes lives
Baker Street
Family name of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
Brontë
Literary movement of Ginsburg, Kerouac, and Burroughs
Beat Generation
Aldous Huxley novel featuring the "World Controllers"
Brave New World
Anna Sewell novel told from the perspective of a horse
Black Beauty
Some quaint landmarks of Madison County, Iowa
Bridges
Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years
Brigadoon
Sexually adventurous poet who wrote "She Walks in Beauty"
Lord Byron
"Auld Lang Syne" poet whose birthday is celebrated in Scotland on January 25
Robert Burns
Hindu scripture composed as a dialog between a prince and his charioteer, Krishna
Bhagavad Gita
Last name of married poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Protagonist of "The Hobbit"
Bilbo Baggins
Absurdist Irish playwright who wrote "Waiting for Godot"
Samuel Beckett
Sci-fi author of "Fahrenheit 451"
Ray Bradbury
W. Somerset Maugham's most well-known novel
Of Human Bondage
He ages in reverse in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story
Benjamin Button
German term for a "coming-of-age" story
Bildungsroman
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15 Comments
samiamco
+3
Level 67
Dec 17, 2016
These alphabetical literature quizzes are great, Kestrana! Thank you so much for doing them!
Kestrana
+1
Level 59
Jan 13, 2017
Thanks very much, and to QM for editing.
tigersue
+2
Level 75
Feb 13, 2017
Cruised cheerfully through these until the last question... however, I have learned a new word today.
ander217
+1
Level 73
Feb 13, 2017
I learned two new things today - Beckett and the last one.
Pookminstamum
+1
Level 63
Jun 15, 2023
The play B...n still makes me sad. It was well acted by a group which performed in my town's junior high theatre.

Nice to see it crop up here.

tshalla
+2
Level 79
Feb 13, 2017
I wish some non-Europeans would write something one day!
Kestrana
+1
Level 59
Feb 15, 2017
Do you have a suggestion for a B related answer that would not be considered obscure by a majority American/European audience?
tshalla
+3
Level 79
Feb 15, 2017
I appreciate the practical aspects of your concern, but really, if anyone isn't familiar with Borges and Basho (for example), that's their problem. The works of Mariama Ba and Mongo Beti are surely more important to world literature than the Bridges of Madison County. The Latin American Boom features, I think most would say, a more impressive list of accomplishments than the Beat Generation. There's Toni Morrison's Beloved (while American, she'd be the only non-White person on the current list); Farid ud-din Attar's The Conference of the Birds; Keri Hulme's The Bone People; Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet...
PrinceEric
+1
Level 56
Feb 16, 2017
Stan and Jan Berenstain! :-D
Thorvald
+2
Level 73
Feb 21, 2017
The only non-European answers for this quiz that wouldn't be very obscure for the majority of the quiz-takers are, in my opinion, Ibn Battuta (medieval Arab traveller, author of the "Travels") and "Bhagavad Gita" (part of the Hindu epic "Mahabharata")
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
May 8, 2026
Replaced one question with Bhagavad Gita.
AmyD85
+1
Level 74
Aug 11, 2017
Love love love these ABC lit quizzes!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 8, 2019
I know you allready have bakerstreet. But (houndso of) baskerville world be s really nice one imo :) plus i like the one that asked for the scottish town that only appears once every 100 years
halpie
+3
Level 81
Aug 19, 2020
A plug for including James Baldwin when you update. Thanks!
ruftytufty2
+1
Level 59
Nov 16, 2025
For the Scottish village, I could only see a rain dirty valley
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