Hard books and literature word search
Austen, Chaucer and Kafka next to the sonnet, the epic and the metaphor. Twenty-eight words for well-read puzzlers, hidden in all eight directions of an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards included.
- Alliteration
- Austen
- Book club
- Brontë
- Cervantes
- Chaucer
- Dante
- Dickens
- Epic
- Epilogue
- Giller Prize
- Hemingway
- Homer
- Kafka
- Limerick
- Manuscript
- Metaphor
- Narrator
- Novella
- Orwell
- Prologue
- Satire
- Shakespeare
- Sonnet
- Tolkien
- Tolstoy
- Tragedy
- Woolf
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionBooks and literature, extra hard
Name
| Y | A | O | H | O | M | E | R | O | H | A | P | P | A | E | O | N | P |
| S | D | K | O | F | R | G | I | L | L | E | R | P | R | I | Z | E | E |
| I | H | Y | D | V | U | W | M | L | O | P | U | E | A | P | N | T | L |
| C | H | A | U | C | E | R | E | E | I | T | U | G | T | P | N | S | L |
| N | L | W | K | M | N | V | X | L | T | V | R | H | O | A | T | U | O |
| T | G | G | H | E | O | U | K | N | L | A | I | A | D | L | E | A | C |
| O | R | N | R | N | S | A | L | O | T | M | P | N | G | I | O | O | C |
| L | R | I | O | I | F | P | E | I | M | T | S | H | F | E | T | R | I |
| S | M | M | T | K | T | B | E | T | G | O | N | R | O | V | D | L | P |
| T | O | E | A | S | E | T | N | A | V | R | E | C | O | R | B | Y | E |
| O | N | H | R | G | O | I | T | R | R | T | K | S | P | B | E | A | S |
| Y | H | I | R | S | O | N | N | E | T | E | C | C | S | U | W | T | T |
| N | T | L | A | T | E | R | I | T | A | S | I | F | S | L | O | O | T |
| E | M | A | N | U | S | C | R | I | P | T | D | K | D | C | O | L | E |
| O | L | A | A | E | U | G | O | L | I | P | E | A | G | K | L | K | A |
| T | K | C | I | R | E | M | I | L | U | L | S | D | H | O | F | I | U |
| I | A | U | T | W | L | F | M | A | W | E | N | A | S | O | L | E | C |
| T | E | T | N | O | R | B | Y | E | E | T | E | E | T | B | H | N | N |
Find these words
- Alliteration
- Austen
- Book club
- Brontë
- Cervantes
- Chaucer
- Dante
- Dickens
- Epic
- Epilogue
- Giller Prize
- Hemingway
- Homer
- Kafka
- Limerick
- Manuscript
- Metaphor
- Narrator
- Novella
- Orwell
- Prologue
- Satire
- Shakespeare
- Sonnet
- Tolkien
- Tolstoy
- Tragedy
- Woolf
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About this word search
The Giller Prize has been one of Canada's major fiction awards since 1994, founded in memory of the literary journalist Doris Giller. It shares this list with Shakespeare, Austen and Tolstoy. Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, a detail that surprises many readers.
Words run in every direction on this large sheet, reversed ones included. ALLITERATION and SHAKESPEARE are long, and BOOKCLUB and GILLERPRIZE appear without spaces. Homer, Dante and Woolf are short, and the Z in GILLERPRIZE and the K in KAFKA are rare letters worth looking for.
A book club can pair each author with a novel members have read and keep a list of the gaps for next year.
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