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Books That Invented Words We Still Use Today

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Quixotic : Don Quixote
Bovarism : Madame Bovary
Catch-22 : Catch-22
Jaundice, boredom : Bleak House
Muggle : Harry Potter series
Orwellian, Big Brother, doublethink, thought police : 1984
Kafkaesque : The Trial
Grok : Stranger in a Strange Land
Pickwickian, butterfingers : Pickwick Papes
Chortle, portmanteau : Through the Looking Glass
Cojones : Death in the Afternoon
Eyesore : The Taming of the Shrew
Gremlin : The Gremlins
Nerd : If I Ran the Zoo
Honey trap : Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Cyberspace, microsoft : Neuromancer
Pandemonium : Paradise Lost
Robot : R.U.R.
Scaredy-cat : "The Waltz"
Shotgun wedding : Elmer Gantry
Quark : Finnegans Wake
Hobbit, halfling : The Hobbit
Tween : The Lord of the Rings
Cake-hole : Christine
Factoid : Marilyn: A Biography
Scrooge : A Christmas Carol
Pollyanna : Pollyanna
McJob : Generation X
Banana Republic : Cabbages and Kings
Blatant : The Faerie Queen
Droog : A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Cuckoo Land : The Birds
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
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Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
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Harry Potter (Jk Rowling)
Harry Potter
Jk Rowling
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
George Orwell
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
Franz Kafka
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
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Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
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Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon
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The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
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The Gremlins (Roald Dahl)
The Gremlins
Roald Dahl
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If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carré)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carré
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Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
William Gibson
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
John Milton
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R.U.R. (Karel Čapek)
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
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Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker)
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
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Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
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The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R.Tolkien
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Christine (Stephen King)
Christine
Stephen King
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Marilyn (Norman Mailer)
Marilyn
Norman Mailer
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
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Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
Generation X
Douglas Coupland
29
Cabbages and Kings (O. Henry)
Cabbages and Kings
O. Henry
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The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
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The Birds
The Birds
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