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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
1
Miguel De Cervantes
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
2
Gustave Flaubert
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
3
Joseph Heller
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
4
Charles Dickens
Harry Potter (Jk Rowling)
Harry Potter
5
Jk Rowling
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
6
George Orwell
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
7
Franz Kafka
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
8
Robert A. Heinlein
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
The Pickwick Papers
9
Charles Dickens
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass
10
Lewis Carroll
Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon
11
The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
The Taming of the Shrew
12
William Shakespeare
The Gremlins (Roald Dahl)
The Gremlins
13
Roald Dahl
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo
14
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carré)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
15
John Le Carré
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
16
William Gibson
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
17
John Milton
R.U.R. (Karel Čapek)
R.U.R.
18
Karel Čapek
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker)
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
19
Dorothy Parker
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
20
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
21
James Joyce
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
22
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
23
J.R.R.Tolkien
Christine (Stephen King)
Christine
24
Stephen King
Marilyn (Norman Mailer)
Marilyn
25
Norman Mailer
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
26
Charles Dickens
Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)
Pollyanna
27
Eleanor H. Porter
Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
Generation X
28
Douglas Coupland
Cabbages and Kings (O. Henry)
Cabbages and Kings
29
O. Henry
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
30
Edmund Spenser
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
31
Anthony Burgess
The Birds
The Birds
32
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