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Authors by debut book
Order these authors by the year their first book was published. Place all 24 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.
24
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3
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release years and dates
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How Authors by debut book is played
Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.
This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.
What's in the deck
24 of the 24 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
- Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Poor Folk
- Leo Tolstoy Childhood
- Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad
- Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
- H.G. Wells The Time Machine
- Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
- F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
- Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
- George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
- Ray Bradbury Dark Carnival
- Isaac Asimov Pebble in the Sky
- Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano
- Gabriel García Márquez Leaf Storm
- Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper
- Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman
- Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
- Stephen King Carrie
- Haruki Murakami Hear the Wind Sing
- J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Zadie Smith White Teeth
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