1. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was based on his childhood exposure to chocolate companies such as Cadbury and Rowntree. As a schoolboy he watched them having contests and enforcing strict ...

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain From this celebrated story of childhood adventure, we get a hybrid game of social engineering and extreme whitewater rafting. Half the game is Mass Effect-style dialogue trees: Pick the right option and you’ll convince the neighborhood kids to ...

1. “Bump” first appeared in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare coined a ridiculous number of words, actually, although some historians and linguists think certain words just get attributed to Shakespeare even if he didn’t really invent them. 2. “Runcible spoon” was created ...

Winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jin is known for spare and elegant stories about Chinese culture. His latest novel, " A Free Life, " is an epic tale of immigrants in America. ...