1. Last of the Mohicans
2. William Golding
3. The Luminaries (thelum in Aries)
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. The Age of Innocence (t-heague-of in No-Cence)
6. Mark Twain
7. Upton Sinclair (Up to N – S in Clair)
8. The Blind Assassin (these are all assassins and the arrow points to Sirhan Sirhan with no i’s)
9. A Series of Unfortunate Events (this uses the mathematical symbol/formulation for indicating a series)
So the three groups of three are:
Last of the Mohicans; The Age of Innocence; Upton Sinclair – the link is the movie ‘There Will Be Blood’ because Daniel Day Lewis appeared in the movie versions of these first two books; There Will Be Blood is based on Oil by Upton Sinclair
William Golding; The Luminaries; The Blind Assassin – all won the Booker prize
The Grapes of Wrath; A Series of Unfortunate Events; Mark Twain – the link is fruit: grapes, Lemon-y Snicket (writer of A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain’s famous creation)
OK, I agree I made this one a bit too (much too) hard.