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How to Play LitLinks

Never played the New York Times' Connections? No worries. I got you.

1. Make four (4) groups of exactly four (4) items that have something in common.
   Pick four items & hit SUBMIT!
   You get four (4) tries. Real life is not so generous.
2. There are three types of puzzles: Author, Title, and Content. These types will never be mixed: A puzzle will be either only authors, only titles, or only content basd on books.
Category examples:

• AUSTEN NOVELS: Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice
• LATIN AMERICAN MAGICAL REALISTS: Borges, Garcia Márquez, Rulfo,Allende


3. The categories will be extremely specific.
   Yes, even if it is technically true that a given set of four (4) items technically "are words" or "refer to carbon-based life forms, probably."
   
   
4. Not content with merely flexing our literary prowess, we also color-coded this by difficulty (hey, it's better than the time we arranged our bookcases chronologically).
   The groups will be revealed as you solve. We have helpfully correlated each color to a book whose reading experience provides an approximately comparable challenge:
   🟧 Dick and Jane
   🟩 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Sorcerer's Stone
   🟦 Beloved
   🟪 Finnegan's Wake