Matching Game: Books and Authors

Flip two cards at a time and match each book to its author. Every card says whether it is a Book or an Author, and a pair is always one of each. The game counts a mistake when you miss a match on a card you have already seen.

How to remember who wrote what#

Link each book to its author with a mental image. For Dracula and Bram Stoker, you might picture a vampire stoking a furnace. The stranger the picture, the easier it is to recall. See how to create mnemonic images for more ways to build them.

To remember where each card is, give every position on the board a place in a memory palace, and walk back through the palace when you need to find a partner.

Try a bigger board#

Every game deals a different set of books, so play again to meet new ones. No author appears twice on a board, even when the deck holds two of their books. Once you can clear a small board with only a few mistakes, move up a size.

Practice as flashcards#

The Books and Authors deck on How to Get Better at Trivia asks about the same facts one card at a time, with a memory hook on every card, and sorts them into boxes as you learn.

Try another matching game or see all of our free memory games.