Writer's Bloc
By Chris Morse

Each of these is a title of a famous work of literature, with only the
first occurrence of each letter shown in the string.  The number
indexes the full title and tells you the letter you want.  If you
order the books alphabetically by surname, you get the following
message:

Bears, Cubs and Bulls location

Answer: CHICAGO

Here is the sorted version of the list:

The Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood - B
Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen - E
The Martian Chronicles -- Ray Bradbury - A
A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess - R
Ten Little Indians -- Agatha Christie- S
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K Dick - C
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave Eggers - U
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald - B
The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Graham - S
The Testament -- John Grisham - A
The Return of the Native -- Thomas Hardy - N
The Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James - D
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee - B
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers - U
How the Other Half Lives -- Jacob Riis - L
Where the Wild Things Are -- Maurice Sendak - L
The Winter of Our Discontent -- John Steinbeck - S
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - L
The Two Towers  - J. R.R. Tolkien - O
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole - C
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - A
Rabbit at Rest -- John Updike -- T
The Sirens of Titan -- Kurt Vonnegut - I
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe - O
A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn - N