You'd be fine (I think at least one of the contestants did that as well). They aren't picky about articles unless there's another work with a similar title but a different leading article. (The classic example being Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man versus HG Wells' The Invisible Man.)
Now, I'm wondering contestants would…

I love Middlemarch with all my heart, and I think that as you meet other characters you'll enjoy it more. But the writing style is extremely consistent so if you're not feeling it, I wouldn't blame you for cutting your losses.

Just finished The Martian (okay, but not for me) and get to pick up Everything I Never Told You at the library tonight. Also reading Rebel Yell, the biography of Stonewall Jackson, which is more of a military history of the Civil War than a biography proper (at least so far). Not sure I'm motivated enough to race…

Was it the one who kept going back to the video category even though there was another whole category left on the board?

It's odd, but at least for this one, they're asking for the same kind of things. If you know one auction house, you're likely to know multiple auction houses. Pulling from different spheres of knowledge like the Blatt/Brat one is just bad form.

Patricia threw an ENORMOUS amount of shade at Allison when she picked up a clue Allison had missed - I can't remember what it was but there was over-enunciation of the correct answer, plus a look at Allison to make sure she got it.

I was surprised one of the players didn't say it (believe it's also set in Iowa), but I got the impression that literature and theater were not strong categories for them.

Aw, Carrie! I'll miss these. It was always nice to have this little corner of the Internet where SAB was not just appreciated in footnotes, but discussed regularly and openly. It always gets mentioned in a "Huh, this show on ABCF is not that bad" statement, but I haven't found anywhere other than the AV Club where…

Jay S., did you run the classic game shows category? I was excited for you when I saw it.

Think music plays after "If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be wed…"

It asked for "this university," though you could tell that threw them off when Wharton was ruled incorrect.

Haven't ever seen the movie, and I'm oblivious to the "never been born" line parodies that apparently exist. I put Macbeth for final just to have something.

Timekeeping dept: Second day in a row that a Daily Double has been left on the board, and slogging through that Movie Man category was torture. Was she thinking there was a Daily Double? Had she precalled a movie and was expecting it to come up? Was she prematurely running out the clock because of her lead?
Also…

I confess to having my suspension of disbelief tested during the recent Brooklyn 9-9 episode where Jake and Amy try to figure out why "I am the captain now" sounds so familiar.
Given the triple-stumper on Captain Phillips last night, it looks like they probably couldn't have remembered it even if you paid them $400, so…

Any way she said "And I was in spelling club last year," given her interview? Doesn't quite fit phonetically though.

I know this is mean, but I definitely thought the kid who put Queen Elizabeth, no II, would be marked wrong.
Those kids jumped categories like no one's business. Though the fact that they did it without picking up several $1000 clues in the first round makes me think that they weren't DD-hunting or Forrest Bouncing,…

I had surprisingly good luck with the first board (4/5 on Channing Tatum…then again I'm not really J! contestant material). Tyre was a rough final, and I ended up writing it down and then pausing the game to see if I could come up with with 4 other cities and/or a better answer. Ended up missing Windsor, but it didn't…

Me too! It's kind of up there with Timon of Athens in Shakespeare Plays We'd Rather Not Existed. Also, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, it was co-authored, which further explains its unpopularity.

I expected the cut to Trebek during the "my ex-man", but the Japinga shot was a welcome surprise!

I thought the first round felt a lot like College Jeopardy!, between the pop music category and the website category. Just a lot of "what's cool right now" instead of trivia chestnuts.
And I'm a big fan of Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers; I'm glad the writers are too. I thought those clues were a lot harder than…