| Author | First published | Book | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Brontë | 1847 | Wuthering {Heights} | 90%
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| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1847 | Vanity {Fair} | 80%
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | Uncle Tom's {Cabin} | 78%
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| William Styron | 1979 | Sophie's {Choice} | 72%
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1879 | The {Brothers} Karamazov | 66%
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| D. H. Lawrence | 1928 | Lady Chatterley's {Lover} | 57%
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| Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | One Hundred Years of {Solitude} | 56%
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| Gustave Flaubert | 1856 | Madame {Bovary} | 54%
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| Amy Tan | 1989 | The Joy {Luck} Club | 45%
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| Unknown | 2100 B.C. | The {Epic} of Gilgamesh | 41%
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| H. G. Wells | 1896 | The {Island} of Doctor Moreau | 41%
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| Milan Kundera | 1984 | The Unbearable {Lightness} of Being | 40%
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| Thomas Mann | 1912 | {Death} in Venice | 38%
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| David Mitchell | 2004 | Cloud {Atlas} | 35%
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| Marcel Proust | 1913–1927 (series) | In Search of Lost {Time} | 31%
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| Jonathan Safran Foer | 2005 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly {Close} | 30%
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| John Kennedy Toole | 1980 | A Confederacy of {Dunces} | 29%
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| W. Somerset Maugham | 1915 | Of {Human} Bondage | 27%
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| Virginia Woolf | 1927 | To the {Lighthouse} | 25%
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| David Foster Wallace | 1996 | Infinite {Jest} | 24%
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| Pearl S. Buck | 1931 | The {Good} Earth | 24%
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| Raymond Chandler | 1939 | The Big {Sleep} | 23%
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| Voltaire | 1759 | {Candide}, ou l'Optimisme | 21%
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| Laurence Sterne | 1762 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram {Shandy}, Gentleman | 21%
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| Thomas Pynchon | 1973 | Gravity's {Rainbow} | 20%
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| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | The {Master} and Margarita | 19%
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| Kingsley Amis | 1954 | Lucky {Jim} | 18%
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| Edith Wharton | 1905 | The {House} of Mirth | 16%
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| Norman Mailer | 1948 | The {Naked} and the Dead | 12%
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| Junot Díaz | 2007 | The Brief Wondrous Life of {Oscar} Wao | 11%
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