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Even English majors won't get them all. Can you guess the authors of these well-known books?
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First submittedJanuary 19, 2010
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Book
Author
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Beloved
Toni Morrison
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka / Ovid
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Candide
Voltaire
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Dune
Frank Herbert
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24 Comments
theLAYTshow
+1
Level 41
Nov 15, 2011
Damn, spelt Rushdie wrong...
Nobody
+1
Level 15
May 17, 2012
forgot to fill in the Jack London one. *facepalm*
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Mar 23, 2013
22/24. Couldn't get Graves or Roth. I only knew Kesey, Wallace, Herbert, Morrison, and Plath because I'm in quiz bowl, and I'm pretty surprised I remembered Herbert.
CorkSpork
+1
Level 71
Mar 25, 2013
Spelled it Wolfe. Didn't think to try Woolf. (second the facepalm)
Yankee
+2
Level 50
Apr 1, 2013
I got 23 on my first try, thanks to helpful comments. Thanks everybody.

I got Twain, Tolkien, Dahl, Lee, London, Capote, Austin, and Milton by myself.

stone222
+3
Level 47
Oct 10, 2018
does that mean you read the comments before actually doing the quiz????? how does that test your knowledge ??
IsleAuHaulte
+5
Level 92
Oct 17, 2019
You might just as well have gotten them all and thanked Google.
courthousedoc
+3
Level 79
Mar 26, 2014
For The Prince, I first put Saint-Exupery wondering why it didn't work. Then I remember it was asking about The Prince, not Le Petit Prince.
burntfrost
+2
Level 47
Apr 27, 2014
I, Claudius is one of my favorite books.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Oct 17, 2019
Goodbye To All That was his own excellent biography. To be fair he should have written it under the pen name Claudius.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Apr 8, 2015
I'm an English major. You were right.
samiamco
+2
Level 67
Jun 16, 2016
Wait. I thought you said you were a linguistics major?
EcceHomo
+10
Level 86
Dec 14, 2020
He says a lot of stuff.
beccimoo
+1
Level 55
Apr 8, 2015
Isn't it terrible that 'Cuckoo's Nest' is so universally well known, and yet Ken Kesey is not a familiar name at all. That's Hollywood for ya!
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Oct 17, 2019
He was a very well known and influential figure of the '60s.
eric29cocoanuts
+1
Level 75
Apr 8, 2015
It really bothers me when my average for a quiz shows that on previous attempts I missed certain answers that I could never get wrong, and credits me for others I've never heard of. My results here show that I previously missed Tolkien, Twain, Capote, etc., which is NOT possible. It also shows that last time I correctly answered Morrison, Graves, Marquez, etc., which is also not possible. Seems to happen to me a lot, and there is little point in having cumulative scores if they are meaningless.
Algernon
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Level 74
Aug 5, 2016
Probably too much time on this quiz. You could cut a minute off it, easily. I got 16 fairly quickly, but the others i had no idea about. Four of them i've never heard of, the other four I wasn't too likely to guess given the sheer volume of authors out there.
Findlay
+1
Level 80
Sep 12, 2016
I've actually never read 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. My familiarity with Kesey largely comes from Tom Wolfe's 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', which is a fantastic work of New Journalism on the '60s counter-culture, following Kesey and his 'Merry Pranksters' around America as they ingest startling quantities of LSD.
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 74
Jun 8, 2017
I only got five, :/ but I'm really surprised all of them are among the less guessed ones: Rushdie, Kafka, Tolkien, Dante, Dahl.
Sibawayh
+2
Level 45
Jun 21, 2018
I'm really surprised that more people have heard of Salman Rusdhie than they have Roald Dahl.
stone222
+1
Level 47
Oct 10, 2018
yes, but no-one put a contract out on Dahl... that's one reason Rushdie got to be well-known
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Oct 17, 2019
I'm very surprised Capote didn't get me credit for To Kill A Mockingbird too.
Cordelia75
+4
Level 55
May 21, 2022
Why? The mysogynistic fable that Capote wrote/heavily contributed to Mockingbird has been thoroughly debunked.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244492

HinesBrothers
+3
Level 78
Apr 7, 2020
How do only 58% get Twain?
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