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What Years Were These Books Written?

Type the year that these books were written in. You can be off by 10 years in either direction. A mistake costs you one of five precious lives, so guess wisely!
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Book
Author
Year
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
2011
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
1953
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
1960
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
1862
1984
George Orwell
1949
Treasure Island
Robert Stevenson
1883
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
1952
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Book
Author
Year
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
1937
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
1954
Dracula
Bram Stoker
1897
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
1900
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
1851
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
1951
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
2003
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1818
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6 Comments
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Level 75
Nov 25, 2025
Let me know if you think the range should be extended
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Level 88
Nov 25, 2025
The range is broken on some of these. 1940 works for Catcher in the Rye which is 1951. 2010 doesn't work for The Da Vinci Code which is 2003.
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Level 83
Nov 25, 2025
I think a range of ten is fine. Only the 1800s books are slightly tricky but it’s fair. Great selection of books, by the way, nommed.
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Level 61
Nov 25, 2025
Nice one! 1984 was the one that tripped me up.
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Level 73
Nov 25, 2025
Wonderful! I seem to only have a very vague idea about when most 18-19th century writers lived.
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Level 67
Nov 28, 2025
Very good, the range is fine. Thank you