Top 100 Books Everyone Should Read - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
George Orwell (1949) 1984
90%
Jane Austen (1813) Pride and Prejudice
87%
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) The Great Gatsby
83%
J. R. R. Tolkien (1954) The Lord of the Rings
82%
Lewis Carroll (1865) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
81%
Mary Shelley (1818) Frankenstein
81%
Emily Brontë (1847) Wuthering Heights
79%
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) Crime and Punishment
76%
Harper Lee (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird
76%
Vladimir Nabokov (1955) Lolita
75%
Herman Melville (1851) Moby Dick
75%
J.D. Salinger (1945) The Catcher in the Rye
75%
Miguel de Cervantes (1605) Don Quixote
73%
John Steinbeck (1939) The Grapes of Wrath
72%
Victor Hugo (1862) Les Miserables
70%
Margaret Atwood (1985) The Handmaid's Tale
70%
Charlotte Bronte (1847) Jane Eyre
67%
Leo Tolstoy (1878) Anna Karenina
66%
Mark Twain (1884) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
65%
James Joyce (1922) Ulysses
65%
Joseph Conrad (1899) Heart of Darkness
64%
Joseph Heller (1961) Catch-22
61%
Alexandre Dumas (1844) The Three Musketeers
60%
Jonathan Swift (1726) Gulliver's Travels
59%
Douglas Adams (1979) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
59%
Daniel Defoe (1719) Robinson Crusoe
57%
Albert Camus (1946) The Stranger
57%
Jack Kerouac (1957) On the Road
56%
Gustave Flaubert (1856) Madame Bovary
55%
Toni Morrison (1987) Beloved
53%
George Eliot (1871-72) Middlemarch
53%
H.G. Wells (1898) The War of the Worlds
50%
Ian McEwan (2001) Atonement
48%
Charles Dickens (1849) David Copperfield
48%
Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) The Hound of the Baskervilles
48%
Franz Kafka (1925) The Trial
44%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) One Hundred Years of Solitude
43%
Chinua Achebe (1958) Things Fall Apart
42%
Salman Rushdie (1981) Midnight's Children
41%
Umberto Eco (1980) The Name of the Rose
41%
Virginia Woolf (1925) Mrs. Dalloway
39%
Erich Maria Remarque (1929) All Quiet on the Western Front
37%
E. M. Forster (1924) A Passage to India
36%
Boris Pasternak (1957) Doctor Zhivago
36%
Thomas Hardy (1891) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
34%
John le Carré (1974) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
33%
Marcel Proust (1913) In Search of Lost Time
32%
John Updike (1960) Rabbit, Run
31%
Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
29%
Stendhal (1830) The Red and the Black
27%
Henry Fielding (1749) Tom Jones
27%
Middle Eastern Folk Tales - English Publication (1706-1721) Arabian Nights
26%
Kingsley Amis (1954) Lucky Jim
26%
Jean Paul Sarte (1938) Nausea
26%
Wilkie Collins (1868) The Moonstone
26%
Günter Grass (1959) The Tin Drum
26%
Milan Kundera (1984) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
26%
Jean Rhys (1966) Wide Sargasso Sea
25%
Raymond Chandler (1939) The Big Sleep
24%
Émile Zola (1885) Germinal
23%
Laurie Lee (1959) Cider with Rosie
21%
Stella Gibbons (1932) Cold Comfort Farm
21%
James Baldwin (1953) Go Tell It on the Mountain
21%
Doris Lessing (1962) The Golden Notebook
21%
Henry James (1881) The Portrait of a Lady
21%
Muriel Spark (1961) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
21%
Laurence Sterne (1759) Tristram Shandy
20%
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958) The Leopard
19%
Edith Wharton (1905) The House of Mirth
17%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774) The Sorrows of Young Werther
17%
Evelyn Waugh (1938) Scoop
16%
John Updike (1990) Rabbit at Rest
15%
V. S. Naipul (1979) A Bend in the River
14%
Italo Calvino (1979) If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
14%
John Updike (1971) Rabbit Redux
14%
Graham Greene (1938) Brighton Rock
13%
Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) Cranford
13%
Murasaki Shikibu (1008) The Tale of Genji
13%
Samuel Richardson (1748) Clarissa
12%
Alexander Pushkin (1833) Eugene Onegin
12%
J. G. Ballard (1973) Crash
11%
J M Coetzee (1999) Disgrace
11%
John Updike (1981) Rabbit is Rich
11%
Anthony Powell (1951-1975) A Dance to the Music of Time
10%
Honoré de Balzac (1835) Father Goriot
10%
Anthony Trollope (1855) The Warden
10%
Don DeLillo (1997) Underworld
10%
Martin Amis (1989) London Fields
9%
Irene Nemirovsky (2004) Suite Francaise
9%
Orhan Pamuk (1998) My Name is Red
8%
Peter Carey (1988) Oscar and Lucinda
8%
Iris Murdoch (1954) Under the Net
8%
W.G. Sebald (2001) Austerlitz
7%
Naguib Mahfouz (1957) Sugar Street
7%
Roberto Bolano (1998) The Savage Detectives
7%
Naguib Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire
6%
Naguib Mahfouz (1956) Palace Walk
6%
Hermann Hesse (1943) The Glass Bead Game
6%
Anne Tyler (1982) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
5%
P.G. Wodehouse (1938) The Code of the Woosters
5%
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1955) The Voyeur
5%
R. K. Narayan (1955) Waiting for the Mahatma
4%
Georges Perec (1978) Life: A User's Manual
2%
Rabindranath Tagore (1916) The Home and the World
2%
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