Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time - Statistics

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no.	Author	Answer	% Correct
2	George Orwell	1984	96%
1	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	91%
3	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	89%
20	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	83%
21	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	74%
8	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	74%
7	Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	72%
58	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	71%
5	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	69%
6	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	69%
16	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	69%
38	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	68%
29	James Joyce	Ulysses	65%
22	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Don Quixote	64%
9	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	64%
11	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	63%
4	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	63%
13	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	60%
18	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	60%
19	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	56%
15	Joseph Heller	Catch-22	53%
10	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	49%
28	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	48%
12	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	47%
24	Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories	46%
14	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	44%
17	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five	43%
32	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	39%
76	Albert Camus	The Stranger	39%
30	Voltaire	Candide	37%
34	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	34%
78	Thomas Pynchon	V.	33%
23	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	32%
27	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	32%
33	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	32%
51	George Eliot	Middlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton	30%
26	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	27%
53	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	27%
36	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	26%
25	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	25%
37	Albert Camus	The Plague	23%
40	Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart	23%
49	D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	21%
35	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	21%
42	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	20%
52	Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	20%
41	Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	19%
31	Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	19%
48	David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	18%
61	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	16%
65	Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest	16%
43	John Kennedy Toole	A Confederacy of Dunces	15%
87	James Joyce	Finnegans Wake	15%
56	Günter Grass	The Tin Drum	15%
47	Cormac McCarthy	Blood Meridian	14%
45	Robert Graves	I, Claudius	14%
50	Willa Cather	My Ántonia	12%
60	Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	12%
64	Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	12%
62	Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls	11%
46	Kate Chopin	The Awakening	11%
39	Carson McCullers	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	11%
55	Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men	10%
44	José Saramago	Blindness	10%
63	Henry Fielding	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	10%
97	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex	9%
98	Richard Wright	Native Son	8%
59	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	8%
66	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	8%
70	Theodore Dreiser	An American Tragedy	7%
72	Willa Cather	Death Comes for the Archbishop	7%
57	Jorge Luis Borges	Ficciones	7%
54	William Faulkner	Light in August	6%
82	Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano	6%
81	George Eliot	Adam Bede	5%
67	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Cancer Ward	5%
69	Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	5%
68	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead	5%
83	Toni Morrison	Jazz	5%
71	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	5%
79	John Galsworthy	The Forsyte Saga	5%
85	Murasaki Shikibu	The Tale of Genji	5%
77	V.S. Naipaul	A House for Mr Biswas	4%
74	Lawrence Durrell	The Alexandria Quartet	4%
88	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	4%
91	Vasily Grossman	Life and Fate	3%
92	Thomas Pynchon	Mason & Dixon	3%
95	John Dos Passos	1919	2%
93	Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift	2%
94	William Gaddis	JR	2%
75	Honoré de Balzac	Lost Illusions	2%
73	John Updike	Rabbit Angstrom	2%
96	Hermann Broch	The Death of Virgil	2%
89	William Gaddis	The Recognitions	2%
86	Émile Zola	Therese Raquin	2%
84	John Barth	The Sot-Weed Factor	2%
99	William H. Gass	The Tunnel	2%
80	Richard Russo	Bridge of Sighs	1%
100	Alexander Theroux	Darconville's Cat	1%
90	Graham Greene	The Tenth Man	1%

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