150* 'Greatest books' by author - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1984	George Orwell	97%
Animal Farm	George Orwell	95%
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	95%
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	95%
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	94%
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	94%
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	91%
The Iliad	Homer	90%
The Odyssey	Homer	88%
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	88%
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	88%
Wuthering heights	Emily Bronte	87%
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	87%
Ulysses	James Joyce	87%
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	85%
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	85%
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	85%
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	84%
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	83%
Dracula	Bram Stoker	83%
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	82%
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	82%
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	82%
Moby-dick	Herman Melville	82%
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	80%
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	80%
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	80%
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	80%
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	80%
Emma	Jane Austen	79%
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	79%
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	78%
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	78%
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	76%
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	74%
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	74%
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	71%
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	71%
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	71%
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	71%
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	70%
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	70%
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	70%
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	68%
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	66%
The Trial	Franz Kafka	65%
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	65%
The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	65%
Candide	Voltaire	63%
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	63%
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	62%
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	61%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	60%
Dune	Frank Herbert	60%
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	60%
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	60%
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	60%
Beloved	Toni Morrison	59%
Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	59%
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	58%
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	58%
The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	56%
Middlemarch	George Eliot	56%
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	56%
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	56%
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	55%
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	55%
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	54%
Paradise Lost	John Milton	54%
The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud	54%
The Aeneid	Virgil	54%
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	52%
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	52%
The Castle	Franz Kafka	51%
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	50%
The Stranger	Albert Camus	49%
Bleak House	Charles Dickens	49%
Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	49%
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	48%
Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett	48%
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	48%
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	47%
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	46%
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	45%
Orlando	Virginia Woolf	43%
Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray	43%
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	42%
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	41%
Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	40%
Charlotte's Web	E. B. White	40%
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	40%
The Tin Drum	Günter Grass	39%
The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	38%
Absalom, Absalom!	William Faulkner	38%
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	36%
Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	34%
Steppenwolf	Hermann Hesse	33%
Oedipus the King	Sophocles	33%
The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	33%
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	32%
The Red and the Black	Stendhal	32%
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	32%
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann	31%
Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	30%
A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	29%
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	29%
Rabbit, Run	John Updike	28%
Demons	Fyodor Dostoevsky	27%
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	27%
A Passage to India	E. M. Forster	26%
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith	25%
Howards End	E. M. Forster	22%
Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	21%
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	20%
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	20%
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	19%
Fictions	Jorge Luis Borges	17%
The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	17%
The Charterhouse of Parma	Stendhal	17%
The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	15%
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	14%
Doctor Faustus	Thomas Mann	14%
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	14%
The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	13%
A Sentimental Education	Gustave Flaubert	13%
he Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy	Laurence Sterne	13%
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	13%
Dead Souls	Nikolai Gogol	13%
Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	12%
Native Son	Richard Wright	11%
The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler	10%
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	8%
Journey to the End of The Night	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	8%
The Leopard	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	7%
The Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	7%
Pedro Páramo	Juan Rulfo	5%
The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford	4%
Essays	Michel de Montaigne	4%
Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry	3%
Memoirs of Hadrian	Marguerite Yourcenar	2%
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	2%
The Golden Notebook	Doris May Lessing	0%

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