| Year | Hint | Author | Novel | % Correct |
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| 2001 | Stranded at sea with a tiger, faith and storytelling collide. | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | 91%
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| 2008 | In a dystopian society, teens fight to the death in a televised spectacle. | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | 83%
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| 2005 | A teenage girl falls in love with a vampire in a small Pacific Northwest town. | Stephenie Meyer | Twilight | 83%
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| 2003 | A symbologist uncovers hidden secrets tied to Christian history and art. | Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code | 81%
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| 2011 | A romance with erotic undertones that became a publishing phenomenon | E. L. James | 50 Shades of Grey | 71%
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| 2012 | Two teens with cancer fall in love and face mortality with wit and hope. | John Green | The Fault in Our Stars | 70%
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| 2011 | The continuing adventures of Starks and Lannisters and others...many others | George R.R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons | 67%
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| 2011 | An astronaut stranded on Mars must use science and ingenuity to survive. | Andy Weir | The Martian | 66%
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| 2003 | A boy’s betrayal in 1970s Kabul casts a lifelong shadow. | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | 63%
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| 2012 | A husband becomes prime suspect when his wife disappears on their anniversary. | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl | 55%
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| 2005 | A journalist and a hacker investigate a decades-old disappearance in Sweden. | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 55%
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| 2009 | In 1960s Mississippi, black maids and a white writer expose racial injustice. | Kathryn Stockett | The Help | 51%
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| 2006 | A father and son traverse a post‑apocalyptic America in search of safety. | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 47%
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| 2003 | A U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital on a remote island. | Dennis Lehane | Shutter Island | 46%
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| 2002 | A murdered girl watches from heaven as her family and killer’s life unfold. | Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones | 45%
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| 2010 | Told from the perspective of a young boy being held captive in a small room along with his mother | Emma Donoghue | Room | 42%
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| 2012 | A boy with facial differences begins attending mainstream school. | R. J. Palacio | Wonder | 42%
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| 2006 | A global oral history of humanity’s struggle against the zombie apocalypse | Max Brooks | World War Z | 34%
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| 2004 | Stories interlock over centuries, spanning multiple genres, as souls echo across time. | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | 28%
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| 2005 | Students at a boarding school discover their dark, predetermined purpose. | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | 23%
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| 2006 | A young vet marries into a traveling circus and faces danger, love, and survival. | Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants | 19%
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| 2009 | Psychedelic noir that follows a stoner detective unraveling a paranoid mystery in 1970s California | Thomas Pynchon | Inherent Vice | 15%
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