| Year | Hint | Novel | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Paranoia spirals in WWII Europe as a quest for V-2 rocket launch sites becomes an epic of entropy. | Gravity's Rainbow | 90%
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| 2009 | A stoner detective stumbles through drug deals, ex-girlfriends, and missing persons in psychedelic L.A. | Inherent Vice | 90%
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| 1963 | A mysterious woman (or code?) pulls a discharged sailor across continents in a fragmented modernist puzzle. | V. | 90%
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| 1997 | Two eccentric astronomers chart the stars, and America’s fate, along a boundary line in the 18th century. | Mason & Dixon | 86%
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| 1966 | A California woman unravels a secret underground postal system after being named executor of an estate. | The Crying of Lot 49 | 86%
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| 1990 | A DEA raid, old counterculture flames, and a daughter's search for her vanished mother in Reagan-era California. | Vineland | 81%
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| 2006 | Time-traveling anarchists, airships, and secret mathematics collide in a globe-spanning pre-WWI saga. | Against the Day | 67%
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| 2025 | Private investigator Hicks McTaggart is hired to locate a runaway heiress from a Wisconsin cheese fortune. | Shadow Ticket | 62%
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| 2013 | Dot-com boom, cybercrime, and 9/11 paranoia blur together as a fraud investigator goes deep into the Deep Web. | Bleeding Edge | 57%
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