| Year | Author | Hint | Title | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Stephen King | Children in Derry face a shape-shifting terror. | It | 94%
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| 1965 | Frank Herbert | Noble houses, spice, sandworms, Arrakis | Dune | 89%
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| 1974 | Peter Benchley | A great white shark terrorizes Amity Island. | Jaws | 89%
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| 1808 | Goethe | A scholar makes a bargain with Mephistopheles. | Faust | 78%
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| 1901 | Rudyard Kipling | An orphaned Irish boy moves through British India’s Great Game. | Kim | 67%
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| 2010 | Emma Donoghue | A mother and young son are imprisoned in an 11'x11' shed. | Room | 67%
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| 1998 | Louis Sachar | Boys at Camp Green Lake dig every day in a dry lakebed. | Holes | 56%
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| 1956 | Allen Ginsburg | A landmark Beat poem about a ruined, ecstatic generation. | Howl | 50%
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| 1973 | J.G. Ballard | Transgressive novel about desire, technology, and car wrecks | Crash | 44%
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| 1987 | Michael Crichton | Underwater first-contact thriller about a mysterious metallic orb | Sphere | 44%
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| 1958 | Elie Wiesel | A Holocaust memoir centered on Auschwitz and Buchenwald. | Night | 39%
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| 1887 | H. Rider Haggard | Victorian adventure featuring Ayesha, an immortal queen. | She | 39%
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| 2001 | Chuck Palahniuk | A sex addict scams restaurant patrons by pretending to suffocate. | Choke | 33%
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| 1963 | Thomas Pynchon | Follows Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil’s obsessive hunt | V. | 28%
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| 1969 | Joyce Carol Oates | National Book Award novel about a struggling Detroit family | them | 17%
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| 1924 | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Dystopia with numbered citizens living under glass walls | We | 17%
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