| Year | Author | Hint | Novel | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1869 | Leo Tolstoy | Napoleon invades Russia in this sweeping epic. | War and Peace | 94%
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| 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Southern belle faces war and survival during the Civil War. | Gone with the Wind | 86%
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| 1954 | William Golding | Stranded boys descend into savagery after a wartime crash. | Lord of the Flies | 83%
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| 1929 | Erich Maria Remarque | German soldier experiences the horrors of WWI. | All Quiet on the Western Front | 74%
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| 1961 | Joseph Heller | A WWII bombardier trapped in an absurd cycle of logic | Catch-22 | 66%
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| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | A disfigured spy relives romance and trauma in WWII’s final days. | The English Patient | 63%
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| 1979 | William Styron | Holocaust trauma, secrets, and a mother’s impossible decision | Sophie’s Choice | 60%
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| 1895 | Stephen Crane | A Union soldier confronts cowardice in the Civil War. | The Red Badge of Courage | 57%
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| 1984 | J.G. Ballard | A boy survives in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. | Empire of the Sun | 49%
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| 1969 | Kurt Vonnegut | Satirical sci-fi tale of a soldier reliving the bombing of Dresden | Slaughterhouse-Five | 49%
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| 1940 | Ernest Hemingway | American in Spanish Civil War faces sacrifice and loss. | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 46%
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| 1929 | Ernest Hemingway | Ambulance driver falls in love during WWI. | A Farewell to Arms | 40%
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| 1997 | Charles Frazier | Confederate deserter journeys home through war-torn America. | Cold Mountain | 40%
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| 1956 | Elie Wiesel | A harrowing memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a teenager. | Night | 29%
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| 2005 | Markus Zusak | A young girl’s life in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death | The Book Thief | 29%
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| 1939 | Dalton Trumbo | WWI veteran awakens as blind, deaf, and limbless. | Johnny Got His Gun | 17%
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| 1955 | Graham Greene | An idealist is sent to Saigon, where France fights guerillas. | The Quiet American | 14%
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| 1948 | Norman Mailer | U.S. troops invade a South Pacific island during WWII. | The Naked and the Dead | 11%
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