| Year | Author | Work | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 94%
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| 1960 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 92%
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| 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 82%
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| 1982 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 75%
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| 1947 | Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire | 74%
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| 1952 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 72%
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| 1937 | Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | 52%
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| 1955 | Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 49%
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| 1936 | William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom! | 48%
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| 1929 | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury | 48%
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| 1930 | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | 42%
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| 1946 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men | 38%
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| 1940 | Richard Wright | Native Son | 38%
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| 1899 | Kate Chopin | The Awakening | 35%
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| 1945 | Richard Wright | Black Boy | 14%
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