| Year | Author | Book | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | 91%
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| 2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | 80%
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| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | 77%
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| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | 75%
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| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | 73%
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| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | 70%
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| 1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | 66%
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| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | 64%
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| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | 57%
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| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | 57%
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| 1999 | J.M. Coetzee | Disgrace | 55%
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| 1990 | A.S. Byatt | Possession | 55%
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| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | 55%
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| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea | 55%
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| 2017 | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo | 52%
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| 2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | 52%
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| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | 52%
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| 1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | 50%
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| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | 50%
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| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | 48%
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| 2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout | 41%
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| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | 41%
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| 2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | 39%
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| 2015 | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | 36%
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| 1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | 36%
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| 1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | 36%
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| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | 36%
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| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | 34%
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| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | 32%
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| 1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders | 32%
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| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | 32%
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| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | 30%
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| 1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | 30%
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| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | 27%
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| 2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | 27%
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| 1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage | 20%
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| 1972 | John Berger | G. | 18%
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| 1992 | Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | 18%
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| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | 18%
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| 1971 | V.S. Naipaul | In a Free State | 16%
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| 1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | 16%
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| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | 16%
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| 1970 | J.G. Farrell | Troubles | 16%
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| 1974 | Stanley Middleton | Holiday | 14%
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| 1983 | J.M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | 14%
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| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | 14%
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| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On | 14%
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| 1976 | David Storey | Saville | 11%
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| 1973 | J.G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | 11%
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| 1969 | P.H. Newby | Something to Answer For | 5%
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| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | 5%
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| 1994 | James Kelman | How Late Is Was, How Late | 0%
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