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Line Book Title or Author % Correct
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. R*wling)
91%
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
89%
It was a pleasure to burn. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
86%
Call me Ishmael Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
86%
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Romeo & Juliet (William Shakespeare)
83%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 (George Orwell)
74%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
60%
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
57%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
51%
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
46%
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. Holes (Louis Sachar)
31%
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
31%
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
29%
I'd never given much thought to how I would die-- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months-- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. Twilight: Book 1 (Stephenie Meyer)
29%
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
26%
All this happened, more or less. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
20%
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
20%
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
14%
I'm pretty much fucked. The Martian (Andy Weir)
9%
When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of three Tides. Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
3%
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