| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bell Jar | 1963 | Sylvia Plath | 92%
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| The Fountainhead | 1943 | Ayn Rand | 81%
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| Siddhartha | 1922 (Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung) | Herman Hesse | 75%
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| The Autobiography of ________ _______ | 1791 (Benjamin Franklin, mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin écrits par lui-même, et adressés à son fils) (incomplete). The first two English language editions were translations from the French. A full, English language edition from original manuscripts was not published until 1818. | Benjamin Franklin | 65%
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| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 1940 | Carson McCullers | 61%
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| I, Claudius | 1934 | Robert Graves | 57%
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| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values | 1974 | Robert M. Pirsig | 47%
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | 1997 | Jared Diamond | 43%
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| White Noise | 1985 | Don DeLillo | 42%
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| The Fire Next Time | 1963 | James Baldwin | 40%
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| Molloy | 1951 | Samuel Beckett | 36%
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| The Sense of an Ending | 2011 | Julian Barnes | 29%
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| The Line of Beauty | 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | 27%
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| Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year | 1945 (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) | Carlo Levi | 27%
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| The Mismeasure of Man | 1981 | Stephen Jay Gould | 25%
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| Season of Migration to the North | 1966 (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال) | Al-Tayyib Salih | 22%
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| The Theory of the Leisure Class | 1899 | Thorstein Veblen | 19%
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| Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made | 1974 | Eugene Genovese | 15%
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| The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | 2006 | Lawrence Wright | 13%
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| An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy | 1944 | Gunnar Myrdal | 11%
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