| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Mandela | 1994 | Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of ______ _______ | 85%
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| Astrid Lindgren | 1945 | Pippi Longstocking | 84%
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| Evelyn Waugh | 1945 | Brideshead Revisited | 72%
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| Hilary Mantel | 2009 | Wolf Hall | 57%
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| Cornelius Tacitus | c. 100-110 CE | Histories | 56%
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| W. Somerset Maugham | 1915 | Of Human Bondage | 53%
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| Booker T. Washington | 1901 | Up from Slavery | 53%
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| David Mitchell | 2004 | Cloud Atlas | 47%
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| Alan Paton | 1948 | Cry, the Beloved Country | 44%
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| Hunter S. Thompson | 1967 | Hell’s Angels | 44%
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| Saul Bellow | 1953 | The Adventures of Augie March | 42%
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| Samuel Beckett | 1951 (Malone Meurt) | Malone Dies | 33%
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| Neil Sheehan | 1988 | A Bright Shining Lie | 23%
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| E. M. Forster | 1927 | Aspects of the Novel | 22%
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| Aeschylus | c. 455 BCE (Ἱκέτιδες) | The Suppliant Maidens | 22%
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| Richard Hofstadter | 1955 | The Age of Reform | 14%
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| Russell Kirk | 1953 (as a doctoral dissertation) | The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot | 14%
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| Jules Renard | 1925 | The Journal of _____ ______ | 12%
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| Robert Coles | 1967-1977 (five volumes, published serially) | Children of Crisis | 4%
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| Alice Munro | 2008 | Free Radicals | 4%
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