| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Dickens | 1837-1839 (published serially) | The Adventures of Oliver Twist | 99%
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| H. G. Wells | 1898 | The War of the Worlds | 89%
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| anonymous | c. 700-1000 CE | Beowulf | 88%
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| Truman Capote | 1958 | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | 85%
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| Euripides | 405 BCE | The Bacchae | 72%
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| Dylan Thomas | 1951 | Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night | 71%
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| Nikos Kazantzakis | 1946 | Zorba the Greek | 61%
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| Donna Tartt | 1992 | The Secret History | 53%
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| William Blake | 1794 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul | 49%
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| Guy de Maupassant | 1884 (La Parure) | The Necklace | 45%
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| Margaret Atwood | 2000 | The Blind Assassin | 44%
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| Kate Chopin | 1899 | The Awakening | 40%
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| Colson Whitehead | 2016 | The Underground Railroad | 40%
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| Ernest Hemingway | 1925 | In Our Time | 36%
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| Norton Juster | 1961 | The Phantom Tollbooth | 36%
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| André Gide | 1925 (Les Faux-monnayeurs) | The Counterfeiters | 29%
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| Don DeLillo | 1997 | Underworld | 29%
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| Christina Stead | 1940 | The Man Who Loved Children | 21%
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| Henry Roth | 1934 | Call It Sleep | 19%
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| Zadie Smith | 2012 | NW | 17%
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