| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salman Rushdie | 1988 | Satanic Verses | 91%
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| George R. R. Martin | 1996 | A Game of Thrones | 90%
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| Stephen King | 1977 | The Shining | 90%
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| Agatha Christie | 1926 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | 84%
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| Anton Chekhov | 1901 (Три сeстры́) | Three Sisters | 75%
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| Kurt Vonnegut | 1963 | Cat’s Cradle | 56%
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| James Baldwin | 1953 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 53%
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| Émile Zola | 1885 | Germinal | 51%
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| Vikram Seth | 1993 | A Suitable Boy | 47%
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| Herman Melville | 1853 | Bartleby the Scrivener | 47%
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| V. S. Naipaul | 1979 | A Bend in the River | 40%
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| Evelyn Waugh | 1934 | A Handful of Dust | 40%
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| Aeschylus | 467 BCE | Seven Against Thebes | 35%
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| Flann O’Brien | 1939 | At Swim-Two-Birds | 30%
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| Peter Carey | 2000 | True History of the Kelly Gang | 30%
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| Hermann Broch | 1945 (Der Tod des Vergil) | The Death of Virgil | 23%
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| Kate Atkinson | 2013 | Life After Life | 22%
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| Dorothy Allison | 1992 | Bastard Out of Carolina | 19%
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| Chris Ware | 1995-2000 | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | 19%
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| Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 | The Sympathizer | 19%
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