| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | 1831 (Notre-Dame de Paris) | Victor Hugo | 97%
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| The Quran | 610-632 CE | anonymous | 96%
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| Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica | 1687 | Isaac Newton | 82%
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge | 1886 | Thomas Hardy | 76%
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| The Moonstone | 1868 | Wilkie Collins | 65%
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| The English Patient | 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | 61%
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| The Forsyte Saga | 1906-1921 | John Galsworthy | 58%
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| Cold Comfort Farm | 1932 | Stella Gibbons | 57%
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| Ragtime | 1975 | E. L. Doctorow | 52%
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 1953 | Flannery O’Connor | 51%
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| Goodnight Moon | 1947 | Margaret Wise Brown | 51%
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| The Plot Against America | 2004 | Philip Roth | 46%
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| Women of Trachis | c. 450–425 BCE | Sophocles | 44%
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| Bel Canto | 2001 | Ann Patchett | 42%
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| Crash | 1973 | J. G. Ballard | 42%
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| Small Island | 2004 | Andrea Levy | 38%
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| Cold Mountain | 1997 | Charles Frazier | 35%
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| Waiting for the Barbarians | 1980 | J. M. Coetzee | 34%
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| All the Light We Cannot See | 2014 | Anthony Doerr | 28%
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| Tradition and the Individual Talent | 1919 | T. S. Eliot | 23%
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