| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1841 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | 76%
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| Agatha Christie | 1920 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | 66%
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| Willa Cather | 1913 | O Pioneers! | 60%
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| Euripides | 428 BCE (Ἱππόλυτος) | Hippolytus | 56%
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| Yasunari Kawabata | 1949-1951, published serially (千羽鶴) | Thousand Cranes | 50%
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| Oscar Wilde | 1897 | De Profundis | 48%
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| Elfriede Jelinek | 1983 (Die Klavierspielerin) | The Piano Teacher | 42%
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| H. P. Lovecraft | 1936, published serially | At the Mountains of Madness | 38%
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| Guanzhong Luo | 14th century (三國演義) | Romance of the Three Kingdoms | 36%
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| Tsitsi Dangarembga | 1988 | Nervous Conditions | 34%
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| Camara Laye | 1953 (L'Enfant noir) | The Dark Child (UK) / The African Child (US) | 34%
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| Natalie Babbitt | 1975 | Tuck Everlasting | 34%
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| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1854-1855, published serially | North and South | 30%
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| John Wyndham | 1957 | The Midwich Cuckoos | 28%
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| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 | The Yearling | 28%
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| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1963 (La ciudad y los perros) | The Time of the Hero | 26%
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| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1936 (Mort à crédit) | Death on Credit (UK) / Death on the Installment Plan (US) | 24%
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| Harriet E. Wilson | 1859 | Our Nig | 20%
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| George Meredith | 1879 | The Egoist | 16%
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| Elizabeth Bowen | 1948 | The Heat of the Day | 14%
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