| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Clancy | 1984 | The Hunt for Red October | 82%
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| Samuel Pepys | 1825 | The Diary of _____ _____ | 76%
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1964 | Why We Can’t Wait | 71%
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| Salman Rushdie | 1990 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | 59%
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| MacKinlay Kantor | 1955 | Andersonville | 53%
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| Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell | 1910, 1912, 1913 (3 vols.) | Principia Mathematica | 47%
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| Siddhartha Mukherjee | 2010 | The Emperor of All Maladies | 41%
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| Eudora Welty | 1972 | The Optimist’s Daughter | 41%
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| André Brink | 1979 (’n Droë wit seisoen) | A Dry White Season | 35%
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| Walter Mosley | 1990 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 29%
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| Géza Gárdonyi | 1899 (Egri csillagok) | Eclipse of the Crescent Moon | 24%
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| Edmund White | 1982 | A Boy’s Own Story | 18%
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| Alberto Moravia | 1954 (Il disprezzo) | A Ghost at Noon (Contempt) | 18%
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| Fritz Leiber | 1943 | Conjure Wife | 18%
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| Percival Everett | 2001 | Erasure | 18%
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| Assia Djebar | 1985 (L'amour, la fantasia) | Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade | 18%
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| Miles Franklin | 1901 | My Brilliant Career | 18%
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| Robert Blake | 1966 | Disraeli | 12%
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| Mary McCarthy | 1963 | The Group | 12%
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| Norman Cohn | 1957; rev. and exp. 1970 | The Pursuit of the Millennium | 12%
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