| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Curie | 1910 (Traité de Radioactivité) | Treatise on Radioactivity | 90%
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| Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 1943-1948, published serially (細雪) | The Makioka Sisters | 43%
|
| Julia Alvarez | 1991 | How the García Girls Lost Their Accents | 33%
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| anonymous | c. 1270 - c. 1290 (Brennu-Njáls saga) | Njál’s Saga | 29%
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| Diana Gabaldon | 1991 | Outlander | 29%
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| Isaac Asimov | 1954 | The Caves of Steel | 29%
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| Richard Condon | 1959 | The Manchurian Candidate | 29%
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| Aleko Konstantinov | 1895 (Бай Ганьо) | Bai Ganyo | 24%
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| M. Scott Peck | 1978 | The Road Less Traveled | 24%
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| Hal Clement | 1953 | Mission of Gravity | 19%
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| Havelock Ellis | 1896-1928, published serially in 7 volumes | Studies in the Psychology of Sex | 19%
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| W. H. Auden | 1947 | The Age of Anxiety | 19%
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| Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | 2003 | Random Family | 14%
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| George Saunders | 2011 (in The New Yorker) | Tenth of December | 14%
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| Samuel Beckett | 1953 | Watt | 14%
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| Patrick Leigh Fermor | 1977 | A Time of Gifts | 10%
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| Matthew Desmond | 2016 | Evicted | 10%
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| Gene Wolfe | 1975 | Peace | 5%
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| Henry Handel Richardson | 1917-1929, published serially in 3 parts | The Fortunes of Richard Mahony | 5%
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| Alan Garner | 1967 | The Owl Service | 5%
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