| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voices from Chernobyl | 1997 (Чернобыльская молитва) | Svetlana Alexievich | 52%
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| Illuminations | 1886 | Arthur Rimbaud | 38%
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| Būstān | 1257 (بوستان,) | Saadi | 33%
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| The Afternoon of a Faun | 1876 (L'après-midi d'un faune) | Stéphane Mallarmé | 33%
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| The Fruits of the Earth | 1897 (Les nourritures terrestres) | André Gide | 29%
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| Masnavi | c. 1258–c. 1273 (مثنوی معنوی) | Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi | 29%
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| On the Heights of Despair | 1934 (Pe culmile disperării) | Emil Cioran | 24%
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| The Little Golden Calf | 1931 (Золотой телёнок) | Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrograd | 24%
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| The Laughing Policeman | 1968 (Den skrattande polisen) | Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö | 24%
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| Death Fugue | 1948 (Todesfuge) | Paul Celan | 24%
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| The Guide | 1958 | R. K. Narayan | 24%
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| Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman | 1927 (Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau) | Stefan Zweig | 24%
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| Lolly Willowes | 1926 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | 24%
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| Waiting to Exhale | 1992 | Terry McMillan | 24%
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| The Hamlet | 1940 | William Faulkner | 24%
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| Citizen: An American Lyric | 2014 | Claudia Rankine | 19%
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| The Tower Treasure | 1927 (Volume 1 of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories) | Franklin W. Dixon | 14%
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| Pan | 1894 | Knut Hamsun | 14%
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| House with the Blind Glass Windows | 1981 (Huset med den blinde glassveranda) | Herbjørg Wassmo | 10%
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| To Each His Own | 1966 (A ciascuno il suo) | Leonard Sciascia | 10%
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