Penguin Random House's 100 Must-Read Classics - Statistics

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  • The average score is 35 of 100
Answer Stats
Author Answer % Correct
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
90%
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
90%
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
85%
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
83%
Leo Tolstoy War And Peace
83%
Homer The Iliad
80%
J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
78%
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
78%
Bram Stoker Dracula
76%
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
73%
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
71%
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
71%
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
71%
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
71%
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
68%
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
66%
Sun Tzu The Art of War
66%
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
66%
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
66%
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
63%
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
63%
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
61%
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
61%
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
61%
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
59%
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
56%
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
56%
James Joyce Ulysses
56%
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
54%
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
54%
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
54%
John Steinbeck East of Eden
51%
Jack London The Call of the Wild
51%
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
49%
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
46%
George Eliot Middlemarch
46%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
46%
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
44%
Mario Puzo The Godfather
44%
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
44%
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
41%
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
41%
Toni Morrison Beloved
39%
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
39%
Joseph Heller Catch-22
37%
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
34%
Jane Austen Persuasion
34%
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
32%
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
32%
Donna Tartt The Secret History
29%
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
27%
Charles Dickens Bleak House
24%
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
24%
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
24%
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
24%
S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
24%
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
24%
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
24%
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
24%
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
24%
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
22%
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
20%
James Baldwin Giovanni's Room
20%
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
20%
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
17%
Virginia Woolf Orlando
17%
Patrick Süskind Perfume
17%
Franz Kafka The Castle
17%
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
15%
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
12%
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
12%
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
12%
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
12%
Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights
12%
Charles Dickens Hard Times
10%
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
10%
George Eliot Silas Marner
10%
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
7%
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
7%
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
7%
Thomas Hardy Return of the Native
7%
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
5%
Robert Graves I, Claudius
5%
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate
5%
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
5%
Alessandro Manzoni The Betrothed
5%
Graham Greene The Quiet American
5%
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea
5%
John Steinbeck Travels with Charley
5%
James Baldwin Another Country
2%
Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers
2%
Flora Thompson Lark Rise to Candleford
2%
Paul Scott Staying On
2%
John Wyndham The Chrysalids
2%
P.G. Wodehouse The Code Of The Woosters
2%
Elizabeth Bowen The Death Of The Heart
2%
George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody
2%
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga
2%
L.P. Hartley The Go-between
2%
W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge
2%
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