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
91%
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
88%
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
88%
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
88%
Homer The Iliad
85%
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
82%
Leo Tolstoy War And Peace
82%
J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
79%
Bram Stoker Dracula
76%
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
73%
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
73%
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
73%
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
70%
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
70%
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
70%
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
70%
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
67%
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
64%
Sun Tzu The Art of War
64%
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
64%
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
64%
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
61%
Victor Hugo Les Misérables
61%
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
58%
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
58%
James Joyce Ulysses
58%
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
55%
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
55%
Jack London The Call of the Wild
55%
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
55%
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
55%
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
52%
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
45%
John Steinbeck East of Eden
45%
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
45%
George Eliot Middlemarch
45%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
45%
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca
45%
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov
45%
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
45%
Mario Puzo The Godfather
42%
Toni Morrison Beloved
39%
Joseph Heller Catch-22
39%
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
39%
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
36%
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
36%
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
33%
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
33%
Jane Austen Persuasion
33%
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
27%
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
27%
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
27%
H.G. Wells The Time Machine
27%
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
27%
Charles Dickens Bleak House
24%
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
24%
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
24%
S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
24%
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
24%
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
21%
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
21%
Donna Tartt The Secret History
21%
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
21%
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
21%
James Baldwin Giovanni's Room
15%
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
15%
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
15%
Patrick Süskind Perfume
15%
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
15%
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
15%
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
15%
Charles Dickens Hard Times
12%
W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
12%
Virginia Woolf Orlando
12%
George Eliot Silas Marner
12%
Franz Kafka The Castle
12%
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
9%
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
9%
Thomas Hardy Return of the Native
9%
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
6%
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
6%
Robert Graves I, Claudius
6%
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate
6%
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
6%
Alessandro Manzoni The Betrothed
6%
Graham Greene The Quiet American
6%
John Steinbeck Travels with Charley
6%
James Baldwin Another Country
3%
Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers
3%
Flora Thompson Lark Rise to Candleford
3%
Paul Scott Staying On
3%
John Wyndham The Chrysalids
3%
P.G. Wodehouse The Code Of The Woosters
3%
Elizabeth Bowen The Death Of The Heart
3%
George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody
3%
John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga
3%
L.P. Hartley The Go-between
3%
W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge
3%
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea
3%
Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights
3%
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