/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Rank	Book	Author	% Correct
22	1984	George Orwell	98%
99	Animal Farm	George Orwell	97%
20	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	97%
14	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	94%
63	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	92%
15	The Iliad	Homer	92%
17	The Odyssey	Homer	92%
85	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	92%
13	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	91%
34	The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	91%
71	The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	91%
16	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	91%
5	Ulysses	James Joyce	89%
2	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	88%
53	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	88%
69	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	86%
4	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	86%
3	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	86%
62	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	85%
21	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	85%
1	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	85%
7	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	83%
35	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	82%
80	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	82%
30	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	80%
40	East of Eden	John Steinbeck	80%
44	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	80%
86	Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	79%
51	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	77%
88	Das Kapital	Karl Marx	77%
27	Dubliners	James Joyce	76%
56	To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	76%
12	The Stranger	Albert Camus	74%
49	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	74%
43	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	73%
74	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	73%
57	Republic	Plato	71%
38	The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	70%
18	The Trial	Franz Kafka	67%
39	Paradise Lost	John Milton	67%
28	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	67%
75	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	64%
36	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	64%
72	Finnegan's Wake	James Joyce	64%
25	Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	64%
60	Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	64%
52	Dune	Frank Herbert	62%
19	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	61%
87	The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	59%
32	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	59%
37	Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	56%
23	Notes from the Underground	Fyodor Dostoevsky	56%
46	Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	56%
48	The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	55%
82	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	50%
98	Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	48%
9	Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	47%
8	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	45%
54	Steppenwolf	Hermann Hesse	45%
66	Absalom, Absalom!	William Faulkner	45%
55	American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	44%
6	Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	42%
33	The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	42%
15	Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	38%
65	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	38%
83	Dead Souls	Nikolai Gogol	38%
42	Pale Fire	Vladimir Nabokov	38%
84	The Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs	35%
64	Demons	Fyodor Dostoevsky	33%
59	V.	Thomas Pynchon	30%
89	White Noise	Don Delillo	29%
79	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler	Italo Calvino	29%
73	The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	29%
45	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	27%
41	Mason & Dixon	Thomas Pynchon	26%
92	Phenomenology of Spirit	G.W.F. Hegel	24%
76	The Waves	Virginia Woolf	24%
77	Invisible Cities	Italo Calvino	23%
70	Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable(trilogy)	Samuel Beckett	23%
78	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	Laurence Sterne	21%
24	2666	Roberto Bolaño	21%
68	Confessions	Augustine	20%
11	Stoner	John Williams	20%
29	Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	20%
67	Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	20%
70	The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolaño	18%
47	Hunger	Knut Hamsun	17%
81	A Hero of Our Time	Mikhail Lermontov	17%
58	The Recognitions	William Gaddis	12%
95	JR	William Gaddis	12%
94	The Tunnel	William H. Gass	12%
61	The Sailor Who Fell From Grace Withthe Sea	Yukio Mishima	12%
31	Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	9%
50	No Longer Human	Osamu Dazai	9%
97	Industrial Society and Its Future	Ted Kaczynski	9%
90	Pedro Páramo	Juan Rulfo	8%
26	The Book of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe	5%
93	Storm of Steel	Ernst Jünger	3%
96	Bhagavad Gita	Maharishi Ved Vyasa	3%
100	The Elementary Particles	Michelle Houllebecq	3%
91	Kokoro	Natsume Sōseki	3%

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