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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A Midsummer Night's Dream \| As You Like it \| Hamlet \| +13 others	William Shakespeare	98%
Harry Potter (Series)	J. K. Rowling	94%
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	91%
Emma \| Northanger Abbey \| Persuasian \| +2 others	Jane Austen	90%
1984 \| Animal Farm	George Orwell	88%
The Iliad \| The Odyssey	Homer	88%
A Personal Matter	Oe Kenzaburo	87%
A Christmas Carol \| A Tale of Two Cities \| Bleak House \| +7 others	Charles Dickens	86%
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	86%
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	85%
Lord of the Rings \| The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	85%
Anna Karenina \| The Death of Ivan Ilyich \| War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	85%
Tender is the Night \| The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	84%
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer \| The Prince and the Pauper	Mark Twain	83%
A Farewell to Arms \| For Whom the Bell Tolls \| The Old Man and the Sea \| +2 others	Ernest Hemingway	81%
And Then There Were None \| Death on the Nile \| Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	80%
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	80%
Crime and Punishment \| The Brothers Karamazov \| The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	80%
Les Miserables \| The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo	80%
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	79%
The Importance of Being Earnest \| The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	79%
It \| The Shining	Stephen King	79%
Finnegan's Wake \| The Dead \| Ulysses	James Joyce	78%
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	76%
On the Origin of Dreams \| On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	75%
Cannary Row \| East of Eden \| Of Mice and Men \| +2 others	John Steinbeck	75%
The Cask of Amontillado \| The Murders in the Rue Morgue \| The Raven \| The Tell-Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	74%
Billy Budd: Foretopman \| Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	74%
Don Quixote \| Inferno	Miguel de Cervantes	74%
Goosebumps (Series)	R. L. Stine	74%
Sacred Emily	Gertrude Stein	73%
Ode to the West Wind \| Ozymandias \| The Masque of Anarchy	Percy Shelley	73%
The Count of Monte Cristo \| The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	72%
Orlando \| To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	72%
Dracula	Bram Stoker	71%
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	71%
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	70%
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	70%
Love in the Time of Cholera \| One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	70%
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	70%
The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx, Frederick Engles	70%
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	70%
Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	68%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea \| Around the World in 80 Days \| Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne	68%
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	67%
The Jungle Book \| The White Man's Burden	Rudyard Kipling	67%
Babbitt \| Main Street	Sinclair Lewis	67%
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	66%
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	66%
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	64%
A Modest Proposal \| Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	64%
The House of the Seven Gables \| The Scarlett Letter \| Young Goodman Brown	Nathaniel Hawthorne	64%
A Streetcar Named Desire \| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof \| The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams	64%
Candide	Voltaire	64%
Death of a Salesman \| The Crucible	Arthur Miller	62%
The Invisible Man \| The Time Machine \| The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	62%
Paradise Lost	John Milton	62%
Moll Flanders \| Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	61%
The Call of the Wild \| White Fang	Jack London	61%
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	61%
The Stranger	Albert Camus	60%
Middlemarch \| Silas Marner \| The Mill on the Floss	George Eliot	60%
All Summer in a Day \| Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	60%
Lady Lazarus \| The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	60%
Breakfast at Tiffany's \| In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	60%
The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	60%
The Final Problem \| The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	59%
Hansel and Gretel	Brothers Grimm	59%
Breakfast of Champions \| Cat's Cradle \| Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	59%
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	59%
Absalom, Absalom! \| As I Lay Dying \| Light in August \| The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	59%
The Snow Queen \| The Ugly Duckling	Hans Christian Andersen	58%
Faust \| Young Wurther	Johann Wolfgang van Goethe	58%
The Emporer of Ice Cream \| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Wallace Stevens	58%
The Three Sisters	Heather Morris	57%
Beloved \| Song of Solomon \| Sula \| The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	57%
The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	56%
Kidnapped \| Treasure Island	Robert Stevenson	56%
Antigone \| Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	56%
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	56%
The Hollow Men \| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	56%
Aeneid	Virgil	56%
White Teeth	Zadie Smith	56%
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith	55%
The Fault in our Stars	John Green	55%
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	54%
Foundation \| I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	53%
Big Sur \| On the Road	Jack Kerouac	53%
The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	53%
The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	53%
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	53%
The Portait of a Lady \| The Turn of the Screw	Henry James	52%
Endgame \| Molloy \| Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett	52%
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	52%
Casino Royale	Ian Fleming	51%
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	51%
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	51%
Jude the Obscure \| Return of the Native \| Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	51%
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	50%
Siddhartha \| Steppenwolf	Herman Hesse	50%
Twilight (Series)	Stephanie Meyer	50%
Death in Venice \| The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	50%
Winnie the Pooh	A. A. Milne	49%
Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	49%
The Game of Thrones	George. R. R. Martin	49%
A Doll's House \| Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen	49%
The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud	49%
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	49%
Lady Chatterly's Lover \| Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	48%
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	48%
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	47%
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	47%
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	47%
Vanity Fair	William Thackeray	47%
Charlotte's Web	E. B. White	45%
The Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	45%
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	45%
Ivanhoe \| Rob Roy \| The Heart of Midlothian	Sir Walter Scott	45%
Waverly	Walter Scott	45%
American Psycho	Bret Ellis	44%
The Alchemist (1988)	Paulo Coelho	44%
Call of Cthulhu	H. P. Lovecraft	43%
Utopia	Thomas More	43%
Dune	Frank Herbert	42%
Jurrasic Park	Michael Crichton	42%
Rip van Winkle \| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	42%
A Passage to India \| Howard's End \| Maurice	E. M. Forster	41%
The World According to Garp	John Irving	41%
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	41%
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	40%
The Bet \| The Cherry Orchard \| The Seagull \| Uncle Vanya	Anton Chekhov	40%
The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	40%
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	39%
Peter Rabbitt	Beatrix Potter	39%
Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	39%
Blood Meridian \| The Road	Cormac McCarthy	39%
Because I could not stop for Death	Emily Dickinson	39%
Decameron	Sandro Boccaccio	39%
Lyrical Ballads	William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge	39%
The Last of the Mohicans	James Cooper	38%
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	38%
Don Juan	Lord Byron	38%
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	38%
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	38%
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	37%
Ethan Frome \| The Age of Innocence \| The House of Mirth	Edith Wharton	37%
Ode to a Grecian Urn \| Ode to a Nightingale \| To Autumn	John Keats	37%
Gravity's Rainbow \| The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	37%
Our Town	Thornton Wilder	37%
The Pelican Brief	John Grisham	36%
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest \| Sometimes A Great Notion	Ken Kesey	36%
A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket	36%
Watership Down	Richard Adams	36%
The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	36%
The Bridge	Hart Crane	35%
Giovanni's Room \| Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	35%
Pilgrim's Progress	John Bunyan	35%
Tartuffe \| The Misanthrope \| The School for Wives	Moliere	35%
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	35%
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	35%
My Antonia \| O Pioneers!	Willa Cather	35%
The Charge of the Light Brigade \| The Lady of Shalott	Alfred Tennyson	34%
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	34%
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	34%
The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot	34%
The Goldfinch \| The Secret History	Donna Tartt	34%
Atonement	Ian McEwan	34%
Divergent	Veronica Roth	34%
Eugene Onegin \| The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin	33%
J'Accuse	Emile Zola	33%
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	33%
The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	33%
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	33%
American Pastoral	Phillip Roth	33%
The Lottery	Shirley Jackson	33%
The Tyger	William Blake	33%
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	32%
Brideshead Revisited \| Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	32%
Ben Hur	Lewis Wallace	32%
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	32%
Dead Souls \| Nevsky Prospekt	Nikolai Gogol	31%
The Red and the Black	Stendhal	31%
Bridget Jones's Diary	Helen Fielding	30%
The Scarlet Ibis	James Hurst	30%
Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	30%
Number the Stars \| The Giver	Lois Lowry	30%
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	30%
Brighton Rock	Graham Greene	29%
The Danzig Trilogy \| The Tin Drum	Gunter Grass	29%
The Power and the Glory	Henry Greene	29%
The Gift of the Magi \| The Ransom of Red Chief	O. Henry	29%
His Dark Materials	Phillip Pullman	29%
Discworld (SERIES)	Terry Pratchet	29%
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	29%
The Boy who Cried Wolf	Aesop	28%
A Supermarket in California \| Howl	Allen Ginsberg	28%
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	28%
Paul Revere's Ride \| Song of Hiawatha	Henry Longfellow	28%
The Good Earth	Pearl Buck	28%
Coraline	Neil Gaiman	27%
The Alchemist (1610) \| Volpone	Ben Jonson	26%
Sonnets from the Portuguese	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	26%
Long Day's Journey Into Night \| Mourning Becomes Electra \| The Iceman Cometh	Eugene O'Neill	26%
Labrynths \| Labyrinths \| The Aleph \| The Library of Babel	Jorge Luis Borges	26%
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret	Judy Blume	26%
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning	26%
Doctor Faustus \| The Jew of Malta	Christopher Marlowe	25%
Medea	Euripides	25%
The Human Comedy	Honore de Balzac	25%
Peter and Wendy	James Barrie	25%
Rabbit, Run	John Updike	25%
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	25%
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	James Johnson	24%
Harlem \| The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes	24%
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeline L'Engle	24%
The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	24%
All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren	24%
The Dunciad \| The Rape of the Lock	Alexander Pope	23%
The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	23%
If on a winter's night a traveler \| If on a winter’s night a traveler,	Italo Calvino	23%
Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	23%
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair	Pablo Neruda	23%
Holes	Louis Sachar	22%
Arcadia \| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Tom Stoppard	22%
Night	Elie Wiesel	21%
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	21%
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	21%
Cry, The Beloved Country	Alan Paton	20%
Ramona Quimby	Beverly Cleary	20%
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	20%
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	20%
The Awakening	Kate Chopin	20%
A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	20%
The Naked and the Dead	Norman Mailer	20%
A Man in Full	Tom Wolfe	20%
The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	19%
A Good Man Is Hard to Find \| Everything That Rises Must Converge \| Wise Blood	Flannery O'Connor	19%
Native Son	Richard Wright	19%
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	18%
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe \| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	18%
White Noise	Don DeLillo	18%
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Laurence Sterne	18%
An American Tragedy	Theodore Dreiser	18%
Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	17%
Sophie's Choice	William Styron	17%
Fences \| Gem of the Ocean \| The Piano Lesson	August Wilson	16%
The Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Gilman	16%
The Necklace	Guy de Maupassant	16%
Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	16%
Herzog	Saul Bellow	16%
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	15%
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	15%
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Patrick Suskind	15%
The Libation Bearers	Aeschylus	14%
Ragtime	E. L. Doctorow	14%
Six Characters in Search of an Author	Luigi Pirandello	14%
Revolutionary Road	Richard Yates	14%
A Red, Red Rose	Robert Burns	14%
The Souls of Black Folk	W. E. B. Dubois	14%
My Friendship with Oscar Wilde	Alfred Douglas	13%
Out of Africa	Isak Dinesen	13%
Seeing and Blindness	Jose de Sousa Saramago	13%
The History of the Siege of Lisbon	Jose Saramago	13%
She Stoops to Conquer	Oliver Goldsmith	13%
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	Thomas De Quincey	13%
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	12%
I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big \| The Enormous Room	E. E. Cummings	12%
Indiana	George Sand	12%
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	James Thurber	12%
Schindler's Ark	Thomas Keneally	12%
Look Homeward, Angel	Thomas Wolfe	12%
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	Ambrose Bierce	11%
Miss Julie	August Strindberg	11%
A Separate Peace	John Knowles	11%
Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo	11%
Coming of Age in Samoa	Margaret Mead	11%
Dover Beach	Matthew Arnold	11%
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	11%
A Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	11%
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls	11%
The Monkey's Paw	W. W. Jacobs	11%
Lysistrata \| The Frogs	Aristophones	10%
The New Colossus	Emma Lazarus	10%
Across Five Aprils	Irene Hunt	10%
The Playboy of the Western World	John Millington Synge	10%
The Playboy of the Western World	John Synge	10%
To His Coy Mistress	Andrew Marvell	9%
The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	9%
In a Station of the Metro	Ezra Pound	9%
Disgrace	J. M. Coetzee	9%
The Sot-Weed Factor	John Barth	9%
The Duchess of Malfi	John Webster	9%
Rubáiyát	Omar Khayyám	9%
The Rivals	Richard Sheridan	9%
The Spanish Tragedy	Thomas Kyd	9%
Easter, 1916	William Yeates	9%
The Nickel Boys \| Zone One	Colson Whitehead	8%
Blood Wedding	Federico Garcia Lorca	8%
Billiard at Half-Past Nine	Heinrich Boll	8%
Hopscotch	Julio Cortazar	8%
Drinking Alone by Moonlight	Li Bai	8%
The Labrynth of Solitude	Octavio Paz	8%
James	Percival Everett	8%
Il Canzoniere	Petrarch	8%
Mr. Popper's Penguins	Richard Atwater	8%
Snow Country	Yasunari Kawabata	8%
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion	Yukio Mishima	8%
The Bald Soprano	Eugene Ionesco	7%
Absalom and Achitophel	John Dryden	7%
The Little Foxes	Lillian Hellman	7%
Passing	Nella Larsen	7%
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Holmes	7%
The Mysterious Benedict Society	Trenton Lee Stewart	7%
To an Athlete Dying Young	Alfred Housman	6%
The Luck of Roaring Camp	Bret Harte	6%
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	6%
Spoon River Anthology	Edgar Lee Masters	6%
Old Yeller	Fred Gipson	6%
Annie Allen	Gwendolyn Brooks	6%
The Time of the Hero	Mario Vargas Llosa	6%
Cairo Trilogy	Naguib Mahfouz	6%
Gitanjali	Rabindranath Tagore	6%
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier	6%
Bless Me, Ultima	Rudolfo Anaya	6%
Juno and the Paycock	Sean O'Casey	6%
The Way of the World	William Congreve	6%
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	5%
July's People \| The Conversationist	Nadine Gordimer	5%
A Long Way from Chicago	Richard Peck	5%
There There	Tommy Orange	5%
Restart \| Unplugged	Gordon Korman	4%
Pillow Book	Sei Shonagon	4%
Death and the King’s Horseman \| The Lion and the Jewel	Akinwunde Oluwole Soyinka	3%
Requiem	Anna Akhmatova	3%
First Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	3%
Greyfriar's Bobby	Eleanor Atkinson	3%
Ragged Dick	Horatio Alger	3%
Women of the Harlem Renaissance	Marissa Constantinou	3%
Blood Petals	Ngugi Wa Thiong'o	2%

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