| Rank | Year | Author | Book | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1949 | George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 95%
|
| 1* | 1954-1955 | J.R.R. Tolkein | The Lord of the Rings | 93%
|
| 2 | 1813 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 90%
|
| 20 | 1869 | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | 86%
|
| 6 | 1960 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 85%
|
| 46 | 1945 | George Orwell | Animal Farm | 83%
|
| 30 | 1865 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 82%
|
| 22 | 1997 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 82%
|
| 43 | 1925 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 81%
|
| 25 | 1937 | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | 81%
|
| 18 | 1868-1869 | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | 80%
|
| 12 | 1847 | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 80%
|
| 15 | 1951 | J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | 79%
|
| 7 | 1926 | A.A. Milne | Winnie-the-Pooh | 79%
|
| 182 | 1838 | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | 77%
|
| 10 | 1847 | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 76%
|
| 104 | 1897 | Bram Stoker | Dracula | 75%
|
| 171 | 1818 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | 75%
|
| 35 | 1964 | Roald Dahl | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 74%
|
| 40 | 1815 | Jane Austen | Emma | 74%
|
| 17 | 1861 | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | 74%
|
| 29 | 1939 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 74%
|
| 78 | 1922 | James Joyce | Ulysses | 73%
|
| 23 | 1998 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 72%
|
| 36 | 1883 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | 72%
|
| 144 | 1986 | Stephen King | It | 71%
|
| 70 | 1954 | William Golding | Lord of the Flies | 71%
|
| 9 | 1950 | C.S. Lewis | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 71%
|
| 4 | 1979 | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 70%
|
| 11 | 1961 | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | 69%
|
| 114 | 1862 | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | 69%
|
| 161 | 1851 | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | 69%
|
| 63 | 1859 | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | 68%
|
| 52 | 1937 | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | 68%
|
| 14 | 1938 | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca | 68%
|
| 5 | 2000 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 67%
|
| 24 | 1999 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 67%
|
| 47 | 1843 | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | 66%
|
| 54 | 1878 | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | 66%
|
| 21 | 1936 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 66%
|
| 60 | 1866 | Fyodor Dostoyevsyk | Crime and Punishment | 64%
|
| 74 | 1988 | Roald Dahl | Matilda | 64%
|
| 34 | 1850 | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | 62%
|
| 39 | 1965 | Frank Herbert | Dune | 62%
|
| 16 | 1908 | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 61%
|
| 3* | 1995-2000 | Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials | 60%
|
| 178 | 1955 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 60%
|
| 131 | 1985 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | 60%
|
| 87 | 1932 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 59%
|
| 145 | 1961 | Roald Dahl | James and the Giant Peach | 59%
|
| 90 | 1957 | Jack Kerouac | On the Road | 58%
|
| 44 | 1844 | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | 57%
|
| 173 | 1951 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 57%
|
| 91 | 1969 | Mario Puzo | The Godfather | 56%
|
| 58 | 1877 | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty | 55%
|
| 180 | 1943 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince | 55%
|
| 32 | 1967 | Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 54%
|
| 26 | 1891 | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 54%
|
| 194 | 1898 | H.G. Wells | The War of the Worlds | 54%
|
| 158 | 1902 | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | 53%
|
| 38 | 1817 | Jane Austen | Persuasion | 53%
|
| 56 | 1982 | Roald Dahl | The BFG | 53%
|
| 27 | 1871-1872 | George Eliot | Middlemarch | 52%
|
| 122 | 1847-1848 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | 52%
|
| 157 | 1962 | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 51%
|
| 51 | 1911 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden | 50%
|
| 42 | 1972 | Richard Adams | Watership Down | 50%
|
| 79 | 1853 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | 48%
|
| 45 | 1945 | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | 48%
|
| 169 | 1983 | Roald Dahl | The Witches | 48%
|
| 41 | 1908 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | 46%
|
| 75 | 1996 | Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones's Diary | 46%
|
| 170 | 1952 | E.B. White | Charlotte's Web | 46%
|
| 100 | 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | 46%
|
| 136 | 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 46%
|
| 128 | 1901-1902 | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 46%
|
| 174 | 1980 | Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | 46%
|
| 141 | 1929 | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | 43%
|
| 133 | 1952 | John Steinbeck | East of Eden | 43%
|
| 97 | 1985 | Gabriel García Márquez | Love in the Time of Cholera | 42%
|
| 118 | 1891 | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 42%
|
| 106 | 1837 | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | 41%
|
| 48 | 1874 | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | 40%
|
| 94 | 1988 | Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist | 40%
|
| 154 | 2001 | Ian McEwan | Atonement | 39%
|
| 190 | 1913 | D.H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | 39%
|
| 77 | 1859 | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | 39%
|
| 111 | 1896 | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | 38%
|
| 159 | 1901 | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | 38%
|
| 81 | 1980 | Roald Dahl | The Twits | 38%
|
| 53 | 1978 | Stephen King | The Stand | 37%
|
| 188* | 1992-1997 | R.L. Stine | Goosebumps | 36%
|
| 189 | 1881 | Johanna Spyri | Heidi | 36%
|
| 138 | 1915 | John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | 36%
|
| 187 | 1993 | Irvine Welsh | Trainspotting | 35%
|
| 19 | 1994 | Louis de Bernières | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | 34%
|
| 184 | 1861 | George Eliot | Silas Marner | 34%
|
| 199 | 1969 | Eric Carle | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | 33%
|
| 59* | 2001-2012 | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | 32%
|
| 83 | 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes | 32%
|
| 57 | 1930 | Arthur Ransome | Swallows and Amazons | 32%
|
| 112 | 1982 | Sue Townsend | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ | 32%
|
| 191 | 1984 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 32%
|
| 101 | 1889 | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | 32%
|
| 185 | 1991 | Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho | 31%
|
| 109 | 1971 | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | 30%
|
| 130 | 1967 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | 29%
|
| 13 | 1993 | Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong | 28%
|
| 88 | 1932 | Stella Gibbons | Cold Comfort Farm | 28%
|
| 177 | 1970 | Roald Dahl | Fantastic Mr Fox | 28%
|
| 134 | 1981 | Roald Dahl | George's Marvellous Medicine | 28%
|
| 71 | 1985 | Patrick Süskind | Perfume | 28%
|
| 120 | 1951 | John Wyndham | The Day of the Triffids | 28%
|
| 115 | 1886 | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 28%
|
| 33 | 1989 | Ken Follett | The Pillars of the Earth | 28%
|
| 55 | 1993 | Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy | 27%
|
| 85 | 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | 27%
|
| 125 | 1998 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible | 27%
|
| 68 | 1990 | Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett | Good Omens | 26%
|
| 62 | 1997 | Arthur Golden | Memoirs of a Geisha | 25%
|
| 31 | 1991 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Story of Tracy Beaker | 25%
|
| 132 | 1975 | Roald Dahl | Danny, the Champion of the World | 24%
|
| 84* | 1946-1956 | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast | 24%
|
| 143 | 1995 | Nick Hornby | High Fidelity | 24%
|
| 146 | 1996 | Stephen King | The Green Mile | 24%
|
| 76 | 1992 | Donna Tartt | The Secret History | 24%
|
| 64 | 1977 | Colleen McCullough | The Thorn Birds | 24%
|
| 37 | 1950 | Nevil Shute | A Town Like Alice | 23%
|
| 61* | 2001 | Malorie Blackman | Noughts and Crosses | 23%
|
| 103 | 1996 | Alex Garland | The Beach | 23%
|
| 93 | 1983 | Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic | 23%
|
| 164 | 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 23%
|
| 166 | 1869 | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | 22%
|
| 119 | 1975 | James Clavell | Shōgun | 22%
|
| 108 | 1984 | Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | 21%
|
| 165 | 1978 | John Irving | The World According to Garp | 21%
|
| 28 | 1989 | John Irving | A Prayer for Owen Meany | 20%
|
| 200 | 1979 | V.C. Andrews | Flowers in the Attic | 20%
|
| 82 | 1948 | Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle | 20%
|
| 149 | 1969 | Patrick O'Brian | Master and Commander | 20%
|
| 65 | 1987 | Terry Pratchett | Mort | 20%
|
| 92 | 1980 | Jean M Auel | The Clan of the Cave Bear | 20%
|
| 69 | 1989 | Terry Pratchett | Guards! Guards! | 19%
|
| 96 | 1979 | Jeffrey Archer | Kane and Abel | 19%
|
| 129 | 1990 | A.S. Byatt | Possession: A Romance | 19%
|
| 123* | 1906-1921 | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | 19%
|
| 195 | 1995 | Nicholas Evans | The Horse Whisperer | 18%
|
| 67 | 1965 | John Fowles | The Magus | 17%
|
| 198 | 1958 | T.H. White | The Once and Future King | 17%
|
| 99 | 2000 | Meg Cabot | The Princess Diaries | 17%
|
| 72 | 1914 | Robert Tressell | The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists | 17%
|
| 49 | 1981 | Michelle Magorian | Goodnight Mister Tom | 15%
|
| 137 | 1996 | Terry Pratchett | Hogfather | 15%
|
| 179 | 1970 | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | 15%
|
| 186 | 1892 | George and Weedon Grossmith | The Diary of a Nobody | 15%
|
| 160 | 1991 | Diana Gabaldon | Cross Stitch | 14%
|
| 113 | 1951 | Nicholas Monsarrat | The Cruel Sea | 14%
|
| 124 | 2000 | Mark Z. Danielewski | House of Leaves | 13%
|
| 156 | 1956 | Ian Serraillier | The Silver Sword | 13%
|
| 135 | 1988 | Terry Pratchett | Wyrd Sisters | 13%
|
| 66 | 1943 | Enid Blyton | The Magic Faraway Tree | 12%
|
| 50 | 1987 | Rosamunde Pilcher | The Shell Seekers | 12%
|
| 73 | 2002 | Terry Pratchett | Night Watch | 11%
|
| 147 | 1969 | Henri Charrière | Papillon | 11%
|
| 175 | 1991 | Jostein Gaarder | Sophie's World | 11%
|
| 168 | 1978 | M.M. Kaye | The Far Pavilions | 11%
|
| 142 | 1995 | Kate Atkinson | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | 9%
|
| 89 | 1982 | Raymond E. Feist | Magician | 9%
|
| 102 | 1992 | Terry Pratchett | Small Gods | 9%
|
| 139 | 2002 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls in Tears | 8%
|
| 126 | 1991 | Terry Pratchett | Reaper Man | 8%
|
| 196 | 1995 | Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | 7%
|
| 105 | 2001 | Anthony Horowitz | Point Blanc | 7%
|
| 155 | 2002 | Jacqueline Wilson | Secrets | 7%
|
| 151 | 1994 | Terry Pratchett | Soul Music | 7%
|
| 163 | 1932 | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Sunset Song | 7%
|
| 153 | 1999 | Terry Pratchett | The Fifth Elephant | 7%
|
| 110 | 1999 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | 7%
|
| 193 | 2000 | Terry Pratchett | The Truth | 7%
|
| 197 | 1991 | Terry Pratchett | Witches Abroad | 7%
|
| 192 | 1999 | Tony Parsons | Man and Boy | 6%
|
| 107 | 2000 | Anthony Horowitz | Stormbreaker | 6%
|
| 181 | 1992 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Suitcase Kid | 6%
|
| 152 | 2001 | Terry Pratchett | Thief of Time | 6%
|
| 127 | 1999 | Louise Rennison | Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging | 5%
|
| 80 | 1995 | Jacqueline Wilson | Double Act | 5%
|
| 176 | 2001 | Jacqueline Wilson | Dustbin Baby | 5%
|
| 98 | 1997 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls in Love | 5%
|
| 183 | 1989 | Bryce Courtenay | The Power of One | 5%
|
| 86 | 2000 | Jacqueline Wilson | Vicky Angel | 5%
|
| 117 | 1996 | Jacqueline Wilson | Bad Girls | 4%
|
| 162 | 1993 | Wilbur Smith | River God | 4%
|
| 167 | 1999 | Jacqueline Wilson | Girls Out Late | 3%
|
| 95 | 1954 | Anya Seton | Katherine | 3%
|
| 148 | 1993 | Terry Pratchett | Men at Arms | 3%
|
| 150 | 2002 | Anthony Horowitz | Skeleton Key | 3%
|
| 140 | 2001 | Jacqueline Wilson | Sleepovers | 3%
|
| 116 | 2000 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Dare Game | 3%
|
| 121 | 2003 | Jacqueline Wilson | Lola Rose | 2%
|
| 172 | 1972 | Terry Venables/Gordon Williams | They Used to Play on Grass | 1%
|