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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)	Mark Twain	96%
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven (1809-1849)	Edgar Allan Poe	95%
A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not (1899-1961)	Ernest Hemingway	89%
The Shining (1947)	Stephen King	89%
East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath (1902-1968)	John Steinbeck	83%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1926-2016)	Harper Lee	80%
The Catcher in the Rye (1919-2010)	J. D. Salinger	80%
Moby Dick (1819-1891)	Herman Melville	79%
The Da Vinci Code (1964)	Dan Brown	77%
The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch stole Christmas, Lorax (1904-1991)	Dr. Seuss	77%
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1811-1896)	Harriet Beecher Stowe	75%
Marvel Comics (1922-2018)	Stan Lee	75%
White Fang, Call of the Wild (1876-1916)	Jack London	74%
Little Women (1832-1888)	Louisa May Alcott	73%
Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood (1924-1984)	Truman Capote	73%
On the Road (1922-1969)	Jack Kerouac	72%
The Scarlet Letter (1804-1864)	Nathaniel Hawthorne	71%
Slaughterhouse-Five (1922-2007)	Kurt Vonnegut	69%
The Bell Jar (1932-1963)	Sylvia Plath	68%
A Streetcar named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1911-1983)	Tennessee Williams	67%
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1928-2014)	Maya Angelou	64%
Death of a Salesman, The Misfits (1915-2005)	Arthur Miller	63%
Leaves of Grass, O Captain! My Captain! (1819-1892)	Walt Whitman	62%
Walden (1817-1862)	Henry David Thoreau	59%
I, Robot (1920-1992)	Isaac Asimov	58%
Jurassic Park, Westworld (1942-2008)	Michael Crichton	58%
Catch-22 (1923-1999)	Joseph Heller	57%
Song of Solomon (1931-2019)	Toni Morrison	54%
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (1830-1886)	Emily Dickinson	51%
Absalom, Absalom! - The Sound and The Fury (1897-1962)	William Faulkner	51%
The Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan (1947-2013)	Tom Clancy	47%
Tender is The Night, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1896-1940)	F. Scott Fitzgerald	46%
The Last of the Mohicans (1789-1851)	James Fenimore Cooper	46%
The Firm (1955)	John Grisham	46%
The Call of Cthulhu (1890-1937)	H. P. Lovecraft	45%
Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1783-1859)	Washington Irving	44%
The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1928-1982)	Philip K. Dick	42%
The Age of Innocence (1862-1937)	Edith Wharton	39%
The Jungle (1878-1968)	Upton Sinclair	39%
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1935-2001)	Ken Kesey	37%
Invisible Man (1913-1994)	Ralph Ellison	37%
The Martian Chronicles (1920-2012)	Ray Bradbury	37%
Howl (1926-1997)	Allen Ginsberg	33%
The Good Earth (1892-1973)	Pearl S. Buck	33%
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1924-1987)	James Baldwin	32%
The Naked Lunch (1914-1997)	William S. Burroughs	32%
No Country for Old Men (1933-2023)	Cormac McCarthy	31%
The Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Series (1932-2009)	John Updike	28%
The Gift of the Magi (1862-1910)	O. Henry	28%
Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake (1888-1959)	Raymond Chandler	27%
Poet of Dirty Realism (1920-1994)	Charles Bukowski	23%
Long Day's Journey into Night (1888-1953)	Eugene O'Neill	23%
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1874-1946)	Gertrude Stein	23%
The American 1843-1916)	Henry James	23%
Birches (1874-1963)	Robert Frost	23%
Jazz Poetry (1901-1967)	Langston Hughes	22%
Paul Revere's Ride (1807-1882)	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	21%
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers (1907-1988)	Robert A. Heinlein	21%
The Human Stain (1933-2018)	Philip Roth	17%
Babbitt (1885-1951)	Sinclair Lewis	17%
Myra Breckinridge (1925-2012)	Gore Vidal	16%
Wise Blood (1925-1964)	Flannery O'Connor	14%
Ripostes (1885-1972)	Ezra Pound	12%
The White Negro (1923-2007)	Norman Mailer	11%