| Word count | Book | Hints | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36,481 | Animal Farm | revolution, some are more equal than others, it's illegal to name a pig like this in France(?) | 67%
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| ~97k in the not dramatized version | The Hobbit | original genre "juvenile fiction", since 1937 it's never been out of print yet, little creatures with hairy feet and way too many food related breaks | 67%
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| 106,913 | Twilight | a teen romance named for "the best children's book", 17-year-old falls for a 109-year-old, first of the series, in a popular joke the supernatural beings suck something else than blood | 67%
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| ~300k-400k depending on translation | Anna Karenina | a countess and a socialite has an affair, escaping to Italy with lover, Anna Arkadyevna | 58%
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| 30,644 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | British children's novel, Charlie was originally written as a black boy, Golden Ticket | 58%
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| ~123k with variations depending on edition | Dracula | Gothic horror from late 1800s, Irish born writer, the noble man enjoys suckling your sangria | 58%
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| 70,544 | The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger's debut, angst and alienation, California 1951 | 58%
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| 73,434 | Brave New World | Orwell accused the writer of lying yet asked for opinions of his similar novel later on, the World State, promiscuous Lenina Crowne | 50%
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| 99,121 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Pulitzer Prize, the writer only delivered two books: one in 1960 one in 2015, American race issue book | 50%
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| 49,962 | Fight Club | soap, violence, Chuck | 42%
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| 84,769 | Starship Troopers | Terran Federation, accused of being militant and anti-militant, Rico blasts bugs in space | 25%
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| 135,293 | The Firm | Mitchell Y. McDeere, legal thriller, the book that made Grisham's fame | 25%
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| 18,188 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Captain Cook the penguin, North Pole?, Jim Carrey acted in the movie of the same name | 17%
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| 136,048 | Ready Player One | egg hunter "gunter" Wade Watts, games being played and hacks committed, as a film since 2018 by S.Spielberg et co. | 17%
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| 81,666 | Shutter Island | Island setting, adapted into a Martin Scorsese film, confront the truth or face lobotomy? | 17%
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| 415,715 | The Stand | "Project Blue", Abagail Freemantle vs. Randall Flagg, King's L.O.T.R. project in an American setting (according to his own words) | 17%
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| ~1,100,000 | Bottom's Dream (also known as Zettel's Traum) | the longest novel published in one volume and the 2016 Eng translation weighs over 13 pounds/~6kg, written by Arno Schmidt, discussions and then some more discussions | 8%
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| 69,902 | I, Robot | short stories and essays compiled into a book, "robopsychology", by an American writer born in Soviet Russia | 8%
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| 96,374 | Never Let Me Go | farmed organ donors, Nobel prize winning British novelist born in Japan, made into a movie starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley etc. | 8%
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| 179,484 | Xenocide | child in Battle school, OS Card, not quite genocide | 0%
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