Huge List of Famous Authors - Statistics

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Lifetime Works Nation Author % Correct
1965- Harry Potter | Fantastic Beasts J. K. Rowling
97%
1564-1616 Romeo and Juliet | Hamlet William Shakespeare
92%
1889-1945 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
88%
1903-1950 1984 | Animal Farm George Orwell
88%
928 BC-? Iliad | Odysses Homer
88%
1892-1973 Lord of the Rings | The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
88%
1812-1870 Oliver Twist | David Copperfield Charles Dickens
85%
1775-1817 Pride and Prejudice | Emma Jane Austen
85%
1818-1883 Das Kapital | The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
84%
1828-1910 War and Peace | Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
84%
1265-1321 Divine Comedy | Inferno Dante Alighieri
82%
1890-1976 Murder on the Orient Express | Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
81%
1835-1910 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain
81%
1899-1961 The Old Man and the Sea | A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
80%
1797-1851 Frankenstein | The Last Man Mary Shelley
80%
1947- The Body | The Shining Stephen King
80%
1816-1855 Jane Eyre | Villette Charlotte Brontë
79%
1964- Da Vinci Code | Angels and Demons Dan Brown
79%
1916-1990 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Matilda Roald Dahl
79%
1802-1885 Les Misérables | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo
78%
1809-1849 The Raven | The tell-tale heart Edgar Allan Poe
77%
1896-1940 The Great Gatsby | Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
76%
1926-2016 To Kill a Mockingbird | Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee
76%
1898-1963 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis
74%
1904-1991 The Cat in the Hat | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr. Seuss
74%
1805-1875 The Little Mermaid | The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen
74%
1865-1936 The Jungle Book | If - Rudyard Kipling
74%
1882-1941 Ulysses | Dubliners James Joyce
73%
1859-1930 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | The Parasite Arthur Conan Doyle
72%
1821-1881 Crime and Punishment | The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
72%
1828-1905 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne
72%
1832-1898 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
72%
1902-1968 Of Mice and Men | East of Eden John Steinbeck
71%
1847-1912 Dracula | The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker
70%
1802-1870 The Three Musketeers | The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
69%
1883-1924 The Metamorphosis | The Castle Franz Kafka
69%
1908-1964 Casino Royale | Dr. No Ian Fleming
67%
1919-2010 The Catcher in the Rye | Nine Stories J. D. Salinger
67%
1856-1939 The Interpretation of Dreams | The Ego and the Id Sigmund Freud
66%
1340-1400 The Canterbury Tales | General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer
65%
1547-1616 Don Quixote | Novelas Ejemplares Miguel de Cervantes
65%
1819-1891 Moby Dick or the Whale | Billy Budd Herman Melville
63%
1947- The Satanic Verse | Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
63%
1894-1963 Brave New World | The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley
62%
1948- A Game of Thrones | The Winds of Winter George R. R. Martin
62%
1723-1790 The Wealth of Nations | The Invisible Hand Adam Smith
61%
1866-1946 The War of the Worlds | The Time Machine H. G. Wells
61%
1469-1527 The Prince | The Art of War Niccolo Machiavelli
61%
1899-1977 Lolita | Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
61%
1854-1900 The Importance of Being Earnest | Salome Oscar Wilde
60%
1927-2014 100 Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez
58%
1694-1778 Candide | Zadig Voltaire
58%
1832-1888 Little Women | Little Men Louisa May Alcott
57%
1939- The Handmaid's Tale | Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
57%
1924-1984 Breakfast at Tiffany's | In Cold Blood Truman Capote
57%
1820-1895 The Communist Manifesto | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Friedrich Engels
56%
1876-1916 The Call of the Wind | White Fang Jack London
56%
1932-1963 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
56%
1922-2007 Slaughterhouse-Five | Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
55%
1911-1983 A Streetcar Named Desire | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams
55%
1973- Twilight | Midnight Sun Stephenie Meyer
54%
1882-1941 Mrs Dalloway | To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
54%
1911-1993 Lord of the Flies | The Inheritors William Golding
54%
1844-1900 God is dead | Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
53%
1922-1969 On the Road | The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
53%
1857-1924 Heart of Darkness | Jim Lord Joseph Conrad
53%
1920-2012 Fahrenheit 451 | The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
53%
1660-1731 Robinson Crusoe | Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
52%
1913-1960 The Stranger | The Plague Albert Camus
51%
1942-2008 Jurassic Park | The Terminal Man Michael Crichton
51%
544 BC-496 BC The Art of War Sun Tzu
51%
1811-1896 Uncle Tom's Cabin | The Minister's Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe
49%
1804-1864 The Scarlet Letter | Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
49%
1900-1949 Gone with the Wind | Lost Laysen Margaret Mitchell
48%
1962- The Hunger Games | Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
48%
1840-1928 Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
47%
1920-1986 Dune | The Jesus Incident Frank Herbert
44%
1821-1880 Madame Bovary | Salammbô Gustave Flaubert
44%
1749-1832 Faust | Egmont Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe
44%
1954-2004 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson
44%
70 BC-19 BC Aeneid | Eclogues Virgil
44%
1931-2019 Song of Solomon | Beloved Toni Morrison
43%
1860-1904 Uncle Vanya | The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
42%
1828-1906 A Doll's House | Ghosts Henrik Ibsen
41%
1965- The Kite Runner | A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
41%
1947- The Alchemist | Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho
41%
1907-1989 Rebecca | The Birds Daphne du Maurier
40%
1963- Fifty Shades of Grey | Fifty Shades Darker E. L. James
40%
1871-1922 In Search of Lost Time | Swann's Way Marcel Proust
39%
496 BC-405 BC Antigone | Oedipus Rex Sophocles
37%
1900-1944 The Little Prince | Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
36%
1879-1970 A Passage to India | A Room with a View E. M. Forster
34%
1908-1986 The Second Sex | The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir
34%
1875-1955 The Magic Mountain | Death in Venice Thomas Mann
34%
1811-1863 Vanity Fair | Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray
34%
1944- The Color Purple | Everyday Use Alice Walker
33%
1952- The Joy Luck Club | Two Kinds Amy Tan
33%
1877-1962 Siddhartha | Demian Hermann Hesse
32%
1905-1980 Nausea | Being and Nothingness Jean-Paul Sartre
32%
1712-1778 The Social Contract | Discourse on Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31%
1917-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey | Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
30%
1954- The Remains of the Day | Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
29%
1949- Norwegian Wood | 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
28%
1927-2015 The Tin Drum | Cat and Mouse Günter Grass
27%
1840-1902 L'Assommoir | Germinal Émile Zola
26%
1809-1852 Dead Souls | The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol
26%
1907-2002 Pippi Longstocking | Ronia, the Robber's Daughter Astrid Lindgren
25%
1963- Life of Pi | Self Yann Martel
25%
1628-1688 The Pilgrim's Progress | The Holy War John Bunyan
23%
1904-1973 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | 100 Love Sonnets Pablo Neruda
22%
1799-1837 The Captain's Daughter | Dubrovsky Alexander Pushkin
17%
1888-1953 Long Day's Journey Into Night | The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill
17%
1956- Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
13%
1873-1954 Gigi | Claudine at School Colette
13%
1952- Snow | The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk
11%
973-1031 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
8%
1951- Call Me by Your Name | Find Me André Aciman
7%
1961- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden Jonas Jonasson
7%
1964- Three Sisters | The moon opera Bi Feiyu
4%
1957- Ring | Spiral Koji Suzuki
4%
1903-1951 The Blind Owl | Dash Akol Sadegh Hedayat
3%
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