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100 Famous Writers by Most Famous Work

Can you guess the authors of these famous books?
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Book
Year
Answer
Candide
1759
Voltaire
Pride and Prejudice
1813
Jane Austen
Frankenstein
1818
Mary Shelley
Eugene Onegin
1833
Alexander Pushkin
Taras Bulba
1835
Nikolai Gogol
A Hero of Our Time
1840
Mikhail Lermontov
The Count Of Monte Cristo
1844
Alexandre Dumas
Agnes Grey
1847
Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre
1847
Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights
1847
Emily Brontë
Moby-Dick
1851
Herman Melville
Madame Bovary
1857
Gustave Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities
1859
Charles Dickens
Fathers and Sons
1862
Ivan Turgenev
Les Misérables
1862
Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865
Lewis Carroll
Crime and Punishment
1866
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women
1868
Louisa May Alcott
War & Peace
1869
Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch
1871
George Eliot
Around the World in Eighty Days
1872
Jules Verne
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876
Mark Twain
Treasure Island
1883
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1890
Oscar Wilde
Dracula
1897
Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds
1898
H. G. Wells
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1902
Beatrix Potter
The Call of the Wild
1903
Jack London
The Metamorphosis
1915
Franz Kafka
We
1921
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ulysses
1922
James Joyce
The Magic Mountain
1924
Thomas Mann
Mrs Dalloway
1925
Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby
1925
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Steppenwolf
1927
Hermann Hesse
All Quiet on the Western Front
1929
Erich Maria Remarque
Brave New World
1932
Aldous Huxley
Murder on the Orient Express
1934
Agatha Christie
Tropic of Cancer
1934
Henry Miller
Gone with the Wind
1936
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
1939
John Steinbeck
The Master and Margarita
1940
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Stranger
1942
Albert Camus
The Little Prince
1943
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Zorba the Greek
1946
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949
George Orwell
The Second Sex
1949
Simone de Beauvoir
The Catcher in the Rye
1951
J. D. Salinger
Invisible Man
1952
Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
Ernest Hemingway
Fahrenheit 451
1953
Ray Bradbury
The Lord of the Flies
1954
William Golding
Lolita
1955
Vladimir Nabokov
Giovanni's Room
1956
James Baldwin
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956
Yukio Mishima
Atlas Shrugged
1957
Ayn Rand
The Cat in the Hat
1957
Dr. Seuss
Starship Troopers
1959
Robert A. Heinlein
The Tin Drum
1959
Günter Grass
Rabbit, Run
1960
John Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
Harper Lee
Catch-22
1961
Joseph Heller
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1961
Muriel Spark
A Clockwork Orange
1962
Anthony Burgess
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1962
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1964
Roald Dahl
Dune
1965
Frank Herbert
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967
Gabriel García Márquez
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Arthur C. Clarke
My Michael
1968
Amos Oz
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969
Kurt Vonnegut
The Godfather
1969
Mario Puzo
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969
Ursula K. Le Guin
Play It as It Lays
1970
Joan Didion
Gravity's Rainbow
1973
Thomas Pynchon
The Shining
1977
Stephen King
The Name of the Rose
1980
Umberto Eco
Midnight's Children
1981
Salman Rushdie
The Book of Disquiet
1982
Fernando Pessoa
The House of the Spirits
1982
Isabel Allende
The Hunt for Red October
1984
Tom Clancy
The Wasp Factory
1984
Iain Banks
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984
Milan Kundera
The Handmaid's Tale
1985
Margaret Atwood
Foundation and Earth
1986
Isaac Asimov
Beloved
1987
Toni Morrison
Norwegian Wood
1987
Haruki Murakami
The Alchemist
1988
Paulo Coelho
The Joy Luck Club
1989
Amy Tan
American Psycho
1991
Bret Easton Ellis
Trainspotting
1993
Irvine Welsh
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1997
J. K. Rowling
The God of Small Things
1997
Arundhati Roy
My Name Is Red
1998
Orhan Pamuk
Life of Pi
2001
Yann Martel
The Shadow of the Wind
2001
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Da Vinci Code
2003
Dan Brown
The Kite Runner
2003
Khaled Hosseini
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2005
Stieg Larsson
Fifty Shades of Grey
2011
E. L. James
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2 Comments
CardinalSin
+3
Level 82
Mar 6, 2023
Great quiz. But I though that it was a bit mean not to accept "Wells" for Invisible Man, given that he wrote the rather more famous "The Invisible Man".
azerifactory
+2
Level 47
Mar 6, 2023
For his novel Invisible Man, he won the National Book Award in 1953 so that's why I've included it.
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