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The 100 greatest novels of all time - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 560 times
- The average score is 31 of 94
Answer Stats
| # | Author(Year) | Book Title | Language | % Correct |
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| 8 | Jane Austen(1813) | Pride and Prejudice | English | 82%
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| 70 | George Orwell(1949) | Nineteen Eighty-Four | English | 81%
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| 90 | Leo Tolstoy(1865–69) | War and Peace | Russian | 81%
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| 17 | Miguel de Cervantes(1605, 1615) | Don Quixote | Spanish | 77%
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| 82 | William Shakespeare(1603) | Hamlet | English | 76%
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| 24 | Fyodor Dostoevsky(1866) | Crime and Punishment | Russian | 73%
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| 63 | Herman Melville(1851) | Moby-Dick | English | 73%
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| 13 | Emily Brontë(1847) | Wuthering Heights | English | 72%
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| 69 | Vladimir Nabokov(1955) | Lolita | English | 71%
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| 91 | Leo Tolstoy(1877) | Anna Karenina | Russian | 69%
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| 45 | Homer(8th century BCE) | Odyssey | Classical Greek | 69%
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| 47 | James Joyce(1922) | Ulysses | English | 67%
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| 44 | Homer(850–750 BCE) | Iliad | Classical Greek | 66%
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| 21 | Charles Dickens(1861) | Great Expectations | English | 65%
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| 18 | Geoffrey Chaucer(14th century) | The Canterbury Tales | English | 63%
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| 3 | Dante Alighieri(1265–1321) | Divina Commedia | Italian | 58%
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| 27 | Fyodor Dostoevsky(1880) | The Brothers Karamazov | Russian | 57%
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| 33 | Gustave Flaubert(1857) | Madame Bovary | French | 56%
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| 93 | Mark Twain(1884) | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | English | 55%
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| 99 | Virginia Woolf(1927) | To the Lighthouse | English | 55%
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| 89 | Jonathan Swift(1726) | Gulliver's Travels | English | 53%
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| 14 | Albert Camus(1942) | The Stranger | French | 52%
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| 84 | William Shakespeare(1609) | Othello | English | 51%
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| 25 | Fyodor Dostoevsky(1869) | The Idiot | Russian | 51%
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| 43 | Ernest Hemingway(1952) | The Old Man and the Sea | English | 51%
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| 49 | Franz Kafka(1925) | The Trial | German | 51%
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| 66 | Toni Morrison(1987) | Beloved | English | 50%
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| 83 | William Shakespeare(1608) | King Lear | English | 49%
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| 28 | George Eliot(1781) | Middlemarch | English | 49%
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| 36 | Gabriel García Márquez(1967) | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Spanish | 47%
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| 32 | William Faulkner(1929) | The Sound and the Fury | English | 47%
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| 74 | Marcel Proust(1913–27) | In Search of Lost Time | French | 46%
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| 98 | Virginia Woolf(1925) | Mrs Dalloway | English | 43%
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| 54 | D. H. Lawrence(1913) | Sons and Lovers | English | 41%
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| 1 | Chinua Achebe(1958) | Things Fall Apart | English | 41%
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| 29 | Ralph Ellison(1952) | Invisible Man | English | 40%
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| 37 | Gabriel García Márquez(1985) | Love in the Time of Cholera | Spanish | 39%
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| 78 | Salman Rushdie(1981) | Midnight's Children | English | 39%
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| 38 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1832) | Faust | German | 38%
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| 11 | Giovanni Boccaccio(1349–53) | The Decameron | Italian | 36%
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| 31 | William Faulkner(1936) | Absalom, Absalom! | English | 34%
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| 46 | Henrik Ibsen(1879) | A Doll's House | Norwegian | 34%
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| 95 | Virgil(29–19 BCE) | Aeneid | Classical Latin | 33%
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| 97 | Walt Whitman(1855) | Leaves of Grass | English | 33%
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| 71 | Ovid(1st century CE) | Metamorphoses | Classical Latin | 30%
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| 58 | Astrid Lindgren(1945) | Pippi Longstocking | Swedish | 30%
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| 62 | Thomas Mann(1924) | The Magic Mountain | German | 30%
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| 86 | Stendhal(1830) | The Red and the Black | French | 30%
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| 87 | Laurence Sterne(1760) | Tristram Shandy | English | 28%
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| 4 | Anonymous(18th–17th century BCE) | Epic of Gilgamesh | Akkadian | 26%
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| 85 | Sophocles(430 BCE) | Oedipus the King | Classical Greek | 26%
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| 40 | Günter Grass(1959) | The Tin Drum | German | 26%
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| 39 | Nikolai Gogol(1842) | Dead Souls | Russian | 25%
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| 20 | Joseph Conrad(1904) | Nostromo | English | 25%
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| 50 | Franz Kafka(1926) | The Castle | German | 25%
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| 9 | Honoré de Balzac(1835) | Le Père Goriot | French | 23%
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| 53 | Nikos Kazantzakis(1946) | Zorba the Greek | Greek | 21%
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| 75 | François Rabelais(1532–34) | The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel | French | 20%
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| 61 | Thomas Mann(1901) | Buddenbrooks | German | 19%
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| 42 | Knut Hamsun(1890) | Hunger | Norwegian | 18%
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| 6 | Anonymous(700–1500) | One Thousand and One Nights | Arabic | 18%
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| 30 | Euripides(431 BCE) | Medea | Classical Greek | 16%
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| 64 | Michel de Montaigne(1595) | Essays | French | 15%
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| 67 | Murasaki Shikibu(11th century) | The Tale of Genji | Japanese | 15%
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| 81 | José Saramago(1995) | Blindness | Portuguese | 14%
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| 57 | Doris Lessing(1962) | The Golden Notebook | English | 14%
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| 23 | Alfred Döblin(1929) | Berlin Alexanderplatz | German | 12%
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| 10* | Samuel Beckett(1951–53) | Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (a trilogy) | French, English | 12%
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| 92 | Leo Tolstoy(1886) | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Russian | 12%
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| 68 | Robert Musil(1930–32) | The Man Without Qualities | German | 12%
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| 12 | Jorge Luis Borges(1944–86) | Ficciones | Spanish | 11%
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| 94 | Valmiki(3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE) | Ramayana | Sanskrit | 11%
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| 34 | Gustave Flaubert(1869) | Sentimental Education | French | 11%
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| 5 | Anonymous(6th – 4th century BCE) | Book of Job | Hebrew | 10%
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| 26 | Fyodor Dostoevsky(1872) | The Possessed | Russian | 10%
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| 16 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline(1932) | Journey to the End of the Night | French | 9%
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| 88 | Italo Svevo(1923) | Confessions of Zeno | Italian | 8%
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| 96 | Vyasa(4th century BCE – 4th century CE) | Mahabharata | Sanskrit | 8%
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| 22 | Denis Diderot(1796) | Jacques the Fatalist | French | 7%
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| 100 | Marguerite Yourcenar(1951) | Memoirs of Hadrian | French | 6%
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| 72 | Fernando Pessoa(1928) | The Book of Disquiet | Portuguese | 5%
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| 65 | Elsa Morante(1974) | History | Italian | 4%
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| 55 | Halldór Laxness(1934–35) | Independent People | Icelandic | 4%
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| 76 | Juan Rulfo(1955) | Pedro Páramo | Spanish | 4%
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| 35 | Federico García Lorca(1928) | Gypsy Ballads | Spanish | 3%
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| 80 | Tayeb Salih(1966) | Season of Migration to the North | Arabic | 3%
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| 52 | Yasunari Kawabata(1954) | The Sound of the Mountain | Japanese | 3%
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| 59 | Lu Xun(1918) | A Madman's Diary | Chinese | 2%
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| 7 | Anonymous(13th century) | Njál's Saga | Old Norse | 2%
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| 41 | João Guimarães Rosa(1956) | The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | Portuguese | 2%
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| 79 | Saadi(1257) | Bostan | Persian | 1%
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| 60 | Naguib Mahfouz(1959) | Children of Gebelawi | Arabic | 1%
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| 77 | Rumi(1258–73) | Masnavi | Persian | 1%
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| 51 | Kālidāsa(1st century BCE – 4th century CE) | Shakuntala | Sanskrit | 1%
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