| Works to consider | Titles in Chronological Order | Date of Publication | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| O Pioneers! | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 100%
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| The Wizard of Oz | Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare | 1599 | 90%
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| Candide | The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 1982 | 90%
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| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 90%
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| Gulliver's Travels | The Art of War by SunTzu | c. 500BC | 80%
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| Walden | The Republic by Plato | c. 380 BC | 80%
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| The Pickwick Papers | The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | c. 1021 | 80%
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| A Farewell to Arms | Candide by Voltaire | 1759 | 70%
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| The Age of Innocence | Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | c. 1390 | 70%
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| Anna Karenina | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 1961 | 70%
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| Catch-22 | Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy | 1874 | 70%
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| Silas Marner | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | 70%
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| The Golden Bowl | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | 1859 | 70%
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| Madame Bovary | The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 | 70%
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| Catcher in the Rye | Ulysses by James Joyce | 1922 | 70%
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| Paradise Lost | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | 60%
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| I, Robot | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll | 1865 | 60%
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| Canterbury Tales | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 1951 | 60%
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| The Republic | Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx | 1848 | 60%
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| Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | c. 1320 | 60%
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| The Time Machine | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | 60%
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| The Wealth of Nations | I, Robot by Isaac Azimov | 1950 | 60%
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| Heart of Darkness | Masnavi by Rumi | c. 1260 | 60%
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| The Art of War | Paradise Lost by John Milton | 1667 | 60%
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| Communist Manifesto | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | 1813 | 60%
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| Crime and Punishment | The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith | 1776 | 60%
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| The Lord of the Rings | The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum | 1900 | 60%
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| Don Quixote | Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner | 1936 | 50%
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| The Origin of Species | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | 50%
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| The Prince | Les Miserables by Victor Hugo | 1862 | 50%
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| Lolita | Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1935 | 50%
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| The Color Purple | Moby Dick by Herman Melville | 1851 | 50%
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| Far from the Madding Crowd | The Golden Bowl by Henry James | 1904 | 50%
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| The Three Musketeers | The Time Machine by H.G. Wells | 1895 | 50%
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| Pride and Prejudice | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | 40%
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| Little House on the Prarie | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 1899 | 40%
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| Much Ado about Nothing | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | 1856 | 40%
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| Absalom, Absalom! | Silas Marner by George Eliot | 1861 | 40%
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| The Sea, the Sea | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake | 1793 | 40%
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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | 40%
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| The Great Gatsby | Walden by Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | 40%
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| Ulysses | Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 1725 | 30%
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| The Secret Doctrine | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 1920 | 30%
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| Les Miserables | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | 1836 | 30%
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| Masnavi | The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch | 1978 | 30%
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| Moby Dick | The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky | 1888 | 30%
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| The Tale of Genji | O Pioneers! by Willa Cather | 1913 | 20%
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