Top 94 Works in World Literature - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
George Orwell 1984
95%
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
85%
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
73%
William Shakespeare Hamlet
73%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
71%
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
70%
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
70%
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
66%
Homer The Iliad
63%
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
62%
Homer The Odyssey
60%
Herman Melville Moby Dick
58%
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
55%
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
55%
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
54%
James Joyce Ulysses
47%
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
46%
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
43%
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
42%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
40%
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
40%
Toni Morrison Beloved
39%
William Shakespeare Othello
39%
Albert Camus The Stranger
35%
Franz Kafka The Trial
35%
Virgil The Aeneid
33%
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
33%
William Shakespeare King Lear
32%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
31%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust
30%
Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House
28%
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
28%
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
28%
George Eliot Middlemarch
26%
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
25%
Ovid Metamorphoses
24%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
24%
Giovanni Boccaccio Decameron
22%
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
22%
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time
20%
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
20%
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
20%
Franz Kafka The Castle
19%
William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!
18%
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
18%
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
18%
Astrid Lindgren Pippi Longstocking
16%
Stendhal The Red and the Black
15%
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
14%
Sophocles Oedipus the King
14%
Günter Grass The Tin Drum
12%
Jose Saramago Blindness
11%
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
10%
Michel de Montaigne Essays
10%
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
10%
Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
9%
Knut Hamsun Hunger
8%
Euripides Medea
8%
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
8%
Alfred Döblin Berlin Alexanderplatz
7%
Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek
7%
Joseph Conrad Nostromo
6%
Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet
6%
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich
5%
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Possessed
5%
Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education
4%
Unknown Epic of Gilgamesh
4%
Honoré de Balzac Father Goriot
4%
Louis-Ferdinand Céline Journey to the End of The Night
4%
Samuel Beckett Malone Dies
4%
Samuel Beckett Molloy
4%
Valmiki Ramayana
4%
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities
4%
Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji
4%
India Mahabharata
3%
Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian
3%
Juan Rulfo Pedro Paramo
3%
Italo Svevo Confessions of Zeno
2%
Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman
2%
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales and Stories
2%
Federico Garcia Lorca Gypsy Ballads
2%
Elsa Morante History
2%
Halldor Laxness Independent People
2%
Denis Diderot Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
2%
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi Masnavi
2%
Israel The Book of Job
2%
Yasunari Kawabata The Sound of the Mountain
2%
Samuel Beckett The Unnamable
2%
Naguib Mahfouz Children of Gebelawi
1%
Iceland Njal's Saga
1%
Al-Tayyib Salih Season of Migration to the North
1%
Joao Guimaraes Rosa The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
1%
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi The Orchard
1%
Kalidasa The Recognition of Sakuntala
1%
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