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100 Greatest British Novels - BBC Culture Poll - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 698 times
- The average score is 31 of 100
Answer Stats
| Author | Novel | % Correct | |
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| George Orwell | 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 88%
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| Jane Austen | 1813 | Pride and Prejudice | 88%
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| George Orwell | 1945 | Animal Farm | 81%
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| Jane Austen | 1815 | Emma | 80%
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| Charles Dickens | 1861 | Great Expectations | 77%
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| J R R Tolkien | 1954 | The Lord of the Rings | 77%
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| Emily Bronte | 1847 | Wuthering Heights | 77%
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| Lewis Carroll | 1865 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 76%
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| Mary Shelley | 1818 | Frankenstein | 76%
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| William Golding | 1954 | Lord of the Flies | 75%
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| C S Lewis | 1949-54 | The Chronicles of Narnia | 74%
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| Jane Austen | 1811 | Sense and Sensibility | 71%
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| Charlotte Bronte | 1847 | Jane Eyre | 70%
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| Charles Dickens | 1850 | David Copperfield | 63%
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| Jonathan Swift | 1726 | Gulliver's Travels | 62%
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| Daniel Defoe | 1719 | Robinson Crusoe | 61%
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| Thomas Hardy | 1891 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 61%
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| Joseph Conrad | 1899 | Heart of Darkness | 58%
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| George Eliot | 1874 | Middlemarch | 55%
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| Virginia Woolf | 1927 | To The Lighthouse | 55%
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| William Makepeace Thackeray | 1848 | Vanity Fair | 52%
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| Virginia Woolf | 1925 | Mrs Dalloway | 51%
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| D H Lawrence | 1913 | Sons and Lovers | 50%
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| Kenneth Grahame | 1908 | The Wind in the Willows | 50%
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| Anthony Burgess | 1962 | A Clockwork Orange | 49%
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| E M Forster | 1924 | A Passage to India | 49%
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| Ian McEwan | 2001 | Atonement | 49%
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| Charles Dickens | 1853 | Bleak House | 48%
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| Wilkie Collins | 1859 | The Woman in White | 47%
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| E M Forster | 1908 | A Room with a View | 46%
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| Salman Rushdie | 1981 | Midnight's Children | 46%
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| Jane Austen | 1817 | Persuasion | 46%
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| Philip Pullman | 1995-2000 | His Dark Materials | 43%
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| Thomas Hardy | 1895 | Jude the Obscure | 43%
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| Zadie Smith | 2000 | White Teeth | 42%
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| Hilary Mantel | 2009 | Wolf Hall | 40%
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| E M Forster | 1910 | Howards End | 36%
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| Graham Greene | 1938 | Brighton Rock | 34%
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| Stella Gibbons | 1932 | Cold Comfort Farm | 33%
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| Kingsley Amis | 1954 | Lucky Jim | 33%
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| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1989 | Remains of the Day | 33%
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| Henry Fielding | 1749 | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 32%
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| D H Lawrence | 1920 | Women in Love | 32%
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| Muriel Spark | 1961 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 31%
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| Jeanette Winterson | 1985 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | 29%
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| Thomas Hardy | 1886 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 29%
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| Virginia Woolf | 1928 | Orlando | 27%
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| Laurence Stern | 1759 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | 27%
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| Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Never Let Me Go | 26%
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| Jean Rhys | 1966 | Wide Sargasso Sea | 26%
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| Evelyn Waugh | 1938 | Scoop | 25%
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| Daniel Defoe | 1722 | Moll Flanders | 22%
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| Joseph Conrad | 1904 | Nostromo | 22%
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| Monica Ali | 2003 | Brick Lane | 20%
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| W Somerset Maugham | 1915 | Of Human Bondage | 20%
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| A S Byatt | 1990 | Possession | 20%
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| Doris Lessing | 1962 | The Golden Notebook | 20%
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| Charlotte Bronte | 1853 | Villette | 20%
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| John Galsworthy | 1922 | The Forsyte Saga | 18%
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| George Eliot | 1876 | Daniel Deronda | 17%
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| Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | Under the Volcano | 17%
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| Virginia Woolf | 1931 | The Waves | 16%
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| Anthony Trollope | 1857 | Barchester Towers | 15%
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| J G Ballard | 1973 | Crash | 15%
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| Iris Murdoch | 1978 | The Sea, The Sea | 15%
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| Samuel Richardson | 1748 | Clarissa | 14%
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| Ford Madox Ford | 1915 | The Good Soldier | 13%
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| Graham Greene | 1948 | The Heart of the Matter | 13%
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| Anthony Powell | 1951-75 | A Dance to the Music of Time | 12%
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| Graham Greene | 1951 | The End of the Affair | 12%
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| Evelyn Waugh | 1928 | Decline and Fall | 11%
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| Charles Dickens | 1848 | Dombey and Son | 11%
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| V S Naipaul | 1961 | A House for Mr Biswas | 10%
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| Paul Scott | 1966 | The Jewel in the Crown | 10%
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| Ford Madox Ford | 1924-28 | Parade's End | 9%
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| Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | The Line of Beauty | 9%
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| Julian Barnes | 2011 | The Sense of an Ending | 9%
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| Zadie Smith | 2012 | NW | 8%
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| Hanif Kureishi | 1990 | The Buddha of Suburbia | 8%
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| Pat Barker | 1991-95 | Regeneration Trilogy | 7%
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| Andrea Levy | 2004 | Small Island | 7%
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| Anthony Trollope | 1875 | The Way We Live Now | 7%
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| Alan Hollinghurst | 1988 | The Swimming Pool Library | 6%
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| P G Wodehouse | 1938 | The Code of the Woosters | 5%
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| Elizabeth Bowen | 1938 | The Death of the Heart | 5%
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| Sarah Waters | 2009 | The Little Stranger | 5%
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| Henry Green | 1945 | Loving | 4%
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| George Gissing | 1891 | New Grub Street | 4%
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| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1995 | The Blue Flower | 4%
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| Arnold Bennett | 1908 | The Old Wives Tale | 4%
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| Jeanette Winterson | 1987 | The Passion | 4%
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| Joyce Cary | 1944 | The Horse's Mouth | 3%
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| Edward St Aubyn | 1992-2012 | The Patrick Melrose Novels | 3%
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| James Hogg | 1824 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 3%
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| Ali Smith | 2011 | There but for the | 3%
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| Sybille Bedford | 1956 | A Legacy | 2%
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| Barbara Pym | 1952 | Excellent Women | 2%
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| Doris Lessing | 1974 | Memoirs of a Survivor | 2%
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| Jane Gardam | 2004 | Old Filth | 1%
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| Tom McCarthy | 2005 | Remainder | 1%
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