166 Essential Books.

odyssey is spelled wrong

good quiz

You should include every author of the Bible

There are still a lot of typos, and there isn't nearly enough time

You should accept the spelling Quijote, not just Quixote. That's the name used in modern spanish and many countries use only the J spelling.

Dante's name is spelled wrong - Alighieri, not Alghieri

Typed "Huckleberry Finn". Added "Adventures of". Still no good. It's never necessary to include a leading "The", but "Adventures of" should also be optional.

"And" should never be mandatory because people sometimes use an ampersand. The Jetpunk standard would accept "Pride Prejudice" and "Sense Sensibility", for instance.

Jerimiah = Jeremiah

Ezekial = Ezekiel

My kind of quiz since I've actually read 50 of the 53 I got..not counting the 7 I missed for the same reason already mentioned in the comments...type-ins should accept titles without "A" or "The."

Really surprised that "Satanic Verses" was not the Rushdie opus included. The Hemingway novel is so little known that it wasn't even mentioned in an American literature class I took for my Master's degree!

Bravo to you for creating this challenging quiz! Now you need to get busy reading some of these that you evidently haven't read yet..."Gatsby" is close to a perfect novel, if there could be such a thing. "Poisonwood Bible" is a masterpeice. I know Moby Dick and "Don Quixote" aren't everyone's cup of tea, but try them, you might be surprised!

"Cold Comfort Farm" is loony and fun. "Rebecca" must surely be one of the most engrossing plots ever conceived. The main character of "Vanity Fair" is a real b..ch, but certainly memorable.

Thanks for bringing these masterworks into one big picture!

Interesting list, but still a few typos to be fixed, including a couple that prevent acceptance of the correct answer:

- Infinite Jest (currently misspelled Infiinte)

- Fahrenheit 451 (currently misspelled Farenheit)

I would also suggest accepting "The Count of Monte Cristo" since that's the actual title; currently you only accept it without "The", so I missed it.

Relatedly, I missed A Confederacy of Dunces because I didn't type in the "A". That's technically fair, since I didn't have the full title, but some of the other answers don't require the initial article, so you might want to revisit that decision.

Also, Charlotte Bronte is currently misspelled Charoltte, and Patricia Highsmith is misspelled Higsmith, but those are less of an issue since they're clues rather than answers.

Once you spend the time to spellcheck every title and every author, clean up the colors and add some more of the obvious type-ins, this will be a great quiz. Until then, it's a pretty cool book list but it doesn't play well. It's plenty hard enough remembering that The Time Traveler's Wife was written by Niffenegger or guessing which of Rushdie's or Solzhenitsyn's masterpieces you decided to include without also needing to guess whether you insist on the "a" or "and" or what The Complete Works of Dr Seuss is called exactly.

"Christmas Carol" isn't accepted but "A Christmas Carol" is

You can standardize the color by copying the cell and pasting it on the others. If you think it'll be a bit of work, you can add me as a collab and I'll do it. Just...really kinda throws me off.