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Book	Author	% Correct
Harry Potter	J.K Rowling	94%
Romeo and Juliet (And all of his works)	William Shakespeare	94%
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings	J.R.R Tolkien	93%
1984	George Orwell	92%
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	91%
The Bible	Solomon, David, Jeremiah, Joel, Nathan, Ezekiel.	89%
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald	86%
Animal Farm	George Orwell	84%
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	82%
To Kill a Mocking Bird	Harper Lee	82%
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	81%
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	80%
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	77%
The Odyssey	Homer	74%
Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	73%
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	73%
Moby Dick	Herman Mellville	72%
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	71%
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	71%
Emma	Jane Austen	70%
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	70%
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	68%
The Iliad	Homer	68%
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	65%
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	64%
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	64%
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	63%
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	62%
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	58%
Lord of The Flies	William Golding	58%
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen	58%
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	57%
Catch 22	Joseph Heller	57%
Grapes of Wrath	John Steinback	57%
Ulysses	James Joyce	54%
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	53%
The Complete Works of Dr Seuss	Dr Seuss	52%
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	52%
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	51%
Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	51%
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	49%
Winnie The Pooh	A A Milne	49%
Dune	Frank Herbert	48%
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	48%
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	47%
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	46%
Beloved	Toni Morrison	45%
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	43%
Charlotte's Web	EB White	40%
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	40%
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	40%
The Secret History	Donna Tartt	40%
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	39%
Middlemarch	George Eliot	39%
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	38%
Anne of Green Gables	LM Montgomery	36%
Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	36%
Atonement	Ian McEwan	35%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	33%
Love In The Time Of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	33%
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey	33%
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	33%
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	33%
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	32%
Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	31%
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	31%
Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	30%
Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray	30%
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	29%
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	28%
East of Eden	John Steinback	28%
The Remains of The Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	28%
The Trial	Franz Kafka	28%
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	28%
One Thousand and One Nights	*Multiple Unidentified Middle Eastern Authors	27%
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	25%
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	24%
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	23%
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	23%
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	23%
Watership Down	Richard Adams	22%
A Passage to India	E M Forester	21%
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	21%
Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	20%
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	19%
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	19%
Siddharta	Hermann Hesse	18%
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingslover	17%
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	16%
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	16%
A Little Life	Hanya Yanaghrina	15%
Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Louis de Bernières	15%
Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	15%
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	14%
Giovanni's Room	James Baldwin	14%
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	13%
Germinal	Emilie Zola	13%
Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransome	13%
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	13%
Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	11%
The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Mitch Albom	11%
A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	10%
A Town Like Alice	Nevil Shute	9%
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	9%
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks	9%
White Noise	Don DeLillo	9%
Like Water for Chocolate	Laura Esquivel	8%
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Leo Tolstoy	8%
Blindness	Jose Saramago	7%
Native Son	Richard Wright	7%
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	7%
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	6%
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas	6%
Gargantua and Pantagruel	François Rabelais	5%
Maurice	EM Forester	5%
Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	5%
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	4%
Cutting for Stone	Abraham Verghese	4%
I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith	4%
Tipping the Velvet	Sarah Waters	4%
Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler	3%
Half a Yellow Sun	Ngozi Adichie	3%
I am a Cat	Natsume Sōseki	3%
Six Characters in Search of an Author	Luigi Pirandello	3%
A Golden Age	Tahmima Anam	2%
Man Tiger	Eka Kurniawan	2%
Old Yeller	Fred Gipson	2%
Stoner	John Edward Williams	2%
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	2%
The Price of Salt	Patricia Higsmith	2%
The Sympathizer	Viet Than Nguyen	2%
Discovery of Heaven	Harry Muslich	1%
Men at Arms	Terry Pratchett	1%
The Gaucho Martin Fierro	Jose Hernandez	1%
The Pillow Book	Sei Shonogan	1%
To Live	Yu Hua	1%
Train to Pakistan	Khushuwant Singh	1%
Abhijnanasakutakalam	Kalidasa	0%
A Mind at Peace	Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar	0%
Azazeel	Youssef Ziedan	0%
Banaag At Sikat	Lope K Santos	0%
Children of Gebelawi	Naguib Mahfouz	0%
Dom Casmurro	Joaquim Maria Machado	0%
Fools Crow	James Welch	0%
Indian Horse	Richard Wagamese	0%
I Stared at the Night of the City	Bakhtiyar Ali	0%
Kintu	Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi	0%
Men Without Women	Ernest Hemingway	0%
Mission to Kala	Mongo Beti	0%
Nectar in a Sieve	Kamala Markandaya	0%
Novel With Cocaine	M Ageyev	0%
Radiance of the King	Camara Laye	0%
Room on the Roof	Ruskin Bond	0%
Shell Shaker	LeAnne Howe	0%
Solar Storms	Linda Hogan	0%
Spiders House	Paul Bowles	0%
Strange Weather in Tokyo	Hiromi Kawakami	0%
The Beautiful Ones are not Yet Born	Ayi Kwei Armah	0%
The Blood of Flowers	Anita Amirrezvani	0%
The Devil's Dance	Hamid Ismaliov	0%
The Earth of Mankind	Pramoedya Anata Toer	0%
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh	Franz Werfel	0%
The Four Chambered Heart	Anaïs Nin	0%
The Lower Depths	Maxim Gorky	0%
The Motion of Light in Water	Samuel R Delany	0%
Under the Udala Trees	Chinelo Okpantra	0%