Statistics for Top 100 Books Everyone Should Read

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  • The average score is 35 of 104

Answer Stats

HintAnswer% Correct
Jane Austen (1813)Pride and Prejudice
91%
George Orwell (1949)1984
90%
J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)The Lord of the Rings
83%
Lewis Carroll (1865)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
81%
Mary Shelley (1818)Frankenstein
80%
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)The Great Gatsby
79%
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)Crime and Punishment
78%
Vladimir Nabokov (1955)Lolita
78%
Emily Brontë (1847)Wuthering Heights
78%
John Steinbeck (1939)The Grapes of Wrath
77%
Herman Melville (1851)Moby Dick
76%
Harper Lee (1960)To Kill a Mockingbird
75%
Miguel de Cervantes (1605)Don Quixote
74%
J.D. Salinger (1945)The Catcher in the Rye
74%
Victor Hugo (1862)Les Miserables
71%
Mark Twain (1884)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
68%
Leo Tolstoy (1878)Anna Karenina
67%
Joseph Conrad (1899)Heart of Darkness
67%
James Joyce (1922)Ulysses
67%
Margaret Atwood (1985)The Handmaid's Tale
65%
Charlotte Bronte (1847)Jane Eyre
63%
Joseph Heller (1961)Catch-22
60%
Jonathan Swift (1726)Gulliver's Travels
59%
Jack Kerouac (1957)On the Road
59%
Alexandre Dumas (1844)The Three Musketeers
59%
Douglas Adams (1979)The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
57%
Gustave Flaubert (1856)Madame Bovary
55%
Daniel Defoe (1719)Robinson Crusoe
54%
Toni Morrison (1987)Beloved
53%
Albert Camus (1946)The Stranger
53%
George Eliot (1871-72)Middlemarch
52%
H.G. Wells (1898)The War of the Worlds
51%
Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)The Hound of the Baskervilles
49%
Charles Dickens (1849)David Copperfield
47%
Ian McEwan (2001)Atonement
46%
Franz Kafka (1925)The Trial
45%
Boris Pasternak (1957)Doctor Zhivago
43%
Chinua Achebe (1958)Things Fall Apart
43%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)One Hundred Years of Solitude
42%
Umberto Eco (1980)The Name of the Rose
42%
Salman Rushdie (1981)Midnight's Children
40%
Erich Maria Remarque (1929)All Quiet on the Western Front
39%
John le Carré (1974)Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
39%
E. M. Forster (1924)A Passage to India
37%
Virginia Woolf (1925)Mrs. Dalloway
35%
John Updike (1960)Rabbit, Run
33%
Thomas Hardy (1891)Tess of the d'Urbervilles
33%
Marcel Proust (1913)In Search of Lost Time
32%
Kingsley Amis (1954)Lucky Jim
29%
Günter Grass (1959)The Tin Drum
29%
Milan Kundera (1984)The Unbearable Lightness of Being
28%
Henry Fielding (1749)Tom Jones
27%
Middle Eastern Folk Tales - English Publication (1706-1721)Arabian Nights
26%
Wilkie Collins (1868)The Moonstone
26%
Jean Rhys (1966)Wide Sargasso Sea
26%
Muriel Spark (1961)The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
25%
Stendhal (1830)The Red and the Black
25%
Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
24%
Émile Zola (1885)Germinal
23%
Jean Paul Sarte (1938)Nausea
23%
Laurie Lee (1959)Cider with Rosie
22%
Raymond Chandler (1939)The Big Sleep
21%
Henry James (1881)The Portrait of a Lady
21%
Stella Gibbons (1932)Cold Comfort Farm
20%
Doris Lessing (1962)The Golden Notebook
18%
Laurence Sterne (1759)Tristram Shandy
18%
James Baldwin (1953)Go Tell It on the Mountain
17%
Graham Greene (1938)Brighton Rock
15%
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)The Leopard
15%
John Updike (1990)Rabbit at Rest
14%
Edith Wharton (1905)The House of Mirth
13%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)The Sorrows of Young Werther
13%
V. S. Naipul (1979)A Bend in the River
11%
John Updike (1971)Rabbit Redux
11%
Evelyn Waugh (1938)Scoop
11%
Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)Cranford
10%
Italo Calvino (1979)If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
10%
Don DeLillo (1997)Underworld
9%
Anthony Powell (1951-1975)A Dance to the Music of Time
8%
J. G. Ballard (1973)Crash
8%
Alexander Pushkin (1833)Eugene Onegin
8%
Murasaki Shikibu (1008)The Tale of Genji
8%
Samuel Richardson (1748)Clarissa
7%
J M Coetzee (1999)Disgrace
7%
Peter Carey (1988)Oscar and Lucinda
7%
John Updike (1981)Rabbit is Rich
7%
Hermann Hesse (1943)The Glass Bead Game
6%
Martin Amis (1989)London Fields
5%
Orhan Pamuk (1998)My Name is Red
5%
Irene Nemirovsky (2004)Suite Francaise
5%
Roberto Bolano (1998)The Savage Detectives
5%
Anthony Trollope (1855)The Warden
4%
W.G. Sebald (2001)Austerlitz
3%
Anne Tyler (1982)Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
3%
Honoré de Balzac (1835)Father Goriot
3%
Georges Perec (1978)Life: A User's Manual
3%
Naguib Mahfouz (1956)Palace Walk
3%
Naguib Mahfouz (1957)Sugar Street
3%
Iris Murdoch (1954)Under the Net
3%
Naguib Mahfouz (1957)Palace of Desire
2%
P.G. Wodehouse (1938)The Code of the Woosters
1%
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1955)The Voyeur
1%
Rabindranath Tagore (1916)The Home and the World
0%
R. K. Narayan (1955)Waiting for the Mahatma
0%

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