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no.	Author	Answer	% Correct
2	George Orwell	1984	95%
1	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	89%
3	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	88%
20	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	82%
21	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	73%
7	Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	70%
8	Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	70%
58	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	69%
16	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	68%
38	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	66%
6	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	65%
5	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	64%
22	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Don Quixote	63%
29	James Joyce	Ulysses	63%
9	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	62%
11	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	60%
4	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	59%
18	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	58%
13	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	57%
15	Joseph Heller	Catch-22	52%
19	Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	52%
10	Alexandre Dumas	The Count of Monte Cristo	45%
28	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	45%
12	Gabriel García Márquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	43%
17	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Slaughterhouse-Five	40%
14	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	40%
24	Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis and Other Stories	39%
32	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	36%
30	Voltaire	Candide	34%
76	Albert Camus	The Stranger	34%
34	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	32%
78	Thomas Pynchon	V.	31%
27	Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose	30%
23	John Steinbeck	East of Eden	29%
33	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	28%
26	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	27%
51	George Eliot	Middlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton	26%
53	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	25%
36	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	24%
37	Albert Camus	The Plague	22%
25	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	22%
40	Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart	20%
49	D.H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	19%
42	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	18%
35	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	18%
52	Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	17%
41	Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	17%
31	Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	17%
48	David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	15%
65	Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest	15%
56	Günter Grass	The Tin Drum	15%
43	John Kennedy Toole	A Confederacy of Dunces	14%
87	James Joyce	Finnegans Wake	14%
61	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	13%
45	Robert Graves	I, Claudius	12%
47	Cormac McCarthy	Blood Meridian	11%
50	Willa Cather	My Ántonia	11%
64	Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	11%
46	Kate Chopin	The Awakening	10%
39	Carson McCullers	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	10%
55	Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men	9%
62	Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls	9%
60	Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	9%
44	José Saramago	Blindness	8%
97	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex	8%
98	Richard Wright	Native Son	7%
63	Henry Fielding	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	7%
66	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	7%
59	Edith Wharton	The House of Mirth	6%
70	Theodore Dreiser	An American Tragedy	5%
72	Willa Cather	Death Comes for the Archbishop	5%
57	Jorge Luis Borges	Ficciones	5%
54	William Faulkner	Light in August	5%
82	Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano	5%
67	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Cancer Ward	4%
69	Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	4%
68	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead	4%
83	Toni Morrison	Jazz	4%
74	Lawrence Durrell	The Alexandria Quartet	4%
79	John Galsworthy	The Forsyte Saga	4%
85	Murasaki Shikibu	The Tale of Genji	4%
81	George Eliot	Adam Bede	3%
77	V.S. Naipaul	A House for Mr Biswas	3%
91	Vasily Grossman	Life and Fate	3%
92	Thomas Pynchon	Mason & Dixon	3%
71	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	3%
88	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	3%
95	John Dos Passos	1919	2%
93	Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift	2%
94	William Gaddis	JR	2%
75	Honoré de Balzac	Lost Illusions	2%
73	John Updike	Rabbit Angstrom	2%
89	William Gaddis	The Recognitions	2%
86	Émile Zola	Therese Raquin	2%
84	John Barth	The Sot-Weed Factor	2%
99	William H. Gass	The Tunnel	2%
80	Richard Russo	Bridge of Sighs	1%
100	Alexander Theroux	Darconville's Cat	1%
96	Hermann Broch	The Death of Virgil	1%
90	Graham Greene	The Tenth Man	1%