Statistics for Best Novels Written in English

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The average score is 35 of 100

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Author	Novel	% Correct
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	95%
Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	90%
Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	82%
Bram Stoker	Dracula	79%
Jane Austen	Emma	79%
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	79%
George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty Four	79%
Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	77%
Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	74%
Herman Melville	Moby Dick	74%
Lewis Carrol	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	72%
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	69%
JD Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	64%
Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	59%
Jack Kerouac	On the Road	59%
Sylvia Plath	The Bell Jar	59%
Jack London	The Call of the Wild	59%
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	59%
F Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	59%
John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress	59%
James Joyce	Ulysses	59%
Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	56%
Joseph Heller	Catch 22	56%
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	56%
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	56%
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	56%
Anthony Burgess	A Clockwork Orange	54%
George Eliot	Middlemarch	54%
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	54%
William Thackeray	Vanity Fair	54%
Rudyard Kipling	Kim	51%
Virginia Woolf	Mrs Dalloway	51%
Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	49%
EM Forster	A Passage to India	46%
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	46%
Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	46%
Truman Capote	In Cold Blood	44%
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	44%
Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	44%
Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	41%
Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage	41%
Kenneth Grahame	The Wind in the Willows	41%
Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon	38%
Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	38%
Jerome K Jerome	Three Men in a Boat	38%
Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer	36%
Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men	33%
William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	33%
Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	33%
Muriel Spark	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	33%
Malcolm Lowry	Under the Volcano	31%
Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence	28%
Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep	28%
Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone	28%
DH Lawrence	The Rainbow	28%
Phillip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint	26%
Theodore Dresier	Sister Carrie	26%
Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	23%
Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm	23%
W Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage	23%
Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon	23%
Benjamin Disraeli	Sybil	23%
Flann O'Brien	At Swim-Two Birds	21%
Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	21%
Henry James	The Golden Bowl	21%
Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook	21%
John Buchan	The Thirty-Nine Steps	18%
Sinclair Lewis	Babbitt	15%
Evelyn Waugh	Scoop	15%
Ford Madox Ford	The Good Soldier	15%
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Sign of Four	15%
VS Naipaul	A Bend in the River	13%
Marilynne Robinson	Housekeeping	13%
Anthony Trollope	The Way We Live Now	13%
Max Beerbohm	Zuleika Dobson	13%
Kazuo Ishiguro	An Artist of the Floating World	10%
JM Coetzee	Disgrace	10%
Underworld	Don DeLillo	10%
Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	10%
George Gissing	New Grub Street	10%
Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey	10%
John Updike	Rabbit Redux	10%
Edgar Allen Poe	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	10%
Patrick White	Voss	10%
Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons	8%
Henry Green	Party Going	8%
Graham Greene	The End of the Affair	8%
John McGahern	Amongst Women	5%
Christopher Isherwood	A Single Man	5%
Sylvia Townsend Warner	Lolly Willowes	5%
Elizabeth Taylor	Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont	5%
Samuel Beckett	Murphy	5%
Elizabeth Bowen	The Heat of the Day	5%
HG Wells	The History of Mr Polly	5%
Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	5%
Frederick Rolfe	Hadrian the Seventh	3%
P.G. Wodehouse	Joy in the Morning	3%
Martin Amis	Money: A Suicide Note	3%
John Dos Passos	Nineteen Nineteen	3%
Penelope Fitzgerald	The Beginning of Spring	3%