Statistics for novels by decade

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Hint	Description	Answer	% Correct
1960s	After being arrested for killing an old woman, a violent teenager undergoes an experimental process to make him averse to criminal activity.	A Clockwork Orange	67%
1860s	An idealistic former student struggles with guilt and paranoia after murdering an unscrupulous pawnbroker and her sister.	Crime and Punishment	67%
1930s	The daughter of a plantation owner, hoping one day to win over the man she desires, makes a series of marriages and business decisions before, during, and after the Civil War, including wedding a roguish but wealthy smuggler.	Gone With the Wind	67%
1840s	After being wrongfully convicted of treason, a young man escapes prison and, with the aid of treasure left to him by a fellow inmate, takes revenge on the men who set him up.	The Count of Monte Cristo	67%
1910s	A salesman living with his family wakes up one morning and finds himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect.	The Metamorphosis	67%
1810s	Three sisters and their widowed mother move from their family estate to a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both the joys and tribulations of love.	Sense and Sensibility	56%
1870s	An orphan, living with his aunt and half-brother, grows up along the Mississippi River.	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	56%
1950s	An aging Cuban fisherman struggles to catch a giant marlin.	The Old Man and the Sea	56%
1830s	Various personal narratives, including marriages, death, and education, interact with the historical goings-on of the time in a fictional English town for which the novel is named.	Middlemarch	44%
1980s	A boy born at 12 am on August 15, 1947, discovers that all children born in India between 12 and 1 am on that date—the day of Indian independence—have special, superhuman powers.	Midnight's Children	44%
1820s	After she and her sister are betrayed on the way to meet their father in the Adirondacks, a woman falls in love with one of the men who saved her—a white man who grew up among the Delaware Indians.	The Last of the Mohicans	44%
2000s	An unnamed father travels with his young son, attempting to survive in the aftermath of an extinction event.	The Road	44%
1940s	Not long after his mother's death, a curiously unemotional resident of French Algeria kills an unnamed man in Algiers.	The Stranger	44%
1850s	The estranged son of an noble French family returns to France to save an old friend; there, he is imprisoned for his aristocratic heritage, and must rely on the help of his wife's father, himself a former inmate of the Bastille.	A Tale of Two Cities	33%
1900s	A well-born but recently poor woman struggles to find a wealthy husband in New York high society, ruining her reputation and social standing in the process.	The House of Mirth	33%
1990s	After holding a Dionysian bacchanal in the woods, a closely-knit group of classics students at a New England school decide to kill one of their own.	The Secret History	33%
1920s	A well-off London woman spends the day preparing for a party she is throwing.	Mrs Dalloway	22%
1890s	An English cottager discovers that he is descended from Norman nobility and presses his daughter to "claim kin" of a rich widow bearing the ancient family's name.	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	22%
1880s	When a spirited young American woman inherits her late father's fortune, she is invited to England by her wealthy aunt, eventually agreeing to marry the third in a series of suitors, unaware that his proposal is ill-motivated.	The Portrait of a Lady	22%
2010s	A biologist joins a group of scientists as they explore a mysterious uncanny zone known only as Area X.	Annihilation	11%
2020s	A man lives alone in the halls of an infinitely large house, slowly putting together his forgotten past and the truth behind his world.	Piranesi	11%
1970s	The son of a wealthy Black man in Michigan grows up and gains insight into American racial dynamics as he searches for supposed buried family treasure.	Song of Solomon	11%