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English Literary Canon

How many books can you guess from the much beloved canon of literature? (this refers to the WESTERN canon) Note: the canon is always being debated and there is not an official or concrete list - this quiz is just a list of the main books that are normally agreed to be part of the canon, but some may be missing.
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Last updated: January 5, 2022
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
George Orwell
Animal Farm
J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Jane Austen
Emma
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
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(8th century)
Beowulf
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Homer
The Odyssey
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
James Joyce
Ulysses
George Eliot
Middlemarch
William Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry James
Portrait of a Lady
Ian McEwan
Atonement
George Orwell
1984
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Virgil
The Aeneid
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Plato
The Republic
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
Nabokov
Lolita
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
SARVEII
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Level 55
Jul 25, 2023
Since it's not only english (you put some latins, greeks, french and russians), you forgot a lot of books way more important than the majority you put in the quiz...

Divine Comedy, Decameron, Gargantua and Pantagurel, Don Quixote, The Betrothed, The Miser...

hihipicklei
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Level 56
Nov 14, 2023
The book is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, NOT Alice in Wonderland...that is the name of the Disney film
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