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Hint	Answer	% Correct
It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	1984	90%
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone eight-four days now without taking a fish.	The Old Man and the Sea	86%
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins	Lolita	81%
My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.	Great Expectations	71%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice	71%
I am an invisible man.	Invisible Man	67%
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.	The Catcher in the Rye	62%
Somebody must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.	The Trial	52%
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.	48%
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.	Lord of the Flies	48%
Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.	Thing's Fall Apart	38%
Among other public buildings in the town of Mudfog, it boasts one which is common to most towns great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse there was born on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.	Oliver Twist	29%
All this happened, more or less.	Slaughterhouse Five	29%
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.	Ulysses	29%
On an evening in the latter part of May, a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blackmoor or Blackmoor.	Tess of the D'urbervilles	19%
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.	The Secret History	19%
Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell.	Normal People	14%
They're out there.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	14%
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.	The Day of the Triffids	14%
The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.	The Knife of Never Letting Go	14%
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there game through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.	The Picture of Dorian Gray	14%
...I know, I understand, I shouldn't have done it.	At Night All Blood is Black	10%
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.	Half of a Yellow Sun	10%
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.	The Northern Lights	10%
The day was flat	Shuggie Bain	5%