Statistics for 20th-Century Writers Around the World

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Works	Country	Writer	% Correct
The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls	USA	Ernest Hemingway	94%
Harry Potter	England	J. K. Rowling	94%
Animal Farm	British India	George Orwell	90%
The Great Gatsby	USA	F. Scott Fitzgerald	88%
Ulysses; Finnegans Wake	Ireland	James Joyce	83%
Der Process (The Trial)	Austria-Hungary; Czechoslovakia	Franz Kafka	82%
To Kill a Mockingbird	USA	Harper Lee	81%
The Jungle Book; Just So Stories	England	Rudyard Kipling	81%
Lolita	Russian Empire	Vladimir Nabokov	81%
Stories of Sherlock Holmes; The Lost World	Scotland	Arthur Conan Doyle	78%
The Shining; The Colorado Kid	USA	Stephen King	77%
The Stranger; The Plague	France	Albert Camus	76%
The Catcher in the Rye	USA	J.D. Salinger	74%
The Name Of The Rose	Italy	Umberto Eco	69%
The Call of the Wild; White Fang	USA	Jack London	66%
In Search of Lost Time	France	Marcel Proust	64%
To the Lighthouse; Mrs Dalloway	England	Virginia Woolf	63%
Waiting for Godot	Ireland	Samuel Beckett	61%
The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Sleeping Murder	England	Agatha Christie	60%
Buddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain	Germany	Thomas Mann	58%
The Glass Bead Game; Siddhartha	Germany	Hermann Hesse	53%
The Sound and the Fury	USA	William Faulkner	51%
Lord Jim; The Secret Agent	Poland, England	Joseph Conrad	43%
The Master and Margarita	Russian Empire; Soviet Union	Mikhail Bulgakov	40%
The Joke; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	Czechoslovakia	Milan Kundera	37%
The Roads to Freedom	France	Jean-Paul Sartre	35%
La biblioteca de Babel; Ficciones	Argentina	Jorge Luis Borges	35%
The Little Prince	France	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	32%
My Name Is Red; Snow	Turkey	Orhan Pamuk	27%
Jana Gana Mana (national anthem of India); Gitanjali	British India	Rabindranath Tagore	22%
Na Drini Ćuprija (The Bridge on the Drina)	Yugoslavia	Ivo Andrić	15%
L'Invitée; Le Sang des autres	France	Simone de Beauvoir	12%
Sonnets of Death; Readings for Women	Chile	Gabriela Mistral	10%
Nadja; Earthlight (Sun & Moon Classics)	France	André Breton	8%
Gospoda Glembajevi (Messrs. Glembay); Povratak Filipa Latinovicza	Austro-Hungarian Empire; Yugoslavia	Miroslav Krleža	8%