Statistics for The 100 greatest novels of all time

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  • The average score is 31 of 94

Answer Stats

#Author(Year)Book TitleLanguage% Correct
8Jane Austen(1813)Pride and PrejudiceEnglish
83%
90Leo Tolstoy(1865–69)War and PeaceRussian
82%
70George Orwell(1949)Nineteen Eighty-FourEnglish
81%
17Miguel de Cervantes(1605, 1615)Don QuixoteSpanish
76%
82William Shakespeare(1603)HamletEnglish
76%
13Emily Brontë(1847)Wuthering HeightsEnglish
75%
63Herman Melville(1851)Moby-DickEnglish
74%
24Fyodor Dostoevsky(1866)Crime and PunishmentRussian
73%
69Vladimir Nabokov(1955)LolitaEnglish
71%
91Leo Tolstoy(1877)Anna KareninaRussian
70%
45Homer(8th century BCE)OdysseyClassical Greek
70%
21Charles Dickens(1861)Great ExpectationsEnglish
67%
44Homer(850–750 BCE)IliadClassical Greek
67%
47James Joyce(1922)UlyssesEnglish
67%
18Geoffrey Chaucer(14th century)The Canterbury TalesEnglish
64%
3Dante Alighieri(1265–1321)Divina CommediaItalian
57%
27Fyodor Dostoevsky(1880)The Brothers KaramazovRussian
57%
33Gustave Flaubert(1857)Madame BovaryFrench
56%
93Mark Twain(1884)Adventures of Huckleberry FinnEnglish
55%
99Virginia Woolf(1927)To the LighthouseEnglish
55%
89Jonathan Swift(1726)Gulliver's TravelsEnglish
54%
84William Shakespeare(1609)OthelloEnglish
54%
25Fyodor Dostoevsky(1869)The IdiotRussian
51%
83William Shakespeare(1608)King LearEnglish
50%
43Ernest Hemingway(1952)The Old Man and the SeaEnglish
50%
49Franz Kafka(1925)The TrialGerman
50%
66Toni Morrison(1987)BelovedEnglish
49%
14Albert Camus(1942)The StrangerFrench
49%
28George Eliot(1781)MiddlemarchEnglish
48%
32William Faulkner(1929)The Sound and the FuryEnglish
47%
36Gabriel García Márquez(1967)One Hundred Years of SolitudeSpanish
46%
74Marcel Proust(1913–27)In Search of Lost TimeFrench
45%
98Virginia Woolf(1925)Mrs DallowayEnglish
43%
54D. H. Lawrence(1913)Sons and LoversEnglish
41%
1Chinua Achebe(1958)Things Fall ApartEnglish
40%
29Ralph Ellison(1952)Invisible ManEnglish
39%
37Gabriel García Márquez(1985)Love in the Time of CholeraSpanish
39%
78Salman Rushdie(1981)Midnight's ChildrenEnglish
39%
38Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1832)FaustGerman
38%
11Giovanni Boccaccio(1349–53)The DecameronItalian
37%
46Henrik Ibsen(1879)A Doll's HouseNorwegian
34%
95Virgil(29–19 BCE)AeneidClassical Latin
34%
97Walt Whitman(1855)Leaves of GrassEnglish
34%
31William Faulkner(1936)Absalom, Absalom!English
33%
58Astrid Lindgren(1945)Pippi LongstockingSwedish
31%
71Ovid(1st century CE)MetamorphosesClassical Latin
29%
86Stendhal(1830)The Red and the BlackFrench
29%
62Thomas Mann(1924)The Magic MountainGerman
28%
87Laurence Sterne(1760)Tristram ShandyEnglish
27%
85Sophocles(430 BCE)Oedipus the KingClassical Greek
26%
40Günter Grass(1959)The Tin DrumGerman
26%
39Nikolai Gogol(1842)Dead SoulsRussian
25%
4Anonymous(18th–17th century BCE)Epic of GilgameshAkkadian
25%
20Joseph Conrad(1904)NostromoEnglish
24%
50Franz Kafka(1926)The CastleGerman
24%
53Nikos Kazantzakis(1946)Zorba the GreekGreek
22%
9Honoré de Balzac(1835)Le Père GoriotFrench
21%
75François Rabelais(1532–34)The Life of Gargantua and of PantagruelFrench
21%
61Thomas Mann(1901)BuddenbrooksGerman
18%
42Knut Hamsun(1890)HungerNorwegian
18%
30Euripides(431 BCE)MedeaClassical Greek
16%
6Anonymous(700–1500)One Thousand and One NightsArabic
16%
64Michel de Montaigne(1595)EssaysFrench
14%
67Murasaki Shikibu(11th century)The Tale of GenjiJapanese
14%
81José Saramago(1995)BlindnessPortuguese
13%
57Doris Lessing(1962)The Golden NotebookEnglish
13%
94Valmiki(3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE)RamayanaSanskrit
12%
10*Samuel Beckett(1951–53)Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (a trilogy)French, English
11%
92Leo Tolstoy(1886)The Death of Ivan IlyichRussian
11%
68Robert Musil(1930–32)The Man Without QualitiesGerman
11%
23Alfred Döblin(1929)Berlin AlexanderplatzGerman
10%
34Gustave Flaubert(1869)Sentimental EducationFrench
10%
12Jorge Luis Borges(1944–86)FiccionesSpanish
8%
16Louis-Ferdinand Céline(1932)Journey to the End of the NightFrench
8%
96Vyasa(4th century BCE – 4th century CE)MahabharataSanskrit
8%
26Fyodor Dostoevsky(1872)The PossessedRussian
8%
5Anonymous(6th – 4th century BCE)Book of JobHebrew
7%
88Italo Svevo(1923)Confessions of ZenoItalian
7%
22Denis Diderot(1796)Jacques the FatalistFrench
7%
100Marguerite Yourcenar(1951)Memoirs of HadrianFrench
6%
72Fernando Pessoa(1928)The Book of DisquietPortuguese
4%
65Elsa Morante(1974)HistoryItalian
3%
55Halldór Laxness(1934–35)Independent PeopleIcelandic
3%
76Juan Rulfo(1955)Pedro PáramoSpanish
3%
35Federico García Lorca(1928)Gypsy BalladsSpanish
2%
7Anonymous(13th century)Njál's SagaOld Norse
2%
80Tayeb Salih(1966)Season of Migration to the NorthArabic
2%
52Yasunari Kawabata(1954)The Sound of the MountainJapanese
2%
59Lu Xun(1918)A Madman's DiaryChinese
1%
77Rumi(1258–73)MasnaviPersian
1%
41João Guimarães Rosa(1956)The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsPortuguese
1%
79Saadi(1257)BostanPersian
0%
60Naguib Mahfouz(1959)Children of GebelawiArabic
0%
51Kālidāsa(1st century BCE – 4th century CE)ShakuntalaSanskrit
0%

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