Statistics for Top 94 Works in World Literature

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
George Orwell	1984	95%
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	84%
William Shakespeare	Hamlet	73%
Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	72%
Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	72%
Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	70%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Crime and Punishment	69%
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	66%
Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	62%
Homer	The Iliad	62%
Homer	The Odyssey	60%
Herman Melville	Moby Dick	59%
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	56%
Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	55%
Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy	53%
Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	47%
James Joyce	Ulysses	47%
Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	43%
Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	42%
Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea	40%
William Shakespeare	Othello	39%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	38%
Toni Morrison	Beloved	37%
Albert Camus	The Stranger	34%
Franz Kafka	The Trial	34%
William Shakespeare	King Lear	33%
Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	32%
Virgil	The Aeneid	31%
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Idiot	31%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	29%
Henrik Ibsen	A Doll's House	28%
Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass	28%
Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway	28%
George Eliot	Middlemarch	26%
William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	25%
Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	23%
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	23%
Ovid	Metamorphoses	22%
Giovanni Boccaccio	Decameron	21%
Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	19%
Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	19%
D. H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers	19%
Chinua Achebe	Things Fall Apart	19%
Franz Kafka	The Castle	18%
William Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!	17%
Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	17%
Astrid Lindgren	Pippi Longstocking	16%
Stendhal	The Red and the Black	15%
Sophocles	Oedipus the King	14%
Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls	13%
Günter Grass	The Tin Drum	13%
Jose Saramago	Blindness	10%
Thomas Mann	Buddenbrooks	9%
Michel de Montaigne	Essays	9%
Francois Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel	9%
Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	9%
Doris Lessing	The Golden Notebook	8%
Knut Hamsun	Hunger	7%
Euripides	Medea	7%
Nikos Kazantzakis	Zorba the Greek	7%
Alfred Döblin	Berlin Alexanderplatz	6%
Joseph Conrad	Nostromo	6%
Fernando Pessoa	The Book of Disquiet	5%
Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Possessed	5%
Gustave Flaubert	A Sentimental Education	4%
Honoré de Balzac	Father Goriot	4%
Samuel Beckett	Molloy	4%
Leo Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	4%
Robert Musil	The Man Without Qualities	4%
Unknown	Epic of Gilgamesh	3%
Louis-Ferdinand Céline	Journey to the End of The Night	3%
India	Mahabharata	3%
Samuel Beckett	Malone Dies	3%
Juan Rulfo	Pedro Paramo	3%
Valmiki	Ramayana	3%
Murasaki Shikibu	The Tale of Genji	3%
Italo Svevo	Confessions of Zeno	2%
Nikolai Gogol	Diary of a Madman	2%
Elsa Morante	History	2%
Halldor Laxness	Independent People	2%
Denis Diderot	Jacques the Fatalist and His Master	2%
Marguerite Yourcenar	Memoirs of Hadrian	2%
Israel	The Book of Job	2%
Samuel Beckett	The Unnamable	2%
Naguib Mahfouz	Children of Gebelawi	1%
Hans Christian Anderson	Fairy Tales and Stories	1%
Federico Garcia Lorca	Gypsy Ballads	1%
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi	Masnavi	1%
Iceland	Njal's Saga	1%
Al-Tayyib Salih	Season of Migration to the North	1%
Joao Guimaraes Rosa	The Devil to Pay in the Backlands	1%
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi	The Orchard	1%
Kalidasa	The Recognition of Sakuntala	1%
Yasunari Kawabata	The Sound of the Mountain	1%