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How Well-Read Are You?

Bookworm much?

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Ailbhe Malone
Ailbhe Malone
BuzzFeed Staff, UK
Tick off which of these works you've read!Collated from several sources, including this, this, and this.
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Tick off which of these works you've read!

Collated from several sources, including this, this, and this.

  1. Which of these have you read?

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    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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    In Memorium to Identity by Kathy Acker
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    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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    Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
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    Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen
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    Winesberg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
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    The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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    Crash by J. G. Ballard
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    Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
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    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, (A trilogy) by Samuel Beckett
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    The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
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    Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
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    The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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    Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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    The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
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    Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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    A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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    Possession by A.S. Byatt
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    The Stranger by Albert Camus
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    Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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    The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
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    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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    Stories by Anton Chekhov
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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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    Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
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    Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
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    Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
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    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
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    Middlemarch by George Eliot
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    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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    Medea by Euripides
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    Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
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    The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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    A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
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    The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
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    The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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    American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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    Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca
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    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
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    Cyberspace Trilogy by William Gibson
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    Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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    The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
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    I, Claudius by Robert Graves
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    The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
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    The Devil to Pay in the Backland by João Guimarães Rosa
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    Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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    Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
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    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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    Iliad by Homer
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    Odyssey by Homer
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    A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
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    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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    The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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    Ulysses by James Joyce
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    Dubliners by James Joyce
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    Stories by Franz Kafka
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    The Trial by Franz Kafka
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    Shakuntala by Kālidāsa
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    The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
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    Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
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    On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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    Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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    Independent People by Halldór Laxness
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    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
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    The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
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    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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    Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
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    A Madman’s Diary by Lu Xun
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    Atonement by Ian McEwan
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    Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
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    The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
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    Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
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    The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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    Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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    Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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    Essays by Michel de Montaigne
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    History by Elsa Morante
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    Beloved by Toni Morrison
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    Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
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    The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
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    The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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    A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
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    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
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    The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O’Brien
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    At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
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    Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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    Animal Farm by George Orwell
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    Metamorphoses by Ovid
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    The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
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    Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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    A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell
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    In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
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    Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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    The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by François Rabelais
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    Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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    Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
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    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
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    Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
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    Masnavi by Rumi
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    Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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    Bostan by Saadi
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    Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
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    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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    Blindness by José Saramago
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    Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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    King Lear by William Shakespeare
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    Othello by William Shakespeare
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    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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    White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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    Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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    The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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    Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
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    Dracula by Bram Stoker
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    Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
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    Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
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    Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
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    War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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    Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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    Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
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    Book of Job by Unknown
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    One Thousand and One Nights by Unknown
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    Njál’s Saga by Unknown
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    Rabbit, Run by John Updike
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    Ramayana by Valmiki
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    Aeneid by Virgil
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    Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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    Mahabharata by Vyasa
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    Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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    The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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    Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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    To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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    Native Son by Richard Wright
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    Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
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    Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
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