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It's not easy being well read, as there are so many great books out there to choose from. If you're a book lover, try your hand at this very literary HowStuffWorks quiz!This novel is the second in the "Harry Potter" series. These novels follow a boy wizard as he grows up, goes to school and saves the world.
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This dystopian classic by George Orwell was published in 1949. It follows a meek office worker rebelling against the crushing totalitarian society he lives in.
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Arthur Conan Doyle created the character, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes first appeared in his 1887 novel, "A Study In Scarlet."
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This 1813 novel follows protagonist Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with societal expectations and grows emotionally. It is one of the most popular works of English literature.
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Considered to be one of the Great American Novels, this book was first published in America in 1885. Set in the South, it follows the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a friend of the famous Tom Sawyer.
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This 1895 novel by H.G. Wells is credited with making the concept of time travel popular. In it, a man travels far into the future to find society unrecognizable.
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This is false. "The Great Gatsby" was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A criticism of the shallow materialism of the Jazz Age, it was published in 1925.
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This 1977 norror novel was one of Stephen King's first. It was the basis of the classic Kubrick film of the same name.
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Published in 1818, this horror novel was written by Mary Shelley as a teenager. Some consider it one of the first - or the very first - science fiction work.
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This 1951 novel follows Holden Caulfield, a rebellious teen struggling to cope with loss and growing up. It has sold about a quarter million copies a year since it was published.
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This 2003 novel follows symbologist Robert Langdon, who gets caught up in international religious intrigue. It was a worldwide best-seller.
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"Dune" is the first of an epic sci-fi series by author Frank Herbert. It centers around a future feudal space society and is considered the best-selling novel of its genre ever.
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This 1987 novel was written by Toni Morrison. It centers around an escaped slave who is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, who she killed to protect her from being taken back into slavery.
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This semi-autobiographical dark comedy novel nonlinearly follows the life of Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier, during WWII. It was published in 1969.
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This 1955 novel by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov was highly controversial. It focuses on one man's obsession with a young girl.
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This 1976 vampire novel is the first in "The Vampire Chronicles" series. In the series, a vampire tells his life story, which spans the centuries.
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This 1985 sci-fi novel follows Ender Wiggin, a young brilliant boy caught up in a bleak future world at war. He learns the dark truth about what he thinks are computer games.
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This award-winning 2001 novel by English author Neil Gaiman blends Americana, paganism and fantasy. Old and New gods clash as the world changes.
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This series of novels written by Suzanne Collins was made into a series of blockbuster films. They follow Katniss Everdeen, a teen girl forced to kill other children on television in a future dystopia.
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This young adult romance novel was written by John Green. It centers on the relationship between two teens battling cancer.
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Published in 1890, this novel was highly controversial. It is Oscar Wilde's only novel.
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These sci-fi novels focus on a branch of fictional mathematical sociology, called psychohistory, that can predict large-scale events of the future. The Foundation is an institute trying to preserve human life after the collapse of intergalactic society.
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Published in 1925, this book is one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works. It follows the day in the life of a high-society woman preparing to host a large party.
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This series of horror novels for kids has been a favorite for decades. Stine has written hundreds of horror novels which have sold hundreds of millions of copies.
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Gregory Maguire's novels largely focus on retelling children's stories. His series "The Wicked Years" is a take on the wonderful world of Oz, meant for adults. The original stories of Oz were written, of course, by L. Frank Baum.
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This young adult vampire romance novel series was written by Stephenie Meyer. They spawned a wildly successful movie franchise.
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This novella was published in 1915. In it, a man turns into a giant insect and is disdained by his family after no longer being of use to them.
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These characters originated in an 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" had a huge impact on literature and language, as two-faced people are often compared to the tragic doctor and his evil alter ego to this day.
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This high fantasy trilogy is one of the best-selling English works of all time. It focuses on the battle of good and evil in the fictional and culturally rich Middle Earth.
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This novel was written by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in 2005, since Larsson died in the previous year.
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This coming-of-age young adult novel was published in 1999. It follows a shy teenager as he navigates the world around him.
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This 2006 novel tells the tale of a father and son traveling through a dangerous post-apocalyptic world full of cannibalism and desolation. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.
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This 1932 dystopian novel features a futuristic London manipulated in complacency by drugs and sex. It is often considered one of the best works of English literature.
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In this 2001 adventure novel, a young Indian boy survives over 200 days at sea after a shipwreck - in a boat with a tiger. It has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
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This series of seven novels has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. It is largely set in the fantastical fictional world of Narnia.
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