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Title
Author
% Correct
The Iliad; the Odyssey
Homer
97.2%
The Republic; the Symposium
Plato
88.1%
Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; the Sonnets
William Shakespeare
88.1%
The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
87.2%
Animal Farm
George Orwell
86.9%
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
83.5%
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
83.3%
Das Kapital; Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx
82.9%
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
82.7%
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
80.7%
Physics; Metaphysics; Poetics
Aristotle
79.2%
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein
78.6%
Emma
Jane Austen
77.5%
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
77.3%
Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes
John Milton
77.3%
Candide
Voltaire
77.2%
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
77%
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
75.6%
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
74.8%
Oedipus the King; Antigone
Sophocles
74.5%
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
73.7%
The Interpretation of Dreams; Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
73.6%
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
73.5%
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
72.9%
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
72.5%
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
71.9%
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
70.9%
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
70.5%
Optics; Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Sir Isaac Newton
70.3%
Middlemarch
George Eliot
70.1%
The Eclogues; the Aeneid
Virgil
68.4%
Second Essay Concerning Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
68.1%
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
67.3%
The Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
65.8%
The Social Contract; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean Jacques Rousseau
64.3%
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
64.3%
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
64%
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
63.5%
To The Lighthouse
Virgina Woolf
63.5%
Meditations on First Philosophy; Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes
61.2%
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
60.6%
A Doll's House; The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
59.5%
Title
Author
% Correct
Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust
58.4%
Confessions; City of God
Saint Augustine
57.9%
Medea; the Trojan Women
Euripides
56.1%
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus
55.5%
Histories (c. 420 BC)
Herodotus
55.4%
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
Galileo Galilei
55.4%
The Clouds; the Wasps; the Frogs
Aristophanes
55.2%
Elements (c. 300 BC)
Euclid
55.1%
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
55%
Prometheus Bound; the Orestia
Aeschylus
54.9%
On Liberty; Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
54.9%
Summa Theologica
Saint Thomas Aquinas
54%
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
52.3%
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
51.9%
The School for Wives; Tartuffe
Moliere
51.8%
Medical Works (c. 400 BC)
Hippocrates
51.6%
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
49.8%
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
47.5%
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
46.8%
The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James
46.4%
The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
46.3%
The Principles of Psychology; Pragmatism
William James
46.1%
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
46.1%
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Ernest Hemingway
44.5%
The Sand-
Reckoner; On Sphere and Cylinder
Archimedes
43.5%
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
43.4%
The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
43.1%
The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
43.1%
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
42.8%
Novum Organum; New Atlantis
Sir Francis Bacon
42.2%
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
40.8%
A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner
40.6%
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
39.8%
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
39%
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
39%
The Praise of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus
39%
Pensées; The Provincial Letters
Blaise Pascal
38.5%
Ethics (1677 AD)
Benedict Spinoza
37.9%
Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
36.5%
On the Natural Faculties
Galen
36.1%
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertold Brecht
36%
Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin
35.4%
Title
Author
% Correct
The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Plutarch
34.7%
The Algamast
Ptolemy
34.7%
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
34.5%
Bérénice; Phèdre
Jean Racine
34.2%
Experimental Researches in Electricity
Michael Faraday
33.8%
The Harmonies of the World
Johannes Kepler
33.6%
What is Metaphysics?
Martin Heidegger
33.5%
Experience in Education
John Dewey
33.5%
On the Circulation of Blood
William Harvey
32.8%
The Essays (1580 AD)
Michel de Montaigne
32.3%
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature
Niels Bohr
32.3%
The Spirit of the Laws
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
32%
The Golden Bough
Sir James George Frazer
31.1%
Cousin Bette
Honore de Balzac
30.9%
The Annals; the Histories (c. 110 AD)
P. Cornelius Tacitus
29.9%
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
29.4%
Essays in Sociology
Max Weber
29.1%
Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot
26.4%
The Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
26.3%
The Prussian Officer
D.H. Lawrence
26%
Elements of Chemistry
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
25.9%
Structural Anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss
25.2%
Physics and Philosophy
Werner Heisenberg
23.6%
The Enneads
Plotinus
23.5%
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
Max Planck
23.1%
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
22.6%
A Mathematician's Apology
G.H. Hardy
22.3%
Science and the Modern World; An Introduction to Mathematics
Alfred North Whitehead
21.5%
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
21.5%
What is Life?
Erwin Schrodinger
18.5%
The Discourses
Epictetus
18.2%
Treatise on Light
Christian Huygens
17.9%
The Word of God and the Word of Man
Karl Barth
16.3%
On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
William Gilbert
15.9%
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
15.7%
The Acquisitive Society
R.H. Tawney
15.4%
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903 AD)
Henri Bergson
14.4%
Science and Hypothesis
Henri Poincare
13.6%
The Expanding Universe
Arthur Eddington
13%
Introduction to Arithmetic (c. 100 AD)
Nicomachus of Gerasa
12.6%
The Nature of Life
C.H. Waddington
10.8%
Genetics and the Origin of Species
Theodosius Dobzhansky
8.6%
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