Can you name the famous people based on the titles of their books?

Title	Author
My Point... And I Do Have One
The Art of the Deal
Confessions of an Heiress
A Spaniard In The Works
Moonwalk
Going Rogue: An American Life
Here's Johnny!
It Takes a Village
Celebrity Detox
Who Wants to Be Me?
The Audacity of Hope

Title	Author
Down Came the Rain
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Enter Talking
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Might As Well Laugh About It Now
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Breaking the Surface
Naked Pictures of Famous People
Priceless Memories
Yeah, I Said It

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Famous Authors Quiz

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Created by: Tats -
Contributed: October 6th, 2009
Published: November 10th, 2009
Category: Literature
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Tags: Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, Famous Quizzes, based, author, title

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	melissa:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	14 points
	Clever concept. I like these quizzes that are more about deduction than about memory. Some titles seemed much less "figure-out-able" than others - but then obvious after the fact (e.g. "Priceless Memories" seemed as though it could be ANYONE - til I saw the answer). "Moonwalk" threw me for a loop - I wasted a good minute entering astronauts!

	danzam:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	4 points
	I Am America is probably the funniest book I have ever read.

	Linz:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	16 points
	I wonder how many other people put Johnny Carson instead of Ed McMahon! This was a good one, Sporcle.

	SowCrates:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:29 GMT	14 points
	Perhaps the only author quiz I can get less than 1/5 of all the authors and not feel unintellectual.

	shadowscookie:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	0 points
	wow. I only know the I Am America one >_> Good quiz though.

	Isstvan:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT	18 points
	Gotta wonder how many of those were actually written by the author of record and how many were ghosted.

	sbelkoski:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	4 points
	I tried Carson about 5 times. Ed McMahon never occurred to me. But then I was a baby when Carson was still on.

	fluffy:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 18:11 GMT	9 points
	"A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity" by Bill O'Reilly...did anyone else giggle at that?

	Arianna_Moon:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	5 points
	Wow, I definitely only knew Paris Hilton: Confessions of an Heiress. Is that bad?

	redsxfenway:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 18:36 GMT	15 points
	Oh, so apparently Moonwalk is not about Neil Armstrong.

	jawa88:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 18:53 GMT	20 points
	And Here's Johnny is not about Jack Nicholson...

	Keonyn:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT	11 points
	Bummer. Palin's book makes it up there, but Craig Ferguson doesn't get a mention again.

	Barzuniac:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	2 points
	O'Reilly's title is actually very funny, and I say this as an anti-O'Reilly person. But then he's always seemed less dangerous and more in on the joke than the other Fox News figures. And the Philbin title is incredibly obnoxious.

	JoeGrzzly:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 19:19 GMT	5 points
	I didn't know Paris Hilton could write. Maybe she payed someone else to do it.

	awesomegerbzy:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	0 points
	I think Palin should have titled her book "Going Maverick" instead of "Going Rogue"...

	NightOwl:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 21:35 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz -- and one of those that you hit yourself in the head when you see the answers.

	dbcint:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 21:38 GMT	8 points
	@JoeGrzzly: If she did write it, that would bring her total of written books to one, which will be one more than she's ever read

	29smitty:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 21:45 GMT	-1 points
	Thank you for not including Jose Canseco.

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	bean:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT	12 points
	Misleading title

	lalalala:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 01:20 GMT	4 points
	@JoeGrizzly: at least her ghostwriter can probably spell paid

	Archer16:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 14:39 GMT	5 points
	@bean: yes, it is. The homepage title is "famous authors" but the more appropriate address line says "celeb authors". I also share the feeling of sowcrates about this one ("Perhaps the only author quiz I can get less than 1/5 of all the authors and not feel unintellectual").

	nymous:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	-4 points
	Bill O'Reilly is really funny AND smart. It's a great book actually.

	MomToLabs:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 16:48 GMT	0 points
	Wow, I got only 13 right and THAT's 99th percentile? Yikes.

	clevername:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 14:55 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz, but definitely agree about the misleading title. I looked at the tagline (Apparently being famous in one field is not enough) and thought, "What other field? Literature is one field..." I got it when I scanned the quiz and saw a couple I recognized. Celeb authors would make much more sense. On a side note, the Manson autobiography is a really great book, very entertaining. Back in my high school psych class, we had an assignment to analyze and diagnose a protagonist in a book, and I had a fun time doing that one...

	exackerly:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	3 points
	I thought Bob Hope wrote The Audacity of Hope...

	kingstony:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 GMT	-1 points
	Anyone who owns one of these books should be shot.

	amehta:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 22:47 GMT	1 point
	This quiz is surprisingly difficult. (And so can you!)

	bigtuna1125:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 22:18 GMT	1 point
	These aren't famous authors. A better title is needed here.

	Michael3M:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 01:57 GMT	1 point
	I got 11 right, and I've read only two. That's what working in a library can do for you.