Can you name the books below from the portion of their covers?

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Books by Their Covers Quiz

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Created Nov 30, 2009 in Literature
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	redsxfenway:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:14 GMT		3 points
	atlas shrugged... more like atlas sucked.

	tmonation:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:15 GMT		34 points
	man where the red fern grows is the best

	brendansargent:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:15 GMT		96 points
	oh come on it didn't take "le petit prince"

	Saulmeister:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:17 GMT		53 points
	Very fun. Although, you should really accept "Le Petit Prince" for "The Little Prince" as that is the original name, and it's all I know it by from reading it in French immersion school.

	blueshoelaces:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:19 GMT		4 points
	Hah, I put "Midnight in the Garden of Eden," and then kept trying different times of day. Sure never read that book. Oops. :)

	conroy:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:19 GMT		47 points
	Good quiz. Any non Harry Potter literature quiz is always welcome.

	pat19:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:20 GMT		92 points
	Vote this up if you cried while reading Where the Red Fern Grows. (I sure did)

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	jaspa:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:25 GMT		37 points
	Oh, how very sequel-worthy. I hate the fact that even though I spent the time reading some of these books like The Great Gatsby, I can't even recall what the cover looked like.

	Tchaikovsky08:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:26 GMT		31 points
	All these fond memories ...of being forced to read most of these books in high school

	MusicNutMeggie:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:27 GMT		9 points
	There's a little too much time on this one, in my opinion...but what a great idea! I smell sequels...

	jaspa:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:28 GMT		9 points
	Also, ditto on acceptance of "Le Petit Prince." The English translation should really be the alternate answer since it is only the translated title. Yeah, I know someone's going to say 'but this is an English website,' but if that's the argument (which I disagree with), then there should only be originally English Literature.

	orangefarm:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:33 GMT		8 points
	Wow... I'm reading Freakonomics right now and I still missed it...

	pbysr:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:33 GMT		83 points
	The surprisingly low score for "The Catcher in the Rye" may be due to the fact that modern editions have an all white cover with a few stripes in the top corner.

	stephmoxie:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:35 GMT		20 points
	a little watership down humor: What was the boat the rabbits escaped on made out of? Fiverglass

	jobo:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:35 GMT		18 points
	Working at a library pays off!

	yankeessuck8991:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:42 GMT		3 points
	I'm judging.

	Niques:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:44 GMT		26 points
	It's a good quiz in theory, but oh so difficult with the different editions/international differences etc. - my copies of Freakonomics, Watership Down and The Lost Symbol are very different. Although, Watership Down is of course, very guessable. So excellent quiz...just not generally applicable.

	ziquemu:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:52 GMT		4 points
	Excellent quiz! Thanks!

	nearlyextinct:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:55 GMT		10 points
	@ pbysr that is why I didn't get it I have only seen the mostly white cover.

	santosaurus:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:59 GMT		5 points
	I couldn't remember the Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone for the life of me! I kept guessing I Know This Much is True. Sorry to let you down, Oprah.

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	ssolomon:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:02 GMT		20 points
	i typed in "the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe" and i think it should be accepted...just a thought

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	shawnkay:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:18 GMT		25 points
	How did so few people get "A Brief History of Time"? I thought for sure more people would know "THE book" with Stephen Hawking on the cover.

	editorempress:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		8 points
	I only got the Stephen Hawking book because a friend wrote a parody called "A Brief History of Tim." I'll get around to reading it someday.

	PSU840:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:43 GMT		4 points
	I'm not shocked, but definitely recommend reading the Prophet. It's only 100 or so pages and very simple and deep

	rophlare:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:33 GMT		12 points
	I KNEW I'd seen the Catcher in the Rye cover somewhere! I'm mad at myself for not getting that, even though I, too, own the all white version.

	statephone:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 07:31 GMT		9 points
	i'm used the the burnt orange red version of catcher in the rye with the yellow lettering. thats the one that was pretty universal in my day (1980s) ive seen the newer version, never seen the version in this quiz, which must have been the original.

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	Alumita:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 08:17 GMT		9 points
	it made me SO happy to see "She's Come Undone" on this list...one of my all time fave books :) and yes, this quiz needs some sequels...

	rhebus:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 08:32 GMT		2 points
	Interestingly, the book "Logic and its limits" has a very similar (though not identical) cover to Freakonomics: http://www.amazon.com/Logic-Limits-Opus-Patrick-Shaw/dp/0192892800

	JPDisco:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 08:33 GMT		13 points
	Tricky if you're from the UK as most of these books had different covers but nice quiz all the same!

	plutogirlgenius:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:30 GMT		2 points
	I never understood that particular cover of Catcher in the Rye. Granted, I haven't read it in years, but why the red horse-thing? It's amazing how some of these covers have changed a hundred times over the course of their publications and some haven't changed a bit.

	barisax47:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:37 GMT		9 points
	@plutogirlgenius not sure if this is really a spoiler, but the red horse on the cover is an image of the carousel at the end, if you remember that part.

	eoj163:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 11:51 GMT		1 point
	I absolutley adored this quiz. I had read lots of them, but some of them I guessed just from hearing blurbs about the book. One of the covers I knew exactly what the rest of the xover looked liek and what the story was abotu but i could NOT get it. Great quiz, definate sequels are neeeded.

	Havok3595:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 11:52 GMT		2 points
	So, uh, I saw the Great Gatsby cover, thought "That's the Great Gatsby," then convinced myself it wasn't at all applicable to that book and I was probably wrong, so I went through naming the other books I knew. At the end, I gave up rather than timing out, and only then did I realize the error of my ways: even if you're totally convinced your answer is wrong, you should at least try typing it in, especially if time is an issue. Still got 15, so that's not bad.

	dicko:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:07 GMT		7 points
	I think most of these books have different covers in the UK. I only recognised The Little Prince, Where the Wild Things Are and Angela's Ashes, though I also guessed several more.