Can you name the books with a name in the title?

Author	Book	Published
Jonathan Swift		1726
Jane Austen		1815
Mary Shelley		1818
Charlotte Brontë		1847
Charles Dickens		1850
Gustave Flaubert		1857
Lewis Carroll		1865
Leo Tolstoy		1877
Oscar Wilde		1890
Thomas Hardy		1891
H.G. Wells		1896
Bram Stoker		1897
Joseph Conrad		1900
L. M. Montgomery		1908
Hermann Hesse		1922

Author	Book	Published
James Joyce		1922
F. Scott Fitzgerald		1925
Virginia Woolf		1925
Robert Graves		1934
C.S. Lewis		1951
Kingsley Amis		1954
Vladimir Nabokov		1955
Boris Pasternak		1957
Roald Dahl		1961
Muriel Spark		1961
Roald Dahl		1964
Richard Bach		1970
Toni Morrison		1978
Anne Rice		1985
John Irving		1989

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Named Books Quiz

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Created by: ntnon -
Published: June 7th, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 72,353

Tags: Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, title, published, name, author

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	el_barto:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT	46 points
	I'm pretty sure this list isn't all inclusive.

	[Deleted]:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT	37 points
	Dickens could practically have a quiz like this by himself. There's Nicholas Nickleby, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, and probably some others I'm forgetting.

	[Deleted]:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT	10 points
	This is still an excellent quiz though.

	mennoknight:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:56 GMT	1 point
	I think this would be a lot better if it was more specific (i.e. first names in book titles). As it is, it's mildly poopy.

	pastryflour:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	14 points
	There's two Roald Dahl books but you forget a third one, Matilda? I thought that book was a lot better than James and the Giant Peach & more well known.

	magister:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	13 points
	Yeah, likewise I'm having problems with multiples. "Beloved" for Toni Morrison was a big one. Also, a number of these are titles with names, yes, but not the names of characters. I know that the directions say nothing about that, but it's kinda loosy-goosey. No title character for Joyce, no title character for Morrison, etc.

	desafinado440:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:02 GMT	11 points
	Charles Dickens could also be "Oliver Twist" and John Irving could also be "The World According to Garp"

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	Bethannie:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	13 points
	Very frustrating - but a great idea. As well as the Dickens and Dahl options already noted...L.M.Montgomery also wrote the Emily of New Moon series....and Charlotte Bronte also wrote Shirley...and Hardy wrote Jude the Obscure. These could all be added as acceptable answers.

	sporcloid:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	17 points
	I always enjoy literature quizzes, so this one was great. With hundreds of years of novels to choose from, though, I'm confused as to why two Roald Dahl books were included.

	Moo:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	4 points
	Dickens has way more than one book with a name in the title, i tried like 3 that didn't work

	shmick:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:17 GMT	7 points
	ugh i kept thinking of matilda... charlie and the chocolate factory didnt enter my mind for some strange reason.

	thefooman:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:18 GMT	14 points
	Well, there is an entire quiz devoted to Dickens - http://www.sporcle.com/games/dickens.php and I assume the year is meant to help in the cases where more than one answer could work, but perhaps that is too nuanced.

	magister:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT	2 points
	@thefooman: I'll be honest, I didn't even notice the date there, and I'm going to chalk that up to input overload. Now that you mention it, though, 1877 should not be between 1970 and 1978.

	callheralaska:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:31 GMT	12 points
	I think this would be better if they made it a quiz of books with ONLY names in the title, perhaps. I kept typing things like "Matilda," "Oliver Twist," and "Sula" and going WHY NOT?! ;-) There are so few limiters that we could be here all day naming books for this list.

	mmmdonuts90:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT	0 points
	"Sula" not being on there for Morrison and "Lady Windermere's Fan" not being on there for Wilde frustrated me.

	lulubelles:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:08 GMT	0 points
	Don't forget George's Marvellous Medicine, I was really disappointed that wasn't one of the two!

	lulubelles:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:11 GMT	6 points
	I partly agree with Mennoknight, the quiz isn't poopy it's great but a bit tighter control on names would be better.

	janet:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:11 GMT	2 points
	Lucky Jim is the best book ever.

	fluffy:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	-1 points
	What about the Importance of Being Earnest for Oscar Wilde?

	tamazin:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	6 points
	the dahl questions in particular made this all the more challenging, I thought....I guessed Matilda, George's Marvelous Medicine, Danny, the Champion of the World, Henry Sugar, and even My Uncle Oswald before I remembered Charlie. Funny how sometimes the most obvious answers escape you on Sporcle, isn't it?

	milkmeister:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:40 GMT	1 point
	Charles Dickens couldn't be Oliver Twist etc, as they weren't published in 1850!

	cstravagante:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT	8 points
	Yeah, this quiz would have been so much better if the titles were ONLY names. Only Oliver Twist or Emma or Mathilda, for instance. Perhaps all the possible answers for an author should be accepted? That would solve a lot of the Dickens complaints. And yeah, there are the years of publication, but how many people on Sporcle have those memorized?

	milkmeister:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	1 point
	@estlin: Yeah sure, but isn't the idea of this site that it's a mixture of original knowledge and then acquired learning?

	Haunter:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	-2 points
	Thomas Hardy could also accept Jude the Obscure.

	Haunter:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT	-1 points
	@janet: no, A Prayer for Owen Meany is the best book ever!

	sdh:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	8 points
	I'm going to be distressing pedantic and point out that the Oscar Wilde title called for is a short story and not a novel. The alternate Oscar Wilde titles suggested in the comments are plays, which are also not novels.

	micah:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT	6 points
	Also, The Importance of Being Earnest doesn't contain a name--the name in the play is spelled Ernest.

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	deej:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	4 points
	This isn't a very good quiz. I'll always give credit where credit is due, and I love 90% of your quizzes, but this one is a real clunker, sorry.

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	OldSpotPig:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	2 points
	I wanted 'The History of Mr Polly' for the HG Wells answer.

	davidr:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 21:50 GMT	6 points
	@Frank: It's Count Dracula's name.

	davidr:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT	6 points
	This is a great idea for a quiz. However, nearly half of Dickens's novels have names in their titles so that part of it becomes `Guess which of Dickens's novels was written in 1850.' Some of the other seem terribly obscure and, while `What about X?' comments always suck, Robinson Crusoe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or ... of Tom Sawyer) do seem like big omissions. Perhaps One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, too.

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:24 GMT	-1 points
	This quiz would've been a lot better if just the person in the title's name was acceptable, just sayin'

	Julian:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:26 GMT	-1 points
	Conrad could also be Nostromo . . .

	Niques:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	4 points
	@fluffy - TIOB Earnest is also a play, not a book.