Can you name the author AND title of these 3-word novels?

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For each, type in the author's last name AND the title of the novel, in either order, and then you'll get credit for it. For example: "Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby"

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Author
Achebe
Bach
Burgess
Caldwell
Capote
Dahl
Dickens
Dreiser
Faulkner
Foer
Harris
Huxley
Keyes
Lamb
Lawrence
Maugham
McEwan
Picoult
Quindlen
Rhys
Stegner
Stowe
Updike
Walker
Woolf

Title Word 1
A
An
Angle
Brave
Dead
Everything
Fantastic
Flowers
God's
In
Jonathan
Light
My
Of
On
One
Our
Rabbit
She's
Sons
The
Things
To
Uncle
Wide

Title Word 2
American
and
at
Chesil
Cold
Color
Come
Clockwork
Fall
for
Human
Is
in
Little
Livingston
Mr.
Mutual
New
of
Sargasso
Sister's
the
True
Tom's
Until

Title Word 3
Acre
Algernon
Apart
August
Beach
Blood
Bondage
Cabin
Dark
Fox
Friend
Illuminated
Keeper
Lighthouse
Lovers
Orange
Purple
Repose
Rest
Sea
Seagull
Thing
Tragedy
Undone
World

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A Novel Approach to Authors Quiz

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Created by: sproutcm -
Contributed: June 16th, 2010
Published: August 14th, 2010
Category: Literature
Plays: 38,132

Tags: Novel Quizzes, approach, Editor Pick, author, title

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	caligal14:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 05:04 GMT	3 points
	I couldn't think of a work by Dickens that was three words except 'A Christmas Carol', haha. Fun quiz!

	dr_stalker:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 05:14 GMT	22 points
	Nice selection of authors, quite refreshing to have a quiz about literature not feature JK Rowling, Stephen King, Dan Brown, or the woman who writes that Twilight stuff.

	iceman1731:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 05:25 GMT	17 points
	Damn you, I could have done this if the authors weren't required.

	crazydiamond1to9:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 05:50 GMT	26 points
	wish there was some way I could see the answers to those I missed instead of just the initials...

	idledandy:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 06:49 GMT	6 points
	Interesting mix. For several of the authors, I could quickly name one work with three words, so I didn't even have to look in the other columns. Then I had enough time to piece together things that sounded like titles and try them with each author.

	Lil2:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 10:33 GMT	7 points
	nice quiz! there were a good few i didn't know, but was very happy to see achebe and foer on a quiz.

	lulu_vohn:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 11:47 GMT	2 points
	@crazydiamond1to9 Just go across. Like, if you missed Dickens then it'd say OMF, so you go to O and the one that says OMF is Our, then in M it's Mutual, then in F it's Friend. Then you've got Our Mutual Friend. That's what I did at least for the one's I missed.

	JM001:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 12:05 GMT	-1 points
	Much respect to the 0.2% who landed in the 95-99% category - surely by a simple bit of reasoning you could figure out the last one? :p

	Cat_Girl:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 14:53 GMT	-2 points
	In Cold Blood isn't a novel.

	demonstah:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 15:01 GMT	11 points
	@Cat_Girl - It's novelized non-fiction, and indeed is said to have created the genre.

	wdsman:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 15:38 GMT	0 points
	Did anyone else have trouble with "A clockwork orange" and "The color purple"? I had to drop the articles and just put in "clockwork orange" and "color purple" to get it to work. Other than that, enjoyed the quiz.

	Cat_Girl:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 16:06 GMT	1 point
	Novel-- 1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.

	Samawesome:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 17:26 GMT	1 point
	good quiz, happy to get angle of repose, only fromcknowing it as a science term, a great idea, especially since i have never heaard of the ones i missed

	mellybmel:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 20:25 GMT	2 points
	Very enjoyable quiz with a nice range of titles. "In Cold Blood" certainly does occupy an interesting space--researched, reflective of fact and event, and filled with imagined/recreated dialogue and scene. Does it need to be neatly categorized as novel/not?

	Esme:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 20:45 GMT	16 points
	"Our Mutual Lovers"? "My Sister's Bondage"? "God's Little Thing"? Not sure what the hell I thought I was reading in college...

	demonstah:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 21:23 GMT	2 points
	And the prose was fictitious. He took a set of basic facts and created dialogue. No different than historical fiction.

	ktappe:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 23:51 GMT	0 points
	Trickiest part of this one is how many authors are named Harris, Woolf, and Lamb. You could easily get stuck on the wrong one.

	sproutcm:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 00:32 GMT	2 points
	@ktappe Sure, there's Charles Lamb the essayist, and Thomas Harris who wrote the Hannibal Lecter books, but I'm fairly certain there's only one author anyone knows who spells Woolf that way.

	cmkeller:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 01:50 GMT	3 points
	I can thank Lost for having made me aware of Dickens' Out Mutual Friend.

	jaymc:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 04:33 GMT	3 points
	Yeah, it's Virginia Woolf, Tobias Wolff, Thomas Wolfe, and Naomi Wolf.

	EatMorePossum:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 17:35 GMT	7 points
	Splendid quiz; thank you! Not Enough Time!!

	BonnieH:	Aug 15th, 2010 at 18:29 GMT	1 point
	Tough and fun! Even my swift typing fingers couldn't figure out the ones I didn't know by default this time. Still did pretty well, though.

exackerly:

Aug 16th, 2010 at 01:45 GMT

3 points

good quiz, not everyday you see Jean Rhys on sporcle...

	erialc:	Aug 16th, 2010 at 02:21 GMT	1 point
	aw, I wish the answers were shown in full, so I could read them more easily afterwards

	daniellek86:	Aug 16th, 2010 at 12:57 GMT	1 point
	desmond hume ftw!