Can You Identify These Great Novels From a Single Quote?

How well do you think you know the greatest and most popular works of literature that the world has ever seen? Do you think that you could identify each novel from just a single timeless quote? If you're up for a challenge, then give this quiz a shot, and don't forget to share it with your friends and family if you enjoy it.
Peter Pan quote
 
 
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Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Tolkien quote
 
 
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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Godfather quote
 
 
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?
David Copperfield quote
 
 
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Frankenstein quote
 
 
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Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Gulliver's Travels quote
 
 
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Pride and Prejudice quote
 
 
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Gravity's Rainbow quote
 
 
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Beloved by Toni Morrison
1984 quote
 
 
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1984 by George Orwell
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dune by Frank Herbert
Crime and Punishment quote
 
 
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
It by Stephen King
Alice in Wonderland quote
 
 
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Time Machine quote
 
 
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Metamorphosis quote
 
 
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Huckleberry Finn quote
 
 
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Les Miserables quote
 
 
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
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Better Luck Next Time!
Oh dear! Unfortunately, your results aren't quite as fantastic as we'd hoped. There's no need to panic though, since few things on this planet are as pleasurable as getting stuck into a good book, so we're confident that if you've got some free time on your hands, you'll be acing this quiz the next time you give it a go. In the words of Gustave Flaubert, “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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You're a Respectable Reader!
Not too shabby! Even though you didn't get a perfect score, your results show that you're well-acquainted with many of the most popular works of literature. If you keep up such a degree of effort, you may find yourself becoming the world's next big literary critic in no time at all! In the words of Oscar Wilde, “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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You're a Literary Legend!
Impressive! Your outstanding results prove that you're certainly no stranger to the world of literature, and that you probably dedicate a good portion of your life to reading for pleasure. This is a truly wonderful thing, since engaging with powerful literature is such a stimulating way to learn and to grow as a person. In the words of George R. R. Martin, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The man who never reads lives only one.”
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