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NY Times: Test Your Book Smarts
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The Strand Bookstore has included a literary matching quiz in its job application form since the 1970s. Here are the titles from some of the quizzes from years past.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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To the Lighthouse
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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Invisible Man
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Confederacy of Dunces
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Dead Souls (Gogol)
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Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
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Gulliver's Travels
10
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
11
White Noise (Don Delillo)
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The Second Sex
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Metamorphoses
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Kindred (Octavia Butler)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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A People's History of the United States
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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The Tipping Point (Malcom Gladwell)
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The Histories
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
23
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Wise Blood
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Infinite Jest
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White Teeth
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Raymond Carver)
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
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Native Son (Richard Wright)
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Of Human Bondage
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Cantos
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Silas Marner
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Poetics
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Labyrinths
37
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)
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The Master and Margarita
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The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
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