Marta Bausells and Amber Segal 

Quiz: can you identify these classic books by their covers?

We're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but good design can work wonders - as all publishers know. Can you name the novels pictured here?
  
  


  1. Book number 1

    1. Animal Farm – George Orwell

    2. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

    3. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

    4. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

  2. Book number 2

    1. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

    2. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

    3. 1984 – George Orwell

    4. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

  3. Book number 3

    1. A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy

    2. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    3. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

    4. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

  4. Book number 4

    1. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

    2. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

    3. The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer

    4. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

  5. Book number 5

    1. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

    2. The Lord of the Flies – William Golding

    3. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

    4. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

  6. Book number 6

    1. Middlemarch – George Eliot

    2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

    3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

    4. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

  7. Book number 7

    1. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

    2. 1984 – George Orwell

    3. Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler

    4. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

  8. Book number 8

    1. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

    2. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

    3. The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer

    4. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

  9. Book number 9

    1. The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson

    2. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

    3. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

    4. The Wild Boys – William S Burroughs

  10. Book number 10

    1. The Stranger – Albert Camus

    2. Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell

    3. Naked Lunch – William S Burroughs

    4. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

Solutions

1:C, 2:B, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:C, 7:D, 8:A, 9:B, 10:B

Scores

  1. 1 and above.

    You must have tried to get this awful result on purpose.

  2. 2 and above.

    You must have tried to get this awful result on purpose.

  3. 3 and above.

    Someone needs an urgent visit to the library.

  4. 4 and above.

    Someone needs an urgent visit to the library.

  5. 5 and above.

    Is this really the best you can do? Better luck next time...

  6. 6 and above.

    Is this really the best you can do? Better luck next time...

  7. 7 and above.

    Is this really the best you can do? Better luck next time...

  8. 8 and above.

    Well done! Almost almost perfect.

  9. 9 and above.

    Well done! Almost perfect.

  10. 10 and above.

    Well done! You're a true classics connoisseur – at least from the outside.

 

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