Books & authors
The “Contemporary world fiction” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Plot in a Line, Names to Know, Prize Shelf, Story Atlas, Page to Screen. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
After a dust storm, Mark Watney must survive alone on Mars. Name Andy Weir’s novel.
Which Yann Martel novel puts its young narrator and a tiger named Richard Parker in one lifeboat?
Matt Haig’s Nora Seed…
In the gameWhich Han Kang novel…
In the gameWhich Susanna Clarke novel…
In the gameWhich Helen Fielding heroine records her plans for self-improvement in a diary?
Which Fredrik Backman character has his mailbox flattened by new neighbours?
Which hacker teams up…
In the gameIn Colson Whitehead’s The…
In the gameIn Felix Austria, translated…
In the gameWhat Donna Tartt novel about Theo Decker and a stolen painting won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Which Cormac McCarthy novel about a father and son crossing a burned America won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Which Hilary Mantel novel…
In the gameWhich Sri Lankan afterlife…
In the gameWhich Ukrainian novelist won…
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In which US state does Kya grow up among coastal marshes in Where the Crawdads Sing?
Which Italian city is home to Elena and Lila in My Brilliant Friend?
To which Japanese city…
In the gameWhat breakaway state provides…
In the gameWhich Eleanor Catton novel…
In the gameWhich Liane Moriarty novel became the HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon?
What Sally Rooney novel follows Marianne and Connell from school into university and became a BBC series?
Which Bonnie Garmus novel…
In the gameWhich Anthony Doerr novel…
In the gameWhat Viet Thanh Nguyen…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.