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Books

Do You Know Which Book Came Out First?

How Well Do You Know These Famous Authors' Bibliographies?

_Animal Farm_ was published in 1945, while _1984_ was published in 1949.

Which George Orwell book was published first?

_Cat's Eye_ was published in 1988, while _The Blind Assassin_ came out in 2000.

_Mrs Dalloway_ was published in 1925, while _To the Lighthouse_ came out in 1927.

Which Virginia Woolf book came out first?

_Go Tell It on the Mountain_ came out in 1953,
 while _Giovanni's Room_ was published in 1956.

_Pride and Prejudice_ was published in 1813, while _Emma_ came out in 1815.

_The Great Gatsby_ was published in 1925, while _Tender Is the Night_ came out in 1934.

Which F. Scott Fitzgerald book came out first?

_Sula_ was published in 1973, while _Beloved_ came out in 1987.

_The Shining_ was published in 1976, while _Pet Semetary_ came out in 1982.

_The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle_ was originally published in 1994, and the English translation came out in 1997; _Kafka on the Shore_ was originally published in 2002, and the English translation came out in 2005.

Which Haruki Murakami book came out first?

_Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ was published in 1968, while _Play It As It Lays_ came out in 1970.

_White Teeth_, Zadie Smith's debut, came out in 2000, while _On Beauty_ was published in 2005.

_The Sun Also Rises_ was published in 1926, while _A Farewell to Arms_ came out in 1929.

Which Ernest Hemingway book came out first?

_Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret_ was published in 1970, while _Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing_ came out in 1972.

_One Hundred Years of Solitude_ was originally published in 1967, and the English translation was published in 1970; _Love in the Time of Cholera_ was originally published in 1985, and the English translation was published in 1988.

Which Gabriel García Márquez book came out first?

No worries — this just means you're not the best with dates.

Nice! You've got a pretty good handle on these timelines!

DANG! You are either super well-read, or you have a great grasp of cultural history, or both.

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