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Our free book quiz asks you three simple questions — how you're feeling right now, how much time you have, and how much of a reading challenge you're looking for. Based on your answers, our system matches you with the book from our curated list of 28 essential works that fits you best right now.
The quiz draws from a handpicked selection of the world's most essential literary fiction — including works by Camus, García Márquez, Dostoevsky, Toni Morrison, Orwell, Kafka, Tolstoy, Murakami, Virginia Woolf, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ishiguro, Han Kang, Borges, Kawabata, Mahfouz, Tokarczuk, Arundhati Roy, Adiga, Tayeb Salih, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bulgakov, Tóibín, Viet Thanh Nguyen, George Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, Muriel Barbery, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Yukio Mishima.
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The quiz is just the beginning. Our full literary atlas features 100 essential writers from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries — each with their most important works, historical context, and detailed profiles.