1. You might almost think that no babies were born before 1946, such has been the influence of this book. Which book, written by a doctor, was almost revolutionary in the way it advocated parents should look after their children? Baby And Child Care The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems The Baby Owner's Manual The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

2. Sylvia Plath was better known as a poet, though some of her subjects were very difficult. After her death it became clear that Plath had many psychological issues, some of which she touched on in a semi-autobiographical novel. What was it called? The Bell Jar Apology for Want The Eye Like a Strange Balloon The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of the Swans

3. Do you have difficulty making choices? Which book by an American author abdicated decision-making to chance outcomes? The Dice Man Lay Back and Think of Winning Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler The Hellfire Club

4. Before John Osbourne's "Look Back In Anger" another writer created an 'angry young man', a youthful character at odds with his upbringing and trying to come to terms with life and the hand that it had dealt him. Which novel of the 1950s paved the way for teenage angst? A Wild Justice Scenes from Metropolitan Life The Blackboard Jungle The Catcher In The Rye

5. One reviewer called it "the book that launched a thousand trips", a terrible pun that just about sums up the sub-text of a book that made drug-taking look fashionable. Which book so impressed one young musician that he named his band after it? The Doors of Perception The Stranger Stranger In A Strange Land Blood From A Stone

6. It's always comforting to have something in the seatback in front of you when your flight gets a little bumpy, but which 1970s book was definitely not about airsickness? Fear of Flying Keep the Aspidistra Flying Flying Without Fear Wild Ducks Flying Backward

7. In the 1970s one book so impressed an FBI director that he instructed all his staff to read it. In which book did the 'hero' proclaim: "The only true law is that which leads to freedom"? The Carnival of the Animals Jonathan Livingston Seagull Animal Farm The Sum Of All Fears

8. It was a book that took three weeks to write, but contained the essence of years of travel and was a revelation to a whole generation. Which book was described by the New York Times as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance" of its author's generation? Quest For Lost Heroes A Song in the Morning On The Road Bound For Glory

9. You know what it's like when you're a journalist sent somewhere to cover an event and then you're asked to write about something else, it can be a bad trip, right? Which novel was based on the author's own experiences and had the heroes chasing 'The American Dream' to sin city USA? Streets Of Gold Strangers When We Meet Candyland Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas

10. It's been described as "an erotic classic ... written anonymously by a shy, intellectual French woman in honour of her secret lover" Which book dealing with tales of fantasy and debauchery has never been out of print, and has been bought by millions since it was first published in 1954? Juliette The Story of O Philosophy in the Boudoir Los Infortunios de La Virtud