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This category is for fiction published in the 20th and 21st centuries. Quizzes are found under the names of the individual authors. Science Fiction and Mystery and Detective fiction have their own categories.
category Adams, Richard category Albom, Mitch
category Allende, Isabel category Andrews, V.C.
category Angelou, Maya category Atwood, Margaret
category Auel, Jean M. category Barry, Dave
category Binchy, Maeve category Blackstock, Terri
category Bradford, Barbara Taylor category Burgess, Anthony
category Capote, Truman category Clancy, Tom
category Collins, Jackie category Connolly, John
category Cooper, Jilly category Cornwell, Bernard
category Crichton, Michael category Cussler, Clive
category Dailey, Janet category Dart, Iris Rainer
category Davies, Robertson category De Bernieres, Louis
category DuMaurier, Daphne category Elton, Ben
category Fielding, Helen category Fitzgerald, F. Scott
category Flagg, Fannie category Follett, Ken
category Forster, E. M. category Forsyth, Frederick
category Fraser, George Macdonald category Gibbons, Stella
category Giffin, Emily category Golding, William
category Grisham, John category Haddon, Mark
category Haley, Alex category Hamilton, Laurell K.
category Harris, Robert category Harris, Thomas
category Heller, Joseph category Hemingway, Ernest
category Herriot, James category Hosseini, Khaled
category Hurston, Zora Neal category Irving, John
category Ishiguro, Kazuo category Jakes, John
category Jeffrey Archer category Johnstone, William W.
category Jonker, Joan category Kay, Susan
category Keyes, Marian category Kidd, Sue Monk
category Kingsolver, Barbara category Knowles, John
category Koontz, Dean category Lamb, Wally
category Le Carre, John category Lee, Harper
category Leroux, Gaston category Lessing, Doris
category Letts, Billie category Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
category McCafferty, Megan category McCarthy, Cormac
category McCourt, Frank category McCullough, Colleen
category McEwan, Ian category Mitchell, Margaret
category Morrison, Toni category Nabokov, Vladimir
category Oates, Joyce Carol category Orwell, George
category Palahniuk, Chuck category Paton, Alan
category Pendleton, Don category Picoult, Jodi
category Plath, Sylvia category Potok, Chaim
category Rand, Ayn category Salinger, J. D.
category Sebold, Alice category Sheldon, Sidney
category Sinclair, Upton category Smith, Wilbur
category Spark, Muriel category Sparks, Nicholas
category Steel, Danielle category Steinbeck, John
category Tartt, Donna folder The Beat Generation (3)
category Thomas, Dylan category Townsend, Sue
category Tyler, Anne category Updike, John
category Uris, Leon category Vonnegut, Kurt
category W.E.B. Griffin category Weiner, Jennifer
category Wharton, Edith category Wiesel, Elie
Editors: agony, MotherGoose, LeoDaVinci, looney_tunes Quiz Search:
1 Brit Lit: The Modern Age--1902-1960
This is the final quiz in my British Literature series. It contains questions about poetry, short fiction, novels, and drama from the early to middle twentieth century. Have fun!
Average
15 Q
alaspooryoric
Feb 21 13
663 plays
2 Classic Contemporary Novels
This quiz tests your familiarity with some classic 20th century works of science fiction, fantasy and alternative reality fiction.
Average
25 Q
Akhnaten
Aug 20 00
7272 plays
3 Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas
Visit or revisit some of the most important 20th century North and South American authors and works. Some of these you may have encountered in school; others are well worth an investigation all of your own.
Average
10 Q
lola0177
Apr 07 12
543 plays
4 Best Selling Fiction 2000-2009
Welcome to some of my favorite fiction. These are books worth reading and reading again.
Tough
10 Q
Duchess716
Sep 03 09
1014 plays
5 New Classics in Literature
Great books don't have to be very old to be classics. Some are actually relatively new. Let us take a look at some modern classics.
Average
10 Q
triviaking162
Nov 04 11
786 plays
6 Twentieth Century Books
This quiz deals mostly with European literature in the twentieth century.
Difficult
10 Q
ijsbek
Sep 23 12
387 plays
7 Olympia Press
Olympia Press was a 1950s-1960s publishing house that published various controversial American and European books. Although many of its publications are considered simply pornographic, others are renowned as modern classics.
Average
10 Q
echomikeromeo
Jan 16 07
330 plays
8 Literature of the last 50 years
This quiz exclusively contains questions on American literature of the last 50 years
Difficult
15 Q
gnossos
Apr 26 01
1788 plays
9 Remo And Chiun
Some questions from the Destroyer series of books (by various authors).
Difficult
15 Q
awkins
Jun 01 00
234 plays
10 Books Through Teenagers
I give you a description of a book from the point of view of a teenage boy or girl. You give me the book. Less information is supplied each time, so it gets harder.
Average
15 Q
notheridesbus
Sep 17 11
390 plays
11 New-Age Writers are Great Fun
Yes, indeed they are!
Tough
10 Q
sweetwheat
May 16 01
498 plays
12 Recent Authors
As someone who works in a bookstore, I thought I deserved to do a quiz about this. And to those of you who shop in bookstores, please remember that just because you think a book is well known does not mean it is.
Tough
15 Q
SarahJC
Jun 30 01
1236 plays
13 Fiction from the last 20 years (roughly!)
These are some questions based on my favourite recent novels. Some of them might be a bit random!
Difficult
10 Q
vh219
Sep 15 02
858 plays
14 Contemporary Fiction
Questions about several different novels, all written in the Mid Eighties through current. Enjoy, and if there's anything here you haven't read, CHECK IT OUT!
Impossible
10 Q
curve66
Sep 24 00
1017 plays
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Last Updated Jul 10 13 8:08 AM

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* Who was Remo's fiancee before he was 'executed'?


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