Which Didn't They Write? Trivia Quiz

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The 1984 novel "Money: A Suicide Note" is one of the ones that British author Martin Amis (1949-2023) is best known for. It is about an advertising executive and his compulsive spending habits, and follows him on his downward spiral. His second work listed is the 1991 novel "Time's Arrow: or the Nature of the Offence" where the reader follows the life of a German Holocaust doctor but in reverse chronology. The narrator seems to be a second independent consciousness within the doctor.

The 1969 novel "The Edible Woman" was Canadian author Margaret Atwood's first and follows a young woman grappling with societal norms, slowly becoming detached from reality. Attributing human qualities to her food is one of the symptoms, with eating implying cannibalism. The 1985 dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" presents an alternative future New England where a religious totalitarian regime is in control. The award-winning TV series adaptation started showing in 2017.

J G Ballard's 1981 science fiction novel "Hello America" is an adventure story set in a virtually uninhabitable North America, following an ecological collapse. Netflix acquired the film rights to the novel in 2017. "High-Rise" (1975) is one of his novels exploring how modern living can affect people's psyche. In this case, residents of a luxury high-rise building gradually descend into chaos. There is an award-winning 2015 film adaptation of the novel.

Anthony Burgess is possibly best known for his 1962 dystopian black satire novel "A Clockwork Orange", particularly after Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film adaptation. The novel is set in a near-future society with a youth culture of extreme violence, as seen from the teenage protagonist Alex's viewpoint. The second Burgess novel is the 1980 novel "Earthly Powers", where the events of the 20th century are set out as seen by 81-year-old Kenneth Toomey as he works on his memoirs.

Ian McEwan won the Booker prize with his 1998 novel "Amsterdam" in which two friends make a euthanasia pact following the funeral of a mutual acquaintance. Things go awry. McEwan's next novel, the 2001 "Atonement" was also short-listed for the Booker Prize. The 2007 romantic war drama film adaptation was multi-award winning.

The "wrong" answers in this quiz are "The Black Dahlia" (1987) by James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard's 1990 "Get Shorty", Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" (1996), "American Psycho" (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis, "Stray Dogs" by John Ridley which was published in 1997, and the 2001 novel "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King.