How well do you know the best books of all time? Take our quiz
How well do you know the best books of all time? Take our quiz
Jake KerridgeMon, August 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM UTC
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Fifty books, 28 centuries – yesterday we revealed the our greatest books of all time.
Only a small handful of bibliophiles will have read them all. The rest of you now have a tall pile to tackle – you might know your Dickens but not your Didion, your Tolstoy but not your Tokarczuk.
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The real question, though, is: how well do you remember the books you have read?
Test your knowledge in the quiz below. And if your memory fails you, then take comfort in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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