Famous novels by year first published
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About this puzzle
Publication dates are easy to pin down in theory, but novels age badly in memory: the book you read as a teenager feels as if it has always existed, while a classic assigned in school feels older than it is. The gap between the oldest and newest here is almost two centuries, yet the two most recent titles were published within living memory and the two oldest are often shelved together in the same 'classic' mental bin. Ranking by first publication year means ignoring how famous a book still is today.
Ranked newest to oldest · year first published
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- 1984
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Moby-Dick
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Great Gatsby
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