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What is the title of the novel by Salman Rushdie that led to a fatwa being issued against him?
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The Satanic Verses
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on postcolonial studies?
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Orientalism by Edward Said
Which book is considered as the first modern novel?
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on linguistics?
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Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky
What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel about the Spanish Civil War?
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
What is the title of Mary Shelley's famous novel about a scientist who creates life?
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Frankenstein
Which book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels outlines the principles of communism?
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The Communist Manifesto
What is the title of Charles Dickens's novel about an orphan named Pip?
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Great Expectations
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel about Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars?
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War and Peace
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'Afrofuturism'?
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Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose edited by Mark Dery
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'postmodernism'?
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Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
What is the title of Jane Austen's novel about the Dashwood sisters?
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Sense and Sensibility
Which book is considered as the most influential novel of the 20th century?
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the themes of morality, free will, and redemption?
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Crime and Punishment
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'critical digital studies'?
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Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander R. Galloway
Which book is the second in C.S. Lewis's 'Chronicles of Narnia' series?
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Prince Caspian
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on disability studies?
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The Body Silent by Robert Murphy
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on game studies?
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
Who wrote the novel 'The Hobbit'?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which book is considered the best-selling book of all time?
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The Bible
Which novel by Charlotte Brontë follows the life of the orphaned protagonist Jane?
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Jane Eyre
What is the title of Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel?
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The Handmaid's Tale
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on animal rights?
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Which philosopher wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'?
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Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel about a family in Colombia?
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Which book is often cited as the most influential political tract in human history?
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'digital humanities'?
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Debates in the Digital Humanities edited by Matthew K. Gold
Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Fahrenheit 451'?
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Ray Bradbury
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on queer theory?
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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Which novel by Toni Morrison follows the life of former slave Sethe?
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Beloved
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'stream of consciousness'?
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on military strategy?
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'cultural studies'?
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
What is the title of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
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Beloved
Which novel by Aldous Huxley portrays a futuristic society controlled by technology and conditioning?
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Brave New World
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'ecocriticism'?
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The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm
What is the title of George Orwell's allegorical novella about the Russian Revolution?
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Animal Farm
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on psychology?
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The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
In which year was Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' first published?
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1859
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on media studies?
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
Which novel by Emily Brontë tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw?
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Wuthering Heights
Which novel by William Golding is about a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island?
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Lord of the Flies
Which French author wrote 'Les Misérables', a story about social injustice?
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Victor Hugo
What is the title of the novel by Leo Tolstoy about the lives of Russian aristocrats during the Napoleonic Wars?
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War and Peace
What is the title of the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien that precedes 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
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The Hobbit
Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'neoliberalism'?
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change by David Harvey
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on food studies?
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'Catch-22'?
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
What is the title of the science fiction novel by Frank Herbert set on the desert planet Arrakis?
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Dune
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on critical race theory?
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Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
What is the title of the novel by Margaret Atwood set in a dystopian future where women are subjugated?
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The Handmaid's Tale
What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
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The Great Gatsby
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on feminism?
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
What is the name of the book written by Sun Tzu about military strategy?
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The Art of War
Who wrote the novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
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Mark Twain
What is the title of the post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy?
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The Road
What is the title of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee about racial injustice in the American South?
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To Kill a Mockingbird
What is the title of the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov about an older man's obsession with a young girl?
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Lolita
Who wrote the novel 'The Lord of the Rings'?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Who wrote the novel 'Gone with the Wind'?
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Margaret Mitchell
Which book, written by Niccolò Machiavelli, offers advice on how to acquire and maintain political power?
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The Prince
Who is the author of 'The Republic', a philosophical work that discusses justice and politics?
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Plato
What is the title of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Which novel by John Steinbeck tells the story of two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression?
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Of Mice and Men
Which book is often cited as the most influential work on economics?
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The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
What is the name of the book that introduced the character Sherlock Holmes?
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A Study in Scarlet
What is the title of Truman Capote's true crime novel?
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In Cold Blood
What is the title of the famous economic treatise by Adam Smith?
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The Wealth of Nations
Which novel by Ernest Hemingway is set during the Spanish Civil War?
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', a magical realist novel about the Buendía family?
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Gabriel García Márquez
Which novel by Jack Kerouac is based on his travels across America with his friends?
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On the Road
What dystopian novel, published in 1949, introduced the concept of Big Brother?
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1984
Which novel by Joseph Heller is set during World War II and introduces the term 'Catch-22'?
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Catch-22
Which book is the first in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series?
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'survival of the fittest'?
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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
What is the name of the book that introduced the concept of 'Big Brother' and 'Thought Police'?
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1984 by George Orwell
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'fat studies'?
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Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann
What is the title of George Orwell's famous dystopian novel?
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1984
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'the American Dream'?
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The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams
Who is the author of the existentialist novel 'The Stranger'?
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Albert Camus
What is the name of the book that inspired the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous?
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The Big Book by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith
Which book is often credited with starting the environmental movement?
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'cyberspace'?
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'existentialism'?
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Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
What is the name of the book that popularized the term 'intersectionality'?
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Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks
Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye', a novel about teenage rebellion?
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J.D. Salinger
What is the title of Emily Bronte's only novel?
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Wuthering Heights
What is the name of the manifesto written by Mary Wollstonecraft advocating for women's rights?
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
What is the title of Aldous Huxley's famous dystopian novel?
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Brave New World