I sent them all to ChatGPT 4o one by one and had it guess the books, this is how it did:
1. Anthony Trollope – I didn’t get this one.
2. Evelyn Waugh – Correct!
3. Henry James – Correct!
4. Graham Greene – I missed this, was thinking of the wrong tone.
5. W. Shakespeare (i) – Correct!
6. Samuel Richardson – Correct!
7. David Foster Wallace – I guessed Gaddis, but this makes perfect sense. Partial credit.
8. Marcel Proust – Correct!
9. Mrs. Gaskell – Correct!
10. Ian McEwan – Partial credit; I guessed Atonement after Henry James.
11. E. M. Forster – Correct!
12. Cormac McCarthy – Correct!
13. P. G. Wodehouse – Correct!
14. Alan Bennett – I guessed Chekhov/Osborne, so I missed this.
15. Jane Austen – Correct!
16. Dan Brown – Correct!
17. Agatha Christie – Correct!
18. Zadie Smith – Missed this one.
19. W. Shakespeare (ii) – Correct!
20. Iris Murdoch – Correct!
21. Ernest Hemingway – Correct!
22. John Banville – Correct!
23. Harold Pinter – Correct!
24. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Correct!
25. Tennessee Williams – Correct!
26. Oscar Wilde – Correct!
27. D. H. Lawrence – Correct!
28. Thomas Hardy – Correct!
29. Virginia Woolf – Missed this one, was thinking of Galsworthy.
30. Tom Stoppard – Correct!
Final score: 25/30 with a couple of partial credits. Not bad!
1. Anthony Trollope – I didn’t get this one. 2. Evelyn Waugh – Correct! 3. Henry James – Correct! 4. Graham Greene – I missed this, was thinking of the wrong tone. 5. W. Shakespeare (i) – Correct! 6. Samuel Richardson – Correct! 7. David Foster Wallace – I guessed Gaddis, but this makes perfect sense. Partial credit. 8. Marcel Proust – Correct! 9. Mrs. Gaskell – Correct! 10. Ian McEwan – Partial credit; I guessed Atonement after Henry James. 11. E. M. Forster – Correct! 12. Cormac McCarthy – Correct! 13. P. G. Wodehouse – Correct! 14. Alan Bennett – I guessed Chekhov/Osborne, so I missed this. 15. Jane Austen – Correct! 16. Dan Brown – Correct! 17. Agatha Christie – Correct! 18. Zadie Smith – Missed this one. 19. W. Shakespeare (ii) – Correct! 20. Iris Murdoch – Correct! 21. Ernest Hemingway – Correct! 22. John Banville – Correct! 23. Harold Pinter – Correct! 24. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Correct! 25. Tennessee Williams – Correct! 26. Oscar Wilde – Correct! 27. D. H. Lawrence – Correct! 28. Thomas Hardy – Correct! 29. Virginia Woolf – Missed this one, was thinking of Galsworthy. 30. Tom Stoppard – Correct!
Final score: 25/30 with a couple of partial credits. Not bad!