Put your book smarts to use in this fun quiz, devised by the Electric Literature team. We’re challenging you to guess the book titles based on emojis! From classic novels to contemporary bestsellers, these emoji will give you a hint, but can you crack the code? If you’re stumped, don’t worry, scroll on to the very bottom for the answer key.
Answer key:
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
- Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Bluebeard by Charles Perrault
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- The No. 1 Ladies’s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Mouse Trap by Agatha Christie
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
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