Recent quizzes
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Literary lovers
From Lancelot and Guinevere to Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler literature is littered with great lovers. Put your passion to the test in our Valentine's Day quiz.
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The rule-breakers
They're classics now, but it wasn't always that way. Celebrate and test your knowledge of the books that were so ahead of their times they were misunderstood, kept in a bottom drawer, lambasted by critics or even banned.
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2000: a year in books
It was the year of Zadie Smith's triumphant arrival and Harry Potter's triumphant return. But how much else do you remember about the year that was?
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CS Lewis
It's the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Since then his Narnia Chronicles have been read as children's classics, embraced as spiritual parables and denounced as Christian propaganda. Try our quiz and find out if you're a Narnian or a nincompoop
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Oscar Wilde
In the centenary year of Oscar Wilde's death, test your knowledge of the great playwright and wit and find out whether you have nothing to declare but your genius
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Terry Pratchett
Feeling fantastic? With over 40 books under his belt, Terry Pratchett is Britain's leading writer of fantasy fiction. Celebrate his 25th Discworld novel, The Truth, with our enquiry into his unusual world
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The Booker Prize
It was thumbs up for Margaret Atwood in 2000. Now test your knowledge of the country's most influential literary award and find out if you're a dead cert or a rank outsider
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Science fiction
Are the Three Laws of Robotics engraved on your heart? Do you know your Ganymedean Slime Moulds from your Heechee artifacts? Then, cyberpunk, you have time for our sci-fi quiz...
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First lines
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brain numbed by too many sessions with the Who Wants to be a Millionaire Quiz Book must be in need of a literary brain-teaser. But can you tell your TS from your George, distinguish between Johnson and Jonson or spot an Iain Banks from an Ian McEwan?
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