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We’ll Be Seriously Impressed If You Can Identify All 25 Books By Their Covers
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We’ll Be Seriously Impressed If You Can Identify All 25 Books By Their Covers

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Books are a treasure in life—wouldn’t you agree? First, there are so many of them, in different genres, that everyone can find something they would like and enjoy. Another thing is that books can help you feel calm and relaxed. At the same time, they can bring the extra spice of drama, romance, or even detective fiction to life. Best of all, books exercise our imagination. We can all paint a personal picture in our minds of the book we’re reading: the plot, the dialogue, the setting, the characters, or even their clothing.

So, this time we’re serving you a book quiz. It might sound super easy, especially if you’re a bookworm! However, here is the trick: we prepared 25 famous books and you’ll have to guess them just by their covers.

Do you think you can recognize them all? Let’s find out! 📖

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    Trivia Name These 25 Books Just By Their Cover

    1. Identify the book based on these covers.

    Siddhartha

    The Alchemist

    The Pilgrimage

    The Prophet

    2. Can you guess the book by these covers?

    The Beautiful and Damned

    The Great Gatsby

    This Side of Paradise

    The Age of Innocence

    3. Which book do these covers belong to?

    Wuthering Heights

    Emma

    Sense and Sensibility

    Pride and Prejudice

    4. These covers are from which well-known book?

    Moby-Dick

    The Call of the Wild

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

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    5. Which book has appeared with these covers?

    We

    Brave New World

    1984

    Fahrenheit 451

    6. Name the book based on these covers.

    Angels & Demons

    The Da Vinci Code

    The Lost Symbol

    The Name of the Rose

    7. These covers represent which famous book?

    1984

    A Clockwork Orange

    Animal Farm

    The Handmaid’s Tale

    8. Can you name the book with these covers?

    The Coral Island

    A Separate Peace

    Lord of the Flies

    The Island of Dr. Moreau

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    9. Which book features these cover designs?

    Of Mice and Men

    The Help

    Go Set a Watchman

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    10. These covers are from which well-known book?

    Dracula

    The Invisible Man

    Frankenstein

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    11. Which book do these covers belong to?

    The Portrait of a Man

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    The Man Who Laughs

    12. Identify the book based on these covers.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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    13. Name the book based on these covers.

    Misery

    The Silence of the Lambs

    Hannibal

    Red Dragon

    14. Can you guess the book by these covers?

    The Shining

    Pet Sematary

    Something Wicked This Way Comes

    It

    15. These covers belong to which mystery novel?

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    And Then There Were None

    Murder on the Orient Express

    16. Identify the book based on these covers.

    Catch-22

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    A Farewell to Arms

    All Quiet on the Western Front

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    17. These two covers belong to which book?

    The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots

    Crime and Punishment

    The Black Cat

    The Master and Margarita

    18. These covers represent which beloved classic?

    Little Women

    Anne of Green Gables

    The Secret Garden

    A Little Princess

    19. Which book do these covers belong to?

    Candide

    The Three Musketeers

    Don Quixote

    The Canterbury Tales

    20. Spot the book by these covers.

    Wuthering Heights

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Rebecca

    Jane Eyre

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    21. Can you name the book based on these covers?

    The Hobbit

    A Game of Thrones

    The Silmarillion

    The Lord of the Rings

    22. These two covers belong to which book?

    The House of the Spirits

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    The Shadow of the Wind

    Midnight’s Children

    23. Which novel do these covers belong to?

    The Trial

    No Longer Human

    The Stranger

    The Plague

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    24. Identify the book by these covers.

    The Little Prince

    Peter Pan

    The Wind in the Willows

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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    25. Can you guess the book by these covers?

    The Trial

    The Metamorphosis

    Notes from Underground

    The Castle

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    Lady Eowyn
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is rather stupid, different editions and revisions of books are usually issued in different covers. You'd only know the book if you had the specific edition that used this cover.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    21/25 - purely on what my sister would call "context clues" - i.e., I have no idea what the cover of Moby Wiener looks like, but seeing as the two images had a white whale in them, I made an educated guess XD Same for The Metamorphosis, IT, etc. I think the only ones I recognized outright were Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, and Lord of the Flies. I love all of Stephen King's work, and I also hugely love Fahrenheit 451, but the images shown aren't the cover art of the copies I own.

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    Pernille
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was the stupidest quiz to date. Books have different covers in different languages and editions. They should at least show publishing year and country.

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree. Not the same cover in a different language, or in à paperback edition. Why the downvotes?

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    Abel
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    21/25. Most mistakes were for unknown or unread books.

    Forrest Hobbs
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    18/25 largely on guesswork. I've got multiple copies of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, one copy of the Silmarilion, and none of them look like the LotR cover in this list. Also, there's no such book as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in my personal universe. 🇬🇧 😉

    Nice Beast Ludo
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got 18/25. I made dumb mistakes at first and then started using context clues.

    Francois
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    22/25. Quite a few lucky guesses; in case of doubt take the more famous one.

    Mari
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    18/25 I read a lot, but not much classic books. I should try a few of these.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Fahrenheit 451" is a fantastic read, if you haven't read it before. It was published in 1953, yet it is somehow more topical and relevant today than ever. It's also a fairly short book as well, so it's not something you have to slog through for weeks :)

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    Jenn C
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they talked about the ear 'seashelIs' replacing books and human interaction, I found it ironic that I was listening to it as an audio book through wireless earbuds.

    Lady Eowyn
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is rather stupid, different editions and revisions of books are usually issued in different covers. You'd only know the book if you had the specific edition that used this cover.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    21/25 - purely on what my sister would call "context clues" - i.e., I have no idea what the cover of Moby Wiener looks like, but seeing as the two images had a white whale in them, I made an educated guess XD Same for The Metamorphosis, IT, etc. I think the only ones I recognized outright were Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, and Lord of the Flies. I love all of Stephen King's work, and I also hugely love Fahrenheit 451, but the images shown aren't the cover art of the copies I own.

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    Pernille
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was the stupidest quiz to date. Books have different covers in different languages and editions. They should at least show publishing year and country.

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree. Not the same cover in a different language, or in à paperback edition. Why the downvotes?

    Load More Replies...
    Abel
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    21/25. Most mistakes were for unknown or unread books.

    Forrest Hobbs
    Community Member
    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    18/25 largely on guesswork. I've got multiple copies of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, one copy of the Silmarilion, and none of them look like the LotR cover in this list. Also, there's no such book as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in my personal universe. 🇬🇧 😉

    Nice Beast Ludo
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got 18/25. I made dumb mistakes at first and then started using context clues.

    Francois
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    22/25. Quite a few lucky guesses; in case of doubt take the more famous one.

    Mari
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    18/25 I read a lot, but not much classic books. I should try a few of these.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Fahrenheit 451" is a fantastic read, if you haven't read it before. It was published in 1953, yet it is somehow more topical and relevant today than ever. It's also a fairly short book as well, so it's not something you have to slog through for weeks :)

    Load More Replies...
    Jenn C
    Community Member
    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they talked about the ear 'seashelIs' replacing books and human interaction, I found it ironic that I was listening to it as an audio book through wireless earbuds.

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