It’s been a lousy year for everything except reading. This is a quiz on my favourite reads of 2020 – it’s been such a good year I’ve made 2 quizzes out of it! Fiction, non-fiction, best sellers, classics and some strange ones along the way – a great year of reading even though my TBR pile has not shrunk!
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What is the city in City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert?
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New York
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Chicago
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The Spy by Paulo Coelho is a fictional take on which real life figure?
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Mata Hari
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Kim Philby
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In Skoot’s fascinating The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, what was Henrietta known by to the scientists who used her cells?
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HeLa
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HLacks
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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is inspired by what strange case?
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Fasting girls
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Voluntary mutism
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Finish the title of Rebecca Solnit’s book: Men — Things to Me
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Explain
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Describe
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In Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is the Bennet’s home: Netherfield or Longbourn?
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Longbourn
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Netherfield
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What is the name of Edna O’Brien’s powerful 2020 novel?
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Girl
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A Pagan Place
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Which African country is the setting for Abi Dare’s wonderful novel The Girl with the Louding Voice?
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Nigeria
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Mali
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In Doyle’s ever charming The Commitments, what style of music is the band’s mission?
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Soul
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Blues
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What is the title of Michael Cohen’s book about his time fixing shady deals for the Trump family?
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Disloyal
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Unbecoming
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A book everyone should read (and be horrified by) finish the title of Caroline Criado Perez’s non fiction book on data: Invisible —
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Women
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Numbers
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In Golding’s Lord of the Flies which boy leads the hunters?
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Jack
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Ralph
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Who wrote Rage, the non-fiction best seller about the Trump years?
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Bob Woodward
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John Bolton
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown is set in modern times and which decade?
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1950s
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1940s
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Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
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John Steinbeck
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Ernest Hemingway
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Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept revolves around the publication of which banned novel?
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Dr Zhivago
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Finish the title of Jon Sopel’s book about reporting from Washington: A Year at the —
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Circus
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Whitehouse
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Which major feminist writer wrote The Beauty Myth?
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Naomi Wolf
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Gloria Steinem
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Which American politician wrote Trust?
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Pete Buttigieg
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Kamala Harris
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What is the famous address of the characters whose shenanigans we follow in Maupin’s Tales of the City series?
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28 Barbary Lane
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17 Halcyon Heights
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler is in which genre?
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Dystopian
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Time travel
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Finish the title of Ngozi Adichie’s novel: — Hibiscus
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Purple
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Blue
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What is the name of the protagonist in Afia Atakora’s Conjure Women?
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Rue
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Belle
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Which little used letter is missing from the name of the author of How to be an Antiracist by Ibram ? Kendi?
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X
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Z
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I’ve not quite finished it yet (!) – but what is the title of Barack Obama’s long awaited biography?
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A Promised Land
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These Truths
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