Can You Guess the Book Title From an Anagram of the Letters?

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Can You Guess the Book Title From an Anagram of the Letters?
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About This Quiz

Do you love anagrams? Are you an avid reader? We've combined both of these fun pursuits into one great quiz. We challenge you to get them all right.

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For instance, we can rearrange the letters of the word "angel" to form the word "glean." That's an anagram.

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction. Some great novels include "Sense and Sensibility," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "The Grapes of Wrath." 

What could be more fun than to combine novels and anagrams?!

But, let's be honest, making anagrams out of the titles of books has got to be tough. In all honesty, it's no tougher than guessing those anagrams. So, we've compiled here 35 anagrams based on well-known book titles. Here's a sample of what you can expect.

Which of the following is a book title based on the anagram Orbital Milk Docking:

a. "To Kill a Mockingbird"

b. "Last of the Mohicans"

c. "Price and Prejudice"

If you answered, To Kill a Mockingbird, you are correct, and you're ready to take this quiz.

Let's get started to find out how many of these book anagrams you can figure out.

Bathe Tarty Eggs
The Hunger Games
The Great Gatsby
A Time to Kill
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Bathe Tarty Eggs is an anagram for "The Great Gatsby." This Fitzgerald classic came out in 1925.

Orbital Milk Docking
To Kill a Mockingbird
Last of the Mohicans
Pride and Prejudice
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Orbital Milk Docking is code for "To Kill a Mockingbird." This timeless novel was written by the late Harper Lee.

Dad Pierced Juniper
The Long Road Home
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Dad Pierced Juniper translates into "Pride and Prejudice." Who can forget that Jane Austen classic?

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The Fast Gopher War
The Da Vinci Code
The Grapes of Wrath
Alice in Wonderland
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

"The Grapes of Wrath" can be jumbled into The Fast Gopher War. This book won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Huge With the Grins
Wuthering Heights
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Remains of the Day
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Huge With the Grins stands for "Wuthering Heights." Everyone should be reading the Bronte sisters.

Deprived Of Placid
The Wind in the Willows
Anne of Green Gables
David Copperfield
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Deprived of Placid translates into "David Copperfield." This masterpiece by Charles Dickens is now the name of a real life magician.

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Holder of Itself
Lord of the Flies
Game of Thrones
Harry Potter
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Holder of Itself turns into "Lord of the Flies." This is, of course, not to be confused with "Lord of the Rings."

Throw Death Flowers
The Joy Luck Club
The War of the Worlds
A Christmas Carol
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Throw Death Flowers is a jumble of "The War of the Worlds." H.G. Wells published this book in 1898.

Tanners Knife
Frankenstein
A Light in the Attic
Ulysses
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Tanners Knife is a jumble of "Frankenstein." This famous novel was written by Mary Shelley.

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Thy Helix Thoughts Hit a Geekier Cad
The Sun at the Edge of the Horizon
A Room of One's Own
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

This is a very long anagram for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." it was the first of a five-book series.

Delight for Hornets
The Clash of Titans
The Lord of the Rings
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Delight for Hornets translates into "The Lord of the Rings." Does there need to be any explanation about that novel?

Meet the Hurt Seekers
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Three Musketeers
The Hunchback of Notre Day
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

"The Three Musketeers" want you to Meet the Hurt Seekers. This famous book was written by Alexander Dumas.

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Kangaroo Crew Lock
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hurt Locker
A Clockwork Orange
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Kangaroo Crew Lock translates into "A Clockwork Orange." The famous book was written by Anthony Burgess.

Down While With Tinsel
The Wind in the Willows
Les Miserables
The Eye of the Storm
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Down While With Tinsel translates to "The Wind in the Willows." It is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

Effective Hornet Endurably Shrunk
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Effective Hornet Endurably Shrunk stands for "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Everyone needs a little Mark Twain in their lives.

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Metals of the Clean
Road to Redemption
The Maltese Falcon
War and Peace
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Metals of the Clean stands for "The Maltese Falcon." Doesn't it just make you think of Humphrey Bogart?

Radiography Counterfeit
The Remains of the Day
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Songs for Tomorrow
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Radiography Counterfeit turns into "The Picture of Dorian Gray." This stunning novel is by Oscar Wilde.

Rabies Sells Me
Les Miserables
Northanger Abbey
The Scarlet Letter
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Rabies Sells Me translates into "Les Miserables." Wanna buy a case of rabies?

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Light Wit
Macbeth
Dracula
Twilight
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

You must have a Light Wit to read "Twilight." No, that's not true. "Twilight" is a superb series.

Thieving Egret
Days of Love
The Giving Tree
Treasure Island
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Thieving Egret is an anagram for "The Giving Tree." This is one of the most memorable stories by Shel Silverstein.

He Lit Matches
The Alchemist
The Little Prince
The Tempest
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

He Lit Matches turns into "The Alchemist." The book was written by Paulo Coelho, and it will change your life.

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Too Injured Male
The Crucible
The Joy Luck Club
Romeo and Juliet
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Oh, that this Too, Too Inured Male would melt. Only those who know "Hamlet" will laugh at that reference.

Mysterious Weird Hat
A Time to Kill
Tuesdays With Morrie
The Man in the Moon
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Mysterious Weird Hat turns into "Tuesdays with Morrie." This tear-jerker was written by Mitch Albom.

Betrays That Egg
Master and Commander
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Here is another anagram for "The Great Gatsby." We bet that you could come up with one all your own!

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A Salted Scrutiny
A Study in Scarlet
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

A Salted Scrutiny turns into "A Study in Scarlet." The detective novel was written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Tonight We Whined
The Sword in the Stone
Gone With the Wind
The Gilded Web
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Tonight We Whined, and dined, and read "Gone With the Wind." The book was written by Margaret Mitchell and was published in 1936.

Wacko Anglo Rocker
A Clockwork Orange
Water for Elephants
An American in Paris
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Here is another anagram for "A Clockwork Orange." It seriously looks like it would be for Water for Elephants.

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Rich Chatty Teen Here
The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Catcher In the Rye
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Here is an anagram for "The Catcher in the Rye." Let's be honest, there are a lot of rich chatty teens here.

Withholding That Greater Toot
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Like Water for Chocolate
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Okay, if you didn't read this anagram and laugh then you're not human. This witty jumble stands for "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

Try Trap Hero
Hamlet
Don Quixote
Harry Potter
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Okay, that was an easy one. Try Trap Hero is an anagram for "Harry Potter." Have you heard of that book series?

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Forge the Warpaths
War and Peace
The Grapes of Wrath
The Divine Comedy
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

Here is another anagram for "The Grapes of Wrath." But Forge the Warpaths could be a book title of its own.

A Cottager's Next Pie
Great Expectations
Crime and Punishment
Madame Bovary
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

A Cottager's Next Pie stands for "Great Expectations." What would the cottager's next pie be? Apple?

A Nerd Dripped Juice
Pride and Prejudice
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

A Nerd Dripped Juice stands for "Pride and Prejudice." That one kinda makes you cringe.

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The Fat Arrow
The Art of War
The Giver
Middlemarch
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

The Fat Arrow is a fitting anagram for "The Art of War." Sun Tzu wrote this masterpiece in the 5th century B.C.

O, Chip Icon!
Absalom, Absalom!
Pinocchio
The Iliad
Correct Answer
Wrong Answer

O, Chip Icon! stands for "Pinocchio"! "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a children's novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi.

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