AUTHOR RECOGNITION TEST
Take the test:
Put a tick mark next to every author's name you recognize. No cheating.
Grading:In this version, the tick marks are points. Maximum possible score is 50.
Psychologists studying theory of mind (empathy) developed this list in 1989 to test how well-read subjects were.
>Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West, "Exposure to Print and Orthographic Processing" (1989)
>>8740147
Is there a built-in correction for the fact that it's mostly Anglo trash?
28.
I don't think it has much to do with how /lit/ you are at all. /lit/ has boners for canon authors and postmodernists. This list is mostly mainstream contemporary fiction.
>>8740167
Anglo Europeans have been the only good writers of literature in pretty much all of history. Latin America has been on the rise for the past few decades though.
>>8740147
>James Michener
What the fuck is this? A reading list for middle-aged, suburban moms?
>>8740186
shut up cuck
Here you go
>>8740147
I recognize nearly all of these, they're all gutter trash airport fiction. They fucking put Danielle Steel and sugest ingesting her mass produced garbage makes you "well read".
Baldwin's cool though.
Just recognizing names doesn't show anything.
>>8740147
31.
>>8740381
Read OP, it's just the top fifty published authors, no wonder it has stephen king on it.
12
Tip top kek
>>8740147
stupid list. someone should make a rela one so I cna feel superior to someone else.
>>8741587
http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html