2/06/2024

20 Novels, Described Poorly

How many of these famous tales can you identify based on these extremely inept summaries? 

1.       There are men and several rabbits but, puzzlingly, no mice.

2.       A girl learns never to run around in the woods dressed as a ham

3.       A boy goes off to a wizard school where he becomes a jock

4.       It’s the best of times because the two lovers get to live happily ever after, but it’s the worst of times because a lot of people get their heads chopped off

5.       A guy inherits a ring that brings people really bad luck

6.       A gold-digging Southern belle spends the Civil War marrying up

7.       A guy buys a painting that doesn’t age well. At all.

8.       A white whale tries to escape from an obsessive stalker

9.       A guy throws parties for friends but never attends them himself because I guess he’s an introvert?

10.   A psychotic candymaker uses his chocolate factory to lure children to their death

11.   Four sisters find ways to keep themselves busy until they land husbands

12.   A town decides to assign each female a letter, which they have to wear sewn to their dress, but they never get past the letter ‘A’

13.   A guy who’s just trying to live his best life in an African village gets dragged away by a nosy sailor

14.   Society finally achieves a utopia where everyone owns large screen televisions, but some guys who likes books can’t stop complaining

15.   A successful capitalist is tormented by communists ghosts until he agrees to share his wealth

16.   A group of mean girls create drama in a Puritan community (hint: rhymes with “bitches”)

17.   People travelling on a luxury train have their vacation ruined by a murder

18.   A group of kids on an island survive by hunting pigs

19.   An old fisherman refuses to adopt modern fishing practices

20.   A house that is already architecturally unsound finally collapses due to the added weight of a woman who has risen from the grave


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1. Of Mice and Men; 2. To Kill a Mockingbird; 3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; 4. A Tale of Two Cities; 5. The Lord of the Rings; 6. Gone With the Wind; 7. The Picture of Dorian Gray; 8. Moby Dick; 9. The Great Gatsby; 10. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; 11. Little Women; 12. The Scarlett Letter; 13. Heart of Darkness; 14. Fahrenheit 451; 15. A Christmas Carol; 16. The Crucible; 17. Murder on the Orient Express; 18. The Lord of the Flies; 19. The Old Man and the Sea; 20. Fall of the House of Usher