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Book quiz: titles with missing colours

In this book quiz, we’ve taken the colour out of books – out of their titles, that is. Some of them are well known, some of them are  bit trickier, and none of them have Fifty Shades of anything at all.

Whether you write colour or color, the task here is to pick the missing word for each of the books. Let us know how you do!

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    January 6 / 2017

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