Buzzfeed posted a list titled 22 Books You Pretend You’ve Read But Actually Haven’t. (via The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/09/have-you-ever-lied-about-a-book)
“The top 10 books people claim to read but haven’t
1 1984 by George Orwell (26%)
2 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (19%)
3 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (18%)
4 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (15%)
5 A Passage to India by EM Forster (12%)
6 Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (11%)
7 To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (10%)
8 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (8%)
9 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (8%)
10 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (5%)”
Then again I’m a librarian and have actually read most of these. Sadly W&P and C&P are just too long.
Stephen
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