Top 20 Novels That People Say They've Read When They Actually Haven't

Publish date
Thursday, 4 Feb 2016, 5:04PM
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New research in Britain has revealed that many lie about the books they claim to have read.

Whether it's to make ourselves sound more intellectual or what, a-lot of people claim to have read classic such as The Harry Potter series when they have in fact not.

Have you lied about any of the 20 below?

1 - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

2 - 1984 - George Orwell

3 - The Lord Of The Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien

4 - War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

5 - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

6 - The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

7 - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

8 - David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

9 - Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10 - Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

11 - Bleak House - Charles Dickens

12 - Harry Potter (series) - JK Rowling

13 - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

14 - The Diary Of Anne Frank - Anne Frank

15 - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

16 - Fifty Shades trilogy - EL James

17 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

18 - The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

19 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

20 - The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger

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