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Reading the article, I wonder if the survey was phrased in connection to screen adaptations, which would explain the odd inclusion of 50 Shades of Gray in a list heavy with Dickens and Tolstoy.
Here's the list, with my notes on whether I've read them or not:
Top 20 Books People Most Lie About Having Read
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read,a favorite)
- 1984 - George Orwell (can't remember if I read it)
- The Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkien (read, a favorite)
- War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (not read)
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (never finished)
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (read, liked a lot)
- To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (read)
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (not read)
- Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (never finished)
- Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen (read, a favorite)
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens (not read)
- Harry Potter (series) - JK Rowling (read, a favorite)
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (read)
- The Diary Of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (read)
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (not read)
- Fifty Shades trilogy - EL James (not read)
- And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (read, didn't like as much as Ms. Marple or Poirot)
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (read)
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (never finished)
- The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger (not read)
So, which ones have you read?
I've read: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14, 17
ReplyDeleteSome are on my To Be Read list, but most aren't.
It's strange that I can't remember if I've read 2 or not - it's so permeated the culture that I might have fooled myself into thinking I had.
DeleteI do remember reading (and hating) Brave New World and Animal Farm.