As reported in the Irish Times, a recent survey found that two-thirds of people lied about reading books they have not actually read. Why? The main reason was to impress someone.
Top ten claims:
1-1984 by George Orwell
2-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3-Ulysses by James Joyce
4-The Bible
5-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6-A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
7-Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
8-In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
9-Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
10-The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Also mentioned were other classics by Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.
So, how many of these have you read? Honestly!
