Books people lie about reading

According to a survey by World Book Day, over two-thirds of people (out of a surveyed 1,342) lie about which books they’ve read. Hilariously, the book people are most likely to lie about is 1984.

1. 1984, by George Orwell 42%
2. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy 31%
3. Ulysses, by James Joyce 25%
4. The Bible, 24%
5. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert 16%
6. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking 15%
7. Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie 14%
8. In Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust 9%
9. Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama 6%
10. The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins 6%

While according to the same survey, what people are actually reading is:

1. J K Rowling 61%
2. John Grisham 32%
3. Sophie Kinsella 22%
4. Jilly Cooper 20%
5. Mills & Boon 18%
6. Dick Francis 17%
7. Robert Harris 16%
8. Jeffrey Archer 15%
9. Frederick Forsyth 13%
10. James Herbert 12%