Top 10 Books that People Say They Have Read But Haven’t
Based on a “Guilty Secrets” survey conducted by UK organization Spread the Word:
- 1984 by George Orwell (42%)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (31%)
- Ulysses by James Joyce (25%)
- The Bible (24%)
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (16%)
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (15%)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (14%)
- In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (9%)
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (6%)
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (6%)
And here’s two other interesting statistics from the survey:
- 41% of respondents confess to having turned to the last page to find out what happens before finishing a book
- 96% of people admit to staying up late to finish a book
(via kottke.org)
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