Fleming, Tolkien and CS Lewis are the authors that people most claim – falsely – to have read. Top of the current list are Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, followed by JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and CS Lewis’s Narnia series. Not for shame at not having read these books, but to impress people by pretending we have done. Men do this more than women; the Reading Agency says one in five men even lies about his reading during job interviews. Our guilty secrets: the books we only say we've read Read moreIt’s interesting to compare this year’s list of most fibbed-about books with 2009’s, when people had loftier ambitions in their reading.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2017 08:03 UTC