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22 Books You Pretend You've Read - But Actually Haven't

Most people lie and say they’ve read these classic books to seem smarter, according to a survey in The Guardian.
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
1
Charles Dickens
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
2
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
3
Anonymous
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
4
Herman Melville
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
5
Ayn Rand
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
6
Ernest Hemingway
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
7
Vladimir Nabokov
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
8
Joseph Heller
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
9
George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
10
Harper Lee
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
11
Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island
12
Robert Louis Stevenson
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
13
Gustave Flaubert
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
14
Homer
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
15
James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
16
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
17
Charlotte Brontë
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
18
John Steinbeck
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
19
Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
20
J.D. Salinger
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
21
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
22
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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