Books People Haven't Read

Last week in the UK was World Book Day. And for the day a survey was given on peoples reading habits. There was an interesting surevey about what people have not read, but said they did. They listed the top 10 books respondants lied about reading. Granted, the survey was limited to the UK, but the library has most of these books if you want to catch up on your reading.

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7925720.stm

Library Quotation

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. - Jacques Ellul