First I have to add another defense of Confederacy of Dunces. Marvelous book, hilarious cover to cover. I've read it three times in my life and now that I have the ebook version I hope to fit in another read sometime soon.

Looking at the list of books that list of top five books that Brits lie about reading, I've only read two of them; The Lord of the Rings and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, both read only once and long ago. I see no point in lying about reading a book. The list of very popular and best selling books of recent times that I have not read is almost as long as that list itself (all but one of the Harry Potter books, all of the Twilight books, The Hunger Games books, the Game of Thrones books, anything by Dan Brown, . . .). If I find myself in a group of people talking about any of these I just sit and daydream, not try and fabricate some knowledge of a book I have never read because it never interested me.