Mick Hartley

"The 13 books we lie about reading the most", is the BBC headline. I click on the link. It'll be the usual culprits, I expect: Ulysses, Proust's A La Recherche, War and Peace, maybe a Dickens or two…

But no:

List of books we're most likely to claim we've read, when we've actually only seen the film, in order of popularity:

1. James Bond books, Ian Fleming
2. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
3. The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
4. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
5. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
6. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
7. The Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum
8. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
10. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
12. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
13. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

People are claiming to have read The Da Vinci Code when they haven't?? 

I need to get out more.