19 Books That Everyone Lies About Having Read
If you have a full library of books that you’ve read under your belt, that makes you super studious, right? That’s probably why people lie about what books they’ve read.
We’ve all done it. You know the drill: You’re in the middle of a conversation with someone who starts telling you about an impressive piece of classic literature. You totally have that book on your bookshelf, so that counts as having read it before, right? Right!
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one who has lied about a book you’ve read (or didn’t read for that matter). In fact, you’ve probably lied about the same books as your friend. It’s always the ones that were on your high school reading list that you slid on by with SparkNotes (ah, remember SparkNotes?).
Anyway, here are 19 books that everyone has probably lied about having read before:
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Lord of the Flies
By William Golding
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The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain
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The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Catcher in the Rye
By J. D. Salinger
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The Diary of Anne Frank
By Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
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Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott
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Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
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A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
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Gulliver’s Travels
By Jonathan Swift
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Moby Dick
By Herman Melville
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Gone With the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell
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The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
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Catch-22
By Joseph Heller
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Romeo and Juliet
By Shakespeare
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Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
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1984
By George Orwell
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Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë
What books have you lied about reading?