World Book Day is celebrated on April 23 every year.
H World Book Day celebrated every year on April 23. This day has not been established by chance. On April 23, 1616, two great names of letters “passed away”.. the reason for the Spanish author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes and the English dramatist, William Shakespeare.
On the occasion of World Book Day, we gather them 15 books which many readers lie about having read! These are classic masterpieces of world literature that many claim – falsely – to have read because they want to impress for their love of reading and their intelligence, or because they are ashamed to admit that they have not touched well-known works that belong to the pantheon of world literature.
The results come from surveys that have been done from time to time, and the titles on the list are surprising – or not. 40% of respondents claimed that the main reason they lie is to avoid being excluded from serious conversations, while a third said they want to appear smarter.
Here’s a list of 15 famous books we pretend we’ve read:
1. War and peace – Leo Tolstoy
2. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. The name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
4. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
5. The Lord of the Rings – J. RR Tolkien
6. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
7. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
9. The Wonderful Gkatsmpy – F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Bible
11. 1984 – George Orwell
12. Odysseus – James Joyce
13. When They Kill Blackbirds – Harper Lee
14. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
15. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
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