Today is World Book Day. Earlier this year over 1,300 people took part in an online survey about their reading habits. They were given a list of 10 books and asked which they had lied about reading. Two out of three people admitted lying about reading a particular book to impress someone, the survey released to mark World Book Day found. George Orwell's 1984 and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are among the books people are most likely to have lied about reading, according to the poll.
In addition, 41% of respondents confessed to turning to the back of a book to read the end before finishing the story and 48% admitted to buying a book for someone else and reading it first.
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