The erotic Fifty Shades trilogy, four Dickens’s novels and Jane Austen classic Pride And Prejudice are among the top 20 books that Britons have lied most about reading.

One of the set of Royal Mail's Special Stamps featuring all six published Jane Austen novels (David Parry/PA)
One of the set of Royal Mail’s Special Stamps featuring all six published Jane Austen novels (David Parry/PA)

Perhaps surprisingly children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll came out top in the survey, commissioned by the BBC Store.

While War and Peace might be Sunday night’s most popular drama, only nine per cent of those surveyed had actually picked up a paper version of the Tolstoy novel – but plenty more had lied about having done so.

If you want to know where you stand among Britons fibbing fiction-readers, here are the full top 20.

How many have you read?

1. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
2. 1984 – George Orwell
3. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy – JRR Tolkien
4. War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy
5. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
6. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
7. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
8. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
9. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
11. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
12. Harry Potter (series) – JK Rowling
13. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
14. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
15. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
16. Fifty Shades Trilogy – EL James
17. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
18. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
20. The Catcher In The Rye – JD Salinger