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?