Two thirds of Brits have lied about the books that they have read in a bid to impress someone, a survey has found.

George Orwell's 1984 tops the list of books that people pretend they have read followed by War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and James Joyce's Ulysses.

Other common literary fibs include The Bible, In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.

The survey of over 1,300 people - commissioned for World Book Day - also asked what books people really enjoy, with J K Rowling and John Grisham topping the chart.

Oddly no-one asked said they had pretended to have read anything by Katie Price.