Here Are the Books People Lie About Reading

Made it through 'Ulysses' yet?
By Newser Editors,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 18, 2014 1:40 PM CST
Here Are the Books People Lie About Reading
Made it through 'Ulysses' yet?   (Flickr)

You've heard of these books. You might even have talked about them. You know you should have read them—but you probably didn't. At the Federalist, Ben Domenech offers his list of the books most people lie about reading:

  1. Ulysses, James Joyce
  2. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
  3. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  5. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Click for the full list, which includes the darling of the libertarian movement, Atlas Shrugged. In other didn't-read-it news, your digital librarian knows which books you haven't finished. (More books stories.)

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