Confession time! Tell us your literary sins to win an entire set of 20 Puffin Classics

The Odyssey is a very odd book to be a Puffin Classic. Presumably it's abridged !

Never read Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn or Anne of Green Gables. Probably one or two of the others as well, but my memory is rubbish...

Quite a few, but The Wind in the Willows is one I am slightly ashamed of not reading. I did watch the TV programme though - and I wasn't a fan so maybe I am not missing out.

Shadow I've just googled & there were 14 initially - makes my set look paltry and then another 26 produced after he died. There are quite a few Mary Poppins books too. I love wonder whether those of us who have read more of the list grew up before VHS/Betamax/multi-channel TV.

I have lots of classics on my book shelves. I don't reeeeeeally read them. I read on my kindle app. Which is full of trashy romances

The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are the only books I've read from that list. I read loads, and did even as a child but for some reason I missed most of the classics. I have been trying to buy the books that I missed out on for ds as I find them in the local second hand shops. and I am going to read them first before I give them to him

I haven't read most of them but I am most ashamed to say I have never read Tom Sawyer, there's no excuse, really. Does it help that I read Little Women and Anne of Green Gables many times each?

Feel obliged to point out there's 18 titles in that list, not twenty...

As a real life Alice, I hated Alice in Wonderland as a child. This was dwarfed by the horrors of "who the f* is Alice" in my teenage years.

I've read, or at least attempted, most of those books. No Dracula? That was my favourite Puffin Classic. I still have it somewhere.

I've not read the Jungle Book. Does the bear still sing in it :D

Quite a lot of them I think I "read" as audiobooks actually

I haven't read call of the wild or journey to the centre of the earth. At least, I think that's the only two I haven't read! The brain is a funny thing and I'm not sure whether it isn't the case that having seen te film or just the prevalence of the stories in popular culture makes me think I've read the rest! (In the same way that I've never seen any Star Wars films but get all the cultural references!)

Laughing at prima. I don't think Nancy Friday's work is ready for the children's classics section yet. Although it was certainly educational in its own way.

Sorry Primadonnagirl - just noticed your post re theme tune! Perhaps a duet?!

AGG was such a quaint series - though I didn't manage to read them all. I remember wishing I could be Anne!

I've never read Peter Pan, only seen various films

I hate the conversations about classics; having to secretly hope that they don't probe you any further! These are the ones I haven't yet read:

The Call of the Wild, The Wizard of Oz, King Arthur, The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables (I have read some, but not all of the books), The Odyssey, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, Heidi, Peter Pan,

There's a few I haven't read. keep thinking I've read The Secret Garden, but I haven't! I've seen the film and there was a TV series I think. I really can't face those Victorian/Edwardian adventure books, sorry. Loved Anne of Green Gables & Little Women. I don't think I've read Black Beauty either, but can sing the theme tune to the series!

I was all prepared to be completely shamed by the list, but actually The Call of the Wild is the only one I haven't started read

OK, so I never actually made it to the end of Tom Sawyer or Treasure Island, but at least I tried

DD would love that set. She is currently obsessed with books that Mummy read when she was little - so is working her way steadily through Noël Streatfeild right now, partly by extracting (with great difficulty) my copies from my parents' house and partly by us sourcing second hand ones, as loads of the ones I liked are out of print. Books are so cheap and available now it's hard to remember that a puffin paperback was, in itself, a birthday or Christmas present to be chuffed with. My great uncle used to be the most fantastic chooser of books - you could guarantee that a book from Uncle George would be something you didn't own, might not have heard of, but would really love. [nostalgic sigh]

Out of those, I've only read Tom Sawyer, The Jungle Book, Huckleberry Finn, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan and Little Women! I feel quite a failure in life now!!

Eastpoint - there are more than 4 Frank Baum Oz books.

I had a set of 8 when I was a child. I discovered when I was an adult that there were even more written that presumably weren't in print in the UK when I was into Oz. Can't remember how many there were in total right now.

I have never read Journey to the Centre of the Earth but I've read all the others. I must have had a very dull childhood compared to everyone else, one of the highlights was going to the library every Friday afternoon to get another 4 books out. I loved Heidi & the other two books about her, read all 4 of the books by Louisa May Alcott & have all 4 of the Frank Baum Oz books in a boxset. There was nothing I wanted to do more than curl up & escape dull suburbia by disappearing into books.

I suppose, technically, I haven't read McCaughrean's version of the Odyssey too!

I have read half of the books on the list: The Wizard of Oz, Heidi, Little Women, A Little Princess, Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty, Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

I have yet to read (but may never get round to it) The Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, King Arthur, The Jungle Book, Huckleberry Finn, The Odyssey, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Treasure Island and Peter Pan. I would have probably dismissed them as being boyish as a child (of course I know better now).

The only one I haven't read is 'The Little Princess', probably because it has the word princess in the title!

I think Call of the Wild was seen as very much a 'boys' book when I was young, and as far as I know, I'm the only person in my friendship group that has read it. However, I read voraciously as a child, escaping an unhappy childhood, of course. I practically lived in the library, and we had a really good one, luckily. Books were always my refuge.