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

I haven't read Little Women or Anne of Green Gables.

I have read nearly everything on the list, but have never read The Little Princess.

I've only read about five of them but really enjoyed the books I did read. You can't beat childrens classic stories in my opinion, I don't know if it's the innocent times they were written in or just the fact that they make me feel nostalgic but I love them now as much as I did as a child.

I have read the Wind in the Willows. My grandfather used to tell me the stories from it, but when I read it myself, al the best chapters wee missing

never read the Jungle Book... sadly after seeing how disney retold the story I never fancied reading it

This list list has made me realise that, although I have read most of these books and especially loved Heidi and Little Women, I have never read The Jungle Book. And hadn't thought to. Until now.

Im going to get it.

I studied literature at uni and took a children's fantasy literature module. Got a high first for my final assessment exam, writing about Alice in Wonderland and didactic fiction... but have I read it all the way through? Um... no. Never. I still feel ashamed thinking about it now

I haven't read most of them but most notably Anne of Green Gables. I thought Black Beauty was pretty dull, loved The Secret Garden, couldn't get into Little Women at all and enjoyed Huckleberry Finn at school

little women - just couldnt get into it!

I have not read most of these books. I remember reading little women at school. Think it's about time I had a look at these for my summer reading.

I haven't read The Call of the Wild, or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn (and must confess to having thought that only one of them was a book and the other was a character in that book) orThe Odyssey or A Little Princess (never come across it).

I haven't read Anne of Green Gables, but had a confusingly cross-purpose conversation with my friend who adores that book/series of books. I thought she was talking about the House at Green Knowe books... and wondered why our recollections varied so wildly.

I haven't read The call of the wild

of those - only the Odyssey. I love reading and if I could pass that onto my children I would be really very happy. My daughter is reading Alice in Wonderland at the moment which just takes me back to my childhood, but we don't have any of the others!

The Call of the Wild - no, but we read White Fang at school and I was bored to tears by it.

The Wizard of Oz - no, never even seen the film.

King Arthur - yes. Maybe it was RLG's tales from The Odyssey that I read? I read all his mythology books.

The Jungle Book - no, but I have read Just So Stories.

Black Beauty - yes, but it may have been an abridged version.
Heidi - yes, but it may have been an abridged version.

Tom Sawyer - no.
Huckleberry Finn - no.

Anne of Green Gables - no.
Little Women - no. I did read the What Katy Did books, which were very old books that had belonged to my aunt.

The Secret Garden - yes, loved it.
A Little Princess - no, strangely. I would have if it had come into the house.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - no, never read any Verne. Didn't know they were childrens' books.

Treasure Island - no, although I still have a very old copy that was one of my Dad's school prizes.

Peter Pan - yes.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - yes.
The Wind in the Willows - yes.

I did read a version of The Odyssey as a child, but not that one, which was only published in 1997! I am far, far too old to have read that!

I haven't read quite a few of these

I loved Roger Lancelyn Green, especially the Tale of Troy and the Norse Gods one, but I never read his King Arthur book! (I did read Morte d'Arthur etc as a student though, so it's not exactly a secret shame.)

The covers are lovely.

I've never read Little Women! I have no idea what it's even about!

I have beaver read Black Beauty, never seen a film of it either so the only thing I know about it is that it is about a horse.
It seems to be one of those books that everyone else I know read as a child, probably whilst I had my head stuck in a famous five or Malory towers book - I was a big Enid Blyton fan :)

Journey to the centre of the earth.

Liked around the world in 80 days but never read this one.

Most of these were on our on our reading list for the first year in grammar school (books we were supposed to read a certain number during the school year in our own time - and write a review). Being a voracious reader I had read many during primary school. My favourites are Anne of Green Gables and the subsequent Anne books (still on my kindle even now) and Wind in the Willows. I do not recall reading Call of the Wild or Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
My first grandson is 11 weeks old and I am really looking forward to reading the children's classics to him - he's already heard most of the Mr Men books and a Winnie the Pooh anthology.

Black Beauty when l was younger

I have read all but the Call if the Wild. I love children's books both modern and old. I am, however, an English teacher so probably have an excuse.
My literary shame is plentiful.
I hate reading Shakespeare. It's a play. Watch it not read it.
I have never read Pride and Prejudice beyond the first line as quite frankly it seemed crap!
I love teen vampire and zombie fiction.
My son hates reading with the same passion I love it.
And most shameful ... I read fifty shades. All three of them. Then lied about it to my very intellectual boss saying I wouldn't read such rubbish