What are your Embarrassing Omissions and Guilty Pleasures

I have never read anything by Iris Murdoch and somehow think I should have.

Guilty pleasure - Lovers and Gamblers by Jackie Collins, 70s bonkbuster. Al King (Tom Jones by another name) and Dallas get it on. Jesus H Christ.

Never thought would type a post with both Iris Murdoch and Jackie Collins in

Embarassing Omissions- well, not sure if they count, because I have read them and loathed them. All the bonnet-ridden poverty stricken, old toothless ladies in shawls eating coal and going up chimneys to keep their children fed sort of thing......Dickensy type stuff. (Have come to embarassing conclusion that for me, a novel needs at least a telephone in it....the olden day stuff is just so dreary.)

Loathed Margaret Atwood as well.

Guilty Pleasures: Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Emily Barr. (I like reading about Marks and Spencers ready meals)

I have a big old list of classics that I'm ploughing my way through at the moment - it includes things like Anna Karenina which I've never managed to finish.

Guilty pleasures - Jilly Cooper, definitely, and anything by Janet Evanovich or Laurell K. Hamilton. I do also enjoy some fantasy & sci-fi, like David Eddings. I try not to read it too obviously in public though

I actually liked the golden notebook a lot...

Oooh, another guilty pleasure: the shopaholic books!

Embarrassing omissions: Wuthering Heights. All of Dickens except Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. Paradise Lost. Ummm. And Doris Lessing.

Guilty pleasure: Lee Child novels. I excuse this by reminding myself that at least I never read chick lit.

PS - a little thought....I went to a 2nd hand book sale at the weekend to stock up for this years hols - Maeve Binchy/Joanna Trollope fest this year....I was on the look out for classics - Margaret Atwood, Dickens, Evelyn Waugh amongst others.

Absolutely none at all - though a tonne of fantasy science fiction novels....I wondered if it was a) that nobody reads this stuff, or b) if they buy it, they keep it and send all the BTB/Jilly Cooper off to the book sale?

I've never read any Dickens - yet love the TV adaptations. Guilty pleasures - any of those big thick "girly" books - Barbara Taylor Bradford, Jilly Cooper, Penny Vicenzi etc. I save these for sunbed reading on my holidays. Entertaining story, sex but nothing too graphic, nothing to have to "think" too much about...I've even been known to do Jeffrey Archer when on hols !

Never read loaaaaaads of classics (have got endless lists). E.g. never read Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens . OK won't go on because I'm getting embarrased now!!

But I am going to get round to them!!

Guilty pleasures: I went through an Erica Jong phase ages ago (cringe; although 'Fear of flying' was lots of fun...but everything else merely a repetition of that). I do have a chick lit guilty pleasure thing (e.g. I love Marian Keyes) but that's getting less with time. Last guilty pleasure: I love reading good cookbooks in bed

Never read any Margaret Atwood, and judging by the MN recommendations I think this could be an embarrassing omission?

Guilty pleasure is not fiction but Stephen Clarke's 'Year in the merde' series, which make me psml...I think maybe you have to be a bit of a francophile to appreciate them tho

Have just added Doris Lessing to my 'to read' list btw!

Love your name Jaffvader and the Eddie Izzard sketch it comes from.

I've also never read any Doris Lessing, but also never read 1984 which was in the top 25 books voted via the BBC a few years ago.

Guilty pleasures I love things like Gone with the Wind, Valley of the Dolls and The Thorn Birds.