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

[EmilyMumsnet]

Literary shame is a powerful thing - if you've ever nodded sagely while your friends discussed Bleak House or chuckled knowingly about the The Wizard of Oz - the film is the same thing isn’t it? – you'll know what we're talking about. But now we're giving you the chance to 'fess up! Tell us which Puffin Classic you have never actually read, and you'll be in the running to win the entire set.

The Puffin Classics are back, and with a bold new look – twenty brand new covers for the classic tales, from Huck to Dorothy to Alice to Peter. One lucky poster will receive all twenty, while 5 randomly-selected runners-up will win a copy of their never-read tale.

Here's the full set list:
The Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, The Wizard of Oz, King Arthur, The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, The Odyssey, A Little Princess, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, Heidi, Peter Pan, Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

This competition is now closed. And the winners are:

Belo - full set of Puffin Classics
happysouls - The Call Of The Wild
Punkatheart -Heidi
Miisty - Tom Sawyer
Pigeonpea - Huckleberry Finn
kohl - Wind In The Willows

Thanks for all your contributions, we'll be in touch with the winners shortly

A Little Princess. Title is - and always has been - enough to put me off. I wanted action and boys books even as a little girl and was desperate for books where girls saved the day, hence my love of The Railway Children.

I loved A Little Princess, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, Little Women, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Black Beauty, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, the Jungle Book, Treasure Island and Call of the Wild.

I've never read Wind in the Willows, Journey to the Centre of the Earth or The Odyssey, though I almost feel like I have. I always found Wind in the Willows a bit offputting - unpleasantness and wet animals not a good combination for me.

Never read The Call Of The Wild! I suspect it was regarded as a boys' book when I was little, although I was given Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn!

I have never read the Alice in wonder land story. But have seen it on t.v.

I have never read Tom Sawyer

My literary confession is that my kids have read more of these books than I. Perhaps I should change my name to Anne Green of Fables....

I am sorry to say I haven't read The Call of the Wild or The Odyssey. Shame on me!!!

Not sure I've actually fully read any of them!

I cannot get through Lord of the Rings and Hobbit,Ive tried so many times but as it takes 10 pages to describe a single tree, I keep forgetting the storyline! I watched the films to help me understand it more, but by the 2nd/3rd film of just walking walking walking , battles , battles battles , am glad I did not torture myself with all that descriptive text!

oops just realised they were not on the list! LOL!

The Little Princess - whatever it is. Would have been slung aside in my non-princessy past.

It's not about a princess! It's about a girl who spends most of the book freezing in an attic...

I think she was only a princess to her widowed father. She was his only and much loved daughter. He was wealthy and put her in a good boarding school whilst he was abroad but he disappeared and was reported dead as far as I can recall. The money ran out and she was reduced to working as a servant and living in extreme poverty. Made me cry as a child. The school was a cruel one when faced with her changed circumstances.

Yes A little Princess is wonderful (don't try the abridged American version), all tragic Victorian childhood.

The only ones I haven't read are "Call of the Wild", although a primary school teacher did read bits of it to us (I found it tedious), and The Odyssey - of course I know the story of that one, I think.

I only got through Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer last year, despite supposedly having read Huckleberry Finn at school, I just watched 3 film versions instead. The only other book I didn't get through at school was "Great Expectations", which was one of my O'level set texts - I listened to an audio version of this last year, but I'm not sure if its abridged.

She starts off so rich the other girls say she's like a princess, and then after she loses all her money she tries to behave like a princess (in a good way, not an annoying way) even though she's poor, eg giving away a bun to a starving street child. She's less irritating than she sounds

The Jungle Book. I wanted to marry Bagheera when I was small. I'd worry the actual book would ruin what might have been in my 7 yr old head.
Well Bagheera and The Six Million Dollar Man, tough choice.

She has a very rich fantasy life, and it is this that pulls her through the bad times. Plus, she entrances the other girls with her storytelling, and she insists ALL girls are princesses - which she follows through with her friendships with children who are even worse off than her. Best of all, she is skinny and dark and bookish, she's not a cutesy ickle girl. So why the movie version cast a little blonde poppet in the lead role, lord knows - still makes me

I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird which must the greatest faux-pas/oversight of the 20th Century apart from not having read Catcher in the Rye .

Of the Puffin Classics listed, I'm very gender-specific for my sins. I have read: The Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, The Wizard of Oz, King Arthur, The Jungle Book, Huckleberry Finn, The Odyssey, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, Peter Pan & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Funnily enough, DW has read all the 'girlie' ones and none that I've read apart from 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

I've never read The Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, The Wizard of Oz, King Arthur, Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, The Odyssey, A Little Princess or Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
It doesn't particularly bother me that I haven't read them but I may get around to the someday!

I am a voracious eader and have read most of them except, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Sci-Fi puts me off) The Wind in the Willows, Wizard of Oz, Jungle Book and Call of the Wild. This is was years ago. I have seen the some of the films of the above books and pantomimes as well. I enjoy reading and try to cultivate the habit to my Son who likes reading but, sticks to a particular author.

These are lovely classics which can be enjoyed both by young and old - might start reading them again!!

I have not read The Wind in the Willows. I cannot cope with talking animals. In fact, I've just abandoned a four hundred page fantasy novel about half-way through because some mousey and verbal creatures were introduced.

The only one I haven't read is The Odyssey! I have read all the others! Lovely stories!

Wowsa .... I've only read a couple of them! I've definitely never read Journey to the Centre of the Earth!

Never read "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" but seen the film many times

Wuthering Heights