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

I have never read Heidi. All I know is there is a goat, a girl and her grandfather....

I have read many of these but not The Odessey or Call of the Wild (saw the films I think) I would love this collection to read to my daughter x

Not read Huckleberry Finn, Call of the Wild or A Little Princess. I always preferred to re-read my favourites - I read the cover off Heidi and Black Beauty.

I've not read Tom Sawyer or huckleberry Finn. This is making me want to reread some of them though - I loved Anne of green gables!

Never read King Arthur. Whatismore I actually did not know it was a book - let alone a classic.

I've read everything there except The Wizard of Oz, which (big and shameful confession coming) I didn't even know was a book. I have also never seen the film all the way through in one sitting, and I was in my early 40s before I ever saw the beginning of it. I suspect I'm still missing a section of the film, just before she gets swept up by the tornado.

I've read most of them, but not Black Beauty. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. As I understand it, it's about a horse, and I'm sure it's a very good book if you like that sort of thing, but stories starring animals generally bore me senseless.

Same with Wind in the Willows. I read a heavily abridged version of that when I was a child, and have no desire to revisit it ever again.

The Odyssey though - I read that a few years ago and it was a really hard read. It seems a bit out of place on that list, unless it's a relatively easy starter

Relatively easy starter version of the Odessey that was meant to say.

I consider myself quite well read but there are quite a few in this list which I haven't read - The Call of the Wild, King Arthur, The Odyssey and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I haven't even heard of The Call of the Wild!

I've read most of the books on the list. I don't think I ever read Heidi or A Little Princess. Not embarrassed about it in the least.
But since when did The Odyssey become listed as children's literature? Perhaps the abridged version, or retold by a modern author so as to simplify it?

Ooh. Didn't realise there was a clicky link to more detail about the books.

I definitely didn't read the version of the Odessey in this collection. The one I read was a translation of Homer's version. The Puffin one is probably going to be a lot more readable.

I haven't read either The Call of the Wild or Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I must have read Heidi about twenty times though as was a firm favourite when I was growing up. The Alps seemed so magical when I was growing up in the suburbs.

The call of the wild, but Wind in the Willows was a super read.

I've never read The Wizard of Oz and The Call of the Wild. I've read The Secret Garden several times. It's my favourite.

I consider myself to be well-read. I was an English Lit major, after all. However, I detested Huckleberry Finn with such a passion when I was forced to read it at fifteen, that I swore to myself I would never read another Mark Twain novel as long as I lived. Therefore, I have never read Tom Sawyer. My dislike of Twain is not something I bandy about lightly, however; and I may be inclined to give Tom Sawyer a try if I were to, say, win the book in a prize draw ??

I've never even heard of The Call of the Wild or the Odyssey, and haven't read Anne of Green Gables or Peter Pan.

I never finished The Secret Garden. I found it interminably dull. Plus I hated the girl on the cover (I don't think it was a Puffin version ??) so I drew make-up on her.

I haven't read The Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, King Arthur, Huckleberry Finn,The Odyssey, Journey to the Centre of the Earth or Treasure Island.

Shockingly for an English Lit grad I have only read Little Women...I was clearly too busy reading Jackie magazine and writing to Cathy and Claire about my crush on my history teacher...

Never read Anne of Green Gables as it was a book for girls!

I didn't even realise The Wizard of Oz was a book!

The only one I have not read is Journey to the centre of the earth, it took me back to my childhood just looking and remembering the titles, Heidi was my favourite - I will have to route it out now and have another read!!

Never read Alice in Wonderland - does watching the Disney version count?

Oh, I loved Anne of Green Gables as a child and had loads of the sequels and Avonlea books.

I haven't read Heidi, and when discussing our daughter's possible name had to pretend I knew that the best friend in Heidi was Clara (I didn't have a clue).

I've read the secret garden as a child & adult and I just wanted to burn the garden down so they'd be no story, or let others know about it. Then it could just be called the garden or the garden that got burned down.