Which book do you think you should have read, but never have? (Do tell, and you could win a bundle of books worth £100)

[JaneMumsnet]

Hello,

In the run up to our first Bookfest event on 25 June (do take a look - we've got a fabulous line-up including Maggie O'Farrell, Meera Syal, Howard Jacobson, Andy Stanton and Liz Pichon, with a programme for all the family), we'll be running a survey on books and reading, and would love your help drawing up one or two of the questions.

1. Is there a book that you feel that you should have read but somehow missed out on? A classic that you've watched on TV but never perused in print? Which are the big tomes you are certain everyone around you has read, but you somehow missed out on or school or have never got round to tackling?

1. Is there a classic you are ashamed to admit you haven't read, to the extent that you might pretend that you have?

1. And - more broadly - is there an author whose greatest book or body of work has completely passed you by?

Do let us know - and all posters who tell us about the book or author who got away on this thread will be entered into a prize draw: one MNer will win a bundle of books worth £100.

Thanks as ever,

MNHQ

1. Is there a book that you feel that you should have read but somehow missed out on? A classic that you've watched on TV but never perused in print? Which are the big tomes you are certain everyone around you has read, but you somehow missed out on or school or have never got round to tackling?

Wuthering heights... everyone seemed to read this at school apart from me? I can't be bothered now...

1. Is there a classic you are ashamed to admit you haven't read, to the extent that you might pretend that you have?

Jane Austen's 'Emma' - bought for me as a gift but have never got round to reading.... I told the gift giver I had

1. And - more broadly - is there an author whose greatest book or body of work has completely passed you by?

Douglas Adams - I have never read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books despite being fairly well read in science fiction. Somehow these have always passed me by.

Oh, I see now it's finished. That will teach me for not reading till the end before posting.

War and Peace. But will I ever find time to read it!