Among them: a very early Navajo autobiography and a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter.

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Many also admit to wrongly claiming to have read the classics, including authors Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.

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