Revealed - the books we just can't finish

On the non-fiction list, Bill Clinton's exhaustive, 1,024-page autobiography "My Life" came in second after Blunkett, while David Beckham's autobiographical "My Side" was a close third.

For readers with no stamina, Killeen has compiled condensed versions of the top five fiction and non-fiction books, available on Teletext's TV information service or online at teletext.co.uk.

Top 10 fiction titles which Britons cannot finish:

1. Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 3. Ulysses, James Joyce 4. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres 5. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 6. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 7. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 8. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 9. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 10.Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Non fiction:

1. The Blunkett Tapes, David Blunkett 2. My Life, Bill Clinton 3. My Side, David Beckham 4. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss 5. Wild Swans, Jung Chang 6. Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Allen Carr 7. The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher 8. I Can Make You Thin, Paul McKenna 9. Jade: My Autobiography, Jade Goody 10. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions, Mick O'Hare