The fourth Harry Potter novel is among the books Britons are least likely to finish reading, a survey has revealed.
A Teletext poll of 4,000 Britons found that Booker Prize winner Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre was the least-finished fiction title.
JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire came second, with Ulysses by James Joyce third.
The fiction list also included The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.
David Blunkett's autobiography The Blunkett Tapes topped the non-fiction unfinished list.
Autobiographies by Bill Clinton, David Beckham and Jade Goody also made the non-fiction top 10.
The average person in the UK will spend about £4,000 on books in their lifetime but nearly half remain unread, according to the survey.
Thirty-five per cent of Brits who bought or borrowed Vernon God Little admitted not finishing it, while 32 per cent said the same for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Blunkett's The Blunkett Tapes was unfinished by 35 per cent of readers, followed by Clinton's My Life (30 per cent) and Beckham's My Side (27 per cent).
The survey discovered that tiredness and lack of time were the two main reasons for not completing a book.
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