The British hotel brand Travelodge has calculated that every year visitors of its hotels forgot in hotel rooms about 7 000 books. The brand gathered all books being abandoned during the year and composed the unusual rating of books and reading preferences of Britons.

The first place in this rating was achieved by John Prescott’s biography-book “My story: Pulling No Punches”. It is followed by “My Booky Wook” written by the famous actor and comic Russell Brand and one more biography (“Speaking For Myself” by Cherie Blair, a wife of the former British Prime Minster).

Also, the top 10 includes:

4. “Don't you know who I am” by Piers Morgan,
the famous British journalist, that has been represented in the Travelodge’s rating for the second year;

5. the love-story “Angel Uncovered & Crystal" written by the model Katie Price;

6. “You & Your Money”, the manual about capital accumulation by Alvin Hall;

7. “Lessons in Heartbreak”, a novel for women by Cathy Kelly;

8. “Blind Faith”, a novel about a life after the Apocalypse, written by Ben Elton;

9. “On Chesil Beach”, a novel about British youth by Ian McEwan;

10. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne devoted to the secrets of the universe.



1. John Prescott, Russell Brand & Cherie Blair are the top three authors to be abandoned in hotel rooms (September, 2008)