As a city, London is truly a literary lovers dream.

Besides the fact that it’s full of some fantastic specialist bookshops and perfect reading spots, it just happens to be the setting of some of the world’s favourite novels.

Whether it’s the poverty-stricken world of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist or the hedonistic spectacle of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, literature remains at the heart of London’s identity.

So with literature part of the thread of the city, the books Londoners are reading on a day-to-day basis can tell us a lot about people’s attitudes and opinions.

London’s most-borrowed library books have been revealed – and they’re seriously feminist