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Do you know what F Scott Fitzgerald wanted to call ‘The Great Gatsby’ or that ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ wasn't Harper Lee's first choice?

The literary world is strewn with book titles which never saw the light of day - it's a bit like band names.

Jonkers Rare Books have used their expert knowledge to pull together a list of 13 famous books and the stories behind their little known original titles.

Enjoy perusing some of greatest novels by Steinbeck, Austen and Orwell and it might even make you want to reread some of them.