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mrssunshinexxx · 31/12/2017 22:06

Favourite book doesn't matter what genre ... 2018 resolution get off my phone and get my head in books again I used to love reading.... thanks in advance

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FennyBridges · 31/12/2017 22:13

My very best few:
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Any Sophie Kinsella

I could probably think of many more but it’s New Year’s Eve and someone else will come along too!

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Mulch · 31/12/2017 22:24

Third life of Grange copeland

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LabradorMama · 31/12/2017 22:24

The Lake House

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RainOnATinRoof · 31/12/2017 22:25

Wolf Hall

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spankhurst · 31/12/2017 22:27

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Poisonwood Bible

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weegiemum · 31/12/2017 22:27

Always Coming Home by Ursula leGuin

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Celticlassie · 31/12/2017 22:29

The Secret History
Pride and Prejudice

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pallisers · 31/12/2017 22:31

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (love all of hers)
anything by Anthony Trollope but Pallisers and Barchester Towers series are brilliant
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Agustus Carp by Himself
The Bear Went Over The Mountain (can't remember author - very funny)
Morningside Heights and Love Work Children both by Cheryl Mendelson

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BikeRunSki · 31/12/2017 22:31

Rebecca
Now I Know - Aidan Chambers (afmitedtly I first read this when I was 16, 30 years ago, but I have reread it a lot since)
The Handmaid’s Tale
From Sand and Ash

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Jfw82 · 31/12/2017 22:33

Pride and prejudice
The dark is rising sequence
Polo (Blush)

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JustHereForThePooStories · 31/12/2017 22:38

We Need to Talk About Kevin

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YouCantArgueWithStupid · 31/12/2017 22:42

Get This House In Order Matt Ruff

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Elmersnewfriend · 31/12/2017 22:51

The Secret History
(nothing I read has ever matched this!!)

A Little Life

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Thirtyrock39 · 31/12/2017 22:58

The future homemakers of America by Laurie graham (in fact anything by her)
Life after life by Kate Atkinson or behind the scenes at the museum
I don't know how she does it by Allison Pearson
Anything by sue Townsend
Anything by Anne Tyler
The book thief
Anything by Linda grant

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heymammy · 31/12/2017 23:00

Shogun by James clavell
The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre dumas

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 31/12/2017 23:04

Ain't She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (rom com/chick lit)
Pride and Prejudice
A Place of my Own by Michael Pollan (non fiction)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (sci fi)

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toastytea · 31/12/2017 23:04

Nobody has mentioned Gone Girl??

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TigerBreadAddict · 31/12/2017 23:05

Little Women!

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NotEnoughCushions · 31/12/2017 23:05

Doctors by Eric Segal. Read it when I was at college and still go back to it occasionally as comfort reading.

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BobbinThreadbare123 · 31/12/2017 23:05

I second Shogun. Superb.
Also any Robert Crais or Carl Hiaasen for laughs.

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BlazingPaddles · 31/12/2017 23:07

Gone Girl was a dull old slog for me. And I only made it half way through.

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BlazingPaddles · 31/12/2017 23:08

A book I have read more than five times is Hangover Square. Bleak but beautiful.

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cathyclown · 31/12/2017 23:14

Just this year....

Eleanor Oliphant

What a complete Aisling

Read in one session each.

Not high literature, but who wants that all the time either.

In the past,

A man called Ove
An utterly impartial history of Britain
Rose of Sarajevo
Life after life.

There are so many more. Too many books, so little time.

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pterobore · 31/12/2017 23:15

Catch 22

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Synecdoche · 31/12/2017 23:25

Narziss and Goldmund by Herman Hesse - I couldn't put it down!

Or 1984 by George Orwell. Brilliant.

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