To ask what are your top ten favourite books?

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
Middlemarch George Eliot
Jazz Toni Morrison
The End of the Affair Graham Greene
Howards End E.M. Forster
Money Martin Amis
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Wise Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer
3. The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuściński
4. Shooting History, Jon Snow
5. Where Children Sleep, James Mollison
6. New Spring, Robert Jordan
7. Dauntless Path, Intisar Khanani
8. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
9. The Queen's Thief, Megan Wheeler Turner

Ah someone else here listed Master and Margarita too... it's definitely my favourite.

Others are:
Brideshead revisted
Pride and Prejudice
Sense of an Ending
Poisonwood Bible
The secret history
Hundred years of solitude
The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood

There's something about a Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes which is just such a pleasure. It's a perfectly crafted novel.

Yes! All of Sophie kinsella for some feel good reading

I couldn't knock one off this list of favourites so have 11!

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Diary of a Nobody by Charles and Weedon Grossmith.
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

Jane eyre - Charlotte bronte
Three men in a boat - Jerome k Jerome
The hobbit - JRR Tolkien
All creature great and small - James Herriot
Anything by - John Marrs, Lucy foley, Jennifer hillier.
most but not all by - Riley sager, Karin slaughter.

Great thread op

Oh lord I forgot the amazing shopaholic series by the GREAT LATE Sophie Kinsella...amazing books

Oh yes gone with the wind ...stunning

Bonfire of the vanities /Wofle

So many

Nana / Zola
Old goriot / Balzac
I capture the castle

Jude the obscure

Meniors of a geisha

Shultz / jp donleavy

All Evelyn waugh

The last tycoon / f Scott Fitzgerald
Madame pompadour/ Mitford

A tale of two cities dickens

I’m lumping series together because I’ll run out of spots else and in no particular order;

Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Riders (and Rivals and Polo) - Jilly Cooper
Lady Chatterly’s Lover - D H Lawrence
The Shadow and Bone/Six of Crows series - Leigh Bardugo
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Harry Potter - J K Rowling (this one is 50% nostalgia I think)
Heartless - Elsie Silver (shoot me, I love me some smut, that whole series is great 😂)

I would also like to add every book published by Persephone Books, particularly those written by Dorothy Whipple . . .

Also every short story by Elizabeth Taylor.

I’ve just discovered the Strike series and am addicted. I’m reading via audiobook and the actor- narrator is superb.

So:

1. Strike series - Robert Galbraith
2. Chronicles of St Mary’s - Jodie Taylor
3. Frogmarten Farm series - Jodie Taylor
4. Ruth Galloway series - Elly Griffiths
5. Chronicles of Narnia - C S Lewis

1. Me before You - Jojo Meyes
2. Thousand Splendid Suns
3. Half a Yellow Orange
4. Boy in a Million
5. American Dirt

Im going to sneak in another one and make no apology:
Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

1 Revolutionary Road
2 The Easter Parade
3 Lord of the Flies
4 Catcher in the Rye
5 Pride and Prejudice
6 The Handmaid’s Tale
7 The Knife of Never Letting Go
8 Watership Down
9 Olive Ketteridge
10 1984

Honourable mentions to:

Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
Never Let Me Go

Great thread , these come to the forefront today but if I saw this thread tomorrow it would change a bit I'm sure..
Tell me everything Elisabeth Strout ( best to read series in order.)
The Great Gatsby F Sott Fitzgerald
Duma Key Stephen King - everything by him really.
Good to see it on your list too
@piggywaspushed I love it!
Ballet shoes Noel Streatfield
A Little Life Hana Yanagahara (This one always divides opinion)
The Hallmarked man JK Rowling ( All the Strike/Ellacott books)
1984 George Orwell
We need to talk
about Kevin Lionel Shriver
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
Vera books Ann Cleeves and the Matthew Venn ones.

Stephen King 11:22:63 is also on my list.

Oh yes it's a brilliant book!

Round About A Pound A Week needs to go on my list too!

Ooh following. Love posts like these 😊

Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson.

The Thursday murder club books - they please me and make me happy

Quite alot of the Jinny at Finmory books

The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins

Definitely The Chrysalids John Wyndham.

Swallows and Amazons - and all their progeny in the form of the Harry Potters.

I heard about them on MN & then found a Jodi Taylor group on Facebook. I binge read the lot recently & I’ve just finished listening to Doing Time on Audible.

Max would have loved Mumsnet.

Yes, I love the chronicles of st Mary’s! Never see them talked about anywhere

Moominpappa at sea
Other voices, other rooms
The weirdstone of Brisingamen
The chrysalids
The call of the wild
The Martin Beck series
The sacred and profane love machine
The French lieutenant's woman
The Franchise Affair
The quiet American

I love Lisa Jewell books