To ask what are your top ten favourite books?

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@Gorgeouslygorgeous The Silver Brumby books, loved these. There is another thread regarding chlldren's books

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khalen Hosseini
1000 Splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
Secret Smile - Nikki French
Bridget Jones Diary - Helen Fielding
Chocolat - Joanne Harris (and the rest of the series)
The Dead Zone - Stephen King (and most of his earlier works)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes
Gillespie and I - Jane Harris
Big Little Lies - Leanne Moriarty
What was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August - Claire North
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
All of His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Dare
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Yes, I know there's 20+ there but I really couldn't decide what to remove 😆

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Tess - Thomas Hardy
The Power and The Glory - Graham Greene
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Milkman - Anna Burns

I sobbed buckets recently reading The Silver Sword to my kids. Such a good book. My 10 are:

1 To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2 The Unicorn Road, Martin Davies
3 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4 The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
5 All The Light We Cannot See
6 The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Cabot
7 Tess of the D’Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
8 Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
9 Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
10 A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens

The Silver Sword was one of my favourite books as a child. I reread it to DC and they liked it but not as much as I had.

Top 10 favourites of all time today:

1. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
2. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Stevenson
3. Pride and Prejudice - Austen
4. The Kite Runner - Hosseini
5. Demon Copperhead - Kingsolver
6. The End of the Affair - Greene
7. Blackhearts in Battersea (from the Wolves of Willoghby Chase Series) - Aitken
8. Old Filth - Gardam
9. The Snail and the Whale - Donaldson
10. The Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri

But tomorrow it might be a different list.

Some great suggestions from everybody. I chose mine on the basis that I have read them all more than once, and may return to them. In no particular order:

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Persuasion - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

What a great thread! It's giving me a lot of suggestions for future reading.
My list -
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
Slow Horses - Mick Herron
Terry Pratchett's Withches trilogy from Discworld
Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton
1984 - George Orwell
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishigou
Delia Smith's Christmas
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson