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What is the best book you have ever read?

189 replies

Toni2011 · 01/02/2011 22:31

I'd love to know which books really stick in people's minds. Any genre, any author.

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bibbitybobbityhat · 01/02/2011 23:05

Either

Hawkesmoor by Peter Ackroyd

or

Restoration by Rose Tremain

auntyfash · 01/02/2011 23:04

It IS The Unconsoled, I just missed out the the.

iwastooearlytobeayummymummy · 01/02/2011 23:02

ooh must try Willa Cather one of DD1's favourites

stickylittlefingers · 01/02/2011 22:58

Harriet, I loved that too. I would be hard-put to decide which of the Cather's I liked best though. Quite something when you can be sitting at Durham railway station in the middle of winter and feel like you are sitting in New Mexico... Amazing author

HarrietSchulenberg · 01/02/2011 22:52

My Antonia by Willa Cather.

iwastooearlytobeayummymummy · 01/02/2011 22:51

can I have 2?

A Small Island

The Blind Assassin (is it double s?)

actually 3 'cos i also loved the Famous Five and sort of remember the plots Grin

ninah · 01/02/2011 22:51

yeah, sorry Unconsoled
'The' Unconsoled sounds like a band

WillYouDoTheDangFanjo · 01/02/2011 22:49

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. The last few pages had a physical effect on me, I was a jittering ball of excitement and couldn't sit down, let alone still, as I read the last few paragraphs. So, so clever.

auntyfash · 01/02/2011 22:47

The Wasp Factory and Unconsoled are two of my favourite books too!

I also love The Grapes of Wrath, especially chapter 25.

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ninah · 01/02/2011 22:44

The Unconsoled

thefirstMrsDeVere · 01/02/2011 22:44

Anything by Barbara Comyns. I would be happy to just re read her books over and over.

I am reading Hons and Rebels again and loving it.

I have read Too many mothers by Roberta Taylor a good few times. I was really amazed at how well written it was. I was expecting a badly written, actors east end upbringing cliche. IMO its much more than that (though I dont claim its the best book ever)

Longstocking2 · 01/02/2011 22:43

The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins

or

David Copperfield

Recently I LOVED Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

GypsyMoth · 01/02/2011 22:40

just recently re read dd'd gcse 'of mice and men'......loved it all over again!!