What is the best book you have ever read?

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damnedgrubble · 03/03/2017 22:34

I think mine has to be (at least at the moment) The House at the End of Hope Street because I grew up not far from there.

Which is your favourite book and why?

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gentlydoesit89 · 03/03/2017 23:02

Another struggling to pick just one, so I'll go with the one that surprised me most, which was when I picked up The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett as I was about to fly to Greece for a weeks holiday years ago and absolutely loved it.

VanellopeVonSchweetz99 · 03/03/2017 23:01

Agree Disgrace is v, v good. Didn't get the Nobel prize for nowt, still v readable.

empirerecordsrocked · 03/03/2017 22:58

I couldn't do it. Every single one said above plus about ten million others. If a gun was to my head, to kill a mockingbird.

EssentialHummus · 03/03/2017 22:57

Disgrace by JM Coetzee. There is not one spare word in that book.

OnHold · 03/03/2017 22:57

A Prayer For Owen Meany

JumpingJellybeanz · 03/03/2017 22:56

The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen. Read it as a child at school and have loved it ever since.

Crunchymum · 03/03/2017 22:54

Reason is just how fucking gritty and depressing and prophetic it is.

Crunchymum · 03/03/2017 22:53

Nineteen Eighty Four.

Hands down my winner.

DarkestBeforeDawn · 03/03/2017 22:53

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

BeastofCraggyIsland · 03/03/2017 22:52

I can't pick just one but the following I can read over and over again:

Pride and Prejudice - timeless
Jurassic Park - dinosaurs
The Lost World - more dinosaurs
The Lord of the Rings - epic
One Hundred Years of Solitude - magical
All the Harry Potters - literally magical
Anything by Bill Bryson - laugh out loud
Anything by James Herriot - my career inspiration
The Master and Margarita - genius

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