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Tell me your absolute number 1

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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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toastytea · 31/12/2017 23:04

Nobody has mentioned Gone Girl??

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)

heymammy · 31/12/2017 23:00

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

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

Elmersnewfriend · 31/12/2017 22:51

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

A Little Life

YouCantArgueWithStupid · 31/12/2017 22:42

Get This House In Order Matt Ruff

JustHereForThePooStories · 31/12/2017 22:38

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Jfw82 · 31/12/2017 22:33

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

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

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

Celticlassie · 31/12/2017 22:29

The Secret History
Pride and Prejudice

weegiemum · 31/12/2017 22:27

Always Coming Home by Ursula leGuin

spankhurst · 31/12/2017 22:27

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

RainOnATinRoof · 31/12/2017 22:25

Wolf Hall

LabradorMama · 31/12/2017 22:24

The Lake House

Mulch · 31/12/2017 22:24

Third life of Grange copeland

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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