Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

Tell me your absolute number 1

242 replies

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

OP posts:
brizzledrizzle · 24/06/2018 22:31

Joanne Harris - the food related ones; Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure
Nevil Shute

The Swish of the Curtain - children's book, Arthur Ransome, Susan Cooper, Carries War and the Penelope Lively books, Flambards.

VinoISVeritas · 20/06/2018 10:22

Lord of the Rings

worcestersauce29 · 05/06/2018 20:09

Brideshead Revisited

spidey66 · 31/05/2018 16:26

A Thousand Splendid Suns. Absolutely magnificent.

HowDoIGetOffTheBus · 30/05/2018 21:32

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Billy Liar

TheBlackMadonna · 30/05/2018 21:30

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Help
Poisonwood Bible
The Mosquito Coast
Disgrace
The Snow Child

SapphireSeptember · 27/05/2018 14:49

Anne Of Green Gables series.
The Little House books.
A Little Princess.
The Secret Garden.
The Worst Witch books.
Harry Potter (although I like the first five more than the last two.)
Lord Of The Rings.
His Dark Materials.
Anything by Elizabeth Chadwick or Alison Weir.
Never read The Hobbit or The Belfry Witches series. I think I should!

CristalTipps · 22/05/2018 10:16

My all time favourite is Villette, followed by Emma. (A decade ago I'd have said Pride and Prejudice but I think I've finally read it too much.)

Uptooearly16 · 19/05/2018 19:24

A fine balance
A little life
I am pilgrim
Nightingale

Can't remember the authors but loved them all!

CorvusUmbranox · 19/05/2018 18:56

This is a really tough call but I think mine has to be And Then There Were None.

Nogodsnomasters · 19/05/2018 18:55

The island Victoria hislop and the handmaid's tale

Stopfeckinexaggerating · 19/05/2018 18:45

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King. Have read it many times.

Wolfcub · 19/05/2018 18:42

The Name of the Wind

CorvusUmbranox · 19/05/2018 18:41

‘Spins?’ Oh ffs. I’m with you on the stupid phone bit

CorvusUmbranox · 19/05/2018 18:40

Not to mention the ‘Dr Strange,’ LEM. Does spins like a fascinating book though. Grin

LEMtheoriginal · 19/05/2018 01:32

Mr Burrell??? Grin stupid phone

LEMtheoriginal · 19/05/2018 01:32

Rebecca
Crime and punishment
Shantaram
The woman in white
The agatha raisin series
Isobel Dalhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
Dr strange and Mr Burrell

MontyPants · 19/05/2018 01:18

Jayne Eyre (fell in love with this when we studied it for GCSEs!)

Harry Potter (of course)

Shadow of the savernake (book I found on kindle, first novel by the author I think. Time travel romance, so good)

Dottierichardson · 19/05/2018 01:09

My list is much too long, I really tried to cut it but it just got even longer! Even so there are quite a few I'd like to steal from some of the lists from other posters. I wouldn't know how to choose one, what if I was in the mood for Wodehouse but I only had the James's on hand?
Jane Austen Emma
Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographies
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
Colette The Claudine Novels
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Marguerite Duras The Lover
Jenny Erpenbeck End of Days
Robert Graves I, Claudius and Claudius the God
Vasily Grossman Life and Fate
Marlen Haushofer The Wall
Christopher Isherwood Mr Norris Changes Trains
Henry James Washington Square
Nella Larsen Passing
Olivia Manning The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate
Alice Munro short stories
Cookie Mueller Walking through clear water in a pool painted black
Grace Paley short stories
P.G. Wodehouse all of Jeeves and Wooster
Dorothy Richardson Pilgrimage series
Joseph Roth The Radetsky March
Dorothy L. Sayers all of Lord Peter Wimsey
Bruno Schulz The Street of Crocodiles
Gertrude Stein Three Lives
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Edmund White The Beautiful Room is Empty
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns

CBW · 18/05/2018 20:22

Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle
Dorothy Dunnett - Game of Kings
Wolf Hall

OuchLegoHurts · 18/05/2018 20:09

Oh and The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday

OuchLegoHurts · 18/05/2018 20:07

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghase
Middlesex by Geoffrey Eugenides
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Let the Great World Spin by Colm McCann

Middleoftheroad · 23/04/2018 17:16

The Stand.

Devoured it at 13 and 're-reading' via Audible 31 years later.

mrsmuddlepies · 18/04/2018 08:20

For comfort reading -
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (in fact any novels by Miss Pym)

VirginiaComet · 18/04/2018 08:06

Whoever recommended Now I Know - YES! I loved this so much when I was a teenager and can always go back to it.

I've just read How to Stop Time by Matt Haig and loved it but all time favourites probably Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway, the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch and Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Join Mumsnet Log In

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.