Most favourite books/authors

These are the ones I've re-read most and still loved
Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Silas Mariner – George Elliot
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Way Home – Rose Tremain

My list of favourite reads - all excellent!

Any Human Heart - William Boyd
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
On The Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
The Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Artemis File - Adam Loxley
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Gentlemen & Players - Joanna Harris
Cooking With Fernet Branca - James Hamilton Paterson

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fall of Giants (plus sequels) by Ken Follet
Pillars of the Earth (and sequels) by Ken Follet
Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rebecca by daphne DuMaurier
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khalied Hosseni

For a lighter comfort reading:
Harry Potter by JK Rowling

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

George Eliot - Middlemarch

It wasn't very clear, was it?

I meant that I loved every title on your list (and have read all but two) and I'd award them all five stars. The Kite Runner nearly made my top five list.

Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
To kill a mockingbird - harper lee
The secret history - Donna Tartt

David Sadaris makes me snort with laughter for a similar reason.

I love Elif Shafak books. Her characters are all unique and familiar all that the same time, as if she captures humanity in each book. I live a bit of people watching so they really appeal to me.

@XingMing... I don't understand your point?

That was to Hellohah BTW.

Of those I've read, all deserve 5 stars. They just aren't my favourites.

Out of all the books I've read, I've only given 8 of the 5 stars (so can I have 8 favourite books?)

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Stoner - John Williams
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Ouch, difficult as I have loved one (or more) from almost every top five...

I adore Pride and Prejudice, but it gets edged out by Persuasion, just.

My favourite Daphne du Maurier is House on the Strand.

Robertson Davies would be up there, but not sure which one novel I'd pick...possibly A Cunning Man.

John le Carre... probably The Little Drummer Girl

From my childhood favourites, the first time-slip novel I loved would be A Traveller in Time, by Alison Uttley, which was 50 years old when I read it and still comes up fresh as new paint. Very pleased to see James Long's Ferney on this selection: I enjoyed that, and thought I was the only person to have read it.

This is the most impossible of short list tasks... tomorrow's list would be quite different.

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

I can't resist anything by Anita Shreve

The Sword of Honour Trilogy - Evelyn Waugh

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

Regeneration Trilogy- Pat Barker

The Paying Guests - Sarah Walters

Good Morning Midnight - Jean Rhys

Vanity Fair
Memoirs of a Geisha
1984
A Pocketful of Rye
The Handmaid's Tale

I could go on, but those are my real favourites

Got to have a Wilkie Collins in my list, but not as you might expect The Woman in White. Probably Armadale because Lydia Gwilt is such a fab character.
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, my grandmother was an ambulance driver during the war and it was an insight into her life I hadn't had before.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was probably my favourite book as a teenager.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I'm a bit of a sucker for novels based on true events.
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Because it's magical and wonderful and life enhancing.

Have been thinking about this and have decided that I’m updating my list (above) to include The Lord of the Rings. All of them, really, but, at a push, I’d choose The Return of the King. I’m not a fan of fantasy books really but I just love Tolkien’s characterisation and the incredible world which he created. Rivendell would definitely be my choice of place to quarantine, given half a chance...

I also forgot to include Of Mice and Men - another absolute favourite.

Top 5 ( the ones happily read over and over and bought for friends.)

Ferney - James Long
Precious Bane - Mary Webb
A Perfectly Good Man - Patrick Gale
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

Margaret Forster..all of them

Kate Atkinson..Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Human Croquet Started Early took my Dog,When will there be Good News, Case Histories,Life after Life.
All of Marian Keyes.
Jane Eyre.
Rebecca .Daphne Du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel..Daphne Du Maurier
We need to talk about Kevin..Lionel Shriver
Digging to America Anne Tyler
Revolutionary Road
Gone with the Wind
More than 5! Could go on!

Oh blackcountryexile I love I don't know how she does it too- I've bought so many copies as I always pass it on to friends

My favourite book is blood sugar by suzannah Dunn other favourites are....
Adrian mole (any of them)
Life after life
The future homemakers of America
Normal people

To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee
The Siege Helen Dunmore
I Don't Know How She Does it Allison Pearson
The Sealwoman's Gift Sally Magnusson

Becoming Michelle Obama