Most favourite books/authors

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spearly · 19/05/2020 16:39

I'm looking for a bit of inspiration to really get back in to reading and wondered what people would list as their top five or so books of all time. It will be interesting to see if there are a lot of titles in common!

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theneverendinglaundry · 23/05/2020 19:51

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeymoon

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

Chickoletta · 23/05/2020 18:05

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
John Boyne - The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Winston Graham - The whole Poldark series (cheating, I know)
Daphne DuMaurier - Frenchman’s Creek
Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree

Ellmau · 23/05/2020 14:29

Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate (but you have to start with The Game Of Kings)
A S Byatt, Possession
Catherine Fox, Angels and Men
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign (again need to start with first in series, Shards Of Honour)

AquarianSquirrel · 22/05/2020 02:28

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Goodnight Mr.Tom
The Rules of Seeing
Life After You
And any Jodi Picoult

Had to think about that because you can never choose your favourite 5. There are so many wonderful books out there!

DangerMouse17 · 22/05/2020 01:35

The Sunne in Splendour or Here be Dragons - Sharon Kay
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Gone with The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

WinWinnieTheWay · 22/05/2020 01:14

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
John Updike - Brazil
John Fowler - The Magus
Margaret Forster - Diary of an Ordinary Woman

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