What are your top 10 favourite books of all time?

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
I Capture the Castle
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
Gone with the Wind
The Little Princess
My Family and other Animals/ Birds Beasts and Relatives
We Need to talk about Kevin
Clouds Amongst the Stars
The Plague and I/ The Egg and I

I cannot possibly rank them. I have 16 on my all time 5 star list, but if I had to only pick 10 I think:

Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord, Louis de Bernieres

Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

Pereira Maintains, Antonio Tabbuchi

Captains of the Sands, Jorge Amado

Sashenka, Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Adam Bede, George Eliot

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du Maurier

Persuasion, Jane Austen

in no order…

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers
Wise Children - Angela Carter
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy Boston
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Love this Placemaking for future reads

1. Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow
2. Robert Graves: Goodbye to all That
3. Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
4. Oscar Wilde: Picture of Dorian Gray
5. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
6. Dickens: David Copperfield
7. Bill Bryson: Short History of Nearly Everything
8. Anthony Burgess: Enderby
9. Virginia Woolf: Orlando
10. P G Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves

Not in any particular order:

The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson

Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Slammerkin, Emma Donohue
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Dracula, Bran Stoker
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
The Darling Buds of May, HE Bates
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (I love it and can sit and read it like a novel)

My Family And Other Animals (plus sequels) - Gerald Durrell
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Rachel’s Holiday - Marian Keyes
The Cazalet Chronicles - Elizabeth Jane Howard (ok this is 5 books so cheating slightly here!
Caught In The Light - Robert Goddard
Anne Of Green Gables - Lucy M Montgomery
The Snowman - Raymond Briggs
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Quite a diverse collection!

Howard’s End
Saturday
Gone With the Wind
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Remains of the Day
I Capture the Castle
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
The Year of Pleasures
Memoirs of a Geisha
To Kill a Mockingbird

all books that gripped me at various ages.

when I was little I loved What Katy Did, Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie

Kane and Abel even 🤣

Master Of The Game - Syndey Sheldon
Kale and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Stepping Stones - Maureen Lee
The Sweetest Thing - Emma Blair
Tuppence To Cross The Mersey - Helen Forrester
Francesca's Party - Sheila Flannagan
Circle Of Friends - Maeve Binchy
Forget You Had A Daughter - Sandra Gregory
Hearts Invisible Furies - John Boyne
And.....lastly
The Princess And The Pea - it fascinated me as a child.