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What is your favourite book???

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Els2020 · 11/03/2025 15:52

I pretty much read anything but I'm looking for book recommendations.

Tell me what your favourite books are/ have been. The more 'out there' the better!

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tiberseptim · 06/04/2026 18:51

ChristmasChroniclesBookFairie · 06/04/2026 18:20

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Completely gripping. Stays with you forever.

Yup, unbelievably sad.

GrillaMilla · 06/04/2026 18:33

I love anything by Daphne Du Maurier, but especially My Cousin Rachel

ChristmasChroniclesBookFairie · 06/04/2026 18:20

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Completely gripping. Stays with you forever.

sillistudi · 06/04/2026 17:56

This year:
Theo of Golden
Sandwich
and recently devoured & loved.. The Correspondent.
Please read all of the above immediately for guaranteed delight!

CPNSBH · 06/04/2026 17:35

Trust Me, Lesley Pearce.
Rachel’s Holiday, Marian Keyes.
We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver.

JennyChawleigh · 06/04/2026 17:26

Middlemarch, Persuasion, the Balkan and Levant trilogies (by Olivia Manning), anything by Georgette Heyer or Eva Ibbotson.

RoyalPenguin · 05/04/2026 21:33

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.

LethargeMarg · 05/04/2026 21:27

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
Blood Sugar by Suzannah Dunn
(all these have a theme of specific periods of history, life changing with the passing of time (more subtle in blood sugar which is a bit more like one day but about a group of friends and no one has ever heard of this book except me !)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
All the Adrian Mole books

KStockHERO · 22/03/2026 11:26

"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. The first time I read it, I just couldn't put it down. I re-read it last year. I still enjoyed it but knowing what happened took the shine off a little.

"The Luminaries" by Eleanor Catton. I wish, wish, wish I'd saved this to read over a Christmas when I could hunker down in a blanket and let myself be absorbed. Incredible storytelling. Unfortunately I remember very well the 'answer' to the central puzzle of the book so I'm resisting re-reading it just yet.

Abracadabra12 · 22/03/2026 11:22

DisforDarkChocolate · 11/03/2025 17:48

The Remains of the Day, to me this is the perfect book.

I agree!

Sadcafe · 22/03/2026 09:28

What an incredibly difficult question. Really enjoyed Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath, Threemen in a boat by Jerome K Jerome but more modern stuff , would have to be one like Terry Pratchetts Witches Abroad

ElBandito · 09/03/2026 22:25

The Camomile Lawn - Mary Wesley
Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
David Copperfield
Taipan or Shogun - James Clavell
Augustus - Alan Massie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Penmarric
Feet of Clay - Terry P
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov I prefer the Robot books to the Foundation.

Goethesdog · 09/03/2026 18:24

The Night Circus

but also the short stories of William Trevor

DesiccatedCoconut · 09/03/2026 18:22

How to choose just one?! Impossible.

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

...just a few favourites💜

GroovyChick87 · 06/03/2026 20:31

Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell. I love all her books but that one gives me such cosy nostalgia for the 90s. It takes me back to a certain place in time.

Ahwig · 27/02/2026 22:28

A book that stuck with me for a long time after I finished reading it, and I sat and read it in 2 sittings was perfect people by Peter James .

drsheldoncooperwhooper · 27/02/2026 21:58

Tsarina (Ellen Alpsten)
klara and the sun (kazuo Ishiguro)

Yourinmyspot · 27/02/2026 21:40

Tough question!

Two of my favourites are The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and The Reading list by Sara Nisha Adam’s.

labtest57 · 27/02/2026 21:36

The Secret History
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Blue Castle

Almondflour · 27/02/2026 21:27

The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman (outstanding)
The Light in Hidden Places (outstanding)
Quo Vadis (outstanding)
The Lord of the Rings
The Bronze Horseman trilogy
Anna Karenina
Gone with the Wind
The Lovely Bones
It Stephen King
The Stand Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Great Alone

DoAWheelie · 26/02/2026 13:30

Fire and Hemlock by Dianna Wynne Jones.

I've been re-reading it every year or so since I was about 10 years old and I get something new out of it every time. It has so many other literary references woven into it that I'm forever discovering something new and a new way to interpret bits I already thought I fully understood.

mrsmiawallace3 · 25/02/2026 09:43

Wuthering Heights

The Prophet

100 years of solitude

Four letters of love

Bleak House

The English Patient

Anna Karenina

The Short Stories of Anton Chekov

Love In The Time Of Cholera

A Sensible Life

Brideshead Revisited

The Canterbury Tales

Dubliners

Out Of Africa

The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

WinterFoxes · 18/03/2025 06:46

Demon Copperhead
Great Gatsby
Persuasion
Pride & Prejudice
Villette
Jane Eyre
Kite Runner
The Goldfinch
The Comedians
The Quiet American
The End Of The Affair
I Capture The Castle
When Will There Be Good News
Life after Life
A God in Ruins
House of Spirits

tiberseptim · 18/03/2025 00:33

The Foundling by Georgette Heyer. I have lost count of how many times I have read it, and I laugh every time.
Injured Innocents by O Yardley. It's a novel-length fanzine. Some of her stuff is on AO3, but I don't think this is.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson

StrongandNorthern · 17/03/2025 23:18

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver.
The Cazalet Chronicles - Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Black Diamonds - Catherine Bailey.
The Valley -'Richard Benson.