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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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.

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

RoyalPenguin · 05/04/2026 21:33

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.

JennyChawleigh · 06/04/2026 17:26

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

CPNSBH · 06/04/2026 17:35

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

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!

ChristmasChroniclesBookFairie · 06/04/2026 18:20

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Completely gripping. Stays with you forever.

GrillaMilla · 06/04/2026 18:33

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

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.

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