What is your favourite ever book please?

[Spinderellacutituponetime]

I’m looking for holiday reading recommendations! Just finished my last purchase and trying to find something amazing to read in the last few days of freedom. Will tolerate almost any genre except except extremely romantic /soppy....please help with next choice!

Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series (begins with Case Histories)

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Anybody out there? - Marian Keyes

I have hundreds but don't want to inundate you

Fingersmith - Sarah waters
An instance of the Fingerpost - Iain pears
Hope: a tragedy - Shalom Auslander
Lolita - Nabokov
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Madame de Bovary - Flaubert

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons, an underrated classic

Catch -22 - Joseph Heller, pure genius

The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood, fantastic read (as are all of hers).

Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker, one of the best books I've read.

The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb, brilliant fantasy trilogy

I never got the Kate Atkinson thing. Is she really good?

Orphans of the storm by Katie flynn

A girl is a half formed thing- Eimear McBride.

God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson is good

@Spinderellacutituponetime Re The Best of Everything - I never watched Mad Men, but apparently one of the male characters read it to gain an insight into the workings of young female minds.

It was written in 1958, set in 1952, and it follows a group of young women in New York, starting their careers and negotiating their way around love.

I never watched Sex and the City either, but guess the premise sounds similar!

So far it has struck me as surprisingly modern (although some of the references have obviously dated) and universal.

Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher. Such a wonderful story. Must read it again soon.

Kate Atkinson's behind the scenes at the museum
Wuthering Heights
The magic faraway tree stories

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. Absolutely beautiful, I read it constantly but it makes me sad - I was born in the wrong century😂

The red tent.
Gone with the wind
His dark materials
Kafka on the shore
Wind up bird chronicle

Earth's Children by Jean M Auel.

Winter Solstice or The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher.

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee.

Stonewylde series by Kit Berry.

There are loads I really enjoyed, however I think my favourites are
One Day by David Nichols & then by Jojo Moyes, me before you. There are 2 follow ins to that which are good too, after you & still me.
I re read those a good bit, but nothing compares to the first read of a book when you don’t know what’s coming!

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

I'm really into Jane Harper at the moment. She's a newish Australian author who rights crime / drama / mysteries in the Australian outback - absolutely fantastic

Chances by Jackie Collins
Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Outsiders by SE Hinton

My favourites at the moment is
Lost boy - Christina Henry

Black Dogs - Ian McEwan is the first that comes to mind.

Three Men in a Boat- Jerome K Jerome

Duma Key- Stephen King

Painting the Darkness by Robert Goddard
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
The Chain by Adrian McKinty

I'd also agree with the recommendation of anything by Stuart MacBride!

What a great thread! Can I add the following which were really enjoyed by my book club: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, the Rosie project, the end of the world running club, the historian. Am about to read 'the help' by Kathryn Stockett. Recently really enjoyed 'normal people' by Sally Rooney. My favourite is possibly a thousand splendid suns, which someone mentioned up thread. Hard to choose! :)

These are great. Thank you. Food for thought. Love Murakami.