What is your favourite ever book please?

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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!

Something different is Educated by Tara Westover. It's a memoir of her life being raised "off the grid". I found it amazing, and to think she's now only 30-something. Really excellent read.

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne is so perfect. I could not stop reading it. It's the right mix of everything you want.

I love escapism so... the Butterfly Cove series by Sarah Bennett. Or anything by that publisher really

Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel.

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

Ladder of Years by Ann Tyler.

Any Jeeves and Wooster by PG Wodehouse.

Standard Deviations by Katherine Heiny.

Oh, and The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

Anything by the late Anita Shreve but especially

Fortune's Rock
The Pilot's Wife

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Jinian Footseer by Sheri Tepper

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp

Not necessarily my favourite ever , but best book I've read this year is the Huntress by Kate Quinn

The shell seekers Rosamunde Pilcher.

The Agony and The Ecstasy - Irving Stone

@LizzieMacQueen I'm glad to see someone mention The Time Travellers Wife! Such a fantastic book!

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roi

Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes'

A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

Some great suggestions on here- and some I've read but not really got the hype, which is always interesting!

I enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha , time travellers wife , Rebecca , The Kite Runner and A thousand splendid suns ( his latest one is good too but I can’t recall the title ) .
Star of the Sea by Joseph O Connor is fabulous .
I’ve been reading a lot of Karin Slaughter over the summer which I’d recommend. Mo Hayder books are very good too .
Anything by Stephen King or Kate Atkinson esp Life after Life .
Too too many books and so little time .

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

a little life by hanya yanigahara

Fortunes rocks - Anita shreve.

I've read it a thousand times and it will never not be my favourite.

The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck is another book I love but very few people have ever heard of it . I found it in a charity shop many years ago and the story has always stayed with me .

the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle is the best book i've read in ages, actually. it's mind bendingly brilliant. i wanted to call in sick to stay home and read it

Bill Bryson’s books are great . Notes from a small island while somewhat dated now is my favourite. He’s very funny .

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Oh yes, this! So different to anything I've every read.

@WalkingInTheAir13

Fortunes rocks is my favourite book ever. I have read it a thousand times. Anita was such an incredible storyteller. She is missed.

Lord of the Rings
Hitchhikers Guide... ‘trilogy of five’
100 Years of Solitude
Far From the Madding Crowd
My Family and Other Animals
All Anne of Green Gables books

1000 Splendid Sun's by Kalad Hussain
Eleanore Oliphant is absolutely fine - not sure if author.

All Harry Potter
Most Stephen King