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Best book you've ever read?

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MonsteraCheeseplant · 20/07/2020 22:01

I loved My Sister's Keeper, though not any of Jodie Picoult's other books as I soon realised the formula.

When Breath Becomes Air is a beauty

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StuntCroissant · 20/07/2020 22:01

I Am Pilgrim.

StuntCroissant · 20/07/2020 22:02

I Am Pilgrim.

SauvignonBlanketyBlank · 20/07/2020 22:04

The best true life book I've read is I choose to live by sabine dardenne.Its an account of a Belgian school girl that was kidnapped on her way to school by a predator.

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SemperIdem · 20/07/2020 22:05

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson is one I’ve reread any times.

Clawdy · 20/07/2020 22:09

Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel. I loved the other two in the trilogy, but for me, the middle one was the best.

MotheringShites · 20/07/2020 22:09

Fiction might be The Goldfinch.

Non-fiction was Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

OohKittens · 20/07/2020 22:10

Naomi's room

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 20/07/2020 22:10

The handmaids tale

Passmethefrazzles · 20/07/2020 22:10

Possibly Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (NOT the bleedin awful film!)
Or..Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Or...a Secret History by Donna Tartt
Or....Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Or.....Headless Angel by Vicki Baum

I’ll shut up now, you only asked for one Blush

WisestIsShe · 20/07/2020 22:11

A gentleman in Moscow. Just perfect on so many levels.

SimonJT · 20/07/2020 22:12

Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd, so many things just clicked and all of a sudden made sense.

passthegin1234 · 20/07/2020 22:13

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Quackersandcheese3 · 20/07/2020 22:14

It’s so too difficult to choose. I frickin’ love reading!

Alicesweewonders · 20/07/2020 22:15

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

joyjester · 20/07/2020 22:16

Lovely bones by Alice Arnold
Secret life of bees. By sue monk kids
House of sleep by Jonathan Coe

Allywill · 20/07/2020 22:17

My favourite is A Town like Alice.

joyjester · 20/07/2020 22:17

Alice sebold. Sue monk kidd.

Luckystar1 · 20/07/2020 22:18

I Am Pilgrim for me too.

TinyMetalBirds · 20/07/2020 22:20

Tricky. I think my favourite while I was reading it was The Secret History. I didn’t want it to be over, and have re-read it lots of times, although not recently. Probably my favourite book going by number of rereadings is Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers.

Jedstre · 20/07/2020 22:25

Ones I’ve read in the last few years -Secret life of bees, same as @joyjester The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce and The hearts invisible furies by John Boyle

AgnesNaismith · 20/07/2020 22:26

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

TheOrchidKiller · 20/07/2020 22:30

This is hard, it's like choosing between my kids.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (read about 3 times, once whilst in labour with eldest DC).

The King of the Barbareens by Janet Hitchman (not sure if it's still in print, autobiography about a Barnardoes child, first read it when I was 16)

A Country Child by Alison Uttley (another autobiography, probably also out of print but lovely).

Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson (it was dramatised on TV about 17 years ago, then I read the book. It's sad & shocking in parts, but it starts, "This is a love story," & it is).

MotherFeeder · 20/07/2020 22:30

Loved Handmade's Tale (a modern classic)
I am Pilgrim was incredible
Shantaram is a fantastic read but

Wuthering Heights will always be my number 1

Bells3032 · 20/07/2020 22:33

The house at riverton or the forgotten garden by Kate moton

TipTopTap · 20/07/2020 22:33

Lovely Bones
Time Travellers Wife
Anne Franks Diary