Top 10 must read books

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New years resolution to start reading more. I'm starting with To Kill a Mocking Bird. What are your top 10 must read books? Thanks

@JimmyTheBrave while I agree reading should be a pleasure and not a chore, sometimes you're not in the right frame of mind at that particular time for that particular book, so set it aside and try again another time

To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
The handmaids tale by Margaret Attwood
The great gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhewa
Dominion by C J Sansome
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1984 by George Orwell
Nemesis by Philip Roth

@JWrecks - oh yes All Quiet in the Western Front is an incredible book. I remember sitting on a packed commuter train at 18 with tears pouring down my face as I read it

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@Needhelp101

The Collector, John Fowles.

Watership Down, Richard Adams.

Definitely Pride and Prejudice and The Handmaid's Tale.

Anything by Bill Bryson if you want a good laugh!

I've been re-visiting Bill Bryson lately - particularly like A Walk In The Woods.

Some less common suggestions of books I have read again and again:

The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy - my eternal favourite author)
The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins)
Take Me With You (Brad Newsham)

The Bell Jar
Never Let me Go
Pride and Prejudice as PP suggested, but also Persuasion (which I actually prefer)

Little women
Rebecca (or anything by Daphne du Maurier)
Howards End - EM Forster
Wolf Hall trilogy
Wilding - Isabell(a) Tree
Jane Eyre (took me a couple of goes to get into it but worth it when you do)
Gone with the Wind

The Stonewylde series (5 books)
Coming Home - Rosamunde Pilcher
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Notes from a Small Island and Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

Grapes of Wrath
The Bell Jar
The Women's Room
1984
The Great Gatsby even if I like the film more

Not a novel but Flannery O'Connor's short stories are very good. She has, I think, a very good grasp of human prejudices and is an excellent character study.

For non fiction: Guns, germs and steel, and Yuval Noah Harari's books. Sapiens (his first) deals with a similar subject as Guns, germs and steel but is more accessible.
A lot of Chomsky's work is worth reading. Manufacturing Consent and Requiem for the American dream especially.

@Graphista literally finished Rachel's Holiday last week. Had read it when it first came out then reordered it for Christmas. Great book.
I'd recommend anything by Bill Bryson but my book of the year last year was Educated.

Middlemarch, George Eliot - the best!

I have just bought Rachel's Holiday.

The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy - my eternal favourite author) - Beach Music by the same author is one of my all time favourite books.

I would also nominate:

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
I would second The Secret History by Donna Tartt as a PP said but I hated The Goldfinch
I really loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
I would also second The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
I also ADORED the Poldark books

Thank you for all the fantastic suggestions

East of Eden - John Steinbeck. Has one of the most evil characters in it but she's great!!

Atonement
The Goldfinch
The Remains of the Day
Never Let Me Go
Birdsong
Everything by Alice Munro. Just everything.

Some books I've enjoyed from various genres:

The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan (my all time favourite book)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
Miss Pettigrew Lives for A day - Winifred Watson (absolutely wonderful)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anything by Kate Atkinson, but especially the Jackson Brodie stories
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric

@Iamblossom

I have just bought Rachel's Holiday.

The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy - my eternal favourite author) - Beach Music by the same author is one of my all time favourite books.

I would also nominate:

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
I would second The Secret History by Donna Tartt as a PP said but I hated The Goldfinch
I really loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
I would also second The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
I also ADORED the Poldark books

Anything by Pat Conroy has been read multiple times here, just love his writing style - beautiful, even when tackling some gritty subjects.

The Lords of Discipline is another favourite.

Oh, and for another random different suggestion - Watchers by Dean Koontz is another I can always re-read.

Agree with many of those already posted but I’d also add:

• 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (it is tiny with only about 25 pages)
• Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker