Favourite book of all time!

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I'm after some great new book recommendations as I feel a bit stuck in a book rut - what's your ONE favourite book of all time?

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

I love the film Angelas Ashes, I must read the book.

Interview with The Vampire - Anne Rice.

I bought my copy when I was 13. I remember walking out of Waterstones in York with it & being so pleased! Almost six years ago, I thought it'd fallen out of a box when moving & I cried. Thrilled to rediscover it a few years ago, safely tucked in a non-book box that hadn't yet been touched! It has that old book smell about it now, & the girls often comment on the falling to bits state of it 🤷‍♀️

To kill a mockingbird, the only book I can read over and over and over again!

Loads of great ones here. I'll add The Summer Book by Tove Jannsen

The Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If I had to choose only one - The Thorn Birds.

Otherwise, the Godfather, Hearts Invisible Furies, Goodnight Mr Tom, Wolf Hall, Nora Loft's House trilogy, the Sunne in Splendor, 11.22.63 are all ones I was sad to have finished.

'To kill a mockingbird' by Harper Lee

Read it as a child and loved it ever since.

I adored this book as a teenager and read it more than once. I must return to it as an adult.

Wow yes these are all amazing! Forgot I'd read so many great books!

Corregidora
Jane Eyre
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird

1 is hard! My all time favourites are Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh and H is for Hawk

Here is yet another absolute favourite book(s) of all time of mine War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres (written before he got too full of himself 😅). It's the first in a triology - all three books are brilliant and funny.

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Anything by Keiichiro Hirano or The Outsiders by SE Hinton.

Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose books
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Anything at all by Bill Bryson.
We need to talk about Kevin.

😂I love how few people have put one book! In fairness I would find it completely impossible too, but I am enjoying the variety in quantity very much.

Lots of great books to add to my list, thanks. I also really love where people have given a backstory to why the book is their favourite, it's so interesting!

Cats Eye Margaret Atwood
House of Spirits Isabel Allende

Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

Could you tell me why you love it?
i enjoyed it, but my SIL also says it’s her favorite which puzzles me a bit.

We Need to Talk about Kevin was one of those ones where I couldn't wait for my bus journey to read the next bit! And stayed up late reading it. And have read it over and over again. Noticing different things each time. The film version isn't so great tho. But I suppose nothing could have matched up to the book!

Bill Bryson - just so intelligent, friendly and funny. Like a comforting blanket. Some of my best quotes or facts come from his books. Either on travel or science.

The Mill on the Floss- George Elliot
Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë
The Christmas Invitation- Trisha Ashley
Wyrd Sisters- Terry Pratchett

So many of my favourites have already been mentioned, including Tess of the D'Ubervilles, To Kill a Mockingbird and Love in the Time of Cholera.

For Mistry I think I marginally prefer Family Matters to A Fine Balance. And for Thomas Hardy my favourite is The Woodlanders.

Vikram Seth's An Equal Music is a book I read at least once a year, along with Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and The Wayward Bus. Final favourite: Margaret Forster's Shadow Baby.