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What is your favourite book of all time ?

155 replies

Bluetitnest · 04/03/2023 21:36

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thatone · 04/03/2023 21:39

That's a difficult one but one of my absolute favourites is The Naturalists: A Botanical Novel by Diane Smith - purely because I read it when I was expecting ds1 and it reminds me of that time.

NationMcKinley · 04/03/2023 21:40

The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper

Hoppinggreen · 04/03/2023 21:41

The Moors Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie

magicstar1 · 04/03/2023 21:42

The Sackett Brand by Louis L’Amour

MargoDeWitt · 04/03/2023 21:43

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

sealon82 · 04/03/2023 21:44

Trust me by Lesley pearse

purser25 · 04/03/2023 21:45

One is a tree grows in Brooklyn

Proudofitbabe · 04/03/2023 21:45

Wuthering Heights

America12 · 04/03/2023 21:46

Wuthering Heights

MarshaMelrose · 04/03/2023 21:48

Gone with the Wind.
But I do remembering laughing a lot at My Family and other Animals.

TreesAtSea · 04/03/2023 21:48

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

elvislives2012 · 04/03/2023 21:49

Rebecca by daphne di maurier

DisforDarkChocolate · 04/03/2023 21:50

The Remains of the Day.

MrWhippersnapper · 04/03/2023 21:50

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

LadyIckenham · 04/03/2023 21:51

Bleak House, Charles Dickens.

Closely followed, in complete contrast, by Uncle Fred in the Springtime, by P. G. Wodehouse.

SpottyStripyDuvet · 04/03/2023 21:51

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

MissyB1 · 04/03/2023 21:52

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.

ScarletWitchM · 04/03/2023 21:52
  • 1984 George Orwell
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Rocklobstershell · 04/03/2023 21:52

Kafka on the shore

NaturaRagazza89 · 04/03/2023 21:53

East of Eden

Everything Flows

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 04/03/2023 21:55

Candide.

Has me smirking/giggling all the way through every single time I read it.

Miscellaneousme · 04/03/2023 21:56

Jane Eyre

Slimjimtobe · 04/03/2023 21:56

Ooh

I think I will have to say Memoirs of a Geisha

though I loved Brian Keenans ‘AnEvil Cradling’ about his time in captivity as I was 16 when I read it and I was inspired by his strength

Eranzer · 04/03/2023 21:58

David Copperfield
The Allsouls trilogy

2PintsOfCidernaBagofCrisps · 04/03/2023 22:01
  1. The Lion of Macedon series by David Gemmell
  1. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
  1. Magician by Raymond E Feist