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What is your favourite book of all time ?

155 replies

Bluetitnest · 04/03/2023 21:36

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SweetSakura · 04/03/2023 22:02

Grapes of Wrath

Although Remains of the Day would definitely be a close contender too

SweetSakura · 04/03/2023 22:03

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 04/03/2023 21:55

Candide.

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

Oh yes it's a fabulous book!

Squiblet · 04/03/2023 22:07

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Emma by Jane Austen
White Noise by Don DeLillo

MeinKraft · 04/03/2023 22:09

Bridget Jones Diary

Calistan · 04/03/2023 22:09

Posting to bookmark. I don't have a favourite anything, when I experience things at different times they come across differently. Some books I once adored, read very differently with the passage of time.

Boomboom22 · 04/03/2023 22:10

Clan of the cave bear

Sunsetred · 04/03/2023 22:12

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Areyoureeeaaady · 04/03/2023 22:12

Middlemarch. It has everything. All of humanity, a bit of history of the 19C, humour.

Sunsetred · 04/03/2023 22:14

@Slimjimtobe completely forgot about Memoirs of a Geisha! It was a fascinating!

Retrievemysanity · 04/03/2023 22:14

A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry. It’s one of the few books that I have read more than once.

Charley50 · 04/03/2023 22:15

Got loads but one of the few adult books I've re-read quite a few tea is We need to talk about Kevin. So maybe it's that.

GurlwiththeCurl · 04/03/2023 22:16

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

ThreeRingCircus · 04/03/2023 22:17

1984 by George Orwell

Aganta · 04/03/2023 22:18

Vanity Fair

BowiesJumper · 04/03/2023 22:20

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

or Rivals by Jilly Cooper (not even sorry)

JewelTheft · 04/03/2023 22:22

A Prayer for Owen Meany. The only book I've read three times, each time I was at a very different stage of life and read different things in it, but enjoyed it equally each time.

Disneyforaweek · 04/03/2023 22:22

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

I loved the Magician series! I need to double check whether I finished them all or if I have any left to read.

RogersOrganismicProcess · 04/03/2023 22:23

40 Rules of Love By Elif Shafak

littleburn · 04/03/2023 22:24

I have two: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Jane Eyre.

TimeforaGandT · 04/03/2023 22:26

Katherine by Anya Seton although more recently published contenders would include A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.

I have read all of them multiple times.

PuppyMonkey · 04/03/2023 22:26

I know MN will hate me but it’s Wuthering Heights. It’s always Wuthering Heights.

Derrymum123 · 04/03/2023 22:27

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
Closely followed by Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Animal Farm by George Orwell.

L1ttledrummergirl · 04/03/2023 22:30

Phillip Gibbs- No price for freedom.

RRRException · 04/03/2023 22:33

Calistan · 04/03/2023 22:09

Posting to bookmark. I don't have a favourite anything, when I experience things at different times they come across differently. Some books I once adored, read very differently with the passage of time.

Exactly this

there are books that resonate hugely if read at exactly the right time

progfan · 04/03/2023 22:35

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.