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What is your favourite book of all time ?

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Bluetitnest · 04/03/2023 21:36

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Thunderpunt · 04/03/2023 23:11

@RangSoo No I haven't but it's just been added to the kindle list! Thanks

Thestresssolution · 04/03/2023 23:15

Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies Hilary Mantel - just on the last in the trilogy
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman
The Quincunx - Charles Pasliser
Secret History - Donna Tartt

Just off the top of my head, loads more

RunTowardsTheLight · 04/03/2023 23:16

Pride and Prejudice, The Pursuit of Love and Ducks, Newburyport

Thestresssolution · 04/03/2023 23:16

RangSoo · 04/03/2023 23:09

The Duncton wood trilogy, I feel like it has so much more depth to it than water ship down but unfortunately it isn’t nearly as well known.

Oh interesting, my favourite book as a child was Watership Down.

bluebeardswife7 · 04/03/2023 23:19

junebirthdaygirl · 04/03/2023 22:45

The Poisonwood Bible..Barbara Kingsolver

Love her books

This is an amazing book, I gift it to loads of people and it always makes me feel smarter.

bluebeardswife7 · 04/03/2023 23:21

RangSoo · 04/03/2023 23:09

The Duncton wood trilogy, I feel like it has so much more depth to it than water ship down but unfortunately it isn’t nearly as well known.

I read this with my lovely dad who is dead now. I got the first one from a charity shop. I am going to read it and give it to my nephew xx

TheGirlWithTheArabStrap · 04/03/2023 23:22

lastnightidreamtiwenttomandaloreagain · 04/03/2023 23:02

I love both of these too - Rivals is way better than Riders

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I love Rival's more than Riders but I think The Man That Made Husbands Jealous is my favourite, possibly because I read it first. I've read a lot of books but those three have been reread a lot!

chatelai · 04/03/2023 23:23

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises, by Fredrik Backman
The Mask Of Apollo by Mary Renault
Gone With The Windsors by Laurie Graham
the Mary Russell series by Laurie R King

I may have got my Lauries muddled up!

MindPalace · 04/03/2023 23:23

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lots of Wuthering Heights love on this thread!

Offleyhoo · 04/03/2023 23:24

Eek, loads, not in this order.
The English Patient
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Dutch House
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Time Traveller's Wife
Olive Kitteridge
Love in the Time of Cholera
Station 11
The Road
The Goldfinch
The Fault in Our Stars
Birdsong

NotStayingIn · 04/03/2023 23:25

Dracula

Wuthering Heights

The Catcher in the Rye

And Then There Were None

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 04/03/2023 23:26

Ooh, @WarningToTheCurious do you work at Ightham Mote? Green Darkness scared the bejaysus out of me when I was a child.

sausage767 · 04/03/2023 23:28

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

sorcerersapprentice · 04/03/2023 23:29

I love the way Tim Lott writes. Anything by him

Iwasjustasking · 04/03/2023 23:33

1984, the fault in our stars and the bee keeper of Aleppo.

1984 will always be my absolute favourite book, I remember reading it for the first time 20 years ago and the feelings I had reading it.

i will also always love the hunger games trilogy, I had never read a young adult or dystopian book before and it was like anything I had ever read, probably not a high brow choice but I got completely lost in these books!

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 04/03/2023 23:34

Alice in Wonderland
Neverwhere
The Night Circus
The Road

Peckhaminn · 04/03/2023 23:34

Pride and Prejudice. Such a truly heart felt book. Nothings has ever compared to it.

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 04/03/2023 23:35

Favourite book, as in if I could only ever read one book again for the rest of time, would The Horse and his Boy. I find so much in it, it’s like a new experience on every read. I’ve loved it since I first read it as a child.

I enjoy many other books, I love to read, but despite having a broad range of genres I enjoy, nothing ever gives me the same feeling as that book did/does.

FlannelandPuce · 04/03/2023 23:35

Ivanhoe
The far Pavillions
Both Romantic epics

Bbq1 · 04/03/2023 23:35

Wuthering Heights

AnneElliott · 04/03/2023 23:35

Persuasion

sproutsandparsnips · 04/03/2023 23:37

The Catcher in the Rye
An Officer and a Spy
Das Boot
The Cruel Sea
The Masters of Rome Series by Colleen McCullough

TheBirdintheCave · 04/03/2023 23:38

MarshaMelrose · 04/03/2023 21:48

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

Gone with the Wind is mine too :) I've read it about six times.

Persuasion is also high up the list.

As a child it would be Ella Enchanted and A Little Princess.

SlicerAndEcho · 04/03/2023 23:38

I hate having to choose, I have so many favourites. But if really pushed I wouldn’t be able to choose between The Silmarillion and Little Women.

The Silmarillion is actually my favourite, but Little Women is my ultimate comfort read.

cormorant5 · 04/03/2023 23:40

The Irish RM by Somerville and Ross.
Such affection for some characters they must have known and incorporated them into a not quite real world.