Page 6 | What is your favourite book of all time ?

Rinkydinkydoodle · 05/03/2023 00:34

Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
The Collector, John Fowles

SorrelForbes · 05/03/2023 00:40

Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
We Speak No Treason - Rosemary Hawley Jarman

SweetSakura · 05/03/2023 00:47

Peckhaminn · 04/03/2023 23:59

If you don't mind me asking, where do you all find these books to read, do you get recommended them, search on the internet or just happen to come across your favourite books?

My parents had a house where pretty much every room was lined with books, like my own private library.
And then I worked as a library assistant while studying my masters so greedily explored a whole wealth of books then.

Now- book clubs, book subscription boxes, recommendations from the storygraph app, reading classics, book reviews, and just browsing libraries and bookshops (new and second hand)

JaneJeffer · 05/03/2023 00:48

Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice

GobbieMaggie · 05/03/2023 00:49

Three Men in a Boat : I have a first edition.

SweetSakura · 05/03/2023 00:49

SweetSakura · 05/03/2023 00:47

My parents had a house where pretty much every room was lined with books, like my own private library.
And then I worked as a library assistant while studying my masters so greedily explored a whole wealth of books then.

Now- book clubs, book subscription boxes, recommendations from the storygraph app, reading classics, book reviews, and just browsing libraries and bookshops (new and second hand)

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Oh and the Mumsnet book threads are great for recommendations too of course! I have discovered a lot of new favourites that way

BonjourCrisette · 05/03/2023 01:25

Lots of these are things I love. The Secret History, Clan of the Cave Bear, Green Knowe, The Dark is Rising, Pale Fire, Poisonwood Bible are all books I really love and will treasure forever.

I'll add a couple that haven't been mentioned yet - the Robin Hobb ones starting with Assassin's Apprentice and Mary Doria Russell's books that begin with The Sparrow.

stluciaseeds · 05/03/2023 01:47

If I had only two books in the world:

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

If I had more......

HRTQueen · 05/03/2023 01:47

Wuthering Heights Emily or Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

cant decide

Alex Drake · 05/03/2023 01:53

No Mean City - H Kingsley Long
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Chances - Jackie Collins

stluciaseeds · 05/03/2023 02:01

If I had more..

Classics:
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, (Thomas Hardy, plot rather than love of the prose)
A Little Love Song (Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mister Tom, and a cracking sexual awakening/coming of age tale)
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulkes
Wild Swans, Jung Chang

A Million Little Things, James Frey. However truthful, so, so powerful

stluciaseeds · 05/03/2023 02:02

*A Million Little Pieces' I mean

cantley · 05/03/2023 03:03

BowiesJumper · 04/03/2023 22:20

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

or Rivals by Jilly Cooper (not even sorry)

Oh me too!
Plus The Secret History.
( Rivals is my guilty secret ).

Alondra · 05/03/2023 06:16

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.

This. Some of the books I adored when I was much younger, I didn't particularly enjoy the second time around.

Some books have tested time and experience:

A Hundred Years of Solitude by G G Marquez

Five hours with Mario by Miguel Delibes

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

and more contemporaneous, the Millennium trilogy from Stieg Larsson

LuckyThatMyBreastsAreSmallAndHumble · 05/03/2023 07:37

bluedomino · 04/03/2023 23:56

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.The Odyssey by Homer. The World According to Garp by John Irving. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a cold climate by Nancy Mitford. The Arabian Nights. The Portable Door by Tom Holt. The Vacillations of Poppy Carew by Mary Wesley.
These I keep coming back to. Comfort books.

💛 Isabel Allende

BethDuttonsTwin · 05/03/2023 07:40

The Help.

As a child, The Little House On The Prairie books.

cptartapp · 05/03/2023 07:53

Little Women.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

KatherineofGaunt · 05/03/2023 08:21

A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke. It's a disaster film in a book!

L1ttledrummergirl · 05/03/2023 11:42

I read most of them as a child, the library was my second home, the smell of the books, the promise of escape they provided was like nectar.

I struggle to read new books, they are all so samey, the same formula, the same plot twists. It's like paint by numbers but with books.

DorritLittle · 05/03/2023 11:50

Wuthering Heights
Tess
Madame Bovary

The Interestings is my favourite modern fiction I think.

Charlotte Sometimes and A Little Love Song from childhood/teenage years.

ByeByeLouisByeByeKlaus · 05/03/2023 12:25

Most of my favourites already mentioned, The Secret History, 100 Years of Solitude and Rebecca.

I’ll also add -

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

LlynTegid · 05/03/2023 13:33

A book of Dylan Thomas poetry and writings.

IWanderedLonely · 05/03/2023 13:36

Cider with Rosie

RockGirl · 05/03/2023 14:03

progfan · 04/03/2023 22:35

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

This is also mine. Though Xenocide is a strong contender. I'd consider the whole series as one book.

MargaretThursday · 05/03/2023 14:24

I have too many to list!