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To ask what your favourite book is?

85 replies

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 15:44

Yep. Total rip off from the other thread but I need some suggestions.

Mine are Captain Correllis Mandoline (I was gutted at how awful the film was) and On Green Dolphin Street (oh the end!).

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PutTheBunnyBackInTheBox · 18/02/2018 15:46

Lightning by Dean Koontz. I first read it in my teens and it's still my favourite. Not high brow, I know, but I love it.

callmekitten · 18/02/2018 15:53

Favorite classics: "Great Expectations" and "Huckleberry Finn"

More recent: "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving and "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut

Rylanmakesmyheartsmile · 18/02/2018 15:53

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Incredible book. Almost everyone I know who has read it has loved it and been completely gripped by it. Even the 2 or 3 people who would say they didn't actually enjoy it as such, has said that they couldn't put it down while reading it.

AngeliqueDePeyrac · 18/02/2018 15:56

Jane Eyre
Gone with the wind
Persuasion
Angelique series (hence username!)

YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake · 18/02/2018 15:59

The rats
Flowers in the Attic
Little women

AnneElliott · 18/02/2018 15:59

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Writersblock2 · 18/02/2018 16:01

Great Expectations, Lolita, As I Lay Dying, The Girls, and Harry Potter!

exLtEveDallas · 18/02/2018 16:08

Stephen King, The Stand
Stephen King and Peter Straub, The Talisman
Any of John Connolly's Charlie Parker books.

I've re-read them all so many times and never tire of them. Comfort food words.

Worldsworstcook · 18/02/2018 16:14

From the corner of his eye by dean koontz

CanIhavedessertfirst · 18/02/2018 16:17

I love Rachels Holiday by Marian Keyes. I love all MK's books involving the Walsh family. Also really love the Helen Grace series by MJ arlidge

allegretto · 18/02/2018 16:18

I have a terrible memory for past books but I have just finished reading Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel and absolutely loved it.

Haisuli · 18/02/2018 16:24

I loved I capture the castle by Dodie Smith, Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, A fine balance forgotten who wrote it - only read it once but have never ever forgotten it and it’s wonderdul life affirming message. A thousand splendid suns....the tears the many many tears....ditto captain Corelli. Fav classic Pride and prejudice. Most read book - Bridget jones’ splendid diary (used to read the column every Tuesday in the independent, and was so excited when the book came out. I loved her. Oh and I love all Shardlakes and Harry Potters 😀

pasturesgreen · 18/02/2018 16:28

Favourite classic, Great Expectations.

A more recent favourite is Liar Moon by Ben Pastor, which helped me heal after a period of great personal difficulty.

lastqueenofscotland · 18/02/2018 16:29

So many...
Brideshead Revisited, the Secret History, Middlemarch, A Kind Of Loving, A Little Life. Would be ones that really stuck with me long long long after I finished reading them.

Sallystyle · 18/02/2018 16:29

The Heart's invisible furies
The Stand
She's come undone
Rebecca
I know this much is true
Eleanor and Park
We are water
Cider house rules
A suitable boy
The Thorn Birds
A fine balance
The trouble with goats and sheep

I couldn't just pick one and I am sure I have missed lots out.

ShutUpBaz · 18/02/2018 16:30

'Mort' by Sir Terry Pratchett

'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams.

I could read these over and over again.

RumAppleGinger · 18/02/2018 16:30

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
I read it at least once a year.

LastNightMyWifeHooveredMyHead · 18/02/2018 16:32

Cold Comfort Farm - and I've read all Colin Cotteril 's books over and over again: total comfort reading!

Merryoldgoat · 18/02/2018 16:38

So Much For That by Lionel Shriver

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Not very ‘happy’ reads... Confused

HonkyWonkWoman · 18/02/2018 16:42

The Kite Runner
A thousand Splendid Suns

Both by: Khaled Hosseini

Mrsfs · 18/02/2018 16:47

Pride and Prejudice, I absolutely love it.
Flowers in the Attic
Lincoln rhyme books by Jeffrey Deaver

AiryFairy1991 · 18/02/2018 16:48

I’m with Rylanmakesmyheartsmile Shadow of the Wind hands down

SnowannaRainbow · 18/02/2018 16:51

I really enjoyed She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

rothbury · 18/02/2018 16:52

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anything by Marian Keyes

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

Anything by Jane Austen

DotForShort · 18/02/2018 16:57

Anna Karenina
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Lolita
Possession
Atonement
Life after Life (a new favourite!)

And almost all of Antonia Forest's books. Smile