To ask what your favourite book is?

[Pumpkinisland89]

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!).

Mapp and Lucia

Rebecca
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Beach (when I read this at age 17 I finished the book then started it again straight away)
The Lovely Bones
The Time Traveller's Wife
A Little Life

Rebecca
The Secret History
Northern Lights

Another vote for Persuasion, Jane Eyre and Little Women.

Also Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-stop Cafe by Fanny Flagg and The Drenai Saga by David Gemmell (Waylander and Hero in the Shadows specifically)

Fiction...
The Lord of the Rings
Pride and Prejudice
The Master and Margarita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
The Stand
The Harry Potter series

I read much more non fiction. I would struggle to list favourites, there are dozens.

The God of Small Things...Arundhati Roy

Anything by Margaret Atwood, but especially The Blind Assassin
100 Years of Solitude
Almost anything by Isabelle Alende
The Poisinwood Bible
1984
Most Stephen King
Rebecca
And most recently The Goldfinch and
Life After Life / A God in Ruins

And the Thursday Next books...hence PollyMycroft 😀

To Kill a Mockingbird. No other book has come close. Brilliant.

*Dotforshort. If you liked Life After Life, please read A God in Ruins - possibly even better

I have just started reading A Little Life. It's going to make me cry isn't it....?

Rebecca
A town like Alice
The book thief

Interesting that so many of the same books appear on this and the "worst book you've ever read" thread.

Mine are: Rebecca, East of Eden, Gone With The Wind, No More Meadows, A Passage to India, Portrait of a Lady, The Bell Jar, I Capture the Castle.

The Secret History
Busman’s Honeymoon
Morvern Callar
Children of Green Knowe

The Time Traveller's Wife
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
A God in Ruins
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Versions of Us
One Day
The Glass Bead Game
Little Women series
The Dark Is Rising

Can't pick a favourite... and sure I will remember more!

@SlightlyJaded I absolutely blubbed at God in Ruins. LOVED it. Def better than Life after Life, imo.

River God by Wilbur Smith.

The detail in his words takes me back to Ancient Egypt in a flash. Gorgeous, stunning book. Very brutal and real in places. Part of me hopes that someone tries to make a film out of it at some point as it would translate onto the screen wonderfully.

The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro.
Possession - Antonia Byatt.
The HandMaids Tale - Margerat Atwood.
Beloved - Toni Morrison.
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Have recently read A Pocket Full of Crows - Joanne Harris; which I enjoyed and The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan. Again, enjoyed it.

Of mice and men.
The Book Thief.
Never let me go.
Summer Sisters.

Unalliterive, I loved The Beach too, I read it just before I went to Thailand.

Memoirs of a Geisha
Northanger Abbey
An officer and a spy
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books
The Masters of Rome Series

Never let me go
Gone with the wind
Godfather

Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
Gone with the Wind
The Dreaming Suburb

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood-passed surprisingly quickly considering how long it it! Also loved The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, have returned several times to that one and still love it.

1sttimeunicorn I'd forgotten about Middlemarch! I completely agree. It really is fantastic. The characters were so beautifully and subtly written that I felt incredibly attached to them by the end.

The Stand by Stephen King
From The Corner Of His Eye by Dean Koontz
I Claudius by Robert Graves
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I could never pick one.