To ask what the best book you've ever read is?

[AtlasShrugged]

As above really. Inspired by the worst book thread running at the moment. What's the best book you've ever read? And why?

Anna Karenina
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Invisible Man
Human Stain
Giovanni s Room

Where's Wally.
A deeply psychological series about a man who dresses in what our society would call weird clothing, affirming his own identity. He trys his hardest to live his day to day life without standing out from the crowd, and almost manages it.

American Gods
The Loop
The book thief
It
The hounds of morrigan - brilliant children’s book that I reads again and again.
Guilty pleasures of Jilly Cooper

I have a few

Cloud Atlas (also number 9 dream and Ghostwritten by the same author)
The passage trillogy by Justin Cronin
Also adore the Pendergast books by Lincoln and Child
My latest live however is the Mortal Engines quartet, I’ve read the first three in the last week - they are excellent

*latest LOVE

Non-fiction Black Poppies is brilliant, it's about the black British servicemen in the first world war.

The Stand. Definitely my favourite of all time.
I’m always surprised that so many people loved ‘The Secret History’ as I found it full of very unlikable characters and unlikely events. But I suppose it has stayed with me so it must have something.

Just remembered The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks.

A girl is a half-formed thing- Eimear McBride. Is an absolute must read...if you can get over the syntax. It's rather like James Joyce-which can only be a wonderful thing.

Also adore In Parenthesis by David Jones. This is rather outing but I wrote my dissertation about him.

Howard’s End - EM Forster
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
The Redwall series - Brian Jacques

Ohhh classic book is definitely Tess of the d'ubervilles by Hardy...outstanding and so sad.

Oooh yes anything by Hardy!

Haven’t seen Fannie Flagg mentioned yet. Her books fill me with such joy, and you get invested in the whole town. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man was the first I read but they’re all just lovely.

@CaptainKirksSpookyghost

Short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Eleanor Oliphant
Life after life by Kate Atkinson
Educated by Tara Westover (non fiction)
The bone clocks by David Mitchell

Ohhhhhh I've already ordered three books off this thread!