The best books you've ever read

[JustNotFunAnymore]

Following on the from the other thread
where someone asked what the most ridiculous thing you've read in a book was. (And therefore ruining anything on my wish list 😂)
I want to know what the best book you've read is. What book I must read soon.

I'm partway through 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama. I got it as a sample and after two or three chapters had to buy it on my kindle. It's so good. She writes really well.

Yabu.

Glad someone mentioned The Stand.

Middlemarch
A Passage to India
Diary of a Nobody
A Farewell to Arms
The Great Gatsby
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Goldfinch
O Pioneers!
Bring Up the Bodies (I liked all 3 Wolf Hall books but this was my favourite)
Atonement
The Great Good Thing
The Aeneid
The Muse
A Walk in the Woods
Any David Sedaris essays
Anything by Jhumpa Lahiri
Americanah
The Only Plane in the Sky
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

My list got out of hand, with the help of Goodreads.

IQ84
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Wizard of the Crow
The Cairo Trilogy

@TheBlueStocking you dig that happy crappy?

The Duchess of Cornwall's Reading Rooms book club has just launched on instagram with some interesting book choices.

@Serin

A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute. Love it.

Yes to this , it's a cracking read.

Lanny
Bring Up The Bodies
Any Jeeves and Wooster
Americanah
The Goldfinch
The Witches of Eastwick
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Of Mice And Men
A Christmas Carol
The Great Gatsby
Coming Up For Air
The Pursuit of Love
Beloved
Kindred
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Cold Comfort Farm

Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Life after Life
Jane Eyre
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys

Funniest book: Time for Bed by David Baddiel.

Made me cry the most: The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Objectively most beautiful: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre by her sister obvs a close follower).

Book I’ll always love most because I loved it as a kid: Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Books I wish I could read again for the first time: the Wolf Hall series.

[quote Puddingypops]@TheBlueStocking you dig that happy crappy?[/quote]

oh and The Kitchen Gods Wife

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

@Amdone123 , it sounds like we have pretty similar taste in books. Ive never read a Lisa Jewell book that i didnt really enjoy. The House We Grew Up In being my favourite. Im currently reading Maeve Binchey Circle Of Friends and i have a treasured copy of a Trilogy of Helen Forrester books which includes Twopence To Cross The Mersey than my mum bought me.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 💕💕

The End of the Affair

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Stand
Memoirs of a Geisha
To Kill A Mockbird
The Goldfinch
Piranesi
We Were Liars

The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
The stand Stephen King
The Far Pavilions M M Kaye

Anything by Kazuo Ishiguro
Anything by Donal Ryan
Anything by Elizabeth Strout (particularly "My name is Lucy Barton")

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

The Choice by Edith Eger
A Room With A View by EM Forster
Agree about The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Possession by AS Byatt
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton - utterly heartbreaking.
Solomon Gursky was Here- Mordecai Richler. So rich I read it every year.
Flowers for Algernon, D Keyes - again, heartbreaking.
Kafka on the Shore- Murakami. Weird and wonderful.
Agnes Gray, Bronte. Actually the best Bronte.
Animal Farm, Orwell.
Strangers on aTrain, Highsmith
Ghost Stories - Oliver Onions. I like him the best of all the great ghost story writers
All of the Wimsey books by DL Sayers
And all of Chandler.

The Night Circus
Memoirs of a Geisha
All Shardlake series
Lord of the Rings

The Shellseekers - Rosamunde Pilcher

@MinnieJackson

Hard to pick one book.but I really like the help by Kathryn Stockett

Then don't! Tell me all the ones you love

@MooseBreath

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle Mrs Hemingway - Naomi Wood The Shining - Stephen King Still Alice - Lisa Genova We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Love Lisa Genova. Left Neglect was so good too.