To ask what are your top ten favourite books?

[Theda13]

I’m looking for recommendations, and thought this thread may be of some help to others too.

Mine are:

1. The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. The Book Thief by Markus Kusak
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
6. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
7. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
10. Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Ceremony is great.

@Gorgeouslygorgeous The Silver Brumby books, loved these. There is another thread regarding chlldren's books

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khalen Hosseini
1000 Splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
Secret Smile - Nikki French
Bridget Jones Diary - Helen Fielding
Chocolat - Joanne Harris (and the rest of the series)
The Dead Zone - Stephen King (and most of his earlier works)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes
Gillespie and I - Jane Harris
Big Little Lies - Leanne Moriarty
What was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August - Claire North
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
All of His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Dare
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Yes, I know there's 20+ there but I really couldn't decide what to remove 😆

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Tess - Thomas Hardy
The Power and The Glory - Graham Greene
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Milkman - Anna Burns