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Spookberries · 19/10/2010 10:07

I am genuinely curious, and I know it is fecking hard to pick just one, but in case I've missed any of these fantastic books I want to be privy!

Please pick just 1, your fave of all time, doesnt necessarily have to be fiction (ahem) but maybe could choose fave fiction and fave non-fiction? [hgrin]

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nickytwotimes · 19/10/2010 10:13

the remains of the day, kazuo ishiguro.
the politics of breastfeeding, gabrielle palmer.

excuse lack of capitals - bfing!

Spookberries · 19/10/2010 10:29

I have read neither!

Thanks nicky!

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GrandhighBOOba · 19/10/2010 10:49

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault, a bit heavy going, but made a lot of sense to me, despite the dodgy title Grin

thesecondcoming · 19/10/2010 11:19

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KenDoddsDadsZombieDogsNotDead · 19/10/2010 11:21

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

bloodychocoholic · 19/10/2010 11:28

I loved Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

florencerusty · 19/10/2010 11:52

'Birdsong' without a doubt
and Non Fiction would have to be Proved Innocent

proudfoot · 19/10/2010 19:04

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

BelligerentGhoul · 19/10/2010 21:33

The complete works of Jane Austen - or is that cheating? If I can only have one, I'll have Sense And Sensibility...no, Pride and Prejudice....no, Persuasion...erm...

Non-fiction - probably Madhur Jafrey's World Vegetarian. But really I'd like a complete history of the world too.

anonymosity · 20/10/2010 04:36

My Traitor's Heart by Rhian Malan (SA Journo biog)
Pride and Prejudice by Austen

TorturesInAHalfHell · 20/10/2010 04:40

Gone to Soldiers, a great big fat book of deliciousness by Marge Piercy. Set in WW2, follows the lives of several people, very good at documenting wartime experiences for people who weren't actually in battle. Wonderful to have a war book that isn't about guns and tanks, and isn't a love story.

What's yours, Spookberries?

Colyngbourne · 20/10/2010 09:39

Either Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford; or Middlemarch - George Eliot

Non-fiction: any book debunking neo-Darwinist reductionism, genetic determinism and EP (probably by Prof Steven Rose); or any science/theology/faith book by John Polkinghorne.

Caron1968 · 20/10/2010 09:51

The World According To Garp - John Irving

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome

Spookberries · 20/10/2010 12:07

Hrm

Probably To Kill A Mockingbird...I'd really have to think about it though and perhaps sweat it out between that and Seven Types of Ambiguity.

Non-Fiction...Contented Little Baby Book [hgrin] ................

just joking

Erm, One of the Henry VIII's wives books I've read. Can't choose a particular one.

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BooToYouToo · 20/10/2010 14:59

Behind the scenes at the museum by Kate Atkinson. Made the mistake of lending to a friend, who wanted ideas for her book club, and never got it back. Then during one interminable wait at the doctor's with my DD I spotted a copy for sale, yippee.

Non-fiction is Wild Swans by Jung Chang (?), ashamed that I knew NOTHING of the famine and hardships durng the Cultural Revolution. All we did in school was the boring old Long March.

featherblue · 20/10/2010 19:50

Gone with the Wind

marz · 20/10/2010 20:19

Jean de florette and the sequel manon des sources
marcel Pagnol ( translated!)

Creeeakkkingdarkalley · 21/10/2010 20:57

100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hassled · 21/10/2010 20:59

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Then The Magus by John Fowles.

Everything by Jane Austen but especially Persuasion.

Lots of John le Carre - especially The Little Drummer Girl and The Perfect Spy.

maktaitai · 21/10/2010 21:09

Fiction - Mansfield Park.
Non-fiction - The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith.

ItWasADarkAndStormyNight · 21/10/2010 21:20

For Esmé, with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories - JD Salinger
The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff

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