What is your favorite book of all time?

[Fishpants]

I'm hoping to gather some ideas and some real people recommendations rather than the Top 100 Novels to Read Before You Die type lists.

Disclaimer: I know it's hard to pick just one, so you can pick more than one if you really must. [hwink]

Oh, Bucharest, were they not really that poor? I couldn't put it down either and it made me cry three times.

Arundhati Roy .

I couldnt pick one but these are my favourites

Jane Eyre
Digging to America (anne tyler)
Castles Burning - Magda Denes (not well known but a hugely moving holocaust memoir)
The Plot Against America and American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Brooklyn and The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A thousand years of solitude - garcia marquez
Half of a yellow Sun -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ian McEwan....all of his books especially Enduring Love.

And Sebastian Faulks Girl at the Lion d'or and Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.

And Human Traces.

I love Sebastian Faulks.

Hully its 'a vicarage family' by noel streatfield
Its a gem - in fact have just ordered it for 12 year old DD

moraletotallydestroyedbypoopoo No I had a google and it is not him, this is going to drive me nuts. I am sure the author had the name Kingsley either as a 1st or last name. Drat. Might have been about baseball as well. My brain is CRAP.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. yy me too!

Remains of the Day
To kill a mocking bird
Time travellers wife
Pride and prejudice
David copperfield
The help

Sebastian Faulks-especially Birdsong
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Pride and Pejudice
Jane Eyre
Miss Garnet's Angel-Salley Vickers
I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith

sorry prejudice

Pinot I'm going to have to read it again! I'll tell him what you said. I think he's used to people telling him they blubbed

Cote- perhaps the shitty way Bob treated her??? How odd, I thought she'd still be all protesty and worthy.

morale- IIRC there were interviews with members of his family who said "hold on a minute...." I think some of it was true, but not the awful abject poverty, or the fact that his Dad thumped his Mum and was a boozer. (It was ages ago, and I might have remembered that wrong, but I think the friction was caused between his Dad's side of the family because of how he had been portrayed.

angelas ashes, yes i remember the ho ha about that, kind of took the shine off of it, but it is a gripping yarn.

fishpants avid tudor fan also but found Wolf Hall dire, one of the very rare books that I didn't finish! Much prefer Alison Weir .

I'll check out Her Son's Wives, Hully . I have a soft spot for Fisher as I loved Understood Betsy when I was little.

Ghastly the only thing I can think of is My Antonia, but he's not an immigrant and she doesn't die. :o

Pretty much everything ever written by Milan Kundera.

I've just read Understood Betsy - it's fab.

Reindeer Moon By Elizabeth MArshall Thomas,

some reviews ...

"Simply one of the most fascinating books I've ever read."

"This is a great novel that needs to come with a warning. It's has such an rich and authentic texture that those readers who like to submerge themselves in other cultures might get lost in this and never wholly emerge afterwards."

"The reader is quickly drawn in and stays involved right to the end. It?s a book you think about when you are not reading it, and long after you?ve finished."

The War of the Worlds - H.G Wells
Pride and Prejudice

It is, isn't it Hully ? It makes me tear up at times. And I just love those old no nonsense relatives of hers. :)

Oooh, James Herriot! His books make me feel so happy and content.

Memoirs of a Geisha

A hand maids tale and ps i love you

As I walked out one Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee

You will fall in love with him

Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Dead Zone
The Chrysalids