Favourite book

[LaDiDaDi]

What's your favourite book?

I think that mine is To Kill a Mockingbird, as I remember reading it at school and being absolutely entranced by the writing and the plot. I loved it. I've read loads and loads of books since but none ofthem have seemed to have so much depth to them, although I'm not sure ifthis is just because now I read purely for pleasure and don't have the same discussions about literature that I had at school.

Loved Life of Pi by Yann Martell, it is probably my favourite.

i really liked wild swans (have to reread it!) i was in the library today and couldn't find one book i wanted so will watch this thread for inspiration!

didn't mean to kill the thread!

Yes I also loved Life of Pi - my favorite by far

Perfume - Patrick Suskind. Apparantly some fool has made it into a film (Madness!)

3 men in a boat - Jerome K Jerome

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Kite Runner - you all must read it!
House of the spirits or anything by Isabel Allende
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (read it recently, a really good read, not perhaps all time fave, but would recommend)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Riders by Jilly Cooper - sorry
Peepo
Famous Five - Five go to Treasure Island

Just William - Must be read, not watched on tv or even listened to on the radio though.

The Magus - John Fowles.

Currently (it keeps changing) 'Saturday' by Ian McEwan. Managed to say some really profound things about life while still keeping an active plot going.

MaMaG. Alice Walker and that other woman on the same list.

Heritage of the star by Sylvia Engdahl
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austin
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
A place of my own by Michael Pollan

Letters to a Young Poet - by Rilke - one of those life-changing books -
also timeless for me - the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Absolutely no contest.

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver or the Kite Runner. I also loved Bonfire of the Vanities.

Best book I've read in a long, long time; We need to talk about Kevin - unputdownable and a stunning ending. Beg, borrow or steal it!!!!

Sorry lionheart! I can't help it, I just love it and can read it again and again. Trash at its best

My reading tastes vary wildly!

ellipupp - I've been wanting to read that for a while now.

Favourite "good" book - Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood. Love most of her books.

Favourite trash - Riders by Jilly Cooper - trash at it's finest, a real mental enema .

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I can't possibly name a single favourite book, but my favourite series is A Dance to the Music of Time. As you read through the series, it is like meeting old friends. Characters return after an absence of several volumes/years, and you find out what they have been doing in the meantime. It is very English, upper-middle class, so would not suit everyone's tastes.

Liath,I read Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood which I enjoyed although did find it hard to get into. Are her other books similar in style/content?

Some of my favourite books are childrens books - I've been reading some of the classics recently as I missed out on them growing up - I grew up with Enid Blyton! One I really like is the Never Ending Story but I have also recently read some Roald Dahl.

Currently into thrillers/CSI style - Harlan Coben books
Love Colin Bateman also - generally based on troubles in Northern Ireland - lots of dead people in each story but all told in a very humerous way (Murphys Law with James Nesbitt based on one of his books)

Oh yeah love the writing style of Alexander Mc Call Smith also who did the series on the No1 Ladys Detective agency

Try the Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, it's fab.

anything by ben elton, rubbish commedian great writer- the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, the life of pi- maeve binchy all of them- flowers in the attic series.... and ,many more...

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streitfeild
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy