What is the most beautiful book you have ever read?

[umbrellabird]

I've had a tough year and just want to surround myself in good things...

[LilAnnieAmphetamine]

How great- I would love to meet him. He doesn't live too far away either. What did he talk about?

[PhaedraIsMyName]

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder.

Angela Carter Heroes and Villains.

I see a lot of you liked Gilead. I thought it uunbearably over- written and too self conciously " beautifully written". And quite dull.

[PhaedraIsMyName]

Oh and Richard Marius An Affair of Honour.

[Wineloffa]

The Hours - Michael Cunningham
One Hundred Years of Solidtude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Life of Pi

All absolutely beautiful. X

[aoife24]

The Dead (Joyce). The final para is particularly beautiful, lyrical. Once read, never forgotten.

[descalina]

Definitely The Time Traveller's Wife. It's one of my all time favourites but I've had to stop myself from re-reading it any more because I get too upset at one particular sentence at the end. I can't even think about it without nearly crying!

[descalina]

I also have "A summer book" and haven't read it yet - that's on my to-do list over xmas!