What are your 5 favourite books of all time?

[sarah00001]

Hi, I haven't read a book for ages and really want to start getting into reading again. I'd love to know what your 5 favourite books are, those that you just can't put down! Thank you.

Stratter5 - I love your list!!!

So many favourites but here are 5 that really blew me away:

Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Mine are pretty low brow...but great!

Reggie Perrin series - David Nobbs
Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
Moomin books -Tove Jansson
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
A Month in the Country by JL Carr

Other favourites, but which I haven't read more than once:

Sweetland -Michael Crummey
The Bone Clock and also The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Road -Cormac McCarthy (I could never read this again.)
Blindness -Jose Saramago
Room -Emma Donahue

ClockS.

Another vote for Cold Comfort Farm, it's my go to book when I want to be cheered up.
100 years of Solitude -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
House Of The Spirits- Isabel Allende
Tales of the City- Armistead Maupin
Far from the Madding Crowd- Hardy

Contemporary(ish) favourites
Wolf Hall
The Goldfinch
Catcher in the Rye
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
We need to talk about Kevin

I have loads of others which I could list thematically.. getting carried way now

Loads mine change so much as i read a book a week!
All time fave always has been Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier though
Hannibal Series - Thomas Harris
Tom Thorne Series by Mark Billingham
Room - Emma Donough
The Shining/Dr Death - Stephen King
The Cellar - Natasha Preston

I love so many of the books already mentioned - Cold Comfort Farm, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and lots of others!

But here are five that haven't - I think - been on anyone's list so far:

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (the first book to make me cry)
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
The White Hotel - D. M. Thomas
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

I guess these are the five I re-read the most:

Funland - Richard Laymon
The end of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
The magic cottage - James Herbert
IT - Stephen King
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell