Tell me your absolute number 1

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Favourite book doesn't matter what genre ... 2018 resolution get off my phone and get my head in books again I used to love reading.... thanks in advance

My very best few:
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Any Sophie Kinsella

I could probably think of many more but it’s New Year’s Eve and someone else will come along too!

Third life of Grange copeland

The Lake House

Wolf Hall

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors.
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Poisonwood Bible

Always Coming Home by Ursula leGuin

The Secret History
Pride and Prejudice

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (love all of hers)
anything by Anthony Trollope but Pallisers and Barchester Towers series are brilliant
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Agustus Carp by Himself
The Bear Went Over The Mountain (can't remember author - very funny)
Morningside Heights and Love Work Children both by Cheryl Mendelson

Rebecca
Now I Know - Aidan Chambers (afmitedtly I first read this when I was 16, 30 years ago, but I have reread it a lot since)
The Handmaid’s Tale
From Sand and Ash

Pride and prejudice
The dark is rising sequence
Polo ()

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Get This House In Order Matt Ruff

The Secret History
(nothing I read has ever matched this!!)

A Little Life

The future homemakers of America by Laurie graham (in fact anything by her)
Life after life by Kate Atkinson or behind the scenes at the museum
I don't know how she does it by Allison Pearson
Anything by sue Townsend
Anything by Anne Tyler
The book thief
Anything by Linda grant

Shogun by James clavell
The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre dumas

Ain't She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (rom com/chick lit)
Pride and Prejudice
A Place of my Own by Michael Pollan (non fiction)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (sci fi)

Nobody has mentioned Gone Girl??

Little Women!

I second Shogun. Superb.
Also any Robert Crais or Carl Hiaasen for laughs.

Doctors by Eric Segal. Read it when I was at college and still go back to it occasionally as comfort reading.

Gone Girl was a dull old slog for me. And I only made it half way through.

A book I have read more than five times is Hangover Square. Bleak but beautiful.

Just this year....

Eleanor Oliphant

What a complete Aisling

Read in one session each.

Not high literature, but who wants that all the time either.

In the past,

A man called Ove
An utterly impartial history of Britain
Rose of Sarajevo
Life after life.

There are so many more. Too many books, so little time.

Catch 22

Narziss and Goldmund by Herman Hesse - I couldn't put it down!

Or 1984 by George Orwell. Brilliant.