Tell me your absolute number 1

[mrssunshinexxx]

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

Would need a proper think but off the top of my head Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Not my number one book ever, but I just read The Bees by Laline Paull and I really enjoyed it. A bit sci-fi but not too far stretched.

Gump & Co - the follow up to Forrest Gump.
Memoirs of a Geisha.
A long way down.
The Martian.

I loved Gone Girl!
Also Captain Corelli's and Atonement.

Brideshead Revisited would be my desert island book.

If Gone Girl is your absolute number 1 book of all time, you need to read more.

The Secret History
I capture the castle
The name of the rose

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.

The Left Hand Of Darkness (Le Guin)
Pride and Prejudice
Guns Germs and Steel (non fiction)

Phantom by Susan Kay
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (anything by her actually)

These are my comfort reads, that I have read over and over again.

The Blind Assassin
A Suitable Boy
Four Letters of Love
Possession
All the Pretty Horses
The Shipping News
That They May Face the Rising Sun
The Bonesetter's Daughter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Birdsong
Heat and Dust
Atonement

Katherine by Anya Seton.

The Northern Lights Trilogy

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ken Grimwood: Replay.

It gives me comfort and strength at a level no other work of art in any form has one.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara

It’s probably not my favorite ever EVER but it is the best and most memorable book I’ve read in recent years.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

House of Leaves.

The Secret History
The Rosie Project
The Kind Worth Killing

The Secret History
Shantaram
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Not sure these are my best ever but some I've loved.

Ooh yes 80smum Gone With The Wind was amazing!

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

The House of Mirth

Closely followed by:
Jane Eyre
Washington Square
The Eustace Diamonds

The secret history.... first read it in 1995 when I was 15. I've read it so many times since that my copy is looking very tired. The perfect novel.

My close favourite is 'the night circus ' which is simply breathtakingly magical.