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

[Theonlyoneiknow]

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

[TooMinty]

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.

[INeedToEat]

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

[MiniMum97]

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

[Playmobilpeacock]

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.

[SukiPutTheEarlGreyOn]

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

[Rhynswynd]

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.

[YesThisIsMe]

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

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

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.

[Apileofballyhoo]

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

[DramaAlpaca]

Katherine by Anya Seton.

[babyinthacorner]

The Northern Lights Trilogy

[80sMum]

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

[Freyanna]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Kuriusoranj]

Ken Grimwood: Replay.

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

[AliPfefferman]

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.

[RatRolyPoly]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

[PumpyOldFucker]

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

[BattleCuntGalactica]

House of Leaves.

[kateskates]

The Secret History
The Rosie Project
The Kind Worth Killing

[Growingboys]

The Secret History
Shantaram
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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

[Growingboys]

Ooh yes 80smum Gone With The Wind was amazing!

[LambMadras]

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

[FairNotFair]

The House of Mirth

Closely followed by:
Jane Eyre
Washington Square
The Eustace Diamonds

[Jacobsbread]

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.