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

Over the years

I Jan Cremer
A child in time

This year
Eleanor olliphant is completely fine
Elmet
Northern Lights
A History of Wolves (although not perfect a good read)

Oh yes
The poison wood bible
Secret history
Just kids by Patti smith

Most Margaret Atwood books, but especially Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the Oryx and Crake Trilogy.
Brooklyn by Colm Tobin - short, simple, beautiful.
Most Barbara Kingsolver books.
Tully by Paulina Simmons
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
I also love Marian Keys - I think she is really funny and weaves a cracking tale.
Stephen King - always reliable for a good story. The Stand is epic.

The Secret History
A Fine Balance
Shantaram
A Little Life
A Quiet Belief in Angels
The Goldfinch
A Million Little Pieces
The God of Small Things
The Northern Lights trilogy
Tokyo

I read a lot of fairly standard murder / thrillers but they just don't seem to stick with me in the same way as the books I've listed above, most of which I've read more than once.

Following

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.

Secret history
Middlesex
The son by Philip Meyer

Jane Eyre

Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel (his first novel Time for Bed is also brilliant)

The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell

I'm amazed that secret history has been mentioned so often.... I've never met anting in real life who's read it nevermind loves it as much as me

Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster

*anyone

Jacobsbread - I haven't read The Secret History but loved The Little Friend and The Goldfinch. Shall add it to my list....

The secret history of London belongs to me

Avalon by Anya Seton.
The Women's Room byMarilyn French.

It's very hard to choose one!

Off the top of my head:
Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Lord of the Rings
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Katherine by Anya Seton
11.22.63 by Stephen King
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

Persuasion

Thank you so much everyone I will make a start at the library tomorrow :)

Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

Star of the Sea
Middlesex
The Poisonwood Bible
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Quincunx
Atonement
The Goldfinch
The Blind Assassin
Life After Life
We Had It So Good
The Forgotten Garden
Gone With The Wind
Angela's Ashes
Possession
A lot of Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell such as Asta's Book

If I had to choose just one, Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

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Burial rites

Nobody has mentioned Gone Girl??

Which is why I will be returning to this thread

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - made me cry in a a public place!

Beloved - few books are so powerful

God of Small Things - amazing

Tess

White Teeth

Am and English teacher and have returned to these books by necessity many times. They always move me.

carbuncle I too love Asta's Book! I had forgotten it until you mentioned it!

Sadly, the later Barbara Vine stuff declined, I think.

The Time Travelers Wife
To Kill a Mockingbird
Still Alice