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

[Licencedtodrill]

Can't choose just one:
Rebecca
To kill a mockingbird
Never let me go

[SylviaTietjens]

One Hundred Years of Solitude. It really does seem like a different book each time you read it.

[craigglen]

How funny Cooroo - Barchester Towers would be in my top ten but I hated Emma (had to read it for Eng Lit A level) and have never read another Jane Austen book since!

[PinkietheElf]

I read and loved Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd 25 years ago.

Haven't reread it but have read all of his books and love them.

[pallisers]

Kuriusoranj just ordered Replay from the library -thanks! I love this section of MN.

[Sallystyle]

Just one.

The Stand.

[DwangelaForever]

One Day by David Nicholas 💖

[HappydaysArehere]

Gone With The Wind.
Little Women.

[doodlyfiddly]

The chemistry of death, Simon Beckett (& others featuring David Hunter, except number 4 which was crap)
I Claudius
Library of the dead, Glenn Cooper
Final girls, Riley Sager (just finished it, couldn't put it down, scared the crap out of me!)
Mansfield Park + Pride & prejudice

[ginghamstarfish]

A Suitable Boy
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
The Handmaid's Tale

[SatsukiKusakabe]

Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina
Middlemarch
The Bell Jar
The Woman in White
The Heart of the Matter

[pallisers]

@Kuriusoranj just finished Replay - loved it.

[LyraPotter]

My top five changes all the time, but the books that rarely stay out of it for long are:

The Poisonwood Bible
The Secret History
The Shadow of the Wind
Bleak House
Euphoria

[silkpyjamasallday]

A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan

[5foot5]

@Thirtyrock39
The future homemakers of America by Laurie graham (in fact anything by her)
I love Laurie Graham's books too and have read pretty much everything she has written.
I wondered if you had noticed that she has recently published a sequel to The Future Homemakers called The Early Birds The Early Birds which basically follows the same women in to old age. I loved it.

[BestIsWest]

Toss up between P&P and Rebecca. Probably P&P

[VelvetGreen]

The Master and Margarita

[captainjackandjill]

I was going to apologize for mine as it is in the middle of a series, but then I came across @Rhynswynd , yay it's mine too:

Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett, my number one fav and my go to book when I need a lift. Then I read the rest of the series, then go back to the beginning and start with Guards Guards and read them all again.

[captainjackandjill]

@bookbook great to see someone else who's read The Diary of Provincial Lady! So fun.

Has anybody else ever read The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables)?

[essietopcoat]

Agree about Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion was brilliant too.

Also A Time Travellers Wife,
Wild Swans,
Geisha by arthur Golden
The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake

[BestIsWest]

Asta’s book is in my top 5 too.

[pallisers]

Has anybody else ever read The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables)?

Me. It is charming.

[anonymice]

Private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner.

[captainjackandjill]

Thank you @pallisers it's been a long time favourite of mine, but I have never met anyone else who's ever heard of it. Great to hear others have read it too. I think it's LMM's best work.

[pallisers]

I agree- that and the first Anne book.

We visited PEI this year - was lovely.