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

[LEMtheoriginal]

Rebecca
Crime and punishment
Shantaram
The woman in white
The agatha raisin series
Isobel Dalhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
Dr strange and Mr Burrell

[LEMtheoriginal]

Mr Burrell??? stupid phone

[CorvusUmbranox]

Not to mention the ‘Dr Strange,’ LEM. Does spins like a fascinating book though.

[CorvusUmbranox]

‘Spins?’ Oh ffs. I’m with you on the stupid phone bit

[Wolfcub]

The Name of the Wind

[Stopfeckinexaggerating]

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King. Have read it many times.

[Nogodsnomasters]

The island Victoria hislop and the handmaid's tale

[CorvusUmbranox]

This is a really tough call but I think mine has to be And Then There Were None.

[Uptooearly16]

A fine balance
A little life
I am pilgrim
Nightingale

Can't remember the authors but loved them all!

[CristalTipps]

My all time favourite is Villette, followed by Emma. (A decade ago I'd have said Pride and Prejudice but I think I've finally read it too much.)

[SapphireSeptember]

Anne Of Green Gables series.
The Little House books.
A Little Princess.
The Secret Garden.
The Worst Witch books.
Harry Potter (although I like the first five more than the last two.)
Lord Of The Rings.
His Dark Materials.
Anything by Elizabeth Chadwick or Alison Weir.
Never read The Hobbit or The Belfry Witches series. I think I should!

[TheBlackMadonna]

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Help
Poisonwood Bible
The Mosquito Coast
Disgrace
The Snow Child

[HowDoIGetOffTheBus]

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Billy Liar

[spidey66]

A Thousand Splendid Suns. Absolutely magnificent.

[worcestersauce29]

Brideshead Revisited

[VinoISVeritas]

Lord of the Rings

[brizzledrizzle]

Joanne Harris - the food related ones; Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure
Nevil Shute

The Swish of the Curtain - children's book, Arthur Ransome, Susan Cooper, Carries War and the Penelope Lively books, Flambards.

[Hygge]

I can't pick just one so I'm going to pick some of the more unusual books that I like.

Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, both by Maile Meloy.

Both about the Santerre family, but not exactly the same, and I can't say why they are unusual without giving away too much. If I had written a book I would have liked to have written Liars and Saints.

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewellery by Leanne Shapton. It's unusual because it's set like an auction catalogue, auctioning items collected during a four year relationship and being sold now the couple have split up.

Happenstance by Carol Shields. It is like two books in one really, one half tells the Wife's Story and the other half tells the Husband's Story. You read to the middle and then flip the book over and read to the middle from the other side. It doesn't mater which story you read first. I miss Carol Shields writing now, I hope she's not forgotten since her death. Her books are very good, very thoughtful.

Desperation and The Regulators, both by Stephen King. They tell two very different stories but using the same characters. In Desperation, a group of people are trapped in the Nevada desert with a supernatural entity. In The Regulators, the same people are trapped on a residential street as a supernatural event happens. The books are stand alone books and in both it's only that one event that has happened. There's no "can you believe this is happening to us again" because it isn't, in both books it's the one and only time. People who die in one book survive in the other.

[GGCH]

So many good recommendations here!

My all-time favourites:

• The Book Thief
  
• Fahrenheit 451
  
• The Secret History

[Cowardlycustard2]

Rebecca
Secret History
Outlander Book 1

So jealous of anyone that has never read these!

[MamaBearThius]

Dean Koontz - Tick Tock is my favourite although I've loved everything I've read by him

[Moominfan]

Spidey I've just finished a thousand splendid suns. Sooo many feelings. Want to read his others but need something abit more lighthearted in between

[TheLastNigel]

Middlesex
The Crimson Feather and the White
Year of our Sorrows
And my all time favourite-The Cellist of Sarajevo

[AnnieRich]

How To Be Both - Ali Smith
Life After Life- Kate Atkinson
The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
Clockers- Richard Price

[HonkyWonkWoman]

The Kite Runner