Make me a reading list...

[katelyle]

....Your favourite book. The one you'd save from the tidal wave when you're stranded on a desert island. But just one. I promise to read them all. Unless anyone's favourite book is anything by Jeffery Archer or Edwina Curry.

Deirdre Purcell, Love Like Hate Adore. [I think]

Sheila O' Flanagan, Yours faithfully.

The Deirdre Purcell one was the best of the 2 Though I am trying to read one of hers called "Sky" & finding it hard to get into.

Pride and Prejudice.. Jane Austen

Oh if we're doing the classics then read Wuthering Heights, I have read it about 8 times

Or Great Expectations.. about 6 times

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. God I love that book!

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith.

Oh no - not Dickens!!! Thank heavens it's one I've read so I can leave it off the list with a clear conscience!

Goodnight Mr Tom (children's book)
The Silver Sword (children's)

Animal Farm and/or A Down & Out in London & Paris by George Orwell

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Hey - you have to choose one! Your absolute favourite.

Ohhh, I'm not very good at committing to one thing.

So, under duress, I'll say Goodnight Mr Tom

Bother - I've read that! I'll choose Down and Out...unless the Silver Sword isn't the CS Lewis one?

Its just not possible to choose one book! I am sure I could save a whole armful of books when the tidal wave comes.

if one, Crime and Punishment
the next one I'd grab would be Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer, which is cocoa and biscuits reading.

uberalice - I love that book too!! (Prayer for Owen Meany) And thanks, you've saved me having to choose between that and A Widow for One Year (also John Irving). Love both - suspect Owen Meany would win over A Widow, but a close call in my opinion.

Nightynight - no you'll need one hand for the wine and you'll need to be able to swim. ONE BOOK!!!!!!

Now, shall I be intellectually lazy and choose Georgette Heyer, or brave and choose Crime and Punishment? Decisions, decisions, decisions.......

Beloved - Toni Morrison (actually, pretty much anything by Toni Morrison - oh, and and don't be ut off by the shite Oprah film!)

100 Years of Solitude / Love In A Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Three of my favourite novels. Definitely not a Jeffrey Archer girl - although I have been known to get stuck into a bit of Catherine Cookson or Danielle Steele in airports :-)

I read Beloved, and tbh it put me off reading anything else by Toni Morrisson. Parts of it were very good, but I felt a bit let down that the main theme of the book was paedophilia - anyone can make a novel out of that, if they want to.

Oh, no sorry, it was Love, that I read (why do her books have such similar titles??)

Have got Beloved, but havent read it

Oh just one, so hard....
I'd have to say Captain Corellis Mandolin -
Louis de Bernières. I loved it. Although the film was rubbish.

If you read french then ' Therese Desqueyroux ' by francois Mauriac...don't bother reading it in translation, I have never fund a good one...

Katherine - Anya Seton
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I know that's two, but one is too hard!

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Life of Pi by Yann Martell

Treasure Island or Kidnapped or Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

mozhe i have a copy of that from my french class and i never made it to the end because i lost my dictionary. is it worth buying a new one and pressing on?