Most favourite books/authors

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I'm looking for a bit of inspiration to really get back in to reading and wondered what people would list as their top five or so books of all time. It will be interesting to see if there are a lot of titles in common!

Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
To kill a mockingbird - harper lee
The secret history - Donna Tartt

It wasn't very clear, was it?

I meant that I loved every title on your list (and have read all but two) and I'd award them all five stars. The Kite Runner nearly made my top five list.

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

George Eliot - Middlemarch

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fall of Giants (plus sequels) by Ken Follet
Pillars of the Earth (and sequels) by Ken Follet
Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rebecca by daphne DuMaurier
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khalied Hosseni

For a lighter comfort reading:
Harry Potter by JK Rowling

My list of favourite reads - all excellent!

Any Human Heart - William Boyd
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
On The Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
The Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Artemis File - Adam Loxley
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Gentlemen & Players - Joanna Harris
Cooking With Fernet Branca - James Hamilton Paterson

These are the ones I've re-read most and still loved
Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Silas Mariner – George Elliot
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Way Home – Rose Tremain