What is your favourite book???

[Els2020]

I pretty much read anything but I'm looking for book recommendations.

Tell me what your favourite books are/ have been. The more 'out there' the better!

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Fantastic book, the Netflix series didn't do it justice at all IMO!

Ironically I was not wild about All the Light We Cannot See and the Netflix series was so bad i quit in the first episode.
How about Life After Life by Kate Atlinson off the top of my head.

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans ✨

It’s the cruelest question you can ask a book lover. I could only ever tell you my favourite books, plural.

P G Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves
Patrick Fermor: A Time of Gifts
Evelyn Waugh: Sword of Honour
Robert Graves: Goodbye to all That
Aldous Huxley: Chrome Yellow

Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey

I really enjoy reading Jeffrey Archer can't pinpoint one I've enjoyed them all but I loved reading his prison diaries especially.

There are books that I loved reading years ago like Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper.

But now I mainly read non fiction.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters- best twist ever!

The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

The Dreaming Suburb/
The Avenue goes to war
R.F. Delderfield

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah

The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult

The Remains of the Day, to me this is the perfect book.

I Capture the Castle
The Bell Jar
No More Meadows
East of Eden
The Portrait of a Lady
Rebecca
The Wasp Factory
The Sea, The Sea
To The Lighthouse
The Greengage Summer
Gone With The Wind
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Chrysalids
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Catcher in the Rye
Sons and Lovers
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Shell Seekers
The Picture of Dorian Gray

My favorite book has long been Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but I'm thinking that maybe it should be Emma.
However, I'm not sure you should base your reading on the favorites of random strangers on the internet. I certainly don't expect people to necessarily like what I like.

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
I also like a lot of the previous suggestions

Labyrinths - JL Borges
True Grit - Charles Portis
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Darkmans - Nicola Barker

Billy Lier
catch 22
Crime and Punishment
Animal Farm

i wanted to get my daughter started on Russian literature beginning with Notes from Underground but then remembered that a huge chunk of it is him arguing with a prostitute (I’m sure they’ll be a bunch of mumsnetters pretending they don’t understand what the problem with this is)

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. Fascinating modern and historical story set in London and Cyprus and partly told from an interesting and unusual perspective.

Gosh, so many !
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Project Hail Mary
Hamnet
Lessons in Chemistry
Fifteen Wild Decembers
Old Baggage (currently reading Crooked Heart)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Any Angela Thirkle or Dorothy Whipple

Lincoln In The Bardo - George Saunders

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy Douglas Adams. The whole trilogy (in 5 parts) is pretty good but the first book is a work of genius.

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Purity - Jonathan Franzen
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The Nix - Nathan Hill

We need to talk about Kevin

I always say the same one. The red tent by Anne Diamant.

Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Hens Dancing by Rafaella Barker