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!

Recently read small pleasures by Clare chambers and really enjoyed it

I Capture the Castle

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Many Coloured Land - Julian May
Thud - Terry Pratchett
Magician - Raymond Feist
Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
Three Men in a Boat - JK Jerome
The Bone People - Keri Hulme
The Magic Apple Tree - Susan Hill
500 Mile Walkies - Mark Wallington

I have a top 100! Will stick to 10!

Already mentioned
All the Light we cannot see
Life after Life
Rebecca (my most read book)
Memoirs of a Geisha

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Keeper of Secrets
The Last of the Moon Girls
Anything by Stacey Halls
The Grace Year
Discovery of Witches
And current fave Onyx Storm

One of my favourites too. I have not watched the Netflix show and having seen your comment, I am quite glad!

Great Expectations
The Book Thief
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
Animal Farm

When I was 5 I killed myself -Howard Buten
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Outsiders - S E Hinton
Stoner - John Williams
Stiff - Mary Roach
All the Judy Blume books
All the Moomin books - Tove Jansson

I don't have a favourite book, I have books I love at the time, that have shaped me, intrigued me or just captured me at a particular time. My list could go on. I also love a good crime thriller.

I have too many favourites to have one favourite, but then I am getting on a bit.
Through time - without having to think too much:
Swallows And Amazons
The Godfather
The Thornbirds
Goodnight Mister Tom
Love in a Cold Climate / The Pursuit of Love
Wolf Hall
The Sunne in Splendour
Norah Loft's House Trilogy
Brideshead Revisited / Decline and Fall / Handful of Dust
Heart's Invisible Furies
We Begin at the End
To Serve Them All my Days / The Avenue
One Day
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Brave New World
The Chrysalids - in fact most John Wyndham
Never Let Me Go / Remains of the Day

Cloud cuckoo land by Anthony Doerr
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

plus many other fantastic ones already mentioned!

Mammoth hunters by Jean Auel. But its the 3rd in a series and you need the other two first for it to make complete sense.

Clan of the cave bear
Valley of the horses
Mammoth hunters
The plans of passage
Shelter of stone

Yes!! So nice to see other fans!

Agreed! Have you read her new one?

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Crow Road - Iain Banks

My list would be very long, but would have to include:

The Magic Apple Tree - Susan Hill
Diary of a Provincial Lady - Delafield
The Thirty Nine Steps - Buchan
Henrietta's House - Elizabeth Goudge
Charley - Joan G Robinson
Lindchester series (Catherine Fox)
Most of Dorothy L Sayers
Three Girls and a Secret - Rene Guillet (in translation)
Satchkin Patchkin - Helen Morgan
Lymond series - Dorothy Dunnett

I agree, I've read it countless times over the years and love it. I'd also add Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I love it. Don't watch the film though, that's atrocious.

Lots of wonderful books mentioned above. To add:
The Cazalet chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Magus by John Fowles
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (actually, all her books!)

The Slough House books by Mick Herron (that the Slow Horses TV series is based on) are great if you like a pacy thriller.

Oh thank you so much, my late aunt told me to read the wasp factory, I'd forgotten the name of it until I seen your list. I'm off to order it right now.
Thanks 💐

Memoirs of a geisha

I couldn’t pick one, so I’ll put my current top five

Memoirs of a Geisha
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
The Grapes of Wrath

Too many but my top 10 would include:

One Hundred Years of Solitude (or anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
Amy Human Heart - William Boyd
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Not my 'favourite' book but one of those that I turn to regularly when I'm wanting a good historical 'fix':

May 1812 by M M Bennetts - brilliantly researched and written.

Followed by her second book: Of Honest Fame - which is utterly breathtaking.

(And I LOVE Delderfield's novels - picked up all three of A Horseman Rides By from a charity shop!)

Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchey.

Too many to mention but:

Most things by Delderfield but especially the Swann trilogy
The Cone Gatherers
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Blot On The Landscape by Tom Sharpe.

Don't know what it is but I can re-read it again & again and still laugh out loud.
Must have read it 20-30 times and never get bored (most recent reading was last week). My paperback copy fell apart and now the hardback is a bit worn around the edges (jacket is still pretty good though).
The 80's TV adaptation was pretty true to the book and a masterpiece of entertainment.

TBH anything by TS is a good read, thoroughly un-PC but great reading.