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!

"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. The first time I read it, I just couldn't put it down. I re-read it last year. I still enjoyed it but knowing what happened took the shine off a little.

"The Luminaries" by Eleanor Catton. I wish, wish, wish I'd saved this to read over a Christmas when I could hunker down in a blanket and let myself be absorbed. Incredible storytelling. Unfortunately I remember very well the 'answer' to the central puzzle of the book so I'm resisting re-reading it just yet.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
Blood Sugar by Suzannah Dunn
(all these have a theme of specific periods of history, life changing with the passing of time (more subtle in blood sugar which is a bit more like one day but about a group of friends and no one has ever heard of this book except me !)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
All the Adrian Mole books

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.

Middlemarch, Persuasion, the Balkan and Levant trilogies (by Olivia Manning), anything by Georgette Heyer or Eva Ibbotson.

Trust Me, Lesley Pearce.
Rachel’s Holiday, Marian Keyes.
We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver.

This year:
Theo of Golden
Sandwich
and recently devoured & loved.. The Correspondent.
Please read all of the above immediately for guaranteed delight!

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Completely gripping. Stays with you forever.

I love anything by Daphne Du Maurier, but especially My Cousin Rachel

Yup, unbelievably sad.