What's your favourite book

[Endymion]

I've just finished reading "1000 splendid suns" and it may have become my favourite book ... competing with:

A suitable boy - Vikram Seth
Northern lights - Philip Pullman
To kill a mockingbird - ?
Katherine - Anya Seton
Time Travellers wife - Audrey Niffinger

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[britchic4]

Ooh that's a very difficult one. May have to keep adding.

His Dark Materials trilogy should be on the list. - Phillip Pullman
Also Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Q & A (which became Slumdog Millionaire) - Vikas Swarup
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman
Perdido St Station - China Mieville
John Connelly's Charlie Parker series
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkein
Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour trilogy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
The Untouchable - John Banville
Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
I think I have to add the whole Harry Potter series
The first 8 Stephanie Plum books - Janet Evanovich
The Fire and The Eight - Katherine Neville
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Red Riding Quartet - David Peace
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

Oh dear . That's not really a favourite is it?!

[andylaine]

I've just finished reading "1000 splendid suns" and it may have become my favourite book ... competing with:

A suitable boy - Vikram Seth
Northern lights - Philip Pullman
To kill a mockingbird - ?
Katherine - Anya Seton
Time Travellers wife - Audrey Niffinger

:clap2::clap2::clap2:


To kill a Mocking bird (Harper Lee) is my favourite book of all time :)

My other faves are
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
Far from the Madding crowd - Thomas Hardy

[salsa]

No idea - read far far too many books - got a book out of the library last week that I had already read & didnt realise!

Would love to say something really deep - but my sign of a good book is one that I will not move off the sofa for, begrudge interrupting it to make tea for the kids:o and will start and finish it in one day regardless of what time in the small hours I go to bed.
Read hundreds since then but the last one that was that bad was the final Harry Potter. Started at 1pm and finished it at 3 am, drifted off to sleep twice and woke myself up and carried on reading!!!

[rainbowhope]

Tao Te Ching| Lao Tzu

[janegreen]

I love Jeffery Archer, so Kane and Abel is probably my favourite book, although Jackie Collins is a god holiday read.

[happyally]

rarely read now but as a teenager I remember being obsessed with Joan Lingeard novels - Across the Barricades was one. Also Judy Blume books, I especially liked Deenie. also S E Hinton, The Outsiders (think it was made into a film). ah, brings back memories...

Might pick a few out of the above mentioned favourite books and try again, would be a great distraction I think. Silly really, hadn't thought of reading.

[jamsandwhich]

I can't really say as I love reading all my Cookery books and Textile books as much as fiction.

Among my faves would be

Gerald Durrell - my family and other animals, a zoo in my luggage, menagerie manor
Tolkien - Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion
David Attenborough - Life on Air - this one is fantastic, I can't believe he saw the birth of colour film and television!!!

These are just a few - my bookcases are overflowing!

[SuzyWoo]

My favourite ever book is Wild Swans by Jung Chang, which I even found translated into French for an ex boyfriends Mum.