Favourite Books...

[Elina]

Which are yours ... & why? Do they have sentimental attachment? Are they rare?

[Butterbun]

I love Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I love romantic novels.

[Elina]

Me too butterbun!

[viv38]

The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy and
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseni.

Would recommend.

[corylus]

Edna O'Brien's trilogy, 'Country Girls,' The Girl with Green Eyes' and 'Girls in their Married Bliss,' beautifully written her words just flow from the page and the depiction of life in Ireland in the 60s is very telling.

[Butterbun]

As a schoolgirl I got a book from the local library called "The little Alpine Musician" which I loved reading, but I've never seen it since and can't now remember the story.

[Tilly2]

A book which had a lot of influence on me in my younger days was 'Magnificent Journey. The Rise of the Trade Unions'. by Francis Williams.

I read it after reading 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' which is one of my all time favourites.

[albaqwerty]

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen was one of my childhood favourites, but after a couple of decades, cannot remember the author or too much of the story-line.

I've a wide taste in all types of genres, but don't like biographies.

[Tilly2]

Alan garner, Alba. Wonderful writer.

[Tilly2]

Garner.

[Huderon]

I don't really have a single favourite book, but in the event of a fire at home, the first book I'd save is my old Collins edition of Three Men in a Boat - bought with Christmas money after I'd seen the film on TV, and it's been with me wherever I go ever since (and yes it still makes me laugh 50 years on).

After that - an illustrated book of poetry which was a wedding present from my wife, then my battered paperback copies of The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Snark. Then one of my illustrated copies of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - the one published the same year my father and father-in-law were born.

After those ... well it could be a long list ! And while those choices may seem to be all sentimental, I do read them all from time to time and enjoy them as much today as the day I originally bought them.

[Cloverjo]

One of mine is the first Gormenghast novel, Titus Groan. I loved it.
Another is The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
As a child I loved the Alice books and have a copy that was given to my mum by her godmother when she was a child. That particular edition is sentimental to me.

[jeffa]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

It's the most amazing book you'll ever read.

[Wharton]

Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird) is still alive. It's the only book she ever wrote, but here's hoping.

[Grandma_Yiddo]

I love Agatha Christie and the series of Lestrade novels by MJ Trow. I can and do read them over and over.

[EcclesCake]

Memoirs of a Geisha was an amazing book that sticks with me.

The Kite Runner I read whilst in Kabul so was particularly evocative.

The Power of One was another book that was powerful and really left me thinking afterwards.

[gness]

Much as I dislike Ken Follett I have to agree that Pillars of the Earth was a brilliant read....
Diary of a Nobody and the books of J.L.Carr are my read again and again books..and Oliver Twist because it was the first grown up book I read as a child....til my sister shredded it.
I do like Simon Brett for his humour in murder and we have some great crime authors around now....I love a good murder mystery with a great plot to store away in the back of my mind.....I have never forgiven the sister........☻

[DTCwordfan]

My two Masters theses, both leather bound. Not here though at the moment, but in storage.

Reading - fav book of literature, Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game also known as the Magister Ludi. It was the novel that tipped him into the Nobel Prize for Literature in 46.

Antique - would love a 1st edition of Arthur Ransome's writings, preferably an omnibus or a set of all his books.

[237SJ]

I don`t read much fiction these days but one that stands out is In The Place Of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears because it reminds me of my dreamy childhood in Devon in the hot summer of '76.

[yogasun]

So difficult to pick a favourite but agree with DTC, when I read The Glass Bead Game it haunted me for weeks afterwards, fascinating book

[glenbar]

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. My all time favourite.