best book you've ever read

[bednobs]

What is the best book you've ever read?
for me it would have to be his dark materials by phillip pullman
ok, so it's not technically 1 book, but i bet if i get any answers, people will be giving 2 or three!

[Prudie]

Not much of a reader bednobs but for me it's a toss up between Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Mayor of Casterbridge.
Wuthering Heights not far behind.

[DTCwordfan]

Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game

If you want others I can provide but in terms of No2, I would nominate Shokalov's The Don Trilogy (The Don comes home to the Sea), a history of the White Russians at the time of the Commmunists.

[Mamyalynne]

Most recently 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind

[Canary42]

Catcher in the Rye

[DTCwordfan]

I have another trilogy for No 3 - Isaac Asimov's The Foundation

[seadogg]

Non fiction that reads like the best fiction.
"The King's War" by C.V.Wedgewood

[DTCwordfan]

and for light relief, any Tom Sharpe - though I have my favorites

and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[DTCwordfan]

Best historical, Kissinger's Diplomacy and McCullough's bio on John Adams.

[bensmum]

Lord of the Rings Trilogy (although liked the first book best)
"A Prayer for Owen Meaney" - John Irving

[bednobs]

dt, that's 11 (15 if you count all those in HH guide series) now. What don't you understand about the word "best" :) :)

[albaqwerty]

As a child, it was The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Will get back to you on the best book I've ever read before I pop my clogs :)
(Hopefully)

[abstibus]

'Child 44' by Tim Rob Smith.

[seadogg]

Stumbled on "1984" by George Orwell on my second visit to the senior library at 12.
Knocked me for 6!

[karenmac60]

Until I Find You by John Irving

[DTCwordfan]

To borrow the ex Duchess of Pork's famous superlative, bednobs, you did not mention the superlative, "bestest" - so to borrow the expression that includes the "of a short pier," I rest my case,

And in my first message I made it clear:

"Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game

If you want others"

Specsavers do a good range at cheap prices and there is always your magnification function on the pc

[237SJ]

Where the rivers meet by John Wain
In the place of fallen leaves by Tim Pears
and too many autobiographies to mention

[bednobs]

"To borrow the ex Duchess of Pork's famous superlative, bednobs, you did not mention the superlative, "bestest" - so to borrow the expression that includes the "of a short pier," I rest my case"

i have no idea what any of that means, sorry!

[atalanta]

Crime and punishment