What's Your Favourite Book?

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It's World Book Day today. We're asking members to share Amazon links to their favourite books, giving a brief explanation of why they like the book.

Get involved! What's your favourite book?

[divegirl]

I'm with LIK on most of his choices :)
To kill a mockingbird is the book that has stuck with me since doing it for English language 0 level, I felt myself sitting in the court room any times...
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And I have read The Lord of the Rings more times than I care to remember.
So many genres, authors etc I can't pick a favorite :/

[divegirl]

loved this too, read it all before the tv series came out and was blown away by it, just wish the bu66er would hurry up and finish it!

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[naomi24]

I've read Lord of the Rings once - and it took me a year because I had to keep going back to find out who was who all the time. In my defence I do usually have a few books on the go at once - but as brilliant as it was I wouldn't read it again..

On the other hand I've read Harry Potter countless times and would still read them again.

[ichkeria]

"I've read Lord of the Rings once - and it took me a year because I had to keep going back to find out who was who all the time."

That's one reason I have steered clear of this book!
Talking of character confusion, I had huge problems with "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - several generations of characters most of whom seemed to have the same name. I ended up doing a tree diagram to help me cope!

[MargoTester]

Fitdarren did you read all the 'sequels ' too, I did. Shame Roald Dahl wasn't around then (giving my age away here) I would have enjoyed reading them as a child - instead of To my child.

[Hazlinny]

Don't read as much as I used to but always have the Complete Short stories of W. Somerset Maugham close by - read them over and over again.

[fitdarren]

I think I read one sequel Margo, but I really can't remember. It's the memory of Little Women that sticks in my mind.

[MargoTester]

Yes it was the best

[david small]

Certain Charles Dickens works. Again certain William Shakespeare plays. I have twelve large bookcases full, mostly factual and reference. History of English Literature, and World history. I love them all. Three sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. Very many famous Authors from Ancient Greek to Seymour Smith. No Harry Potter.

[naomi24]

No Harry Potter?!!! Nooo!
All life is there!

[Lie-in King]

Naomi @ 11:48 ;-)

I too loved the Harry Potter books & read them several times.

[naomi24]

Ahhh … clearly a man of impeccable taste, LiK. :o)

[Maydup]

Why an Amazon link? Is this a sponsored promotional thread?

I prefer we consider using https://uk.bookshop.org/ to support World Book Day.

[Rosie29]

I can't choose a favourite but recently I have loved and been very moved by Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

[pastafreak]

Like several others on here...Little Women. It transported me to an earlier time that, though very different from my own adolescence, captured me completely. I followed it with the other books in the series including Little Men, Jo's Boys.

This has reminded me...I struggled to learn to read. With the help of a lovely teacher I finally cracked it and became a voracious reader. I borrowed so many books from the school library, they thought I wasn't actually reading them. Mostly books about animals...horses and dogs. A treasured book of my own was Lad, a Dog...by Albert Payson Terhune. A collection of short stories about his own beloved rough collie. Written in 1919 it probably started my campaign for a dog of of my own.

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Obviously both are childhood favourites...its more difficult to pick more recent ones.
I'll have a think...

[Vagus]

In chronological order that I read them..
Century of the surgeon when I was about 12
Loving spirit by daphne du maurier, I was about 14
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes in 2001
These books all had a profound effect on me for very different reasons.

[JimF]

Candide by Voltaire.

[Toorak]

As a child, Rufus (The new forest pony)

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As an adult, The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

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[novalis]

Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann

[rowanwitch]

Dave loved owls, and this has so many of them... It's been a source book for a few embroidered
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