So, I've decided to put down the celebrity gossip mags and do some serious reading.
I need some recommendations of books to help me put together a sweet little reading list that I can work my way through over the next year. I'm very open minded about what I read - classics, thrillers, romance - you name it.
Can you recommend some books for me please - especially your favourite books or books that have inspired you or changed your life.
In spite of Nailit's somewhat dismissive comments (which smack of "inverted snobbery" to me), many of the classics make very good reading. For a kick-off, most of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and for really weird characters, Thomas Hardy.