Just wondering what some of your favourite books are?

Some i love are:

Angela's Ashes
Flowers For Algernon (makes me cry)
Watership Down
My Family and Other Animals

I have just been on a buying spree getting all my favourite books from Amazon that i haven't read in years.

Jilly Cooper - Riders :D

Harry Potter

Stephen King (all of) and James Herbert

I'm hardly the Queen of English Lit - thats for sure!

All Harry Potter books
Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
And I'm really into historical books, particularly one's about the 18th and 19th centuries. 
I adore reading, would rather read than watch TV any day :D

John Wyndham (especially The Chrysalids)
James Herbert (all)
Tom Holt (all)
Terry Pratchett (most)
Patricia Cornwall (most)
Harry Potter books

Plus LOADS of others

:D

I like the Harry Potter books
All Catherine Alliott books - I think they're hilarious!!
Lesley Pearce
Charlotte Bingham
Irvine Welsh

I must admit to being a proper girly chick light romance/comical reader.

I am a proper book worm but find I can't read the scarier books anymore as I get too scared!!!

The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
Getting Over It - Anna Maxted

M.

All Harry Potter books
anything by Maeve Binchy
Stephen King, James Herbert, Dean Koontz,
When I can remember the titles I will post back :D

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Magus by John Fowles
Anything by Roald Dahl

Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier.  (most recently read and I can VERY MUCH recommend it :)- Film is also very good although a bit different)
A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks  (DO NOT watch the film- its rubbish and nothing like the book :D... God I hate it when that happens!)
Interview with a vampire- Anne Rice (Film is also very good! :D)
Honey Moon- Amy Jenkins
:D

All the Meave Binchy books
First they killed my father - Loung Ung
The Horse Whisperer & The Loop by Nicholas Evans.
Dick Francis Ilove all his books
I will read almost anything.
Mary

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Terry Pratchett books
The Sight and Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies
Nicholas Evans books
The Duncton books by William Horwood

and probably hundreds more :D

lol angelas ashes i am from limerick and i was there when some of the scenes were being filmed in the pouring rain they brought in rain machines which they did not need cos it was pouring that day

georgina

oooh just remembered my favourite book of all time. (many MANY years ago) 'The land of the faraway tree'! Loved Topsy Turvy land and the saucepan man. As a child you could get 'lost' in the magic of it all. aaah memories.
Got a copy in the attic somewhere, must get it down ready for when I'm a grandma so I can read her bedtime stories :)

I tried to find these books for my kids and cant find them anywhere I loved the faraway tree and all the Enid Blyton books.
Mary

The Faraway Tree Books were my favourite too!!  I used to love Moonface, Silky and all the adventures in the land at the top of the ladder!!

Enid Blyton books were my fave!!

I got the faraway tree books from Ottakers, Amazon do them too

Have a look here :Amazon Just type in ENID BLYTON and then click on BOOKS and it brings up that book :)

Just bought Angela's Ashes for my husband.....he is the reading in the family.

i love the harry potter books
and the earths children chronicles by Jean M Auel
and any other books that are full of magic and 'take you away from reality' :D

tanya

Angela's Ashes is absolutely brilliant!
Also love Call The Midwife (Jennifer Worth)
Love all Jilly Coopers books, Rider, Polo, The Man  Who Made Husbands Jelous, etc...

** Just realised it was my Champdog Birthday on the 15th!!!! :) **

Don't read fiction anymore - used to enjoy Wilbur Smith and Frederick Forsyth etc when I was a teenager/twenties, but prefer non-fiction now, particularly about WWI and WWII. Enjoyed recently a book about life on Malta during WWII - what a terrible existence the people had :( Currently re-reading The Real Cracker (about profilers used by the police).

Daisy

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
All Harry Potter stories
anything written by Martina Cole, Minette Walters or Michael Connelly.

I love reading, just wish I had more time for it :-)

Has anyone read Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold?

I don't read fiction anymore, but as a child I loved Little Women, Jayne Eyre, and Milton's Paradise Lost (just loved that), I also loved Oscar wilde's childrens stories, Gullivers Travels, Black Beauty and in later years Facaults Pendulum by Humberto Echo.

I read mainly for information now, and Waris Dirie's Desert Flower is a most moving book about life in Somalia.

I've read Lovely Bones - completely different to anything I'd read before.  I thought it was excellent - very thought provoking, but others I've spoken to weren't as impressed.

Stephen Kings Dark Tower series of books, brilliant..

I read the Lovely Bones, that would have to be in my top ten favourite books, I thought it was brilliant, I could hardly put it down.  Not often a book actually makes me cry.

I did read all of Lovely Bones but it didn't really hit me like it did others, it was all a bit too wierd I think.  BUT, her other book, "Lucky", I thought was superb, the true story of the years surrounding her rape at college, never depressing so much as impressive.

As for fave books, agree with Memoirs of a Geisha, but also loved Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.  Also have enjoyed most of John Grisham's though feel his last two have been a bit soft.  Can't beat a Maeve Binchy for an easy, enjoyable and cleverly entwined read

My favourite Books - going by those I use the most

Genetics of the Dog by Malcolm Willis
Oxford Compact English Dictionary
Everyday Cookbook by Marguerite Pattern - my first cookbook and still in use
Dobermann Stud Books (various countries)

plus for actual reading - just about anything I can lay my fingers on especially thrillers, spy stories, historical novels, science fiction,

I love any doggy book, as a child I read all of James Herriott, Joyce Stranger and Sheila Hocken ...? (the one who had emma the guide dog) and I have kept all these books as they were my faves (although they were adult books I read most of them whilst still at junior school )  As a really small child (before I could read properly) I loved my mum reading Enid Blyton to us at bedtime.

I now love histroical novels such as Catherine Cookson, Josephine Cox and Dee Williams. (old before my time - im only 26 ;) )  There is another author I like who I think is Martina Cole, ive only read one of her books but am on the look out for more.

I also love non fiction, the best I have read recently was called "forget you had a daughter" the true story of a girl who was caught drug smuggling and was put in prison in Bangkok - fantastic book, I couldnt put it down :)

I am a big Harry Potter fan too :)

I don't think i could possibly list my actual favourites really as i love so many, and so many are old old favourites that i have kept and re-read :)

Just a few - some are from childhood - My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming by Mary O'Hara, Narnian chronicles, Alan Garner's Elidor/Weirdstone.../Moon of Gomrath, Brumby books by Elyne Mitchell, pony books by the Pullein Thompson sisters; Call of the Wild by Jack London; historical novels like TheOther Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory; Leviathan by John Gordon Davis (had me weeping); David Eddings; Parker's Astrology; Think Dog by J Fisher; Click for Joy by Alexander; Joyce Strangers books; Lad: a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune;Jack (about a Groenendael); books by Monica Edwards about Romney Marsh; Brockie the Badger; Watership Down; Pride and Prejudice, some biographies and the Iliad; Wilbur Smith's Warlock, Seventh Scroll and the other one; The Way of Wyrd; I could go on and on but will shut up now :D

Our house is full of books as my OH also had loads and we never get rid of any!!!! ;)

Lindsay
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Blondebird did you know Sheila Hocken still  does dog training in NOttinghamshire :)

>Blondebird did you know Sheila Hocken still  does dog training in NOttinghamshire 

OMG she must be ancient, I read her first book in junior school

She wrote to working trials monthly magazine last month and was setting up a gundog group for promoting their versatility :) so she's obviously very active and so on...:) I remember reading Emma and I years ago too. Lovely book.

Lindsay
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I have the whole set at home, the first one "emmas story" was aimed at young kids but the other 3 were adult books - excellent books, I seem to remember she ended up with about 4 chocolate labs and and GSP.

I havnt read any books for ages,
But as a thankyou for helping someone out when her pyracantha fell off the wall and we went round and put it back up again, she paid uas and gave me a book.
The Dark Moon by Julia Gray.
Have spent most of the afternoon reading it!!!!!
It was co-wrote by herself, and rather good :D
May even go out and by the others in the series if this keeps me 400 pages (which Is probably what she wanted!!! LOL)
Lea :)

I love thrillers and have just finished Blind to the Bones by Stephen Booth.  Has anyone else read it?  It's the only book of his I've read and I'm a little baffled by the ending.  He missed telling us about a few things (where Diane Fry's sister had been for one) or am I missing something?  All answers gratefully received!  :)

I loved James Paterson's Alex Cross series, it was fab.