Your all time favorite books

[YahudaMoon]

Hi

I know, books are like music and your favorites are tomorrows hated

Anyway Im commuting on train/bike between Manchester and Bradford, West Yorkshire via Hebden Bridge (some excellent opportunities for a commute home should the feel the arise )

So Im reading again, thought I'd ask a bunch of cyclist

 

[vickster]

To Kill A Mockingbird
The film is superb too

 

[YahudaMoon]

One of my faves is George Orwell's, Down and and out in Paris and London

 

[Kajjal]

At the mountains of madness, hp lovecraft. 1920's gothic horror novel.

 

[Andy_R]

Anything by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett...everything is is a social/political commentary when you look in to it.....

 

[vickster]

JD Ballard Empire of the sun

 

[slowmotion]

The Big Sleep, or Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler. All his novels are fantastic and it's sad that he only wrote a few.

"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window...."

 

[swee'pea99]

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

 

[Moodyman]

Matilda by Roald Dahl.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Almost anything by JB Priestley but my all time favourite book is The Cruel Sea by Nicolas Monsarrat.

 

[midlife]

Biggles.....

Shaun

 

[Profpointy]

Biggles.....

Shaun

I used to love Biggles books, and was half tempted by recent cheap boxed sets of stories. I dare say nearly 50 years later I might be disapointed

 

[Profpointy]

JD Ballard Empire of the sun

I really like Ballard but didn't really get into that one, but should give it another go. My favourites of his are Drowned World, Concrete Island and High Rise - the film if the latter is rather good too

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I really like Ballard but didn't really get into that one, but should give it another go. My favourites of his are Drowned World, Concrete Island and High Rise - the film if the latter is rather good too

Those are exactly the ones I prefer too...

There are too many books I love, but here are just five novels only...

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night, a traveller
Robert Irwin - The Arabian Nightmare
Ursula Le Guin - Always Coming Home
George Perec - Life, A User's Manual

 

[flake99please]

La Nausée - Jean Paul Sartre