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  • Marru
    Marru Posts: 4,126 Forumite
    My favourite authors in no particular order:
    - Lucy Maud Montgomery
    - James Herriot
    - Agatha Christie
    - Nicholas Evans
    - Nora Roberts

    Ooh - I have Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy and I have been meaning to read it for a long time.

    At the moment I am reading: Run: The Mind-body Method of Running by Feel
    "Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end."

  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,616 Forumite
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    I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks of Animal Farm (George Orwell)?
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  • MicheH
    MicheH Posts: 2,631 Forumite
    I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks of Animal Farm (George Orwell)?

    I have not looked at this since school savingwannabe but the message about how groups interact in a way that makes it possible for one of them to control the rest with unquestioning authoirity can be applied throughout life, specially how the animals seem to depict different classes. A very clever novel with many hidden messages. A great way to get an insight into dictatorship and blind following of that dictatorship because of propaganda or 'cult of personality'

    Again, I would like to look at this again. Intriquing.
  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    Animal farm - great book, with many interesting undertones.

    I'd be up for re-reading it!
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  • I thought I'd post the BBC list.

    My favourite ever book is Jane Eyre> Not sure why though, maybe I am just a soppy old romantic at heart and refuse to admit it :) I will be back to list my other big likes later x

    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    6 The Bible
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    34 Emma -Jane Austen
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
    36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby !!!!!! - Herman Melville
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce
    76 The Inferno - Dante
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    80 Possession - AS Byatt
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
    87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (contained within the complete works)
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    Oh dear, this is so hard. It is harder than sitting an exam, having to choose favourite books!
    Ok, I will give it a try

    Favourite childhood book - Flight of the Doves - Walter Macken. read to us by Miss Tate in 2nd year (aged 8) and I still hear her voice if I read it.

    Favourite Shakespeare Comedy - how to choose? Today I would say Merry Wives of Windsor, tomorrow it will be different

    Favourite Thriller - Primal Fear - Wiliam Diehl - spoiled by the making of the film. This is the only thriller that ever made me catch my breath in the last paragraph and be desperate for the follow up.

    Favourite book as a teenager - The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

    Favourite Classic - Jane Eyre

    I have a tendency to read non fiction a lot and I really need to switch off and read some fiction to relax. However I do love autobiographies
    I also have read The Two of Us by Sheila Hancock and her latest Just Me. I also love Michael J Fox autobiography - inspirational.

    I do have a confession. I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. My Mum went back to college when she was 50 and took English Lit O level. She read this and talked about it a lot. If we were to read it I would finally understand what she meant. Unfortunately she isnt here to discuss it with anymore.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • kdenty
    kdenty Posts: 250 Forumite
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    OO I like this. I got a Kindle bought for me a few months back. I am a total book addict.

    My favourites include:
    Manda Scott
    Diana Gabaldon
    Micheal Marshall Smith
    Clive Barker
    Jean M Auel
    Ken follett
    Phillip Pullman


    I love thrillers, horror and epic novels mostly. The Boudica series by Manda Scott has to be my favourite of all time.

    I'm really an avid reader and it just feels wrong not to have a book on the go.
  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,616 Forumite
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    Brave New World is the most frightening book i have ever read. Couldn't finish it I found it too distressing.

    Also Wild Swans by Jung Chang. i couldn't stop crying by chapter 3 and gave up i have tried reading it at 5 times in my life. Would love to know what people think of these too.

    Miche I use Animal Farm in my lessons when introducing Economics to students. Quite simply one of the most amazing books i have ever read.
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  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,616 Forumite
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    I remember Scout and Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird i read it when i was 12. Again a superb book. I will borrow it over the weekend.
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  • I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird either

    Love so many books hard to choose

    Austen- Northanger Abbey
    Lovely Bones
    The Chalet Series - I wanted to go to boarding school too but I read everything as a child mystery series, secret seven, secret island series, famous five, the bobbsey twins
    Les Miserables
    Birdsong

    and so many others please let us decide soon I want to start :)

    one book I could never get on with despite trying several times was The Water Babies

    DTxx
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