What's the best book you've read?

[Progress]

What's the best/favourite book you've ever read?

I can't make my mind up between these two at the moment




When I was a teenager it was Animal Farm

[Mo34]

I'd have to have a proper think I suppose.
But off the top of my head the book I picked up aged about 16 and did not put down (I read continuously till finished, basically cancelling everything else including sleep) was George Orwell's 1984.

It's been about 20 years since I read it but no other book hooked me so obsessively (Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray did too, but not to the same extent).

[Z.]

If we're talking fiction, I'd say probably The Stand.

Non-fiction, well, there are far too many to choose from.

[Dougella]

Some of my favourite books....

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

[kirbycrackle]

Probably the Iliad overall, it's simple yet timeless similes, tragedy, beauty etc. never mind it's history of collection from original compositions sung by Bronze Age bards to the modern text today!but there's a lot more that have stuck over the years too.

God, I'm a geek!

[xpeacex]

Women who run with wolves

[TK4021]

Trainspotting
Filth
Adrian mole

[Z.]

Non-fiction would have to be either the Anarchist FAQ vol I and vol II, or A. Leontiev's Political Economy.