What are your favourite books?

aulsmith (0): All the Freudian undertone really turned me off to his and Lawrence in general.

ahef1963 (2): So evocative that I can see England, smell it, almost touch it.

bluepiano (3): Not in my top 500 but listing it because other comments have made me want to read it again. Evokes socially-striving working class in the north of England, invites a Freudian approach, explains Lawrence's twerpiness.… (more)

aulsmith (2): This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas

bluepiano (2): This would almost certainly be in my top 500 favourites in fiction. I'm listing it because I wish more people knew about it.

ahef1963 (3): Probably my absolute favourite.

aulsmith (3): I swore off middle-aged academic angst novels after Herzog, but I couldn't put this one down and thought it was spectacular at the end.

ahef1963 (4): I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.

bluepiano (4): The non plus ultra of novellas.

ahef1963 (13): I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.

ahef1963 (14): The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.

ahef1963 (16): As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.

ahef1963 (17): A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.

ahef1963 (18): The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.

ahef1963 (19): The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.

ahef1963 (21): The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.

ahef1963 (22): Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.

ahef1963 (24): I read this last week. Fell in love.

ahef1963 (25): The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.

ahef1963 (27): The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.

ahef1963 (37): I love a scary book, and Lovecraft is the best for that.

ahef1963 (39): My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.

ahef1963 (41): Changed my life completely.

aulsmith (0): I really dislike the Bennetts.

ahef1963 (7): My absolute favourite for many years. First read when I was 16. I had no idea until that point that classic fiction could be funny.

aulsmith (0): Didn't age well for me. I now find it misogynist and sentimental.

ahef1963 (23): I had no idea that a book could make me cry that hard, twice. Brilliant and heartbreaking story.

aulsmith (0): I find most of Hawthorne tough going. Too much character and too little action.

ahef1963 (0): The only book to have rendered me suicidal. That fact argues for the strength of Plath's prose, but I still don't like the book.

aulsmith (0): I found the allegory too over-the-top to enjoy this one.