What are your favourite books?

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I have a tag - "favourites" - which number around 40. What are your favourites? Feel free to add books, to thumb down books you didn't like, and to add comments.
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7 participating members
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42,255 members
2,079 reviews
½ 4.4
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5,210 members
142 reviews
½ 4.3
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aulsmith, ahef1963
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9,165 members
93 reviews
½ 3.6
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ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
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aulsmith : All the Freudian undertone really turned me off to his and Lawrence in general.
ahef1963: So evocative that I can see England, smell it, almost touch it.
bluepiano: 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.
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13,613 members
306 reviews
4.2
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dara85, ahef1963
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39,819 members
1,100 reviews
½ 4.4
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23,552 members
455 reviews
4.2
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12,342 members
187 reviews
4
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ahef1963
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11,633 members
267 reviews
4.1
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151 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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bluepiano
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50,237 members
1,275 reviews
4.2
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dara85
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5,664 members
96 reviews
4.1
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2,347 members
58 reviews
4.1
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212 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas
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41 members
1 review
4
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: This would almost certainly be in my top 500 favourites in fiction. I'm listing it because I wish more people knew about it.
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4,828 members
62 reviews
3.9
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21,699 members
434 reviews
4.1
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33,699 members
484 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.
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28,966 members
878 reviews
½ 4.3
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dara85
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8,672 members
407 reviews
3.9
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5,370 members
70 reviews
4.2
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4,201 members
97 reviews
4
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: 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.
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7,443 members
392 reviews
4.1
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2,704 members
40 reviews
4.1
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132 members
1 review
3.9
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.
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36 members
2 reviews
4
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.
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55,638 members
882 reviews
4.2
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ahef1963
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942 members
10 reviews
3.9
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35,989 members
500 reviews
4.1
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ahef1963
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5,627 members
106 reviews
4.1
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2,957 members
162 reviews
4
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dara85
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4,912 members
363 reviews
4
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dara85
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2,320 members
73 reviews
3.9
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21,583 members
917 reviews
3.8
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ahef1963
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10,667 members
127 reviews
3.9
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7,083 members
202 reviews
4
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16,799 members
317 reviews
4.2
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1,680 members
54 reviews
3.9
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10,025 members
253 reviews
4.1
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3,414 members
90 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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102 members
3 reviews
4.1
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897 members
22 reviews
4.2
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860 members
23 reviews
3.8
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652 members
18 reviews
4.1
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ahef1963
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2,457 members
67 reviews
½ 4.3
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ahef1963
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677 members
25 reviews
4.1
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52 members
½ 4.3
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26,054 members
754 reviews
3.9
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by Brom
1,273 members
64 reviews
4
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733 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.
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9,400 members
422 reviews
4.2
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1,026 members
8 reviews
4
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.
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416 members
18 reviews
3.9
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23,943 members
559 reviews
4.1
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ahef1963
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4,712 members
103 reviews
4.2
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3,178 members
54 reviews
4.2
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8,860 members
245 reviews
½ 4.4
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8,332 members
138 reviews
3.9
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1,772 members
38 reviews
4.1
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.
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34,493 members
722 reviews
4.1
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4,434 members
114 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.
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13 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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51,214 members
742 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.
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9,028 members
307 reviews
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5,082 members
131 reviews
3.9
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9,998 members
160 reviews
3.9
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4,984 members
147 reviews
4.2
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.
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233 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
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4,604 members
220 reviews
4.2
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275 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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28,256 members
1,154 reviews
4.1
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415 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.
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28,958 members
1,463 reviews
½ 4.4
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2,323 members
48 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.
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71 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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4,013 members
205 reviews
½ 3.4
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2,589 members
241 reviews
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9,706 members
627 reviews
½ 4.3
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.
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1,263 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
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32 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
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18,802 members
745 reviews
½ 4.4
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.
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18,117 members
354 reviews
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3,565 members
141 reviews
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ahef1963
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1,278 members
31 reviews
3.9
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24,785 members
376 reviews
4
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.
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726 members
31 reviews
½ 3.4
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7,521 members
316 reviews
4.2
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58 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
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ahef1963
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16,336 members
416 reviews
½ 4.3
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1,382 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
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5,275 members
178 reviews
½ 4.3
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ahef1963
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4,792 members
137 reviews
4.1
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20,881 members
1,232 reviews
4.2
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ahef1963
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20,512 members
456 reviews
½ 4.3
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189 members
4 reviews
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ahef1963
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121 members
½ 4.7
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ahef1963
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132 members
2 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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8,559 members
183 reviews
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ahef1963
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480 members
9 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
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8,176 members
62 reviews
4.1
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.
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5,573 members
341 reviews
4.2
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ahef1963