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Post by ARENA on Sept 5, 2023 7:46:40 GMT
Which are the 5 best books you've ever read?
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Post by aubrey on Sept 6, 2023 19:26:41 GMT
Which are the 5 best books you've ever read? Not best, but my favourites, in no order
John Cowper Powys, Autobiography
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
CP Snow, The Masters
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock
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Post by ARENA on Sept 8, 2023 12:59:41 GMT
Mine are
1984
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Village Of Small Houses
The Midwich Cuckoos
Brewer's Phrase and Fable (I have six various editions)
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Post by ARENA on Sept 12, 2023 5:24:31 GMT
No other readers?
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Post by althea on Sept 19, 2023 10:41:14 GMT
I can't whittle it down to the 5 best books, but I can do my 5 favourite authors.
I have read everything these people have written.
Robin Hobb.
Isaac Asimov.
Dorothy L. Sayers.
Gene Wolfe.
CJ Sansom.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 19, 2023 13:40:02 GMT
My favourite fiction authors are
Dickens
Agatha Christie
Bill Bryson
Gerald Kersh
Stephen King
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Post by toots on Sept 19, 2023 17:26:37 GMT
My favourite fiction authors are
J.R.R. Tolkien
Anne Cleeves
David Eddings (although not re-read any of his books recently)
Ian Rankin
Peter Mayle
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Post by spot on Oct 19, 2023 16:57:21 GMT
Beatty, P. (2015). The Sellout. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Frazer, J. G. (2009). The golden bough: A study in magic and religion (R. Fraser, Ed.). Oxford University Press.
Gibson, W. (1984). Neuromancer. Gollancz.
Logue, C. (2017). War music: An account of homer’s Iliad. Faber & Faber.
Zelazny, R. (2006). Lord Of Light. Gollancz.
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