World Book Day Thread - Favourite Book EVER?

[bhafc99]

Best contemporary fiction: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Best classic fiction: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Best popular fiction: Crow Road by Iain Banks

 

[Brighton Breezy]

CRACKING

 

[Skaville]

Trainspotting or Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine welsh
Survivor - Chuck Palahnuik
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Alive by Piers Paul Reid.

Just a harrowing story, well written and of all the books I've read made me see the world differently afterwards.

 

[Bob!]

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

 

[zefarelly]

CRACKING

I think I still have that book, or I'll go and buy another copy for the lad . . . . used to scare the shit out of me when I was little !

 

[33057 Seagull]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Li of Pi, His Dark Materials, Endgame - if that counts.

 

[Mr Banana]

Little Miss Smiley from the Mr Men series. It changed my life and has stayed in a prominent position by my bed ever since.

 

[zefarelly]

Best contemporary fiction: The Daily Sport

Best classic fiction: The Daily Mail

Best popular fiction: The Daily MAil

 

[rool]

Bit like Peter and Jane but with tits

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

 

[rool]

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

yeah but what did they write?

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

 

[eastlondonseagull]

yeah but what did they write?

doofus

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S Thompson

 

[Beeercan]

Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose RIP

Amazing, just amazing

 

[Peteinblack]

John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath

Matthew Kneale - Emglish Passengers

John Fowles - French Lieutenant's Woman

Richard Flanagan - Gould's Book of Fish

Robert Tressell - Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Margaret Attwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Patrick Suskind - Pefume

Any Shelock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything by George Orwell

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

H.G Wells - The time machine