What are your favourite books?

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.

ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.

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

aulsmith : I really dislike the Bennetts.

ahef1963: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.

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

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

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

ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.

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

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

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

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

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

ahef1963: Changed my life completely.

ahef1963 : 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.