best book you,ve read

Cant make my mind up between these four.......
On the road-Jack Kerouac
Grapes of wrath-John Steinbeck
Papillon-Henri Charrière,
Wuthering heights-Emily Brontë.
 
The Good Soldier Svejk - Hasek. The only book that has ever made me constantly laugh out loud.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera. Sad yet beautiful.

The Trial - Kafka. All time classic.
 
There's too many to single out just one. A few that spring to mind.

The Stand
It
Magician
Darkness at Sethanon
Interesting Times
Masquerade
 
jamiegrimble said:
Cant make my mind up between these four.......
On the road-Jack Kerouac
Grapes of wrath-John Steinbeck
Papillon-Henri Charrière,
Wuthering heights-Emily Brontë.
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The follow up to Papillon is a great read as well.A Beavors war books are a must read,my favourite though is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Fiction wise Rebus and Bosch detective novels I have enjoyed,seem to be reading a lot of Scandanavian thrillers recently.
 
For me it is "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobson which has won the Man Booker Prize in 2010. This book is quite humorous and entertaining. I had a great time reading it. This book mainly describes about the experience of a Jewish living in England in today's time. Truly enriching.
 
Two I can read time aand time again are:

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro. It's set in the 1950's and is about the reminiscences of a butler to a formerly aristocratic household as he makes a trip to the West Country to meet one of his former colleagues. Doesn't sound much but it's beautifully observed and works on so many levels.

Regeneration - Pat Barker. The first of a trilogy of books dealing with WWI soldiers in a psychiatric unit. This books focuses on war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who is sent to the unit after publishing a protest against hte conduct of the war.
 
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