What are your all-time favourite reads? My top 10, in no particular order, are...

1) Memoirs of a Geisha by Author Golden
2) A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
3) Birds Without Wings by De Bernieres
4) I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
5) Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
6) Lord of the Rings
7) The God of Small Things (can't remember who by)
8) Animal Farm by George Orwell
9) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10) Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood

8 ) is a smiley! like 8) that! what fun.

Sorry JBee:

Daily Mail
Heat
Cosmo
Elle
Dazed
What Car
Independent
Empire
Hello
and finally
Sheffield Telegraph Property Porn!

I was wondering why the bloody hell a 8) just appeared in my text. I don't get smileys at all - how do you make the other ones appear?

Not very good with computors - too busy reading I suppose!!!

I liked Cats Eye too JBee. I like some of Fay Weldon's, Puffball is a fave and Deborah Moggach. Can't yet decide upon a top 10, will think it over...

memoirs of a geisha is fantastic !!

i don't think i could ever say i had a top ten - what i like reading depends on my mood. however in no particualr order a few books i have loved are :

Life of Pi - Yan Martel
Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (highly highly recommended)
any Freya North - makes me feel good!
Feel by Chris North (Robbie autobiography)
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller


I must have read hundreds of books by now, i try for a new one each week - those are just the ones that for one reason or another i have loved.

The Doctor is sick / Anthony Burgess

1: War of the Worlds
2: George's Marvelous Medicine
3: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original, not the pants remake)
4: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
5: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
6: The Royle Family - The best bits (bought for 20p from Upperthorpe Library last year)

Can't think of any others.

Again, in no order..

The Go-Between, LP Hartley
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Bridge at San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller
The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson
The Human Factor, Graham Greene
1984, George Orwell
'Walden' and Civil Disobedience, HD Thoreau

That's my lot!

Catch 22
Lord Of The Rings
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
Reginald Perrin Trilogy - David Nobbs
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
(all poems) - William Blake
Froth On The Daydream - Boris Vian
Inspector Morse series - Colin Dexter

In no special order:

1 - Smiley's people
2 - Fight Club
3 - Lord of the Rings
4 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5 - Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
6 - The Ipcress File
7 - Red storm rising
8 - Level 7
9 - Starship Troopers
10-1984

1.deja dead
2.death du jour
3.cafe tropicana
3.lovely bones
4.working wonders
5.divas las vegas ..sooooo funny
6.one hit wonder
7.looking good dead
8.minor indescretion
9.book ends
10.angels