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Favourite books?

hypercolius

Hi, I wanted to start this thread to share what our favourite books are!

Here are mine:

Favourite overall: Life and Death: Twilight reimagined (Meyer). I love romantic novels. Love, theoretically was also excellent as was Love hypothesis :) 

Favourite non-fiction: Assyria: The rise and fall of the world's first empire (Frahm). This caused a massive, obsessive hyperfocus on learning about Assyria when I'm just an astrophysicist!

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  • If pushed for a single favourite book, I would have to say the same book that I became obsessed with aged seven, 'Treasure Island' by R L Stevenson. It was the book that turned me on to reading fiction.

    Other fiction that I have enjoyed greatly:

    'Lord of the Rings' - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

    'Paddy Clarke HA HA HA' - Roddy Doyle

    'The Dying Earth' - Jack Vance

    'Stormbringer' - Michael Moorcock

    'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - James Joyce

    'Ulysses' - James Joyce

    'Borstal Boy' - Brendan Behan

    'The God of Small Things' - Arundhati Roy

    'The Firedrake' - Cecelia Holland

    'Elidor' - Alan Garner

    My favourite non-fiction book:

    'History of Greece' - J B Bury - this is partly because the 1941 edition I have is delightful as an object - how it sits in the hand - but mostly due to its content.

  • in reply to Martin

    Elidor is one of my favourites too!

    Out of Moorcock I really enjoyed the Hawkmoon series, though certain attitudes might not be so well appreciated now.

    Never Let me Go is my mostcrecent SF favourite. Movie's excellent too 

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