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The Good Earth Pearl Buck . brilliant

No, Marmight but I know about sticking to 140 characters from Twitter, so I have a sense of how much that is!

Wilma it doesn't appear to have made a blind bit of difference!

Amanda 're Into the Wild, you should also read his sister's version ....

In Queen Lucia, EF Benson took me to Tilling and I loved the place and residents so much that I return there for my reading holidays.

A man called Ove. It's about a Victor Meldrew type who gets hung up on pedantic details of his neighourhood. As you read the book and the people who enter his life, you understand his reasons. A funny and touching story of how a seemingly ordinary man becomes extraordinary and stands up to be counted.

It's the equivalent of a hot chocolate on a long, dark winter's evening. Riveting.

My favourite book is a poetry book - Poems To Last A Lifetime by Daisy Goodwin. Love reading all books but really like poetry as well. Can't beat a good thriller though!

the boy in the striped pyjamas

Please don't make me choose! I can't, I just cannot pick one particular favourite. I have loved so many excellent books over a lifetime of reading.

I really enjoyed reading some of the Roma sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor - set in ancient Rome and featuring a detective called Gordianus the Finder.

Thrilling, amusing, authentic - these books bring ancient Rome to life in a novel way, skilfully incorporating real historical characters with fictional characters.

The exciting thing is that there are several more in the series which I haven't yet read!

My favourite book is 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', by Ken Kesey; it is a great 1960's read.

I am really enjoying the " Lewis Trilogy " by Peter May at the moment. Although when in my teens I laughed out loud, on the train to work, at Gerald Durrell's " My Family and Other Animals"

Like Mary Carol, I love Maeve Binchy books. My favourite is her debut novel, 'Light a Penny Candle', simply because it was the start of my love affair with her as an author. It tells the story of a turbulent friendship between Elizabeth White and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which survives twenty roller-coaster years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow and terrible betrayals...

It's not a perfect book (if there is such a thing), but, even with it's surprisingly abrupt ending, it's still pretty impressive. It will resonate with almost any woman who has had a best friend that has been a part of their life from childhood through to young adulthood; through both the good times and the bad.

Over a period of around 10 years, I've re-read 'Penny Candle' three times and found it utterly absorbing each time. Heart-breaking, haunting and a real page-turner!

'The Bucket' by children's author Allan Ahlberg, is an evocative account of his wartime childhood in the West Midlands town of Oldbury.

'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' is the ultimate children's fantasy story. Magic, mystery, action, adventure, good triumphing over evil - this one has it all!

Too many to even try to single one out really but I do remember reading A Child in Time by Ian Mceown and crying my eyes eyes out all the way through it. I couldn't put it down though.

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden - the story of a Benedictine Abbey and it's community of Sisters, set in the 60's, when things were changing even within the Catholic church. It is perhaps a rather idealised idea of the life of an enclosed religious, but beautifully written.

Wuthering Heights - an atmospheric tale of love, passion, jealousy and death to stir all the senses

The Box of Delights by John Masefield, a story that reminds me of winter and the magic of my childhood.

Street cat named Bob, such a lovely true story about a homeless cat saved by James who goes on to make a success of his life.

If I had to take one book to a desert island it would have to be Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte. Reminds me of my childhood and many times we have visited the Yorkshire moors and dales.

Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham -I can just imagine London completely deserted and it was a great story

Mynfave book ever is cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. This book bringsnyou into the heart of the west country at the turn of the century and you can almost taste the atmosphere in the book, its so well written. I love all the nature ascends and the friendships he talks about.

Cancer Ward by solzhenitsyn is superbly well observed & written with typical Russiann intensity. It shows the different sides of the human experience of cancer as well as giving a very strong & interesting historical perspective with a political analogy.

The Farm-Amy Cross,a good spine chiller is a great time filler

I love so many books but my current favourites are the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Such an excellent blend of fantasy and modern life

My favourite book is The Secret Garden because it has such a think positive message.