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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!

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.

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.

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 ....

The Good Earth Pearl Buck . brilliant

Wild Swans by Jung Chang.
An extraordinary book which recounts the often harrowing but equally uplifting true story of three generations of women throughout most of the last turbulent century in China. Inspiring, fascinating, educational and truly wonderful.

Has to be The Rectors Wife - Joanna Trollope.

My favourite book at present is 'The House on Persimmon Road' by Jackie Weger. Lovely story with a ghost, a family and some romance - what more can you ask?

Wuthering Heights. Spooky, powerful, vibrant and engrossing. What is there not to love?

i love the malory towers saga by enid blyton... when i was younger i always wanted to go to boarding school as the girls had so much fun and adventure.... i am re reading them again... never get bored of them...

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, whenever I need reminding of man's inhumanity to man and the power of one man's courage.

'The Shell Seekers', by Rosamund Pilcher
This is my comfort book that can be relied upon to satisfy my needs when recovering from flu or operations etc., taking over from Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' which I read continually when I was young.

Re-reading Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father. Eloquent, moving, brilliantly written.

Jung Chan, Wild Swans. Reading this led to travelling to China and an enduring fascination with the country and its people.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - a story of love, hate, passion and revenge - has everything required for a fantastic read.

The Hand that first held mine - Maggie O'Farrell
A beautiful, visceral novel that totally absorbs you into the lives of the characters and their emotional journeys. I love all her books!

Don't tell them Grannyknot

I can't do it - just choose one I mean.
Burglar Bill, to read to my young grandsons.
Kensuke's Kingdom, for the older children.
Katharine by Anya Seton because it's about an enduring love that triumphs over circumstances.
Lord of the Rings, because it's epic.......
Nope, I can't just choose one.

So hard to choose any one book as a favourite, or even just one author. I love everything from the 18th-19th century classics, to modern novels - Dickens to J.K.Rowling. I've just started to re-read the 6-book 'Earth's Children' series by J.M.Auel; 'Clan of the Cave Bear' is the first book in the series, and begins the tale of a time towards the end of the last Ice Age, when modern humans and Neanderthals shared Europe with the Ice Age animals - a very well researched and creative series, that gets you thinking about human origins, human advancement, belief systems, customs etc. I loved Enid Blyton as a kid and one day hope to re-read some of my favourite childhood stories.

My favourite is The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. It transports you into so many different worlds and is full of fascinating historical snippets.

Hard choice! I loves the Harry potter books x

Into the Wild-it’s very moving, takes you on an amazing adventure and gives you great insight into Chris McCandless' unique view of the world

No TV for 20+ years, so books are our world. The Mapp and Lucia series, by E.F.Benson is as fresh and witty as the day it was written.

My favourite is "Three Women at the Water's Edge" by Nancy Thayer. I first read it when my children were small and still love it. It's about a woman and her two adult daughters - one lives in Vancouver, one in Maine and one in Wisconsin by Lake Michigan. I used to identify with the elder daughter - now with the mother!

Are you counting the characters in every post Grannyknot??