If you could only save one Book which would it be?

I too think To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful book but I would probably choose Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

If we are talking fiction, then probably 1984 by George Orwell, to remind ourselves what freedom in our choices of lifestyle really are.

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for me.

A big one, so I could carry on reading for as long as possible! The collected works of Dickens will do for me.

Cheat! ?

Any books by Ella Maillart, she did not write many.

She wrote a book on travel in the Taklamakan desert in China,Peter Fleming wrote a similar book of his journeys there.

It was a fascinating area, mostly Buddhist, and was excavated by a German, as all the sand had penetrated everywhere.

Too many books, too little time.

Precious Bane by Mary Webb - wore out first copy, have a well-used second copy, and also on Kindle. It's my treasure

Never Let Me Go by Ishiguru to remind us of the dangers of medical science if taken too far.

Should be Kazuo Ishiguro Sorry.

It’s a matter of controversy in this household that I never re-read books as in novels so for me it would be a book of poetry - probably an anthology (if that’s allowed) of the metaphysical poets.

My book of TS Elliot poems.

Call me shallow, but probably Interview With The Vampire by Ann Rice

Any Margaret Forster

A Kiss Through Glass by Shirley Nolan. About her son Anthony Nolan the 'boy in a bubble' who died and now we have bone marrow transplants almost routinely. I loaned my copy to someone and never got it back then years later DH found a copy online in New Zealand and bought it for me, it was well thumbed so someone else had been moved as I was.

I’m with Marydoll. The poems say so much about the human condition. I learnt part of the Four Quartets by heart when I was young (and had a memory) and it’s never left me.

Cry Creedom by Donald Woods

But if any book The Bible

Wuthering heights

Food in England by Dorothy Hartley.

An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan.

Poems of Thomas Hardy

I also think if any book, The Bible.
My second choice would be The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

The biggest poetry anthology I could find. There are various individual poets I love (Housman, Hardy and obviously Shakespeare), but a large anthology would give me more variety.

Probably the Bible too - there's so much to learn in there.
Otherwise, Pickwick Papers by Dickens would cheer me up.

When I was a child I was sent to a Church of Scotland Sunday School for at least ten years (before graduating to Bible Class) and the Sunday School Super-intendant (a very strict man in a dark suit) told us that he had learned to read when he was five and was given a Bible. He started at page one, kept reading it and by the time he was eleven he had got to the last page.

I've always wondered whether he really did read every word (including all these "begats" which come near the beginning) and if he did, how much he understood.

I give him the benefit of the doubt but I do wonder how many folk have actually read the Bible from cover to cover. One of my close friends is a Sunday School Super-intendant, a Minister's daughter in her seventies and she told me she's never read the whole Book.