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

Thank you DanniRea, was just thinking A Town Like Alice was the book for me, one of the first “Serious” books I read when 14, was recommended by my English teacher . Have still got the copy 46 years later,

What a difficult choice to have to make. Do they make all the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in one book ? Came across this series by accident and have been hooked ever since.

Same for me missdeke Diana Gabaldon is one of the few authors whose books I can read more than once.

For all kinds of nostalgic reasons it has to be Sarum by Edward Rutherford.

The Lord Of The Rings by J R R Tolkien would be my choice, I love it so much.

Hi Tolatan - I read "A Town Like Alice" first when I was about 14 too. I was enjoying it so much that for the first, and last time in my life, I told my mum I was ill and stayed in bed to finish it. And what an ending!! Good to know that you feel the same way about an amazing book

With you Maddy, Tolkiens Lord of the Rings. I am forever going back to it.

Hi Camelotclub - I love Monica Dickens books too - which is your favourite? Mine is "Marianna" - I have read it so many times. My son's girlfriend, knowing how much I love it, bought me a beautiful new copy for my birthday last year.

History of the world - Andrew Marr

A Tale of Two Cities. It has all human emotions and angst.

Mine would be "Oh the Brave Music" by Dorothy Evelyn Smith. It is so beautiful and I must have read it about 20 times since the age of 10!

If I can't have a compendium of Jane Austen I would choose 'Persuasion'. Alternatively George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' would keep me going for years!

Oh gosh, I would probably get bunered with/out my books if I had a few seconds to choose.
If i'm allowed it, the Bible. Novels - which to choose, "Marianna" by M dickens, "Nvere let me Go", "The Time Traveller's Wife", anything by Margaret atwood... As I said, I would be vapourised before I could choose!

if I had to save a book from a fire, it would definitely be my copy of The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico, given to me years ago by my mother. A beautiful story of Dunkirk with amazing illustrations.

Burnt/burned! ...

So many books I could not bear to be without ! If it is just one then Captain Corelli's Mandolin- Louis DeBerniere. The very best ending of a book ever & all that lovely description of Kephalonia which is a place I know & love.

I'm going to try some of the books mentioned here.

The egg &I by Betty McDonald, I read it first when I was about 11 & have read it off & on ever since & laughed every time(now in my 70s).Someone who can make TB sound funny(The Plague &I) is worth reading.

Preferably one that makes me laugh, but the ones I'd take to a desert island - Three Men In a Boat, Lucky Jim, and Crampton Hodnet (Barbara Pym) among others - are all too short.
So it'd probably be Middlemarch, which is a favourite that even I can't get through in two days. And there is the odd little bit of humour in it.

Oh, Soop, Down the bright stream. I loved that book. More than The Little Grey Men. Read it and read it. Alas unable to get any of my 3 DD or 5GDs to take more than a tepid interest in it. So good to be reminded of old pleasures by threads like this.

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

Very interesting choices - a bit like making a list for a book group! Thanks, I shall investigate them for my own group.

I couldn't possibly choose I have so many favourites. I would borrow one from another Gransnetter as there are so many options!!! lol

Although I read every day, the titles that come to mind are all from my teenage years- a town like Alice, Rebecca, and of course Great Expectations which I did for my o level eng.lit.(so had to read it three times in one term)!

Varian, I have, and now I'm an atheist (albeit of the Humanist variety!)