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

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.

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

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.

Burnt/burned! ...

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.

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

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!

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

History of the world - Andrew Marr

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

Anything by Monica Dickens (wonderful story teller).

My first thought was the Bible but thinking again it would be The Stand by Stephen King

I would save my copy of The Borrowers which I received as a school prize for being "the best all rounder". It means the world to me.

I never reread books so my choice would be an empty notebook where I could write my own novel.

For me it would have to be which ever book I'm reading at the time. I can't bear a half finished story!!
In the unlikely event that I wasn't reading a book at the time I think I'd like to save Of Mice And Men.

"A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute.
Or one of Rosamund Pilchers Books - either "Winter Solstice" - "Coming Home" 0r "The Shell Seekers".

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