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

I don't think I would have time to scramble up in the loft for my grandfather's childhood copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island or My grandmother's
wee leather bound book of poetry, a 21st birthday present from her cousin.
Irreplaceable

But at present they are safe in the loft stored with silica gel to keep any moisture at bay

Whichever book I'm writing at the moment

I find it terribly difficult to choose just one. Jane Eyre was my 'first love' and I'd probably go with that but how could I leave out Coming up for Air by George Orwell which I think is brilliant.

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

I'd have to take "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist", but someone else mentioned 1984, and I'd be torn between that and "The Road To Wigan Pier".

On the novels front, if I had to, it'd be a Kurt Wallander

Definitely the Bible with all its history, poetry, action, romance, mystery and expectation.

Three Men In A Boat.

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy ......

In Fahrenheit 451 I don't think it was just novels that were burned was it?

Anything by Terry Pratchett.

Frankly in a fire I wouldn't stop for a book but would grab my tablet!

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee.

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson, because it is informative, laugh out loud amusing and reminds me of all that is good about this quirky little island that we live in and it’s people.

Withering Heights

Unfortunately I never seem to keep a copy for myself, I have bought about 12 copies so far.
The last one went to a dear friend of DD who works for an NGO in Africa, and asked for a Wedding present, books which where very special to people so they could build a library which they could easily move.
It reminds them of dear friends when they read the books. I thought it was a lovely idea.
We also gave the 'New Portugeuse Letters' signed by the author.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

'Down the Bright Stream' by B.B.

I assumed we were being asked about a novel?

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.

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

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.

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

Poems of Thomas Hardy

An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan.

Food in England by Dorothy Hartley.