What are your favourite books?

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I have a tag - "favourites" - which number around 40. What are your favourites? Feel free to add books, to thumb down books you didn't like, and to add comments.
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aulsmith, ahef1963
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ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
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aulsmith : All the Freudian undertone really turned me off to his and Lawrence in general.
ahef1963: So evocative that I can see England, smell it, almost touch it.
bluepiano: Not in my top 500 but listing it because other comments have made me want to read it again. Evokes socially-striving working class in the north of England, invites a Freudian approach, explains Lawrence's twerpiness.
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41,297 leden
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ahef1963
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bluepiano
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dara85
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: This would almost certainly be in my top 500 favourites in fiction. I'm listing it because I wish more people knew about it.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.
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dara85
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: I swore off middle-aged academic angst novels after Herzog, but I couldn't put this one down and thought it was spectacular at the end.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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dara85
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dara85
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.
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ahef1963
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.
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ahef1963