What are your favourite books?

Beschrijving
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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1
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volumes 1 through 5
door Francis James Child
153 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 9
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bluepiano
2
ATTA
door Jarett Kobek
53 leden
1 bespreking
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 14
Member
bluepiano
Verklaringen
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.
3
Sons and Lovers
door D. H. Lawrence
9,495 leden
100 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 3
2 Members
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Verklaringen
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.
4
King Cophetua
door Julien Gracq
37 leden
2 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 25
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bluepiano
Verklaringen
bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.