“In your opinion, what is the best book you ever read?

Question

WOW- what an amazing response Thanks for all your answers so far-- wish ye all a great weekend!!!!!

Answer 1

My favorite book i've read was To Kill a Mockingbird my close second and third was Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried

Answer 2

The Bridges of Madison County.

My first off the top of my head answer would have been To Kill a Mockingbird, because as an adult I really remembered reading that book as a child, but I have read Bridges a couple of years ago for the first time, and found that an incredible read!

I also vividly recall all the Magic Faraway Tree stories (Enid Blyton) from my childhood and loved them so much!!! No doubt they were where I realised how wonderful books are.

Answer 3

I think that in my opinion the best book I have ever read is Harry Potter. Because no matter how many times I read the book I just want to keep reading it, it never gets old. And that is one thing that makes a great book.

Just an Opinion from
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Answer 4

You may never find this answer due to it being way down here at the bottom of the pile ,so far anyway.

I,m going to go with Watership Down as it was the first book that i not only read but also bought .
It was purchased from the book club at my primary school ,which sadly no longer exists due to vandals burning it to the ground . So I must have been about ten because it had just been published.

Answer 5

Yes, I agree - the Oxford English Dictionary (a Desert Island book). Next to that would be an Iris Murdoch - perhaps the Book and the Brotherhood, or a Word Child, or Message to the Planet or Henry and Cato. And the Bible (Old and New Testaments).

Answer 6

Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

So says the legend, the legend of the Thorn Bird.. long ago, there was a bird that sang just once in its life. From the moment it left its nest, it searched for a thorn tree and it never rested until it found one. Then it began to sing more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impaled its heart on the longest, sharpest thorn. But as it was dying, it rose above its own agony to out-sing the lark and the nightingale. The bird paid its life for that one superlative song, but the whole world halted to listen and God, in His heaven smiled. Driven to the thorn, with no knowledge of the dying to come.. for the best is only bought at the cost of great pain..

Answer 7

Definetley would be The Wall by John Hersey for me.

I re-read this once a year (and I almost never re-read a book - I retain what I've read for years...) and am amazed every time.

This is a fictional novel about the Warsaw Ghetto in WWII - not that the Warsar Ghetto was fictional - about a novelist who is keeping a diary about what is happening to him and his neighbors.

I forget it is fiction after 5 pages, it is so very well written.

Answer 8

I have read thousands so if i have to choose just one it would be a book i read in my GCSE run up years called Debbie Go Home, i can not remember the author, it was a collection of short stories, about six in total. It was regarding the Apartheid and the different suffering and lives of different tribes.
It was amazing and i would recommend that to anyone.

Answer 9

As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen.

You can google James Allen and download the book from the internet for free. It will take about 90 minutes to read.

Answer 10

It would either be, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult or The Da Vinci Code/Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Harry Potter is not my top favorite anymore but comes close as do the Shopaholic Series