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.
1
44,544 medlemmar
2,118 recensioner
½ 4.4
2
5,427 medlemmar
146 recensioner
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963
3
9,457 medlemmar
99 recensioner
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
Förklaringar
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
14,001 medlemmar
312 recensioner
4.2
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
5
42,279 medlemmar
1,117 recensioner
½ 4.4
6
24,732 medlemmar
472 recensioner
4.2
7
12,856 medlemmar
198 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
8
12,480 medlemmar
280 recensioner
4.1
9
151 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
10
52,587 medlemmar
1,297 recensioner
4.2
Member
dara85
11
6,014 medlemmar
96 recensioner
4.1
12
2,426 medlemmar
59 recensioner
4.1
13
219 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas
14
51 medlemmar
1 recension
4.1
Member
bluepiano
Förklaringar
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.
15
4,918 medlemmar
64 recensioner
3.9
16
22,996 medlemmar
453 recensioner
4.1
17
35,299 medlemmar
499 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.
18
30,157 medlemmar
892 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
19
9,632 medlemmar
428 recensioner
3.9
20
5,631 medlemmar
74 recensioner
4.2
21
4,294 medlemmar
103 recensioner
4
Member
aulsmith
Förklaringar
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.
22
7,668 medlemmar
405 recensioner
4.1
23
2,892 medlemmar
42 recensioner
4.1
24
134 medlemmar
1 recension
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.
25
37 medlemmar
2 recensioner
4
Member
bluepiano
Förklaringar
bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.
26
58,573 medlemmar
912 recensioner
4.2
Member
ahef1963
27
996 medlemmar
12 recensioner
3.9
28
37,892 medlemmar
520 recensioner
4.1
Member
ahef1963
29
5,794 medlemmar
108 recensioner
4.1
30
3,059 medlemmar
166 recensioner
4
Member
dara85
31
5,035 medlemmar
369 recensioner
4
Member
dara85
32
2,466 medlemmar
75 recensioner
3.9
33
22,727 medlemmar
938 recensioner
3.8
Member
ahef1963
34
10,753 medlemmar
126 recensioner
3.9
35
7,405 medlemmar
207 recensioner
4
36
17,620 medlemmar
330 recensioner
4.2
37
1,745 medlemmar
56 recensioner
3.9
38
10,624 medlemmar
265 recensioner
4.1
39
3,570 medlemmar
94 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
40
108 medlemmar
3 recensioner
4.1
41
944 medlemmar
22 recensioner
4.2
42
890 medlemmar
24 recensioner
3.8
43
681 medlemmar
19 recensioner
4.1
Member
ahef1963
44
2,580 medlemmar
68 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
45
810 medlemmar
27 recensioner
4.2
46
53 medlemmar
½ 4.3
47
26,865 medlemmar
772 recensioner
3.9
48
av Brom
1,358 medlemmar
66 recensioner
4
49
772 medlemmar
31 recensioner
3.8
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.
50
10,086 medlemmar
437 recensioner
4.2
51
1,058 medlemmar
8 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.
52
454 medlemmar
19 recensioner
3.9
53
24,810 medlemmar
574 recensioner
4.1
Member
ahef1963
54
4,895 medlemmar
107 recensioner
4.2
55
3,308 medlemmar
55 recensioner
4.2
56
9,128 medlemmar
255 recensioner
½ 4.4
57
8,739 medlemmar
144 recensioner
3.9
58
1,897 medlemmar
40 recensioner
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.
59
35,989 medlemmar
740 recensioner
4.1
60
4,722 medlemmar
122 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.
61
14 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 4.5
62
53,619 medlemmar
768 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.
63
9,354 medlemmar
315 recensioner
4
64
5,233 medlemmar
138 recensioner
3.9
65
10,528 medlemmar
175 recensioner
3.9
66
5,227 medlemmar
150 recensioner
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.
67
238 medlemmar
9 recensioner
½ 3.6
68
5,047 medlemmar
233 recensioner
4.2
69
280 medlemmar
6 recensioner
½ 3.7
70
28,754 medlemmar
1,177 recensioner
4.1
71
428 medlemmar
10 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.
72
30,387 medlemmar
1,487 recensioner
½ 4.4
73
2,439 medlemmar
49 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.
74
75 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.5
75
4,537 medlemmar
216 recensioner
½ 3.4
76
2,895 medlemmar
249 recensioner
4
77
10,990 medlemmar
678 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.
78
1,418 medlemmar
51 recensioner
½ 4.3
79
36 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 4.4
80
20,238 medlemmar
784 recensioner
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.
81
19,604 medlemmar
372 recensioner
4
82
3,718 medlemmar
139 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
83
1,354 medlemmar
33 recensioner
3.9
84
25,723 medlemmar
386 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.
85
770 medlemmar
33 recensioner
½ 3.4
86
8,300 medlemmar
349 recensioner
4.2
87
61 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
88
17,337 medlemmar
424 recensioner
½ 4.3
89
1,454 medlemmar
26 recensioner
½ 3.7
90
5,434 medlemmar
182 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
91
5,017 medlemmar
143 recensioner
4.1
92
22,101 medlemmar
1,262 recensioner
4.2
Member
ahef1963
93
21,891 medlemmar
477 recensioner
½ 4.3
94
191 medlemmar
4 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
95
133 medlemmar
½ 4.7
Member
ahef1963
96
136 medlemmar
2 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
97
8,756 medlemmar
182 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
98
496 medlemmar
9 recensioner
3.9
Member
ahef1963
99
8,760 medlemmar
63 recensioner
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.
100
5,817 medlemmar
348 recensioner
4.2
Member
ahef1963