What are your favourite books?

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.

aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas

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.

ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.

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.

ahef1963: I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.

bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.

ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.

ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.

ahef1963: As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.

ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.

ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.

ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.

ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.

ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.

ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.

ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.

ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.

ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.