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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44,544 medlemmer
2,118 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
2
5,427 medlemmer
146 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963
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9,457 medlemmer
99 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
Forklaringer
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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14,001 medlemmer
312 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
5
42,279 medlemmer
1,117 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
6
24,732 medlemmer
472 anmeldelser
4.2
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12,855 medlemmer
198 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
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12,481 medlemmer
280 anmeldelser
4.1
9
151 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
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52,587 medlemmer
1,297 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
dara85
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6,014 medlemmer
96 anmeldelser
4.1
12
2,426 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
4.1
13
219 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
Forklaringer
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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51 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
Member
bluepiano
Forklaringer
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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4,918 medlemmer
64 anmeldelser
3.9
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22,995 medlemmer
453 anmeldelser
4.1
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35,299 medlemmer
499 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.
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30,157 medlemmer
892 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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9,633 medlemmer
428 anmeldelser
3.9
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5,631 medlemmer
74 anmeldelser
4.2
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4,294 medlemmer
103 anmeldelser
4
Member
aulsmith
Forklaringer
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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7,668 medlemmer
405 anmeldelser
4.1
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2,892 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4.1
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134 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
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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37 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
Member
bluepiano
Forklaringer
bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.
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58,574 medlemmer
912 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
ahef1963
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996 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
3.9
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37,891 medlemmer
520 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ahef1963
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5,794 medlemmer
108 anmeldelser
4.1
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3,059 medlemmer
166 anmeldelser
4
Member
dara85
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5,035 medlemmer
369 anmeldelser
4
Member
dara85
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2,466 medlemmer
75 anmeldelser
3.9
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22,728 medlemmer
938 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ahef1963
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10,753 medlemmer
126 anmeldelser
3.9
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7,405 medlemmer
207 anmeldelser
4
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17,621 medlemmer
330 anmeldelser
4.2
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1,745 medlemmer
56 anmeldelser
3.9
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10,624 medlemmer
265 anmeldelser
4.1
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3,570 medlemmer
94 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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108 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.1
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944 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
4.2
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890 medlemmer
24 anmeldelser
3.8
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681 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ahef1963
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2,580 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
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810 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
4.2
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53 medlemmer
½ 4.3
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26,865 medlemmer
772 anmeldelser
3.9
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af Brom
1,358 medlemmer
66 anmeldelser
4
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772 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.
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10,086 medlemmer
437 anmeldelser
4.2
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1,058 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.
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454 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.9
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24,810 medlemmer
574 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ahef1963
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4,895 medlemmer
107 anmeldelser
4.2
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3,308 medlemmer
55 anmeldelser
4.2
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9,128 medlemmer
255 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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8,739 medlemmer
144 anmeldelser
3.9
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1,897 medlemmer
40 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
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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35,988 medlemmer
740 anmeldelser
4.1
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4,722 medlemmer
122 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.
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14 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.5
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53,618 medlemmer
768 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.
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9,354 medlemmer
315 anmeldelser
4
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5,233 medlemmer
138 anmeldelser
3.9
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10,528 medlemmer
175 anmeldelser
3.9
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5,227 medlemmer
150 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.
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238 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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5,047 medlemmer
233 anmeldelser
4.2
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280 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
70
28,754 medlemmer
1,177 anmeldelser
4.1
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428 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.
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30,388 medlemmer
1,487 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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2,439 medlemmer
49 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.
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75 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
75
4,537 medlemmer
216 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
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2,895 medlemmer
249 anmeldelser
4
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10,990 medlemmer
678 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.
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1,418 medlemmer
51 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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36 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
80
20,238 medlemmer
784 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.
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19,605 medlemmer
372 anmeldelser
4
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3,718 medlemmer
139 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
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1,354 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
3.9
84
25,723 medlemmer
386 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.
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770 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
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8,300 medlemmer
349 anmeldelser
4.2
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61 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
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17,337 medlemmer
424 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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1,454 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
90
5,434 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
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5,017 medlemmer
143 anmeldelser
4.1
92
22,101 medlemmer
1,262 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
ahef1963
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21,890 medlemmer
477 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
94
191 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
Member
ahef1963
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133 medlemmer
½ 4.7
Member
ahef1963
96
136 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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8,756 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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496 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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8,760 medlemmer
63 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Forklaringer
ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.
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5,817 medlemmer
348 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
ahef1963