Favourite 3 Novels

Oddly I dislike reading fiction altogether, although I did enjoy Lord of the Flies as a nipper

 

Don’t read nearly enough these days but I enjoyed the Railwayman

 

Has to be the bible for me. Heroes, villains, some mystery and magic thrown in, and a proper plot twist at the end.

Cracking piece of fiction.

 

Spoiler Alert.

 

Too busy writing your memoirs on here!

 

Hell and damnation await you my friend.

 

I'm a Bradford City supporter. I'm well prepared.

 

Ironic username alert.

 

Praise The Board!

 

Oh dear, oh dear.... and it's too late now to add the usual disclaimers about proceeding at your own risk, or that your mileage may vary, and so on! For me it would be a bit too serious for the beach, even with the lighter moments, and better suited to a comfy chair and a bottle of wine; but who knows, your mileage may indeed vary.

Herodotos would be my beach reading, if I were to lounge on a beach --- which I don't do, thus rendering the opening phrase pointless. That is the one book I do take along with me whenever I travel, though; so on some days he would make my list of favourite novels -- sorry Mr. H., but there is a fair amount of fiction mixed in with your facts!

RCB

 

Impossible to pick a Top 3 (or top 10, 20 for that matter) but, to break it down into categories, here are some superb ones I have read with numbers in the title:

20,000 Streets Under The Sky (Trilogy) by Patrick Hamilton - nothing evokes the feeling of being in a poor, working class community in London like these books

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - An amazing book charting 7 generations of a Columbian family

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - infuriating, exhilarating, very moving and funny


Not saying these are the best but they are well worthy of your consideration

 

Looks like you like novels with numbers in the title..?

What about 50 Shades Of Grey?

 

Sorry to say I have never read a word of that tome or its successors and neither have I watched the film(films?). Though, when I was a kid, I did read all of the Famous Five and Secret Seven if that helps.

Just needed a theme - much too wide to list your 3 best novels.

 

Pretentious twats, bet you only look at the pictures!
For me it has to be any 3 of the marvellous Confessions of a .... series by the criminally underestimated Timothy Lea ( Although I did like War and Peace, Sophie's Choice and To Kill a Mockingbird)

 

Having some knowledge of WWI and the Masaurian Lakes campaign I found Soltzhenitsyn's November 1916 enthralling and the further picture he paints of the decline of Empire gripping.

More up to date is American Tabloid by James Ellroy, a sideways glance at the Kennedy assassination and just how corrupt America is. Slick and stylish with one of the best bad guys I've read in fiction for a while.

I used to read all sorts, so the third choice is difficult, but in saying that I found some of Anita Shreve's descriptive writing in Light On Snow marvelous but the denouement obvious and a little clichéd but the rest is very good but perhaps her best is Sea Glass.

So that covers a few genres. I used to read non fiction as well but as with the novels too many to mention.

 

Surprised you're on this site then, mate. It's usually more fiction than fact!

 

Thought I'd throw in Treasure Island, loved reading that as a youngster.