Best novel you've read?

[OwlHoot]

To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee ...

Haven't read it - I was under the impression it was one of those books everyone did for O Levels but few read otherwise.

(Not saying it isn't good though, or else presumably it wouldn't be studied as a classic)

[Zippy]

Haven't read it - I was under the impression it was one of those books everyone did for O Levels but few read otherwise.

(Not saying it isn't good though, or else presumably it wouldn't be studied as a classic)

It's a great book and well worth a read.

[vetran]

Agree with Pompeii & Fatherland.

Animal farm (the book not the 'ahem' film).
Candide - Voltaire.

[vetran]

Haven't read it - I was under the impression it was one of those books everyone did for O Levels but few read otherwise.

(Not saying it isn't good though, or else presumably it wouldn't be studied as a classic)

did it for 'O' Level was brilliant.

John Barleycorn - Jack London (actually any of his) this however gave a picture of life most definitely on the edge of despair.

[d000hg]

On the "books we did at school" front, Lord of the Flies is good. Also Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe.

[mudskipper]

Haven't read it - I was under the impression it was one of those books everyone did for O Levels but few read otherwise.

(Not saying it isn't good though, or else presumably it wouldn't be studied as a classic)

Read it a couple of years ago - it wasn't on my school curriculum (we had Jane Eyre and Tale of Two Cities). I loved it.

[nomadd]

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.

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Just finished Brave New World.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is the next on my list for the genre.

[BabyBoomer]

Re: Best novel you've read?

Sticking to pre-war foction, therefore (mostly) downloadable for free:
Humour: Wodehouse, Saki, E F Benson, Ernest Brahmah (Kai Lung), J K Jerome, Damon Runyon, A C Macdonnel.
Thrillers/Crime: Geoffrey Household, Dornford Yates, Buchan, Erskine Childers, C S Forester (early crime, not Hornblower).
Kids but worth reading as an adult: Lewis Caroll, E E Nesbit, R L Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, Arthur Ransome.

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[Cliphead]

I've read quite a few of the books mentioned here, all good reads.

I got American Psycho for Kindle today and started reading, kinda weird so far and not what I would say is a page turner for the first couple of chapters.

I'll persevere.

[KaiserWilly]

Not really into novels, but I remember fondly Camus' "L'etranger"

More recently, I read "The kindly ones".