If you were allowed to keep only one book forever, what book would it be? ?
If you were allowed to keep only one book forever, what book would it be?
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If you were allowed to keep only one book forever, what book would it be?
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Bible
It’s impossible to choose.
‘The Wind Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami, I dare anyone who tries to take it away?
@Paula well because you hold it in such high esteem, it’s going on my TBR❣️
@Thérèse I hope you enjoy it, it’s not the perfect read but I do love it, I always worry about giving a recommendation☺️
@Paula no worries!!! (I know that feeling)
@Paula I think that if you would keep it Paula, it must be pretty good!
@Michele I keep my favourite books, hence the lack of space?? x
@Paula same for me! When the bookcases are full, I start with plastic bins. Drives John crazy!?
@Michele I’m in the realm of plastic bins too hen? x
It’s really THAT good?
@Michele it’s weird but good, there are scary aspects but not horror, just what humans are capable of, there’s also a cat, with Haruki Murakami, there’s always a cat.
I need to have a massive clear out, I’m sure there are books on my shelves that I won’t read again x
Oooooo!! That’s a good question!! I’m not sure I could choose!
Good question… would have to be either To Kill a Mockingbird, Burial Rites or Only Ever Yours
Which Burial Rites? There are several with different authors, aren’t there? I haven’t read any of them…
@Michele sorry. It is by Hannah Kent
@Clair
Thanks much!!
The giver
Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
Lungbarrow by Marc Platt
I don’t know this one either!
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
@Bob Tricky!! I like it! Way to cheat the system. ?
Finnegans Wake
Definitely The Bible.
The complete novels and stories of Sherlock Holmes
Bible shouldn’t count because that’s a given. With that said it would have to be Wuthering Heights.
I agree. I would definitively choose Wuthering Heights given the choices.
Child of God! Favorite book ever!!
Bible
The Great Gatsby
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
Don Quixote
I refuse to live in a world with that negativity ??? I couldn’t choose
I would KEEP My childhood copy of Harriet the Spy and use the library to borrow the other 5/6 I need a month.
Very inventive answer!?
@Michele hey, I pm you
@Michele clean up in aisle 7 ?
My original published copy of Gone with the Wind. It is falling apart and most of the pages have come loose, but it was my grandmothers and she left it to me when she died.
The Book Thief
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”
Pride & Prejudice
A collection of either Blake or Rumi poetry
Bible
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Harry Potter and the deadly hollow
My Dad gave me his copy of Best Loved Poems of the American People. I pick this. It’s s book. Lots of poems – lots of emotions – different stories. My choice. Plus.. it was his ?
The Alchemist.
the Bible
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Definitely a great choice! ❤️
Eragon or Northern Lights.
Alice in Wonderland
North and South.
@Yvonne. Wow! I wouldn’t have thought of that, but good choice!
@Victoria Thankyou, Ive read it 3 times and seen the movie.
@Yvonne. I haven’t read it that many times, but I have seen the movie. Love it.
Jane Eyre
Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow”
@Steven i love that book!
I don’t know this one. What is it about?
Michele Mackin Berggren it is about cognitive biases and heuristics, how and why we think the way we think and make the decisions that we do. We have an analytical system and a system that jumps to conclusions and easy answers. System I does not give System II the time it NEEDS to make a logical, informed decision.
I just can’t get into that genre. I’ve tried, but it’s just a no go!
@Michele I am finishing up my psychology degree so I am a bit biased.
@Steven
Midnight in the Garden of good and evil
Pickwick Papers
Anne of Green Gables
Excellent choice!❤️
Wuthering Heights
A Walk to Remember.
1Q84.
@Joe great book!
The Bible. ❤️
To Kill A Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird
Coming Home
Crime and Punishment
It seems Dostoevsky speaks to the inner pit of my dark soul.
@Mallory he is a master
I can’t decide! A thick one?..lol
Gravity’s rainbpw
John C. Hallenborg I tried reading that once. My hats off to you. I felt as though I had a first grade education….Time magazine lists it as one of the best American novels ever written
I had a hard time with this and never finished it…
Bible
To Kill A Mockingbird
Maybe a Norton’s anthology of English literature…
Conservatism forever.
@Marcio you might like Voltaire’s later works.
A Smile as big as the Moon
Toss up: Little Women or Jane Eyre.
Ohh, Little Women. Another great choice!❤️
The Quiet American by Graham Greene. For how high it sets the bar – superb writing.
My children’s literature anthology.
The Book Thief
The wind in the Willows
My book of shadows
My Bible
Gone With the Wind
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
De profundis
Can I count Dark Tower as a single entry?
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Fraulein Smidt and Mr anstruther – Elizabeth von arnim
Great Expectations ?
The asylum for wayward Victorian girls
An excellent question, but one I’m unable to answer.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Hmmm. Either “I, Lucifer”, “Les Misérables” or “The Story Of My Life” by Casanova.
The Celestine prophecy , I love it so much I haven’t been able to bring myself to finish it in 2 years
The Marvels by Brian Selznick xxx
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Kristin hannah. The nightingale
“Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”
My Bible <3
Bible
Lonesome Dove
Canterbury Tales
The Bible.
The Plague and I by Betty Macdonald. To remind me to find the humour in bad situations…
Red Queen series. This book is in most of the comments.
The alchemist Paulo coelho
Alice in Wonderland
BIBLE
“Matters of the Heart” by:danielle steel
Pride and prejudice by Austen
Harry Potter, always my first love!!!
Bible
Would be hard to choose. Maybe a memoir of someone I admire.
Maybe one of Carlos Ruiz Zafon books or the book thief or The Kite runner … I honestly don’t think I could pick just one they are all my babies ❤️
A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson. Humerous, fascinating.
I’d die.
Anne of Green Gables
I know this will come as a shock to everyone, but no way would I leave without a copy of Out of Africa! ❤️?
@Michele not a shock here, excellent choice
@Monika ❤️❤️❤️
A tie between Pride and Prejudice and The Pickwick papers.
Hmm. The Pickwick Papers. Interesting choice…
The Outsiders !
The bible.❤️ has every answer for every possible problem. ?
Lord of the Rings.
Atlas Shrugged because it would take me forever to read it.
My mind first ran to Moby-Dick, which is brilliant, but while reading it I had to pause twice and do a couple breezy reads in order to finish it, so.. hmm. ?
Impossible. I’d die from the heartbreak.
Sorry this isn’t imaginative, but it would be the Bible. A secular book would be a Maud Hart Lovelace book.
one of mine……I have not put it out yet for I cannot illustrate it and wishing it will become….
Smashing Time by John Burke. A laugh outloud romp about the 60s
I wouldn’t know which one to pick..
Nope.
The Bible.