My All Time Favourite Books

this is probably one of my favorite books ever I still think about it a lot now I found it so moving

when I read a Room of One's Own I found not only that perhaps being a little bit older as well I really kind of got in with her writing and I liked what she was saying

I did really really enjoy Americanah and Purple Hibiscus as well but for me I think this is my this is my favorite

AnnaKarenina is one of the favorite books I've ever read I've read it a couple of times now

I'm including each of these books so that's for Ali Smith gets on this list but I just I couldn't choose one of these because it's not really about the specific book it's about the series and it's about what she's doing over these four years and which I just find astonishing

I found it completely fascinating I really felt like I was in a lecture at university because she was so informative and so engaging

the two books of hers that I loved the absolute most was Double Act and The Lottie Project

I have never been so taken into a book and at the same time completely shocked and surprised by all the twists and turns that happen in it

I did really enjoy Ghost Wall which came out last year but for me The Tidal Zone is just incredible

I think something about the book that I would change is that she assumes you're a woman reading this book which I think does it a little bit of a disservice... I found it so easy to read

I wouldn't recommend to anybody necessarily now but a book that at the time was quite instructive to me... it's interesting to me now that I was able to read it and it not affect me in the same way

I am just absolutely in love with Max Porter's writing essentially

for me I think this is my this is my favorite and I read it so long ago and therefore it kind of affected me more because I was younger when I read it

I reread these books I think a year or two ago and I loved them just as much as an adult as I did when I was a child I found it so utterly magical.

which I also really loved and then was putting into all my friends and families hands at Christmas was Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I read this at the end of last year because it was the pick for our Feminist Orchestra book club and what a good pick, I absolutely loved it.

Honestly it was such a rollercoaster reading this book so I would highly recommend both of them

I had tried to read Mrs. Dalloway when I was younger and found it quite difficult

it remains along with the Night Watch it remains one of my favorites of hers

I did really really enjoy Americanah and Purple Hibiscus as well but for me I think this is my this is my favorite

I'm including each of these books so that's for Ali Smith gets on this list but I just I couldn't choose one of these because it's not really about the specific book it's about the series and it's about what she's doing over these four years and which I just find astonishing

I just knew I loved and was blown away by and that Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo which was robbed of the Women's Prize for fiction the other year

I'm including each of these books so that's for Ali Smith gets on this list but I just I couldn't choose one of these because it's not really about the specific book it's about the series and it's about what she's doing over these four years and which I just find astonishing

I think it's rare when you read a short story collection that you love every single story in it and that's how I felt with this collection

the one I really wanted to include was The Accidental which I don't have a copy of but funnily enough was the first book I read by her which I absolutely adored

I think my favorite of hers is The Blind Assassin... I really liked how it chopped and changed and all came together at the end

Days of Abandonment I completely loved... I think this is my favorite of her of her standalone novels that I've read

it's just a world that I love and I've always loved and I feel so at home in it and I love when I reread those books because it really brings me back to that time

the two books of hers that I loved the absolute most was Double Act and The Lottie Project

it's just a world that I love and I've always loved and I feel so at home in it and I love when I reread those books because it really brings me back to that time

I reread these books I think a year or two ago and I loved them just as much as an adult as I did when I was a child I found it so utterly magical.

The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss has been one of my favorite books for a long time I don't have it because I've lent it to my friend because I just think everybody should read it

it's just a world that I love and I've always loved and I feel so at home in it and I love when I reread those books because it really brings me back to that time

I haven't read War and Peace I did try and read War and Peace and I got not very far through and there were so many descriptions of battles that I just couldn't understand that I put it down

it's very sad it's very poignant it's very beautiful but it's also looking at kind of the nature of people

I'm including each of these books so that's for Ali Smith gets on this list but I just I couldn't choose one of these because it's not really about the specific book it's about the series and it's about what she's doing over these four years and which I just find astonishing