World Book Day (on 1st March) is running a new list - not just a favourite book, but 10 books you couldn't live without. This is pretty clever - because it isn't the same list as the world's best books, or greatest works of literature. If you do lists like that then people will vote for the books that they believe are 'literary' - which isn't the same as entertaining, funny or essential reading.
My list is: (In no particular order)
E F Benson: Lucia Rising
Barbara Tuchman - A Distant Mirror
Barbara Pym: Excellent Women
Helene Hannf - 84 Charing Cross Road
Simon Raven: Alms for Oblivion
Anthony Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time
Annie Proux: The Shipping News
Barbara Vine - The Blood Doctor
Andrea Levy: A Small Island
Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
All these books I could read again and again.
How about you - what are your 10 Books that You Can't Live Without?
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