My Favourite Books of All Time

Happy Easter fellow fiction lovers! I do hope you’re spending the weekend just as God intended: horizontal on the sofa, surrounded by friends, family and LOTS of chocolate! I’m not usually the biggest chocolate eater but, even I make the most of this occasion and drown myself in tiny chocolate eggs and a slice [or two] of my Mum’s mouth-watering Victoria sponge!

Unfortunately, I do not have Easter themed recommendations for you so, instead, I thought I would share with you a selection of my absolute all time favourite novels! Who knows, one of them might just become your new favourite too! Happy Easter, and happy reading!

Looking for Alaksa by John Green

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words. Tired of his safe and predictable life at home, Miles leaves for boarding school in the South, seeking what the dying Poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including the vivacious Alaska Young.

The Girl on the train by Paula Hawkins

Every day, Rachel takes the train to work in London, heading past her old house where her ex-husband, Tom, and his new wife, Anna, now live. From there, Rachel can also see into the home of another married couple and, Rachel becomes endeared by this couple, jealous of their seemingly perfect life. When Megan Hipwell goes missing, Rachel is convinced that the man she saw Megan cheating on her husband with is the culprit. Throwing herself into the investigation, Rachel will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

In an England of the future, Alex and his “Droogs” spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on “a little of the old ultraviolence.” After he is jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex agrees to undergo the behaviour modification technique to earn his freedom. Returned to the world defenceless, Alex becomes victim to his prior victims.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.” The second rule is much the same. Struggling with insomnia, the unnamed narrator finds solace in attending support group meetings for illnesses he pretends to be ailed with. Here, the protagonist meets Marla. Marla is attending these meetings for the same reason that he is, causing the narrator to be unable to sleep once again. And then, we meet Tyler Durden, a soap salesman and, the narrator’s socially arrogant controller. Spinning out of control, the narrator, Marla and Tyler develop a strange triangle for sex, loathing and soap.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Pip is an orphan living on the Kent marshes with his abusive sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village Blacksmith. Pip’s pompous Uncle Pumblechook arranges for Pip to visit the house of the wealthy, Miss Havisham, to entertain her adopted daughter, Estella. Miss Havisham is a strange woman; her fiancé left her on their wedding day and she still wears her old wedding gown, despite now being elderly and wheel-chair bound.