What are your favourite books?

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I have a tag - "favourites" - which number around 40. What are your favourites? Feel free to add books, to thumb down books you didn't like, and to add comments.
1
La voleuse de livres
de Markus Zusak
44,812 membres
2,125 critiques
½ 4.4
3 Members
dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963
2
Gaudy Night
de Dorothy L. Sayers
5,458 membres
150 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963
3
Sons and Lovers
de D. H. Lawrence
9,503 membres
100 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
Explications
aulsmith : All the Freudian undertone really turned me off to his and Lawrence in general.
ahef1963: So evocative that I can see England, smell it, almost touch it.
bluepiano: Not in my top 500 but listing it because other comments have made me want to read it again. Evokes socially-striving working class in the north of England, invites a Freudian approach, explains Lawrence's twerpiness.
4
Tragédie à l'Everest
de Jon Krakauer
14,069 membres
313 critiques
4.2
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
5
A Game of Thrones
de George R. R. Martin
42,565 membres
1,121 critiques
½ 4.4
2 Members
KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Watership Down
de Richard Adams
24,891 membres
471 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
7
Une journée d'Ivan Denissovitch
de Alexander Solzhenitsyn
12,934 membres
201 critiques
4
Member
ahef1963
8
L'apprenti assassin
de Robin Hobb
12,544 membres
284 critiques
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
9
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volumes 1 through 5
de Francis James Child
153 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
10
Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul
de Khaled Hosseini
52,784 membres
1,300 critiques
4.2
Member
dara85
11
L'Arche des ombres, Tome 1 :
de Robin Hobb
6,036 membres
97 critiques
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
12
Dark Lord of Derkholm
de Diana Wynne Jones
2,434 membres
57 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Feet of clay : saints, sinners, and madmen : a study of gurus
de Anthony Storr
221 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
Explications
aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas
14
ATTA
de Jarett Kobek
53 membres
1 critique
4.1
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: This would almost certainly be in my top 500 favourites in fiction. I'm listing it because I wish more people knew about it.
15
Microserfs
de Douglas Coupland
4,928 membres
64 critiques
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
16
Shining
de Stephen King
23,157 membres
453 critiques
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
17
L'étranger
de Albert Camus
35,504 membres
507 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: Probably my absolute favourite.
18
Mille Soleils Splendides
de Khaled Hosseini
30,294 membres
895 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
19
Maison hantée
de Shirley Jackson
9,731 membres
431 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Fool's Errand
de Robin Hobb
5,643 membres
74 critiques
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
21
Des garçons épatants
de Michael Chabon
4,307 membres
104 critiques
4
Member
aulsmith
Explications
aulsmith: I swore off middle-aged academic angst novels after Herzog, but I couldn't put this one down and thought it was spectacular at the end.
22
Le Moineau de Dieu
de Mary Doria Russell
7,711 membres
406 critiques
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
23
Un autre pays
de James Baldwin
2,923 membres
41 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
24
The Spotted Sphinx
de Joy Adamson
134 membres
1 critique
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: I bought this book for 10 cents at a flea market when I was 7 years old. Still much loved.
25
King Cophetua
de Julien Gracq
37 membres
2 critiques
4
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: The non plus ultra of novellas.
26
Jane Eyre
de Charlotte Brontë
58,942 membres
916 critiques
4.2
Member
ahef1963
27
Le danseur de Manhattan
de Andrew Holleran
1,007 membres
11 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
28
Raison et sentiments
de Jane Austen
38,089 membres
525 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
29
Le prince des marées
de Pat Conroy
5,820 membres
108 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
Ceux qui nous sauvent
de Jenna Blum
3,070 membres
166 critiques
4
Member
dara85
31
Garden Spells
de Sarah Addison Allen
5,023 membres
369 critiques
4
Member
dara85
32
La pendule d'halloween
de John Bellairs
2,484 membres
74 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
33
Auprès de moi toujours
de Kazuo Ishiguro
22,813 membres
938 critiques
3.8
Member
ahef1963
34
Portrait de femme
de Henry James
10,815 membres
125 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
Le Jour des Triffides
de John Wyndham
7,451 membres
207 critiques
4
Member
KimarieBee
36
Middlemarch
de George Eliot
17,706 membres
330 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
Shibumi
de Trevanian
1,755 membres
56 critiques
3.9
Member
KimarieBee
38
Les dépossédés
de Ursula K. Le Guin
10,694 membres
268 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
La Mer, la mer
de Iris Murdoch
3,581 membres
94 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
40
Sole Survivor
de Derek Hansen
108 membres
3 critiques
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
41
A Fortunate Life
de A. B. Facey
950 membres
22 critiques
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
42
The Secret Country
de Pamela Dean
896 membres
22 critiques
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Riders in the Chariot
de Patrick White
681 membres
20 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
44
Goodnight Mister Tom
de Michelle Magorian
2,606 membres
69 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
45
The Prophets
de Robert Jones Jr.
822 membres
26 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Lunch with the Generals
de Derek Hansen
54 membres
½ 4.3
Member
KimarieBee
47
Jonathan Strange et Mr Norrell
de Susanna Clarke
26,983 membres
775 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
48
The Child Thief: A Novel
de Brom
1,374 membres
66 critiques
4
Member
KimarieBee
49
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
de Daniel L. Everett
776 membres
31 critiques
3.8
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: I'm a language and linguistics geek, and this book answered so many questions for me. Fascinating.
50
Les mensonges de Locke Lamora
de Scott Lynch
10,141 membres
440 critiques
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
51
Lucy, une jeune femme de 3 500 000 ans
de Donald C. Johanson
1,064 membres
8 critiques
4
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The book that got me interested in paleoanthropology. Dated now, but intricately details scientific methods.
52
The Far Field
de Madhuri Vijay
456 membres
18 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
53
Neverwhere
de Neil Gaiman
24,931 membres
578 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
54
Les tours de Barchester
de Anthony Trollope
4,917 membres
106 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
55
The Winds of War
de Herman Wouk
3,328 membres
55 critiques
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
56
L'Equilibre du monde
de Rohinton Mistry
9,165 membres
255 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
KimarieBee
57
Villette
de Charlotte Brontë
8,785 membres
145 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
58
La romancière et l'archéologue
de Agatha Christie
1,914 membres
40 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: As well as a great memoir, a history of the upper middle class at the turn of the 20th century.
59
Les Royaumes du nord
de Philip Pullman
36,178 membres
742 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
60
The Chrysalids
de John Wyndham
4,739 membres
122 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: A required text in grade 10 English and an instant favourite. I felt an immediate connection to the outcasts.
61
A man you can bank on
de Derek Hansen
14 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
Member
KimarieBee
62
Le Meilleur des mondes
de Aldous Huxley
53,878 membres
772 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The excellence of Huxley's ideas and writing never fail to move me.
63
Perdido Street Station
de China Miéville
9,387 membres
314 critiques
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
64
Le Cercle de la croix
de Iain Pears
5,244 membres
138 critiques
3.9
Member
KimarieBee
65
Orlando
de Virginia Woolf
10,601 membres
174 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
66
Ma famille et autres animaux
de Gerald Durrell
5,260 membres
150 critiques
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The wittiest book I've ever read. It never grows old.
67
Le dieu dans l'ombre
de Megan Lindholm
239 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
KimarieBee
68
La tour de Babylone
de Ted Chiang
5,094 membres
232 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
69
Les Iles Glorieuses, Tome 1 : Clairvoyante
de Glenda Larke
281 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
KimarieBee
70
De l'eau pour les éléphants
de Sara Gruen
28,894 membres
1,180 critiques
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
71
As For Me and My House
de Sinclair Ross
432 membres
10 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The finest of Canadian Prairie Literature.
72
La couleur des sentiments
de Kathryn Stockett
30,507 membres
1,488 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
KimarieBee
73
Le Dieu manchot
de José Saramago
2,463 membres
49 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: Extaordinary historical fiction. One day I will visit the building erected in this tale.
74
The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
de Glenway Wescott
76 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
75
Into the Water
de Paula Hawkins
4,621 membres
216 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
KimarieBee
76
La Bibliothèque de Mount Char
de Scott Hawkins
2,931 membres
249 critiques
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
77
Vieux, râleur et suicidaire, la vie selon Ove
de Fredrik Backman
11,156 membres
687 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: I read this last week. Fell in love.
78
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
de N. K. Jemisin
1,432 membres
50 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
79
Beauty in Thorns
de Kate Forsyth
36 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
KimarieBee
80
La Peur du Sage (Première Partie)
de Patrick Rothfuss
20,388 membres
789 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The most wondrous fantasy world I've ever stepped into.
81
L'Invasion des ténèbres
de Robert Jordan
19,772 membres
374 critiques
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
82
Le testament
de Nevil Shute
3,743 membres
139 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
83
L'autre
de Thomas Tryon
1,361 membres
33 critiques
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
84
L'orange mécanique
de Anthony Burgess
25,876 membres
389 critiques
4
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: The story, the language-play, the shocks: unbelievably brilliant.
85
Miss Lonelyhearts
de Nathanael West
774 membres
33 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Liens de sang
de Octavia E. Butler
8,386 membres
351 critiques
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
87
November
de David Mamet
62 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
88
The Phantom Tollbooth
de Norton Juster
17,442 membres
425 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
89
L'énorme chambrée
de E. E. Cummings
1,461 membres
26 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
90
Angle d'équilibre
de Wallace Stegner
5,458 membres
182 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
91
Tigane
de Guy Gavriel Kay
5,029 membres
144 critiques
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
92
L'Étrange Vie de Nobody Owens
de Neil Gaiman
22,176 membres
1,263 critiques
4.2
Member
ahef1963
93
Matilda
de Roald Dahl
22,089 membres
478 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
94
Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure
de Don Starkell
192 membres
4 critiques
4
Member
ahef1963
95
The Selfish Giant
de Oscar Wilde
133 membres
½ 4.7
Member
ahef1963
96
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography
de Douglas Botting
138 membres
2 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
97
Le déclin de l'empire Whiting
de Richard Russo
8,774 membres
182 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
98
Au risque de se perdre
de Kathryn Hulme
498 membres
9 critiques
3.9
Member
ahef1963
99
La petite maison dans la prairie. Tome 7 : Ces heureuses années
de Laura Ingalls Wilder
8,833 membres
63 critiques
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Explications
ahef1963: My favourite book when I was a child. It still provides me with much pleasure.
100
84, Charing Cross Road
de Helene Hanff
5,844 membres
348 critiques
4.2
Member
ahef1963