Not sure if this has been posted before, but how about sharing your 5 favourite books? What are they, and why do you like them?
Mine are:
1. The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter, because there's a kind of dark, magical quality about it, everything's kind of a bit dirty and degraded but within that there is still love, and joy and companionship.
2. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami - this is just strange! It's kind of philosophical, kind of science-fiction, kind of fantasy and kind of mystery/detective novel rolled into one. A work of genius!
3. The Time Traveller's Wife - just about the best love story I've ever read. Makes me cry every time.
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - I avoiding reading this for years because I found the cover art too disturbing (a line drawing of a pigs face with a tear of blood running down it). One day I plucked up the courage and checked it out and kicked myself afterwards 'cos of what I'd been missing - fool!
5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - again what a mix! Love story, war, philosophy and adventure rolled into one.