These are ten of the books I really like. It was quite hard to pick them, and if you were to ask another day I might come up with different answers for some, but here we go: 'Catch-22' by Joseph Heller. I think I must have read this book over a dozen times. My first attempt at reading it, I didn't understand it, I didn't get it at all. That was in my mid-teens. I read it again at college, and this time it clicked for me. It's an amazingly funny yet viscerally horrific novel about World War 2. The novel gets dark, so very dark that you think there's no way hope can return but somehow Heller pulls it back. "Yossarian - the very sight of the name ...  Read the complete review

Books are quite important to me! I think they can change the way you look at the world as well as being my favourite form of entertainment. There are just too many books I would like to read. I found this very hard to choose my top ten fiction books, would find it easier to choose my top 100! These are in no particular order, choosing your favourite book to me must be like choosing your favourite child as a parent! I will give a quick summary of each one but want to focus on why I have chosen it as some well-known ones here. 1. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. This tells the story of the Earnshaw family. Heathcliff is brought into the home and ...  Read the complete review

I get on pretty well with books, it must be said. Probably a little too well, as they threaten to somewhat overwhelm my little flat - and there's a fair chance that they're breeding, rubbing cover-to-cover when I'm not looking. Still, it's a fairly healthy addiction, one that doesn't make me fat or bankrupt or prompt me to come down in sweaty shivers - there are certainly worse things to have an excess of. However, this does mean that the following top ten is a bit provisional; I haven't read half the books in my bedroom, let alone the bookshop, so my count-down is well-aware that it's probably missing a lot of entries that should be there, and probably will ...  Read the complete review

Below I have attempted my top 10 fiction books of all time. In coming up with this list, I have tried to be fair to myself and include books based on how I enjoyed them when I initially read them, not on how much I think I'd like them now. The books therefore reflect my changing tastes over the years. This left me with the dilemma of whether to include books I enjoyed as a child - eventually I decided to include them but limit children's books on the list to two. Books and reading are highly subjective, and everyone will have their own opinions on what makes a good book, and different people will also be looking for different things in a book. Some people ...  Read the complete review

People always seem to obsess on at least one thing in they're life. It could be something as trivial as not ever wearing socks to bed, (which my one friends swears she'll NEVER do then I always give her that "Your weird", look whenever she mentions it) or it can just be the urge to constantly read at every given opportunity. There are times when I'm out having a good time with my friends that occasionally, I'll let my mind wonder and think to myself "Ok if I get home by midnight, I can still finish a few chapters of _____ before I have to get to sleep". It's so bad that sometimes when I KNOW I should be doing something productive i'll cast it aside ...  Read the complete review