I don’t have a best book.

I love many books and authors.

The author with the greatest impact on me is, and always will be, Shakespeare.

I will love him to my dying day 💜

Every book by Trent Dalton has brought me to tears of sadness, or joy, or simply singular moments of extraordinary beauty.

I adore Terry Pratchett and miss him terribly.

The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway made me cry an ocean I was so invested in it! It is a masterclass on writing.

In terms of impact on me

Other last century novels like:

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Persig

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

LOTR - Tolkien

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Older:

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

This century:

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn (the Otori series)

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Luiz Zafon

Non-fiction

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle (mindfulness)

I’m probably also missing a bunch! Basically lots of books!

I spread the love 🥰