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Being a naturally nosey person I've been really fascinated to see what people have chosen as their favourite 5 reads of all time.  Some people have accused me of being very mean in making them choose just five, and in a way I agree with them, it can be very difficult to say which books are your favourites.  Mine, like a lot of people's, change from day to day, depending on what sort of mood I'm in.  Some people's top 5 tend to all be of a particular genre or by a particular author, whilst others are a total mix of various types of writing.  Given the massive range of things that people could choose, it's interesting to see some of the titles that have cropped up in several people's lists.  Obviously it begs the question of whether people who do the same type of job are necessarily interested in the same types of books.  For example several librarians picked The Time Traveller's Wife as a favourite (although that could be due to the main character being a librarian!) and three quarters of the band Never Sed had The Magician as one of their favourites.  On the other hand there are also some spectacularly diverse tastes around with library staff loving everything from fantasy, crime and romance to gardening, cookery and even some quantum physics.

With such wide-ranging tastes I think that it is safe to say that as well as never judging a book by its cover, you should never judge a reader by their book!

More on that thought another time, but in the meantime why not share your top five reads on the discussion boards.  Or if you can't narrow your list down that much, how about trying something from someone else's top 5, you never know, you might like it!

Bye for now

Suzanne

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