Your favourite book

One of my hobbies is reading and writing so I can’t choose a book as my favourite. However I have lots of books and authors that I tend to go back to when I’m having trouble choosing a new book to read. One of my favourite authors is Edgar Allan Poe, when I was 13 years old I saw “The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror I” in which Lisa reads The Raven, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe (and one of his most notable works) and Homer acts as the lead character; I loved the poem so I started reading more of his works and he became the first author that I listed as my favourite. I remember one Christmas that my mother gave me a book which contained his most notable works and it was so heavy that I woke up the next day with a sore back from carrying with me to the car and to my room... I wasn’t a particularly strong child.
I like books of mystery and fantasy, historical novels and coming of age stories. I also like early century european social novels, like David Copperfield and Charles Dickens. I don’t have a “favourite book” but there are two books that I often read and that, even though I know them by heart, everytime a read them, I get something new out of them. One is called “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and it tells the story of a little girl whose parents never really wanted her so she grows up bitter and spoiled but finds a secret garden and her personality changes and becomes a likeable and charming person; the other one is called “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby and revolves around a music shop owner in his thirties who breaks up with his girlfriend and tries to make sense of the situation by remembering his past girlfriends and why those relationships ended. The last one was made into a (great) movie starring John Cusack with one of the best soundtracks I have ever listened to. The last book I read was Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, and I loved it, I had read it before but I was 19 so I didn’t appreciate it that much, mainly because I didn’t understood it. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t recommend it if you aren’t particularly self conscious about the purpose of the universe or the goal of human existence because it might cause an existencial crisis.