Our readers’ favourite books

Over the last couple of months we’ve started asking a few simple questions when someone joins our Boomers’ Money Club: your favourite book; your first album; what’s top of your “bucket list”.

Here’s the list so far of our readers’ favourite books to help you discover some new ones. We’ll update it every now and then with newer responses.

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

3. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

4. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

6. After the Flood by Kassandra Montag

7. Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

8. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

9. Atonement by Ian McEwan

10. Barbarossa by Alan Clark

11. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

12. Biggles by William Earl Johns

13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

14. Bluey

15. Bounce by Matthew Syed

16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

18. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson

19. Churchill by Andrew Roberts

20. Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

21. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

22. Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks

23. Cosmos by Carl Sagan and others

24. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

25. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

26. Death and Destruction by Patricia Logan

27. Dog Man, A Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkey

28. Dr No by Ian Fleming

29. Fatherland by Robert Harris

30. Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

31. Gambling Man by Lionel Barber

32. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

33. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

34. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli

35. Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr by Emily Carr

36. In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan

37. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

38. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

39. Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein

40. Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager

41. Middlemarch by George Elliot

42. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

43. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

44. Mr Nice by Howard Marks

45. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

46. Outlive by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford

47. Parky by Michael Parkinson

48. Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E Ambrose

49. Perfume by Patrick Süskind

50. Precipice by Robert Harris

51. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

52. Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

53. Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe

54. Ronan the Barbarian by James Bibby

55. Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

56. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

57. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

58. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

59. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

60. The Bible

61. The Crow Road by Iain Banks

62. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

63. The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

64. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

65. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

66. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

67. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

68. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

69. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

70. The Iliad by Homer

71. The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess

72. The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

73. The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South by John Pemble

74. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

75. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

76. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

77. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

78. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

79. The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré

80. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

81. Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway and Allan Massie

82. Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken

83. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi

84. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

85. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

86. Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

87. Woolloomooloo by Louis Nowra

88. Wordsworth’s poems

89. You Are Here by David Nicholls