My Five Favourite Books

I am an avid reader. My Goodreads said I have read over a 1000 books but I feel like I have read way more. I feel like I own a lot more too. I have a mixture of traditional and indie published books. I have always loved reading. I love the power of words and how it can create new worlds and ideas. I love books so much I ended up writing many of my own.

At the moment, this is my current top five books. It’s hard to summarise them all as there are some books that are part of a series, so what I have done is list my favourite book from those series in its slot. The five books I have mentioned are books that have left a lasting impression on me and would be the five books I would read if I could only pick five. This was way harder than I thought it would be.

Battle Royale is my favourite novel of all time because it changed me. Ever since I saw the manga series being advertised in Tokyo Pop manga books, as well as the film, I kept getting drawn to it as a teenager. I knew I shouldn’t at my age, but I did anyway. Eventually I learned both The manga and the film were based on a novel and I got the novel. I love both the manga, novel and film and particularly like how the conclusion remains the same, but the methods were different.

There’s a huge cast of characters, but every one serves a purpose. Mitsuko Sōma’s arc is the most tragic. Noriko and Shuya’s…