One of my favourite novels ever and a surprising hit with undergraduate students.

However, I must say that The Great Fire is easily one of my favourite novels.

Two of my least favourite novels of the past 10 years are on your lists:

It's one of my favourite novels, it's pure magic, without ever being magical realism.

Anderson's third and favourite novel was her only work of historical fiction, The Commandant, published in 1975.

Still one of my favourite novels ever.

Spark described it as one of her favourite novels.

Great Expectations is Winstone's favourite novel - although he's never actually read it.

Clarke has claimed that it is his own favourite novel.

It's very personal: which is why so many of us take it as an affront when a favourite novel is rubbished by someone else.