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.

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

• Middlemarch by George Elliot

• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

• Cosmos by Carl Sagan and others

• Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

• Barbarossa by Alan Clark

• Ronan the Barbarian by James Bibby

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi

• Wordsworth’s poems

• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

• In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan

• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

• The Crow Road by Iain Banks

• Churchill by Andrew Roberts

• Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

• Bluey

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

• Dr No by Ian Fleming

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

• Woolloomooloo by Louis Nowra

• Biggles by William Earl Johns

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• The Iliad by Homer

• After the Flood by Kassandra Montag

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr by Emily Carr

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Death and Destruction by Patricia Logan

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

• Perfume by Patrick Süskind

• Mr Nice by Howard Marks