Here is a list of the top 10 of my favourite fiction books in no particular order:

• Illusions: the adventures of a reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Saturday by Ian McEwan

No doubt I have forgotten some…