| NOUN | a favourite book | favourite books |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book.
- Corto's favourite book is "Utopia" by Thomas More, but he never finishes it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevenson, Melville and Conrad, and quotes Rimbaud.
- "La joie de vivre" was reportedly the favourite book of 19th century painter Vincent van Gogh.
- "The Trouble Makers" had originally been the Ford Lectures in 1955 and was his favourite book by far.
- Lucas has a strange affliction in which he intermittently and uncontrollably spouts the poetry of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' (Lucas' favourite book).
- Popular reading in schools, "Animal Farm" was ranked the UK's favourite book from school in a 2016 poll.
- "Desert Island Discs" is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which the subject is invited to consider themselves as a castaway on a desert island, and then select their eight favourite records, one favourite book (in addition to "The Bible" and the Complete Works of Shakespeare), and a luxury inanimate object to occupy their time.
- Arther Gook was converted in a Bible class, and the Bible became his favourite book.
- (coming second by three votes) and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award.
- The first is widely regarded as an important classic (voted Scotland's favourite book in a 2005 poll supported by the Scottish Book Trust and other organisations) but opinions are more varied about the other two.
- Iinuma and his son leave for Tokyo after the dinner. Just before they go, Isao lends Honda a copy of his favourite book, "The League of the Divine Wind" by Tsunanori Yamao, and urges him to read it.
- In "The Simpsons" episode "Sweets and Sour Marge", it reveals that Moe Szyslak's favourite book is "Tom Clancy's Op-Center".
- The closely researched story spans the decade from the Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War and went on to become the nation's favourite book.
- "Birdsong" came 13th in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read, which aimed to find Britain's favourite book.
- He had a particular regard for the Eastern Orthodox concept of "glory", and his favourite book he had written was his 1949 work "The Transfiguration".
- In the words of biographer John Buchan, his favourite book was a "splendid folio of the first edition" of "History of the World" by Walter Raleigh.
- Frank said his favourite book was "Back".
- She said of herself "I am a real Bosnian, loving strong and high-calorie food" and that her vice is "cigarettes and a good book"; her favourite book being Meša Selimović's "Death and the Dervish".
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