This week, during the last Bookworld drinking session, we started discussing our favourite books. Having worked ‘in books’ for so long and coming from a literary-loving family, it’s easy to forget that not everyone adores stories the way that I do.Listening as others effused about their favourites: retelling magical travelling moments, formative teenage memories and heartbreaking first loves… it made me want to read them all and experience them as my colleagues had. I thought about the dozens of favourite books I had read, and I wanted to write about them before I forget and they just became paper on the shelf. Here are four, but of course, the list is much longer.