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2. top 5 books of all time?
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Street of Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. what is your favourite genre?
That's really difficult to answer tbh. I really like sci-fi (of the Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick variety, especially). I love fantasy of the Terry Pratchett variety. I like reading books set in historical times, both because they were written then, but also historical fiction. I've been very taken with future fiction as well. Ironically, because I do aspire to write roman fiction, I don't read a lot of romance fiction lmao. I also read a lot of non-fiction, both for my degree, but also works that criticise/debate different parts of the societal status quo.