Which are my favorite books?

This is a question that is often asked and it sounds reasonable but it is not easy for me to answer. Since I have 3 hours  per day on my commutes to and from work, I read many books, So many, that I forget either what they were about or if I even read them. That doesn't prevent any of these as being among my favorites. In fact I had forgotten to list "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" bySusanna Clarke, but it was one of my favorites.

Of course when I can recall lines from the book, as in the line in "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver where the character Frida Kahlo  praises  young self doubting Harrison Sheppard saying he definitely is a writer .."I see a boy who chews off the ends of his fingers and bleeds ink.”, I would say  is it is one of my favorites.

Now I feel that any book where I think about the characters after I finish reading it  is one I really liked. That includes books I felt I did not really like while reading them. Is that contradictory? Well, I guess it will take some more writing in this blog to help me clarify this. Or not.