persuasion!! i love persuasion. probably my favourite austen (although i’ve only read three of them). plus the recent bbc version of it is awesome.

ttl is good but infuriating.

Definitely ‘Persuasion’! But then I’m a total Austen geek so that’d probably be my standard answer no matter what the other option was.

‘To the Lighthouse’ is one of the only books I started and didn’t ever finish, which I’m quite ashamed about.
Having said that, last summer I stayed in Virginia Woolf’s summer-house in St Ives, which was fun because you could see The Lighthouse from the living room!

Another vote for Persuasion!

I hated To The Lighthouse. I gave up reading it after a while and just read the top line of every tenth page… :s

No offence to Persuasion - I love all of Jane Austen and I think either that or Sense and Sensibility are my favourites of her works - but I’m going to defend To the Lighthouse. I didn’t get beyond page 5 the first time I read it, but the second time I really enjoyed it. It’s beautifully written - I especially like the image comparing the stars to “platters of brightness” - with very carefully written characters, and a really interesting and I feel successful experiment in Modernist fiction. But I’d recommend Mrs Dalloway if it’s the first time you’ve ever read Virginia Woolf as that’s an easier read. I also like A Room of One’s Own.