#admin googling ACD's favorite books

[ask-arthur-conan-doyle]

Hi, Arthur! What's your favorite book? I would also like to ask you if there's one book you like enough to wish that you could have been the one to write it. I know that this might happen to writers or just artists in general. If you like one book and you feel like you could have written it too, it gets disappointing. ☹️ Personally, I get the same feeling with poetry or simple quotes written in books. I write poetry in my free time, but it sounds like the words of a drunk divorced middle aged man proving his love at 3 am for his ex wife while he tries to be poetic lol

— Sincerely, 🌙

This is a rather profound question that deserves an equally serious answer.

My two favorite books are Bernard Hamilton's The Light and Frank Norris' McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. Both of these books are considered to be a bit melodramatic. The Light touches on religious discussions and certainly isn't for everyone, but it's a favorite of mine.

McTeague is.. well, it's a bit hard to describe. It touches on the life of a young dentist who courts and marries his childhood sweetheart, and it devolves from there into the titular character becoming increasingly more abusive and spiraling downhill.

It's an interesting read, but perhaps both of them are a bit dated.