There is the question that bookish types loathe.

What is your favourite book?

It should be our favourite question. Instead it is one that fills me with dread. How am I supposed to answer that? Will they judge me for my answer? Do they mean of all time or just this year? Should I choose something that they might have read? Or worse still, let me think of every book I’ve ever read and order it right now.

Basically my brain does this…

My thought process (post panic) went to my go-to favourite YA books of all time.

• On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (swoony, cry-inducing, head scratching awesomeness)
• Mandragora by David McRobbie (set in Victoria over two timelines with possession and lots of creepy stuff)
• Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley (one night in Melbourne with the best nose break in the history of the written word)

But why just three?

I couldn’t pick more – the thought process got too complicated and it felt as though I’d be killing many of my darlings. It seemed easier (or maybe lazier) to stick with my favourite three.

So, I am curious, how did you pick yours?

Did your brain collapse for a moment as well?