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Renfrewshire's best loved Scottish reads, voted by library members.
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We asked Renfrewshire readers to vote for their favourite Scottish book.
The votes revealed that Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the all time favourite. This classic Scottish novel, the first of the trilogy 'A Scots Quair', tells the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in a farming community in the northeast of Scotland at the start of the 20th century.
The novel deals with issues such as the effects of the First World War, traditional wonderful love story and the character of Chris Guthrie is one of the best loved in Scottish writing.
The votes revealed that Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the all time favourite. This classic Scottish novel, the first of the trilogy 'A Scots Quair', tells the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in a farming community in the northeast of Scotland at the start of the 20th century.
The novel deals with issues such as the effects of the First World War, traditional wonderful love story and the character of Chris Guthrie is one of the best loved in Scottish writing.
All the titles voted for can be borrowed from Renfrewshire Libraries. Browse our library catalogue to reserve your copy.
How many have you read?
- Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- The 39 Steps by John Buchan
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
- One fine day in the middle of the night by Christopher Brookmyre
