to ask what book you've read that you'll never forget?

[sunshineNdaisies]

I'm looking for new books to read and I'm trying to find something similar to those I've read over the years that have stuck with me. I'll start:

Of mice and men, the rats of nimh, persuasion, pride and prejudice, nicholas nickleby, oliver twist, little house on the prairie, the help, 12 years a slave, the color purple, the red pony, sunset song, memoirs of a geisha, little women, all the harry potter books, the prime of miss jean brodie,

I'm sure I'll remember more

Please recommend a book that will stick with me! Nothing scary though, I don't like scary. Also I hated Wuthering Heights so that stuck with me for the wrong reasons!

Tale from a time being by Ruth ozeki

I shall wear midnight by Terry Pratchett (actually everything by him but that one in particular)

the hobbit (far superior to the Lord of the rings)

journey to the centre of the earth and 20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules verne

of mice and men and the catcher in the rye

her Benny by Silas K hocking never have I sobbed so much at a book until I read...

.. The fault in our stars by John Green. The film doesn't do it justice at all.

Harry Potter (all of it)

Black beauty

Norse mythology, American gods and neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

And strangely enough a book from when I was in primary school called tales from the magic rocking horse. I still have my copy and have just finished reading it to ds who seems just as fascinated by it as I was.

Tuesdays with Morrie most definitely.
Really surprised only one other person has listed this too.

War if the worlds by hg wells
Time travellers wife by Audrey niffenegger
Pride and prejudice

Also good omens by pratchett and gayman

Wuthering heights

Oh, so many memories in the recommendations here!

From my childhood The Brothers Lionheart and the The Dark Is Rising quintology are probably the ones that stuck with me most (both Fantasy of a kind), but then, I read them so many times...

Yes to Middlesex, God of Small Things and We Need to Talk about Kevin, the latter is almost unbearable though. To be read once only, but glad I did.

I love Jonathan Lethem, his books really stick with me. He writes the underbelly to Donna Tart's East Coast America. Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn are both amazing (would recommend MB as audio book)

The Invisible World by Stuart Archer Cohen is so vividly atmospheric I can't forget it.

The Judas Child by Carol O'Connel is a great, unusual crime/suspense one.

On the other end of the spectrum I read Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I hated it so much it made me angry, it must have been over 10 years ago but I still talk about how bloody awful that book is

Ooh, forgot to mention The Once and Future King by TH White

Middlemarch. That last paragraph will never ever leave me.
The Secret History
The kite runner/a thousand splendid suns/and the mountains echoed.

The sea sisters
Gone with the wind
The handmaids tale
Kane and Abel
Scarlett

A few I’ve loved over the years :
All quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
Also going to chuck in an author as opposed to a single novel - Alice Hoffman. I read every one of her early books as soon as they were published - Here on Earth, The River King, At risk ... always a great read.

Katherine, by Anya Seton, I sobbed at the end when I was about 15 and still sniff now I'm 70.

goodnight mr tom

I haven't read the whole thread - and someone may well have mentioned it already - but Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth" is an incredibly powerful autobiography, a tale of love and loss in the First World War and its aftermath. So very topical too, with the centenary of the Armistice coming next month. Definitely in my top three all time favourite books, it sparked a lifelong interest in the human cost of that war.

The Magus..John Fowles
The fall of light..Niall Williams
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
East of Eden
The Shipping News

Mumsa I loved pony books as a child - they were popular then but seem to have gone out of fashion.
National Velvet has stayed with me though.
I didn’t dare read Black Beauty as I knew it would be too sad.

The Snow Child
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Pride and Prejudice
Memoirs of a Geisha
Great Expectations
A Thosand Splendid Suns - this one changed my life. An amazing book.

Rebecca
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Crucible

The night circus

The golem and the djinni

I second (and third) many that have already been mentioned (Rebecca, The Secret History, Precious Bane, His dark materials, etc).

These also stay with me:
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
The Aspern Papers, Henry James
Love for Lydia, HE Bates
The little stranger, Sarah Waters
The Once and future king, TH White
The Name of the rose, Umberto Echo
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Stranger’s child, Alan Hollinghurst
The Winter ghosts, Kate Mosse (not scary!)

Skallagrigg by William Horwood - I cried so much over this book. Every now and then I go back and read it again. It's been almost 30 years since the first time and I find it changes each time I read it.

Yes, theycallmebabydriver I really detested Labyrinth too (which is why I was bemused by how much I liked The Winter ghosts)

Witchlight by Susan Fletcher. Just a beautiful story.

A Train in Winter, Village of Secrets and Dancing to the Precipice, all by Caroline Moorehead.
People of the book, Geraldine Brooks.

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and his other books.
The Crucible
Wonder by Rachel Vail
Anything by Judy Blume. (Just putting that there as my SIL had never heard of her)