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!

Swan Song by Robert R McCammon and the Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Bridges over Madison County by Robert James Walker

Not Without my Daughter a true story by Betty Mahmoodie

Flowers for algernon

The secret history, Donna Tartt
The cazalet books by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Almost anything writtenby Elizabeth Bowen but especially To the north, The last September or The death of the heart
Anything by Robertson Davies

I agree with Hawksmoor. I haven't read it for probably 25 years, at the time I thought about it for probably a decade afterwards.

Anna Karenina
Dr Zhivago
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre

Loads of mine have been mentioned already but of the ones that haven't:
Bridget Jones Diary (FUCKWITTAGE!!!)
Transpotting
Both of these books are much much better than the films (as is usually the case). I read my first copy of transpotting so many times it fell apart and I had to buy another.

In the woods by Tana French
Selfish People by Lucy English

I would actually like to plug selfish people a bit more, I bought it on impulse as a teenager at Bristol uni and it's amazing but I don't think many people will have read it. It appears to be 99p on kindle at the moment

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CC8B99S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=mumsnetforum-21

Ooh and "Good in bed" by Jennifer Weiner

Bilgewater -Jane Gardam
The crow road - Iain banks
Cannery row - john Steinbeck
If not now when - primo Levi
Pat Barker's regeneration trilogy
I just read 'where the world ends' by Geraldine McCaughrean - historical story about the St Kilda disaster.
Off to buy 'A prayer for Owen meany' now....thanks for the suggestions!

Outlander booms by Diana Gabaldon.
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Chinese Cinderella - my son's favourite :)

Beneath a scarlet sky
Perfume

Oooh yes @DrawingLife The Brothers Lionheart!
I love it, and still have my childhood copy.
That last line "I can see the light Jonathan" can still move me to tears.

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS Yes! Much worse now actually than when I was a kid. I just accepted it. Now I know I won't be able to read it to my LO. I'd choke up too badly. I can't wait to give it to her, but need to wait for the right age...

So many mentioned, but I need to add a couple.
The wings of the dove, Henry James and Orlando , Virginia Woolf.

Of Love and Bondage (Somerset Maugham).

The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)

The End of the Affair (Graham Greene). Actually almost anything by Graham Greene.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Alan Garner). A childhood book I always come back to.

The Crystal Cave,The Hollow HIlls & The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart - another longtime favourite that I return to and always enjoy.

And many others of course, just can't think of them right now...

I love, the five people you meet in heaven.
My 12 year old daughter’s favourite is, my sister lives on the mantelpiece.
Op, I remember reading the rats of Nimh at school.

Small sacrifices
Kes

11.22.63 by Stephen King. I've read it several times and will read it again.

The Kite Runner. I read three or four books a week and that ones stayed with me. Love it! Also 'Meg' was a great read 20 years ago, brilliant book and plausible plot. They've now made it into a film. I haven't seen that yet.

Shadow of the Wind - one of my favourites

I read a children's books called Evacuee when I was about 9 - I loved it so much I wish I could read it again
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Glass Castle
The Outsiders
We need to talk about Kevin
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
And Beloved - because it was the worst book I've ever read

Then She was gone - Lisa Jewell
The Nightingale - Kristen Hannah

The Power of One: coming of age story in 1930's South Africa. Haven't read it since I was about 13 but it's something I've thought about often.
Brave New World: gave me a love of dystopia
The Mammoth Hunters (and the rest of the series) this series is at times completely ridiculous, and lots of cringy sex scenes, but I've never read anything else that's transported me so well and got me so keenly interested in pre-history and other things. An epic journey these novels.

Lots of others that have been mentioned I've enjoyed, but haven't stuck with me the same way. I've just started the Book Thief so I'm pleased to see it mentioned a lot, I think the writing is incredible so far.