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!

My sister lent me one of those child torture books. It wasn’t A Child Called It but from what I gather it was like it, about a woman who wrote about her completely shit upbringing. It was heartbreaking and horrific and made me feel sick. I have never read one of those types of books again.

So many, from childhood Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Water Babies. In my teens Gone with the Wind, Roots and The Thorn Birds. As an adult, Star of the Sea, Middlesex, The Poisonwood Bible, The Quincunx, Angela's Ashes, Atonement, Shadow of the Wind, The Crimson Petal and the White, Life after Life, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, Possession, The Goldfinch and from this year The Heart's Invisible Furies, to mention but a few.

Rules of Civilty
A Gentleman in Moscow

Both by Amor Towles. Fantastic author.

Other than a few you've already mentioned...
The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth
A Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (A Trilogy in 5 Parts) by Douglas Adams
A Boy Called It by Dave Pelzer
Kingsbridge Series and The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Beyond the Blue Mountains and The Sixth Wife by Jean Plaidy

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Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Country Child and A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
The Red House by E Nesbit
Family by Susan Hill
The Players Boy and The Players and the Rebels by Antonia Forest
Coming Home by Rosamund Pilcher
I could go on and on!

Goodnight Mr tom
Child c
Gruffulo

Possession by AS Byatt
Mr Wroe’s virgins, can’t remember the author

anything by marian Keyes
the boy in the stripped pyjamas
the lovely bones
a boy called it
most Cecilia Aherne are good too

Disfordarkchocolate - those would be in my top 10 . And love dark chocolate

Will add le grande meaulnes , brideshead revisited , Miss Smillas feeling for snow , decline and fall , secret history

The weirdstone of brisinghamen as a child. Because I lived near Alderly Edge. Could read that countless times.

Chickychoccyegg Are you my MIL? You have just listed her bookcase!

The Color Purple
To Sir with Love
A Kestrel for a Knave
1984
A Brave New World
Anna Karenina

The trick is to keep breathing by Janice Galloway. Very poignant and written in her unusual style.

haha legofriendly , im def not your mil, but she obv has great taste

Robin Hobbs Fitz and the Fool series's. In particular Fools Fate. Fabulous book and the characters in it will always stay with me.

Ooh, Ashhead, I have the Fool series sitting waiting. I've done the Invisible Library and the Chronicles of St. Mary's recently and am looking forward to trying the Fool series.

Doctor Zhivago, Harry Potter all of them, One hundred years of solitude, and the ones in your post.

Also, "Erotic stories for Punjabi widows", it's really funny, try it.

A few stick in my mind:

• Of mice and men (good old GCSEs)
• The Little House by Philippa Gregory
• me before you

Jojo moyes - Me before you (after the film)

Danielle steel - granny dan (about a ballet dancer)

Maureen Lee - Stepping stones

Also, I really liked some of Ken Follet books, especially the Century Trilogy, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Have you read Anna Karenina? I loved it.

Once by James Herbert

The hobbit by Tolkien

The Unwomanly Face Of War by Svetlana Alexievich. It's a harrowing true book of womens' experience of Russia during WW2.

Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody

Both horrific & fascinating in equal measure

Sarah's key. I've never forgotten it.

City of Joy - Domenic LaPierre

The Winds of War - Herman Wouk