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!

I love you lot, so many favourites mentioned on here.
OP I found Wuthering Heights really irritating and let that put me off more Brontes for years. I was wrong. Jane Eyre is now up there with P&P and Persuasion, although I haven't reread it the way I have those. Definitely a landmark book. So pleased A God In Ruins is coming up so often, I'm about a quarter through it.

I forgot this one; it really has stayed with me as it is quite haunting. If you like a thriller with an edge, go for it.

The Three - Sarah Lotz.

Wild Swans

The Choice - Edith Eger. Such a moving and powerful book. Really changed me and helped me come to terms with losing my Dad.

Penny Vincenzi's spoils of time trilogy

Reasons to stay alive - Matt Haig

This book did actually change my life as it made me realise I'm not the only person who thinks like this...

Why be happy when you can be normal by Jeanette Winterson
Educated by Tara Westover
neither of which are novels but don't let that stop you
Diana by RF Delderfield
Mourning Ruby by helen dunmore
Enduring Love by Ian Mcewan
Cider with Rosie

@EssentialHummus

Stoner is a beautiful book, can't explain why. I remember staying up on night when my exboyfriend was working on his thesis, and read it snug under the covers with a dim light on coming from ex's desk in front of me.

Such happy memories, makes me nostalgic

Oh yes I’d forgotten about own meany.

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig

Mischling 2nd Degree by Ilse Koehn

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, probably the first book I read right through, it was such a page turner.
I didn't get read to as a child so apart from school reading books this would have been the first for me.

Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay. In a way I wish I hadn’t read it, it is so upsetting.
But I’ll never forget it.

I love this thread. But going to cost me a fortune!

The Gargoyle
The Red Tent
Wolf Hall
Beach Music
A Traveller in Time (as a child)

The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy!

The Tattooist of Auschwitz. SO moving and based on a true story.

The Colour Purple - my all time favourite book
Shantaram
Catcher in the Rye
We need to talk about Kevin

And yes yes to wolf hall. Hilary mantel is absolutely brilliant. There are so many amazing books out there it’s really good to have a thread to remind me of the ones I might have not re read in a while.

The Boy in the striped Pyjamas.

Possession
Wuthering Heights
The Bell Jar

YY to Charlotte's Web. Also A Town like Alice and Trustee from the toolroom.

When i was 11 , i read A Summer to Die. Cried my eyes out and slept in my sisters bed for a week.

I love all of jojo moyes books, especially Me Before You. The film, however, was awful.

The Grapes of Wrath

Flowers in the attic

A boy called it