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!

Following

Flowers for Alger non, it is only a short story but really struck a chord with me for some reason

Mainly books read as a child:
Anne of Green Gables series
A little princess
Secret Garden
Ballet Shoes
Just as long as we’re together
Various Enid Blyton books

This is such an interesting thread, I write as a hobby and I aspire to be the kind of writer that has an impact like these books have.

I quite like the Butterfly Cove series, not sure who by but they're fairly new. I also liked Swan by Wendy Gilker, the grammar is appalling but it's such a beautiful message about two beautiful women that makes me want to make a similar impact on someone.

@Wearywithteens

I picked this up in Oxfam a while ago, then didn't start reading it until about two weeks ago, and literally couldn't put it down! I was an emotional wreck at the end, it's one of the best books I have ever ever read!

I came onto say Chinese Cinderella! Can’t believe it’s the third or fourth post 😁 I’ve read many many books but there was an impact as a child reading that book that I haven’t forgotten. Can’t pinpoint why. Also flowers in the attic series is hard to forget

Thelastredwinegum - Yes!

I read ps I love you in one night alternating between tears and laughing out loud (recent breakup). When I was 15 I read a trashy romance called treasure me about 20 times over and over 🙀

Oh goodness so many...
The Secret History
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Stoner
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Hand That First Held Mine
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary
Dracula
So Much for That
The Post Birthday World
Never Let Me Go
Perfume
Memoirs of a Geisha
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

As a child...
The Bewitching of Alison Allbright
All Roald Dahl
Mallory Towers

Sooo many more

Almost too many to name! But recent discoveries (thanks to my book club!) include:

The Book Thief
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Help
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Wonder

Goodnight Mr Tom and five chimneys

The Outcast
A Fatal Inversion
The Help
The Collector

In no order of preference, just books that I have stuck with me.

Bridget Jones Diary - one of the first books I really found laugh out loud funny, I remember snorting with laughter at the time. Not sure I would find it as funny now, but at the time I was single, etc

Where the Red Fern Grows - read it as a tween and sobbed so much

Flowers in the Attic

Tess of the D'urbervilles

Great Expectations

Wild Swans

So many books to love out there.

Oh and the Magic FarAway Tree and famous five books

The river by Herman Hesse

Gypsy Boy
Never let me go
Rose West, the making of a monster

Homestead by rosina lipi
If no one speaks of remarkable thing
The trouble with goats and sheep
Time travellers wife
Shadow of the wind
Kite runner
Thousand splendid suns
Once on a house on fire
We were the mulvaneys
Rachel's holiday
The book thief
Ealinor Oliphant
Olive kettiridge
After you'd gone (Maggie ofarrell)
Lovely bones
Anything by Anita Shrieve _ early novels
State of indepence-douglas Kennedy
Dead heart _ douglas kennedy

Have t RTFT as half-a sleep but off the top of my head;

Grapes of Wrath
American Psycho

The Stand
Jane Eyre
Birdsong
Bleak House
The French Lieutenant's Woman.

The way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Or

The wise mans fear by Patrick rothfuss

Also (waking up now)

In Cold Blood
crime & Punishment
Cat's Eye
Acid House
Anna Karenina
Down and Out in Paris and London

Goodnight Mr Tom

That should be The Acid House sorry (Irvine Welsh)

The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Dracula too, it seems to be so overused in films etc but when you actually read the book it's genuinely chilling.

The Woman in Black.

Lady Chatterley's Lover.

I'll shut up now.

The Flock by Joan Frances Casey

Angela's Ashes. True story and heart breakingly told. Inspirational and full of optimism too.

Goodnight Mister Tom. The backdrop of World War II was soberingly interwoven into the story.