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!

Also 'Eleanor oliphant is completely fine' is a lovely book. Similar to 'the Rosie project'

Enders Game and the books that follow it

The tenant of Wildfell hall
Lady of Hay
Winter Solstice

Havent read the full thread - sorry

The lovely bones by alice sebold - amazing

I've also got two I'll never forget but don't know the titles.

One I read at college, I got it from the library. It was about a woman who realised she was unhappy with her life and had never been in love with her husband so she left him and got a new life.

The other was set in historical times in a fishing port and a woman was ravished and it was about finding who did it. I don't know where I got it and I never finished it. I lost it somewhere but it's stayed with me because I didn't find out who did it.

@pangolina Another one here who loved divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood 😁 Also little altars everywhere

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Remains of the Day - the most reread of all my books.
The Shipping News (much better than Brokeback Mountain).
Anything by Raymond Carver or Albert Camus.
Three Men and a Boat (laugh out loud funny).

Cats eye by Margaret Atwood. The reality of bullying by little girls

Robber bride again by Margaret Atwood

House of spirits Isabel Allende

Light between the oceans you WILL cry

The Green Mile
PS I Love You
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Me Before You
The Long Walk

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. It's about an English mans search for his 5yr son in post ww2 Paris after he went missing during the occupation when his frenchborn wife was killed by the gestapo, the last line of the book has haunted me for years

Ghost children by Sue Townsend.

A thousand splendid suns

I have never met anyone else who has read this - “There is a Happy Land” by Keith Waterhouse. It was for my GCSE English/Literature open study (1988).

A god in ruins
Watership down
Grapes of wrath
The kite runner
Dr sleep
The snow child

Lots of mine have already been said on here, but one more to add- Junk by Melvin Burgess. I read it at 15 (it had a 15 age rating then- I think we were alot more shockable in the early 00's) and it changed my perception of the world and opened my eyes to other teenagers realities of running away, drugs and city life outside of my pretty sheltered home, family and friendship group on the Isle of Wight. I adored it from the first read and still read it now despite being much more worldly wise

Me before you
The kite runner
Anna Karenin
The boy in the striped pyjamas
Sophie's Choice

The Kite Runner.

From Lark Rise to Candleford.

Jamaica Inn.

Behind the Scenes at The Museum, Kate Atkinson, absolute favourite have read it every couple of years for the past 15 odd years.

Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson

The Memory Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards. Makes my heart hurt to think about it still even though it’s ten years since I read it.

Fortunes Rock & Seaglass, Anita Shreve, classy, good old fashioned romance

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks, devastating and fascinating

Divine Secrets of The YaYa Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells. Delicious!

@pangolina The Hand That First Held Mine, was thinking of that and couldn't remember the blinking title, oh God my heart. Beautiful book. Don't think I could read now having my own little boy. After You’d Gone by the some author is also brilliant.

Most of the books on this thread also loved Kate Atkinson life after life and god in ruins wow

Matt haig how to stop time. Read recently slightly blew my mind can’t stop thinking about it. Man who ages more slowly than everyone else - 41 yet born in hugenot France and his wife died of the plague in Tudor times. Your kids would age and die but you outlive them

SuperStellaElla Ah Any Human Heart, brilliant! Have you ever seen the C4 adaptation? Blinking brilliant, one of the few times where a think a book has been done real justice.

The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman and any/all of the Adrian Mole diaries by Sue Townsend
I can’t express how profoundly I experienced both these works

So many of my favorite books have been mentioned. Anything by Jane Austen, wuthering heights, handmaids tale, the moonstone, sophie's choice, remains of the day, the count of Monte Christo, Oliver twist and lots of other Dickens novels. And my childhood favorite, the magic Faraway tree.

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