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!

Lincoln In The Bardo - George Saunders.

@MsTSwift that sounds very familiar, I think I may have heard it on R4.

I've recently read a book called orphan boys.
it's a true story and really amazingly moving

Flowers in the attic by Virginia Andrews

I reread it every few years.

I’ve not read the entire thread, only the first page, but I’ll suggest ‘any human heart’

As a child ,the classics; little women, all books in series. Black beauty , Tom Sawyer
Later .My family and other a animals by Gerald Durrell.this has to be my fav I read other books by him.
Of recent years, before the tv series Call the midwife.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin. Her adult books are good too.

Black beauty.
We need to talk about Kevin
My sister's keeper...
The pact - Jodie picoult. I could read that over and over and over again, and still feel like I've been punched in the stomach... I don't rate her latest ones...

Goodnight Mr Tom when I was younger.
Most recently The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Oh so many fabulous books listed already - posted faster than I could make my list. Yes yes to so many of these amazing reads. May I just add one more that has always stuck with me, and I have reread multiple times and got something more from it each time.

The Camerons by Robert Crichton.

In fact, I've just ordered a Kindle version because every single time I buy a hard copy I loan (give) it to someone to read. I have three pristine dust jackets.... One not so pristine book left.

As a child - Under the hawthorn tree
As an adult - A child called it

Alone in Berlin. About a couple who become part of the resistance in Nazi Germany & what happens to them. I loved that despite the circumstances he found a sort of happiness through having a meaningful purpose for the first time.

The Master and Margharita.

Desert flower by Waris dairie. True story, excellent book.

Jude the Obscure.- heartbreaking
The Touchstone -subtle
Ethan Frome - tragic, though it is one of those where you keep saying, don't do that, it will go horribly wrong!
The Time Machine
Crime and Punishment -fascinating and shocking
Katherine Mansfield's short stories - sublime
Wuthering Heights
Life After Life - mesmerising

And some nonfiction
Down and Out in Paris and London - how could this be people's lives?
The Road to Wigan Pier, likewise
Goodbye to Berlin
The Last Days of the Incas - more heartbreak

I don't read for the laughs!

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Shantaram
Sophie's Choice
All the Light We Cannot See

I've just finished Becoming my Michelle Obama and I really enjoyed it. I'm not really into American politics and didn't really have an opinion about the Obama's but I though it was the best book I've read in a long time

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Life After Life / A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson
An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Each of these books has had me weeping and each still haunts me.

Oh and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway. Devastating.

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel and Second Glance by Jodi Picoult.

Love loads listed on this thread but The Goldfinch is seriously the best book ever.

And the Kenneth Williams diaries is my second best. unlikely but it’s bloody fantastic

Lots of mine are in your OP and mentioned in the first few replies so I won’t repeat them.

Britt Marie was here and A man called Ove.

Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Nights at the Circus Angela Carter an The Little Prince.

To kill a mockingbird - "equal rights for all, special privileges for none"

Native Son
Invisible Man
For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enough
Anything by Bell Hooks