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!

Watership Down is fantastic. It is much much more than a children’s book. Please read it.

The shadow of the wind

A little life. Harrowing but beautiful

If this is man - Primo Levi

I'm hopeless. I barely remember a thing about the books I've read unless I read them again and again.

I suppose We Need To Talk About Kevin stuck with me in a certain way.

I need to write all these down! I started the book theif. Might need to try it again.

Wearywithteens, I read An Evil Cradling 20 years ago, and although I've read hundreds of books since, nothing has compared. Beautiful writing and utterly unforgettable.

Please Daddy , No ! Stuart Howarth ...
This book is ingrained in my memory . It was the hardest book I've ever read and many times threw it down not able to read it any further yet had to pick it back up to read more .

@Athena51 did you like Scents too? I forgot The Children Act and the one by Ian McEwan where the the protagonist is a brain surgeon ? ☺️

Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
1984
How Green Was My Valley.
Water ship Down.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Absolutely love this book.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The power of now by Eckhart Tolle
Into the wild

The Book Thief, The God of Small Things, Gorsky, The Well, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Human Croquet, A Man Called Ove...

What a fantastic thread!!!

I recommend.......
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov
Love in a time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All 3 are amazing books that I have read umpteen times and I never get sick of them!

The kite runner
A thousand splendid suns
The red tent
A million tiny pieces
A crack in forever

Never Let Me Go

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Unbearable but brilliant.

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro,
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood,
everything John Irving has ever written,
The Alanna books by Tamora Pierce

Ooh, I forgot Rebecca, I will have to add that.

I’m sure I will have to continue to add to my list but I won’t post each time.

Jamie Andrews life story.

Julian and Creation both by Gore Vidal.
The Last Empress. Anchee Min
Wild Swans, Jung Chang.

Helen Forrester - Tupence to cross the Mersey plus the other three in the set. It’s her autobiography of her teen childhood after a dramatic change in circumstances and her parents who didn’t cope with the change well.

The Velveteen Rabbit.
Courtney

A million little pieces and My friend Leonard by James Frey

Sabriel and the rest of the old kingdom series by Garth Nix

The KingKiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss