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to ask what book you've read that you'll never forget?

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sunshineNdaisies · 17/10/2018 20:57

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!

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Cheerymom · 17/10/2018 21:33

Never Let me Go, If This is a Man, Night, Wuthering Heights, The End of the Affair.

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 17/10/2018 21:33

A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute.
This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover. It's a ya book but I love it and have read it so many times over the years.
Maia by Richard Adams.

Athena51 · 17/10/2018 21:33

@Mammysin I had to goggle Scents to remember it and the cover brought it all back to me. I have to confess that I loved Scruples (and all the Judith Krantz novels). I read a weird mixture of feminist novels, classics, sex and shopping novels and historical bodice rippers as a teenager Smile

God, I love books...

Zuma76 · 17/10/2018 21:34

The red tent
Room

Thisgirlcant · 17/10/2018 21:35

The lady killer by Martina Cole. Everyone I lend it to say it's brilliant and they can't put it down, unlike some of her other crap books.

Angeles Ashes.

The long walk by Steven King. I think one day it'll happen.

Eleanor Elephant is completely fine. I laughed, I cried. Gorgeous book!

QuestionableMouse · 17/10/2018 21:35

The art of racing in the rain. It's fantastic but I cry every time I read it.

White bones. Horrid torture porn. First book I returned. It was awful.

JupiterBelle · 17/10/2018 21:35

The bronze horseman.

I’ve reread that book so many times!

WereAllBladesArentWe · 17/10/2018 21:36

One Day
Eat Pray Love - a cliche but oh blimey I loved it. Read it at a point in my life where I wanted to kill the narrator and hug her all at the same time

Aquamarine1029 · 17/10/2018 21:36

Devil in the White City.

Laiste · 17/10/2018 21:36

to ask what book you've read that you'll never forget?

In answer to that basic question:

bloomin' The Green Mile.

I'll never forget sobbing so hard at the end that i couldn't actually read the pages properly!

Justonemoremojito · 17/10/2018 21:36

As you all seem to be book addicts, hoping someone can help me, I read a book a good few years ago about a girl who was growing up in Sri Lanka during a war & she was sent away for an arranged marriage, the cover was Orange & pink sunset...... I really want to read it again but can't think of the name xx

Anasnake · 17/10/2018 21:37

Watership Down
The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

ProudThrilledHappy · 17/10/2018 21:37

The House Of God, not exactly warm and fuzzy subject but it’s stuck with me since

Baaaaaaaaaaaa · 17/10/2018 21:37

The Jalna series by Mazo de la Roche (a series of books covering 100 years of a family)

DannyWallace · 17/10/2018 21:38

The book thief

thegreylady · 17/10/2018 21:38

A children’s book ‘The Dark is Rising’ by Susan Cooper; it is one of a quintet of books but it is a wonderful standalone book too.
The White Dragon by Ann McCaffrey
The Bone Clock by David Mitchell
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Many many more

ShutUpBaz · 17/10/2018 21:39

1984

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

Lord of the Rings

All the Game of Thrones

Anything by Sir Terry Pratchett, especially Mort.

Careylisa · 17/10/2018 21:40

Girlfriend in a coma - Douglas Coupland

thereallochnessmonster · 17/10/2018 21:41

The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
The remains of the day
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Second Khaled Hosseini books
David Lodge books - I love Ginger, you’re barmy, The British Museum is falling down, and How far can you go?
Mitch Alborn books - Tuesdays with Morrie and The five people you meet in heaven

Great thread! So many fab book recommendations here!

RaggieDolls · 17/10/2018 21:41

Agree with so many of these. So pleased 'A Town Like Alice' has been mentioned.

I'm realising how much I miss rereading books. Prior to getting a Kindle I used to reread a lot because I'd finish a book before I had time to go to the bookshop. These days I download something new straight away so don't reread much.

bevelino · 17/10/2018 21:41

Jude the Obscure
Return of the Native
The ragged trousered philanthropist

SplishSplashSplosh · 17/10/2018 21:41

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (first and only booked I've cried at)
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Not Without My Daughter
Fredrich

darkriver198868 · 17/10/2018 21:42

Two books
Child Called it by Dave Pelzer
When a rabbit howls.

MrsDesireeCarthorse · 17/10/2018 21:43

The Poisonwood Bible
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
Catcher in the Rye
The Moonstone
Lucky Jim

44PumpLane · 17/10/2018 21:43

Some of the books already mentioned feature in my unforgotten titles so I will just say those that have yet to feature -

Jurassic Park
The Lost World
timeline

All by Michael Crichton- always thought he wrote so grippingly well