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!

A little life, I have never sobbed so much
Shantaram
We were liars
I am pilgrim
1984

To kill a mockingbird

The Kite Runner
The heart's invisible furies
We need to talk about Kevin
The green mile
All the light we cannot see
Eleanor oliphant

Recently I really enjoyed My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Oh and also maybe The Crimson Petal and the White. A bit different to my other suggestions, but for a large book the writing was immersive and full of fantastic descriptions, I read it really quickly

helenadove I read Children of the Dust as a teen, then downloaded it to my kindle a few years ago. I have re-read it about five times since. The first part is so, so good.

For me, which I think have all been mentioned.

Never Let Me Go
The Handmaid’s Tale
Notes on a Scandal

Also The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh, and The Unit by Ninni Holmquist.

Any of Khaled Hosseini books
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Hiding Places by Katherine Webb
The Handmaids Tale

The original The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle is fantastic. I read that several times as a child.
Izzy Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voight
The Bewitching of Allison Allbright by Alan Davidson
They were all books I read as a child and enjoyed.

The bone clocks
A little life
Game of thrones (and the rest of the series)
Rebecca (and the authorised sequel Rebecca's tale)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
The Haunting of Hill House
IT

There's hundreds more that haunt me. But those are the first that come to mind right now.

Pig Island by Mo Hayder

His Dark Materials Trilogy
Any Human Heart
Middlesex
The Secret History
The Sun Also Rises
Life After Life

Oh, and to go against the grain, I HATED A Little Life more than any book I have ever read. I forced myself to finish it when I should have given up.

The Wasp Factory

If you love Austen and Harry Potter then I recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (if you haven’t already read it). Probably my favourite book. Most of my other favourites have already been mentioned.

Ps - I also hated Wuthering Heights!

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.... and I've just seen that it's coming out as a film very shortly.

Alexander McCall Smith's No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Also his Scotland Street series. Fabulous and beautifully observed.

Everyone must read BURIAL RITES by Hannah Kent. It is compulsory!!!!!!!!

Ghost children by sue Townsend.

Katherine by Anya Seton is my favourite historical novel.

Oh, and the First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

Possessing The Secret Of Joy
Memoires of a Geisha
The Timetravellers Wife
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I'm currently reading Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - the first book I've managed to read in 2 years and I love it!

I second Stoner
And in fact so many books in this thread.
I'll add The Pillars of the Earth, Wolf Hall and Crime and Punishment.

Clan of the cave bear by Jean Auel & also Valley of the horses & Mammoth hunters by her.

A Dolls house by Ibsen

The little match girl H C A ndersen

The brothes Lionheart & Emil from Lonneberg Astrid Lindgren

Hounds of the Baskerville - Arthur Conan Doyle

Inferno by Dante

His dark materials
The crimson petal and the white
My brilliant friend - the napolitan series