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!

In Dubious Battle.

Mao's Last Dance
Never let me go
Alive
The Handmaids tale ( read this back in the 90's!)

Grapes of Wrath
Wasp Factory
The Shining
The Stand

Flowers in The Attic by VC Andrews.

oh crikey, go to watch the apprentice and there's so many replies when I return. Thanks for all those recommendations. keep 'em coming!

This is all; the pillow book of Cordelia Kenn

And its follow up

This Is All (The Dance Sequence)

By Aiden Chambers. Love this so much!

The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, I lived in them as a teen.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is possibly the most beautifully written book I’ve ever read.
The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh are so intricately detailed, so many characters and so much history, all about the lead up to the opium wars. Fascinating.

When I saw the thread title, first thought was Sunset Song.

Also The Wasp Factory, Crow Road and Complicity by Iain Banks.

Loved The Chosen, The Promise and The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok.

Most recently have got into Liane Moriarty (about a year before Big Little Lies) and have read all of her books.

I know this much is true by Wally Lamb.

Another for the tattooist if auschwitz , finished it in less than 24 hours.

The Butterfly House- Gripping; part of a series and not what you’d expect

I read Fleshmarket a very very long time ago and have never forgot it

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton

Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I ignored it for years because I didn’t think Magical Realism was for me but I found it utterly captivating.

The Girls by Lori Larsen ( I think , something similar anyway )
My sisters keeper by Jodi Picoult
Gone with the wind
Goodnight sweetheart by Dorothy Koomson
My best friends girl by Dorothy Koomson

Flowers in The Attic by VC Andrews

I was just about to post this one. Read this book OP, then you will want to read the follow ups and then all the rest of the Virginia Andrews books. Happy reading

So many already mentioned. I will do so again for emphasis, not repetition!
A little life
Katherine
The secret history
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Anna Karenina
Jamaica inn
Of mice and men
Asylum
Perfume

Flowers in the attic, the secret garden, the flamboya tree (equally haunting, horrific but beautiful at the same time)

The Kite Runner
Wuthering Heights
The Lovely Bones
Giovanni’s Room
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

jasper Forde. Genius if you have read a lot of the classics, so funny and gripping storylines! Start with The Eyre Affair. It does help if you have read Jane Eyre.

1984
Great Expectations
Bleak house
Rebecca
Sense and sensibility
The handmaid's tale

The Sparrow and Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Kate and Emma by Monica Dickens
The Girl with all the Gifts by M R Carey
The Passage, The Twelve and City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman
The Land of Lost Content by Denise Roberts (totally, totally unlike anything else on this list but one of my favourites all the same)
Involved by Kate O'Riordan
Wool, Shift and Dust by Hugh Howey

Another Woman by Penny Vincenzi

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

Tall Poppies by Louise Bagshawe

The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

Everyone is writing quite heavy going stuff but... Life and Soul of the Party by Mike Gayle, he's normally verging on romantic comedy but there's a scene in this book near the start where someone dies and it absolutely gets me every time (I've read it 3 times!) it's so well written and you don't see this coming but it's so scary as you can imagine it happening in your group of friends.

Lost horizon by James Hilton.

Never expected to enjoy it as much as I did. I found it fascinating!

Am currently rereading Mansfield park (my favourite Austen, a close second bring persuasion) and The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn.

Second vote here for Wild Swans

I have some of your books on my favs list too.

Jane Eyre?

The one book I’ve never forgotten though is “the hen that dreamed she could fly” by Sun-mi Hawang a korean author.
It’s a story about a hen (yes a chicken!) but is actually a story of bravery, sacrifice, loyalty and a mother’s love. I originally bought it for 99p as a kindle deal, but have since had to buy the book as I love it so much.