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

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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!

Yes yes yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns, absolutely amazing! A book I read first age 10 which has stuck with me and I've reread many times is Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian... Absolutely heart breaking and life affirming at the same time. Read Eleanor Olifant is Completely Fine recently and loved it. The Millennium Trilogy are brilliant, as are the Hunger Games books.

The secret history, Donna Tartt
The cazalet books by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Almost anything writtenby Elizabeth Bowen but especially To the north, The last September or The death of the heart
Anything by Robertson Davies

The Reader
Time's Arrow
The Remains of the Day
Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice

Bright Day, J B Priestley
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Ten Thousand Eyes ( don’t remember author - story of WWII French Resistance)
The Van, Roddy Doyle

And how could I forget Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel... And the next three or four in the series, transports you to Neanderthal times perfectly.

The Green Mile.
To Kill a mocking bird
The time travellers wife.

Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth. The honesty and the detail, at times terrifying but full of courage.

Girl with a pearl earring. Tracy chevalier

The girl you left behind - Jojo Moyes

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Loving all these! Have read many of them.
I would recommend Wonder- a brilliant book. Kite Runner, The 10th wife,the Lido..... so many great books around.

I loved Lost Horizon too.

And I second Friedrich. I haven't read it since I was a teenager, but after I first read it, I re-read it over and over again. It's simply told, but I found it mesmerising (and horrific).

The Virgin Suicides was also unforgettable. A dark, haunting and truly unique novel.

I’m so glad to see a Thousand Splendid Suns on this thread.

It is my all time greatest read, several times over.

But even some of my most well read friends haven’t read it and whenever I mention it to anyone new they’ve never heard of it.

I’ve honestly never found another book I’ve loved so much.

I also really loved The Day we Disappeared.

oh yes, the dave pelzer books. They will always stick with me too. Not because they are brilliantly written though, which is more what I am looking for.

I've just remembered another book I loved as a kid - Rebecca's world. Also the secret garden yes.

I actually know two of the authors mentioned by PPs personally. I didn't like either of their books. One is a current bestseller. Obvs I haven't told them this.

Possessing the secret of joy, and the colour purple - both Slice Walker.

A thousand splendid suns and kite runner - both Khaled Hussein.

Skellagrigg - William Horwood

Jigsaw Man. Paul Britton.

Born a Crime
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine
Tuesdays wtih Morrie
Goodnight Mister Tom

Oh. I’ve just remembered one that does come close to TSS for me. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom.

Agree god of small things, the book thief and time travellers wife. Also the rats of nimph!
Adding the alchemist, les mis and the crystal singer ( this I think is my fave book ever and I drift away into an imaginary world every time I read it- my daughter loves it too)
Hmm also Anna karenina

Exodus by Leon Uris...

A piece of cake by cupcake brown

The Time Traveller's Wife

Another vote for A Thousand Splendid Suns!
I've also loved Du Maurier's The House on the Strand, Erskine's House of Echoes, 1984, The Time Machine, Jurassic Park, Watership Down, the Kingkiller Chronicles (hurry up with book 3!). So many good suggestions here.

great tips to add to my Kindle reading lists, lol - but I have loved all of Kate Mortons books, like The Lake House; The Secret Keeper; The Distant Hours

Goodnight mr tom. I really loved the book and the TV movie. My son loves it now too.

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