Books you will never forget

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Just wondering what books you’ve all read that are your favourites and will never forget . Ive read so many books but I really loved The Crimson Petal and the White , The Thirteenth Tale , Child 44 are just some examples . I have others but my brain fog has me forgetting the titles lol ( funny considering what my title is lol )

The Grapes of Wrath.

'One Pair of Hands' by Monica Dickens. My first grown-up book and one I have re-read many times.

The Grapes of Wrath

Remains of the Day

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica lives rent-free in my head, I think about it all the time.

A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg. It made me cry, the man's grief.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding . The boys innocence at what they see as an adventure and they must do what is expected of them....but ends with brutal tragedy .

So many - yes to The Remains of the Day. And his first two books, An Artist of the Floating World and A Pale View of Hills. All the Karl Ove Knausgaard books. The Echo Maker and Orfeo by Richard Powers. Lots of Iris Murdochs but especially The Sea, the Sea and An Accidental Man. The Human Stain by Philip Roth. John Banville The Book of Evidence. Doris Lessing the Martha Quest books. Lots more. Lots. I bloody love books. ❤️

Agree with The Remains of the Day, others are The Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, Rebecca, David Copperfield, Stoner, Sherlock Holmes, Beartown, The Kite Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Pillars of the Earth.

I'm currently reading A Little Life and think maybe it will be added to that list.

A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Prayer for Owen Meany

To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Shadows of the Wind.

This is a book about an old man grooming a young girl. It's very of its time is the kindest thing I could say about it, it's really not some great romance. It will hopefully sink into obsolescence and future generations will be horrified by it.

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote. It’s the tenderness and humanity with which he writes about the family that gets me.

Anna Karenina - specifically the character of Levin. I could name any number of sad stories that have affected me, but profound happiness is equally moving.

The Women's Room. Decades ago.

I really liked the birdsong.

Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester

I've never been able to forget what the poor children in that family went through as a result of their parents appalling financial management

Shadow of the Wind, Midnight's Children, To Kill a Mockingbird, Room.

Fingersmith

Primo Levi, If this is a man. There are others but this came to mind first

Yes!

Sarah and her sisters. Never found it again don't even think it's in print. So beautiful

To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Road Home
The Kite Runner
Memoirs of a Geisha
For the Love of my Mother
The Shack
The Five People you Meet in Heaven.

Not my favourite book but I’ll never forget Jude the Obscure.

A Prayer for Owen Meaney - DH and i loved that book so much we called our son Owen.

Of Human Bondage
The Grapes of Wrath
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (I read it in my early teens and ot really made me politically conscious)
I Capture the Castle