Books you will never forget

[Nettylovesbooks]

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 )

Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Good Night Mr Tom (Michelle Magorian)
The Book of Evidence (John Banville)

Oh yes it's very sad but in a really reflective, thoughtful way. The writing is beautiful and poetic. I've read many of her books and they all stand out for me.

I read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was young and particularly enjoyed The Long Winter. I was given a copy of Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane and it instantly became a favourite . . . I've read it so many times.

At about the same time I read Rosanna of the Amish by Joseph Yoder and became intrigued by Amish customs so this book is memorable for me because it led to me to so many other Amish books

The Hand that First Held Mine. Also incredible. I couldnt stop thinking about that for months afterwards

Also:
Heaven (Mieko Kawakami)

Cobbler's Dream by Monica Dickens, such amazing writing.

The Country Child by Alison Uttley, a favourite since I was a little girl.

To Kill A Mockingbird
Girl With All The Gifts
The Road
Assassin's Apprentice
Fingersmith
Dune (no1)
The Green Mile
Rebecca
The Hitchhiker's Guide books
Animal Farm
The Day Of The Triffids
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Cold Comfort Farm
Life of Pi
Outlander/Cross-stitch
Stardust
I Claudius

Sure there's more! It's strange which ones stick in your mind, whereas others, even great books, sometimes by the same authors are more hazy.

As a child :
Black Beauty - the death of Ginger haunted me
Watership Down

As a teen :
Dune - opened up my imagination to other worlds
Interview with the Vampire - I fell in love with the dark things
Clan of the Cave Bear
Flowers in the Attic + it's sequels
The Belgariad books by David Eddings
The Stand
I Claudius - I re-read this so much that I may have nicked it from the local library because I made it dog-eared and it was mine!!!

As an adult :
The Lovely Bones
The Road
The Handmaid's Tale
Daggerspell + the Deverry books by Katharine Kerr
The Twilight books - I read each one twice before reading the next and was completely obsessed 😳

A thousand splendid suns
The lovely bones
The 5 people you met in heaven
The miniaturist
Memoirs of a geisha

A Thousand Splendid Suns sticks with me and I will never forget A Little Life although I'm not sure that's for all the right reasons.

Lynne Reid Banks' The L Shaped Room is a book that I never forget from my teens and go back to occasionally and Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors is also a book I remember.

I seem to have picked a lot of literary misery there so to balance it out I return to Pride and Prejudice frequently, particularly when I need a warm and comforting familiarity to envelop me.

Shantaram-Gregory David Roberts
A Suitable Boy-Vikram Seth
American Dirt

Recommended on here - the tea girl of hummingbird Lane.

Never let me go

The thornbirds

A Time Before Genesis by Les Dawson. My friendship group of young mums all read it in the late 80s and it was incredible. Been out of print for decades now.

Never let me go
The yellow wallpaper
The forgotten garden
Little women
An old fashioned girl
Anne of Green Gables and all that followed
The wideacre trilogy
Animal farm

So so many.

Shadow of the Wind
Memoirs of a Geisha
Orange is not the only fruit
Goodnight Mr Tom
The Handmaids Tale
And recently The Grace Years

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd blew me away as a teenager because of the strong female protagonist.

Jaws.
Read it in 1975 between feeding DD1 and trying to sleep.
It was a scary page turner.😨

Trust Me by Lesley Pearce
We Need to talk about Kevin
A child called It

Out of The shadows.. I really wish I hadn't read this book, I obviously knew it wouldn't be a happy read but it was so much worse than I expected. It's an autobiography by Fred Wests daughter Anne Marie, poor woman.. I hope she has a happier life now.

This is the most important book I've ever read. It will stay with me forever.

Wild Swans - I first read it when I was about 14. It was my holiday read, whilst in Paris. I couldn't put it down and I didn't see much of Paris that year!

I, Claudius
Birdsong
Behind the Scenes at the Museum

and the books I read as a teen are seared into my brain:
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary
War and Peace
Gone with the wind (hasn’t aged well…)
The Bell Jar
Anything by Jilly Cooper

The Country of the Pointed Firs ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Rebecca
Heidi
Persuasion
Howard's End is on the Landing ~ Susan Hill
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair ~ Nina Sankovitch
The Magic Apple Tree ~ Susan Hill
Miss Clare Remembers ~ Miss Read
The Secret Garden
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
The Miss Buncle books ~ D. E. Stevenson

The Alice Hoffman Practical Magic books. I love them, particularly the descriptions of the gardens. When I'm feeling down they remind me to go and do a bit of weeding and it always cheers me up.
Anne of Green Gables and the sequels, same as @AnneLovesGilbert because I reread them so often as a teenager that they are part of me.
Unless by Carol Shields, The Overstory by Richard Powers, Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver, Frog Music by Emma Donoghue and The Narrow Road to the Deep North are a few others that I often think about.

@Karmakamelion if you scroll down, it seems you can order it here (if you were wanting to find it again, and if this is the same thing!)

https://www.lau.edu.lb/about/history/books/sarah-her-sisters.php

All the Jill and her Pony books (I was horse mad as a child)
The Just William books, they still make me laugh even now
Wind in the Willows
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Animal Farm
Jeeves and Wooster books
Riders
Rivals
Madame Bovary
Green Darkness
Katherine
Catcher in the Rye
I Capture the Castle
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Bonjour Tristesse