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 )

I'm so glad to see Frog Music included here @BrandyandGinger. I love that book and have hardly met/heard of anyone else who's read it.

Oh yes. the Snow Child, so original.
Also forgot The Red Tent.
Don’t know how I forgot -Remember Me by Lesley Pearse based on one of the first convicts to be be shipped to Australia for a relatively minor crime in the 18th century. DH read it after me and was equally engrossed and moved.

Shuggie Bain has never left me. I recently read in memorandum, and I think that's another which will stay with me.

Adding The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, an immersive saga of three sisters in Japan published in the 1940s.

Lord of the Rings
all of Rosemary Surcliffe's historical novels
the Running Hare by John Stempel Lewis
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Dracula
allof Norah Lofts historical novels
the House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
John Keats biography by Robert Gittins
the Dark is Rising
Three Men in a Boat

I could go on, but I won't!

Do you mean in memoriam by Alice Winn or a different book? It's on my list.

Yes that's the one. I really loved it.

Thanks @blankittyblank I shall look forward to it

A thousand splendid suns, I can remember exactly where I was when I first read it and how it made me feel. My daughter is named about one of the characters.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - I've never read such beautiful writing. It broke my heart. Again I remember sitting on a bus in central London, reading one particular line and bursting into tears the woman next to me asked if I needed a tissue

On the Beach by Nevil Shute. Written in 1957 about nuclear fallout. Still so very relevant.

My DD (21) is reading this , slow going , it's not an easy read .
(I haven't read it but looked at the synopsis )

Not a book but a short story - Triceratops Summer by Michael Swanwick. In The Time Traveller's Almanack (a collection of Sci Fi short stories) It's beautiful and bitter sweet.

The books that have had the most significant impact on me:

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe- Fannie Flagg
Not the End of the World- Kate Atkinson
Private Peaceful- Michael Morpurgo
What a Carve Up- Jonathon Coe
PopCo- Scarlett Thomas
The Bone Clocks- David Mitchell
Greenwood- Michael Christie
In Memoriam- Alice Winn

Sometimes I look at a title (especially a well known book) and try to fathom what it means to the book .

A couple of years ago I bought "The Wasp Factory" for this very reason. It will certainly go into the books I will never forget pile , filed under books I don;t want to read again thanks

Room
A timeless balance
The bee sting

Being very childish but I had no idea that the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe was called Fannie Flagg and now I will never forget it!

Hannah Goslar Remembers

I read it when I was around the same age as Hannah Goslar when she was sent to the concentration camp. Still think of it often, twenty years later

I know, it makes me laugh too. And she's a lesbian! 'Fanny' means 'bottom' in the USA though, so it's not as funny over there.

An American male tennis player was a guest commentator at Wimbledon about ten years ago, and said something about a female tennis player "falling on her fanny". Sue Barker had to hurriedly explain to viewers that the American meaning of 'fanny' was not the same as the British meaning!

@IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine I had an American auntie staying with us and she said the same thing "I fell over on to my fanny" and there was a very pregnant pause from my parents and me - I was 13 and very shocked. I said afterwards to my cousins that I couldn't believe she had said that and they fell about laughing when they realised. Later that day she explained - think Mum and Dad were quite relieved!

@IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine

And she's a lesbian!

We have a lesbian family member who lives in Dyke Street with her wife. Tickles me whenever I write out her birthday/Christmas card envelopes! (So childish!)

That's brilliant! 😂I've just told my wife we have to move there!

Now I want to see the film of Fried Green Tomatoes again. @IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine I love your username.
I remember reading a Fannie Flagg book in bed one morning in college and laughing so much that my friend in the next room thought I had brought a boy home with me the night before. I must look her up and try to figure out which book it was.

Sunset Song
To kill a mockingbird
The Chrysalids
All Quiet on the Western Front
Jane Eyre

It's SUCH a good film- the four lead actresses were perfectly cast.

Lark rise to Candleford
Jane Eyre
Diary of Anne Frank