10 books that stuck with you

[jinkies]

A Separate Peace
Unbroken
Into Thin Air
The Crimson Petal and The White
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (probably only because I heard the author speak, not sure it would have had the same impact if I hadn't met him)
The Tipping Point
Fast Food Nation

this are the only ones I can come up without looking at my Goodreads list. I'm sure I'm missing some great books.

[lime]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - M Angelou
Slaughterhouse Five - K Vonnegut
The Better Angels of Our Nature - S Pinker
War and Peace - L Tolstoy
The Bluest Eye - T Morrison
Guns, Germs and Steal - J Diamond
A Brief History of Time - S Hawking
The Fabric of the Cosmos - B Greene (I took quantum physics in college, so I realize this isn't everyone's cup of tea)
The God Delusion - R Dawkins
God is Not Great - C Hitchens

[circa1978]

I did this on FB last week and these were the 10 I picked off the top of my head. Later, I went back and kicked myself a couple of times for ones I could have/should have included but here you go:

1) Anna Karenina
2) Little House on the Prairie
3) The Handmaid's Tale
4) The Other Side of the River
5) Candide
6) A Wrinkle in Time
7) The Things They Carried
8) The Time Traveler's Wife
9)The Red Tent
10) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Deleted]

Most of mine are YA novels from when I was a kid. I need to do more reading.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[NothingWrongwithOhio]

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
His Dark Materials Triology by Phillip Pullman
Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (everything Tolkien) by JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

[jennysmitten]

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
A Light in August - William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
David and Jonathan - Cynthia Voigt
Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Not a Book: Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joan of Arc- Mark Twain
Junk- Melvin Burgess

[hisno1girl]

The Kite Runner
Gone With The Wind
Little House on the Prairie
ARE you There God, It's Me Margaret
Under The Dome
11/23/63

They are more but I can't think of them.

[falada45]

Sept 2, 2014 12:09:52 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Most of mine are YA novels from when I was a kid. I need to do more reading.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I LOVED Catherine, Called Birdy! I still have my copy on my bookshelf in the study.I had to tape it back together because it was falling apart.

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Sept 2, 2014 12:11:06 GMT -5 @astrid said:

Sept 2, 2014 12:09:52 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Most of mine are YA novels from when I was a kid. I need to do more reading.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

One of mine is a random, probably objectively weird and crappy YA novel that I LOVED and read at least once a year from late elementary to early high school.  I get you.

I think those ones tend to stick out to me the most because it was a really tumultuous time in my life, I was super emotional, and books were my escape. I remember finishing Where the Red Fern Grows when I was about 10 and just BAWLING my eyes out because it was just so emotional for me.

[Jermys]

I literally can't pick just ten. I've been tagged in this like five times on Facebook, and I can't come up with my list.

[zoomzoom]

Animal Farm
Atlas Shrugged
Fade
The Chocolate War
The Giver
Nineteen Minutes
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Bedtime for Frances
Fountainhead
Oliver Twist

ETA: Kite Runner and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Also, I was so sad when Robert Cormier died.  I loved so many of his books.

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Sept 2, 2014 12:11:39 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

ARE you There God, It's Me Margaret

Oh yeah, def this one too.

[zoomzoom]

Oh, yeah, Stephen King. Misery, Carrie, Cujo, and his book of short stories.

And definitely some Judy Blume.

[sapphireblue]

The Glass Castle
The Book Thief
The Last Time They Met (for bad reasons!)
Pillars of the Earth (copying some of you but it is one of my favorite books)
Rule of the Bone
The Secret History
Rules of Civility (maybe just because I read it recently)

without looking at Goodreads I am blanking on others so I'll stop here...

ETA: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[lust2hart]

Anne of Green Gables
A Thousand Acres
Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Gown of Spanish Lace
The Girls From Ames
The Odyssey
Great Expectations
The Shack
Cane River

[jinkies]

Sept 2, 2014 12:07:11 GMT -5 @astrid said:

Sept 2, 2014 12:01:00 GMT -5 jinkies said:

A Separate Peace
Unbroken
Into Thin Air
The Crimson Petal and The White
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (probably only because I heard the author speak, not sure it would have had the same impact if I hadn't met him)
The Tipping Point
Fast Food Nation

this are the only ones I can come up without looking at my Goodreads list. I'm sure I'm missing some great books.

I haven't read any of these.  I feel ashamed for some reason.

Ha! Don't! I read a lot of nonfiction, so that's what tends to stick with me. A Separate Peace was the first "real literature" school-assigned book that I really loved. 

I am kind of evangelical about Unbroken though. That one, you should read. 

[SwimDeep]

Ten books that stuck with me:

White Fang - Jack London
The SeaHawk - Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - James Tiptree Jr.
Parable of the Sower - Olivia Butler
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (actually, everything she ever wrote ever - this author is incredible!)
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

...
I think I've listed more than ten now...I'm really looking forward to having the time to read for pleasure soon!


ETA: There are so many more names!

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick is really good!

[eb777888]

The Cather in the Rye
Angela's Ashes
1984
The Great Gatsby
A Widow For One Year
Cider House Rules
Time Travelers Wife (I think kuus made fun of me for this one, lol.)
Lolita

That's all I can think of.

[eb777888]

Sept 2, 2014 12:34:50 GMT -5 SwimDeep said:

Dune is H's favorite book. He's read it sooo many times, I can't seem to bring myself to. It seem... out there.

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The Red Tent
She's Come Undone - Stuck with me in a bad way
The Glass Castle
Lonsome Dove
The Shack
Good Grief
Gone with the Wind
Love Story
Things Fall Apart
A Walk in the Woods

[eb777888]

Sept 2, 2014 13:28:55 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Sept 2, 2014 13:08:13 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Lolita

Oh, I loved Lolita!

It feels weird to like that book. lol

I know, but it certainly sticks with you because it was so strange.

[nonsensetomfoolery]

Alex: Life of a Child
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Ciderhouse Rules
A Widow for One Year
I'm Down
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Color of Water
Samurai Widow
Far From the Tree
Columbine
She's Come Undone

The first books that came to mind- not all are favorites, but they have all stuck with me.

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1. Brazil, by John Updike

2. Coal, by Barbara Freese

3. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

4. What Remains, by Carole Radziwill

5. Origins, by Annie Murphy Paul

6. Outside Over There, by Maurice Sendak

7. Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

8. Corduroy, by Don Freeman

9. Death be Not Proud, by John Gunther

10. Pandora's Lunchbox, by Melanie Warner

[Gato]

The Westing Game
A Little Princess
Glimpel the Fool
Remains of the Day
A Fine Balance
Seventeen Syllables
Angle of Repose
Fathers and Sons
Speak, Memory
Open Secrets and all Alice Munro

and 11, Someone by Alice McDermott - I just read this, so I can't stay it has stuck with me yet, but truly amazing writing.

[joshlyman]

Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Watchers
1984
The Giver
Lord of the Flies (because it traumatized me lol)
The Unlikely Disciple
A Child Named It
The Glass Castle
Nothing to Envy

And for the book that stuck with me as being the worst, most boring, never ending book I have ever read: the Old Man and the Sea

[justmeandmydog]

Here are ten, but, this list could be so much longer.


1. I am the Messenger
2. The Giver
3. Harry Potter Series
4. The art Of Racing in the Rain
5. There are No Children Here
6. Outlander Series
7. Memoirs of a Geisha
8. Girl, Interrupted
9. Defending Jacob
10. Lucky

[CurlyQ284]

Unbroken
Stolen Lives
Outlander
Game of Thrones
Gone with the Wind
HP and the Deathly Hallows
The Looming Tower
The Devils Brood
The Bronze Horseman
The Handmaid's Tale

[open24hours]

The Giver
A Wrinkle in Time
Beloved
The Poisonwood Bible
I Know This Much Is True
Crime and Punishment
Of Mice and Men
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Heart of Darkness
We Were the Mulvaneys

and an 11th bonus choice:
All Summer in a Day (short story, not a book)

[sa]

Sept 2, 2014 12:15:33 GMT -5 zoomzoom said:

Fountainhead

Did you get into this book immediately?

My husband started reading this and recommended it to me too, especially since I find architecture interesting and just finished an architecture history course this summer. 

He got really into it right away.  I find it to be an interesting read, but it's not something I find myself dying to reach for each day. Granted I'm only 15% of the way through (according to my Kindle) - so maybe I haven't given it enough time.

[gault]

The Awakening
The Giver
Wind from a Foreign Sky
Song of Ice and Fire series
Stiff
Year of the Flood - when my true crush on Atwood began
Little House in the Big Woods
A Wrinkle in Time
Clan of the Cave Bear
Narnia - first four in particular

And an honorable mention - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark