Do you ever find yourself totally consumed by a book that it sticks with you? Too long?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, these are some books that come to mind that affected me like that:

Vampire Winter
The Hot Zone
A Thousand Splendid Suns (kudos 13:13)
Swan Song (listened to it on Audible)
Enclave Series (listened to it on Audible)

FWIW, Enclave is a YA series, and I'm almost 40. Should I hang my head in shame to?

OP here - Enclave you say? Putting it on the list!

Honestly, I don't see why it's YA. It's pretty violent and bloody. I guess the absence of sex and cursing warrants a YA rating? I love PA fic

Is there any love/tension?

A bit, yes

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Yes. And most of them are romance books so I feel your shame with ya books but it's all good

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Mine too are romance books that stick with me. Mine are even more embarassing because it is in the "romantica" category. There is one series with 16 books that I could read over again.

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Which books would you recommend for a teen that does not like romance, but enjoys friendship/suspense/mystery type books?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the book was Little Bee.

Still haunts me.

I just can't....

+1 and One hundred years of solitude and the Cairo trilogy. I have reread them all dozens of time and it feels like a death when they end.

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Anonymous wrote:Which books would you recommend for a teen that does not like romance, but enjoys friendship/suspense/mystery type books?

Hunger games, for sure. Boy or girl?

I loved Stephen King as a teen - they are great fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the book was Little Bee.

Still haunts me.

I just can't....

+1 and One hundred years of solitude and the Cairo trilogy. I have reread them all dozens of time and it feels like a death when they end.

I could not get through 100 years for love or money. It just confused the hell out of me.

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Me Before You stuck with me a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is still angry about the fact that I "made" her read the Flannery O'Connor short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", which I thought was awesome. She brings this up 4 or 5 times a year, often to strangers. I was in 10th grade when I recommended it to her. She's been complaining for about 30 years at this point.

I remember reading that in HS! Pretty intense.

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Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, about slums near Mumbai. So vivid. So heartbreaking. I keep thinking about it. What happened to them?

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Mine are The Poisonwood Bible and 100 Years of Solitude.

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The 100 Years Trilogy that Ken Follet is writing now. I'm literally waiting for the third like a stalker.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine are The Poisonwood Bible and 100 Years of Solitude.

Oh, the Poisonwood Bible! thank you for reminding me of that gem.

I LOVED The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. as soon as i got to the end i had to read it all over again immediately.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, yes. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Such a good book.

Yes, it was a beautiful, beautiful book, but I still shake and shudder sometimes about what happened when things got out of balance. I read it almost 5 years ago.

I was also long tortured by Oscar & Lucinda, another beautiful and haunting book.

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Anonymous wrote:The 100 Years Trilogy that Ken Follet is writing now. I'm literally waiting for the third like a stalker.

I read the first one and it was ok - when did you get hooked?