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

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The only book I ever threw across the room in disgust at the end!

Mine is A Prayer For Owen Meany. I plan to read it again soon.

A Prayer for Owen Meany: I burst into tears when I read the last line of that book. Never really undrerstood what that meant until that moment.

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I'm still haunted by the end of Connie Willis's Passage.

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Anonymous wrote:"Tuesdays with Morrie."

No one who has read that book can ever say their lives have been the same after reading that book.

Once you have read that book, your whole perspective on life changes + you are a completely different person.

Guaranteed.

Had to read this one in college lit class and it still makes me think about life.

Anything by Mitch Albom.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- I can't divulge the name of the latest book that gripped me because it's a YA novel that is too embarrassing to admit.

lol. I have a few of these too!!! Good to hear I'm not the only one!

I like YA books, they are not bogged down by ridiculous sex scenes. I'm in my 40s.

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I still think about The Road. The choice the father made and his hope for his son consumes me still. I think about that book at least once a week in amazement. I'll never read it again, though.

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The Poisonwood Bible and A Prayer for Owen Meany for me, too. Also, A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, A Widow for One Year by John Irving (which I know is not a favorite among many Irving fans), The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King), and Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

For non-fiction I'd add Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass.

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A Child Called It

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Anonymous wrote:The Poisonwood Bible and A Prayer for Owen Meany for me, too. Also, A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, A Widow for One Year by John Irving (which I know is not a favorite among many Irving fans), The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King), and Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

For non-fiction I'd add Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, and Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass.

I think about Into Thin Air occasionally as well. That really stuck with me.

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When Rabbit Howls.

Haunting and it is a true story.

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Anonymous wrote:I still think about The Road. The choice the father made and his hope for his son consumes me still. I think about that book at least once a week in amazement. I'll never read it again, though.

Agree. I read it while on vacation one summer. I couldn't put it down. I couldn't believe they made a movie out of it. I thought it would be too much to see it played out on the screen. But after seeing it (on HBO so I could turn the channel if I needed to), I have to say that the book creates a much more gripping tale.

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Anonymous wrote:The Road

Me, too, but because I hated it so much!

+1

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Great books already mentioned here, but here are some more that I still remember:

Revolutionary Road
Out of Africa
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Dirt Music and Cloud Street by Tim Winton
Autobiography of Malcolm X
One More Time by Carol Burnett

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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?

Different poster but I thought the first one was okay but really liked the second one.

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Anonymous wrote:Once in a blue moon I will read something that really grabs me and holds on - such that I will reread sections and really have almost a painful feeling of loss when the book ends. I find myself thinking about it and almost trying to find moments that resonate in the book in my own life for days on end.

Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I just a little bit cray cray?

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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The a house of Sand and Fog. Author has a new collection of novellas "Dirty Love"

Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem - I always think of it in the grocery store

Constellation of Vital Phenomenon -about Chechnya

For you Anglophiles any book by Barbara Pym

The previously mentioned "She's Come Undone" and "This Much I Know is True"

"The English Patient"

YA. "The Fault in our Stars"