Anonymous wrote:Our Mutual Friend. It's a lesser known Dickens novel but it's a favorite among Dickens fans.

OMF is centered around the heir to a fortune made in dust whose body was found in the Thames and follows all the character impacted by this fortune. It's a brilliant satiric take on money, class and respectability, and has many memorable characters.

I love this novel and can read it again and again.

Thank you

Our Mutual Friend. It's a lesser known Dickens novel but it's a favorite among Dickens fans.

OMF is centered around the heir to a fortune made in dust whose body was found in the Thames and follows all the character impacted by this fortune. It's a brilliant satiric take on money, class and respectability, and has many memorable characters.

I love this novel and can read it again and again.

Anonymous wrote:I love epics like Lonesome Dove, Gone with the Wind, 100 Years of Solitude, Pachinko and Cutting for Stone.

Stories that have stuck with me: Demon Copperhead, The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver, and going back further A Moveable Feast. Fascinating.

Same. I love being swept away by a story, particularly one that covers many years or decades.

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Anonymous wrote:Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro.

Not my favorite but unlike any book I’ve ever read. Simply haunting.

Klara and the Sun also haunts me too.

Cold Comfort Farm

I love epics like Lonesome Dove, Gone with the Wind, 100 Years of Solitude, Pachinko and Cutting for Stone.

Stories that have stuck with me: Demon Copperhead, The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver, and going back further A Moveable Feast. Fascinating.

lonesome dove

it's heavy - like 800 pages - but the character development is amazing and the ending just SAT with me for days and days

Anonymous wrote:Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro.

Another "not my fav" but to be honest I loved that book more that all of the ones mentioned so far. I think about the boy who was easily frustrated often.

Gentleman in Moscow must have been way too hyped up for me because it was enjoyable and written well but I wasn't as taken as most. I suspect low or high expectations make a big difference.

Pride and Prejudice. I just love it so much and re-read it every November. Other favs are Rebecca, The Goldfinch, Peony in Love, and The Road. For short stories, anything by Alice Munroe.

Anonymous wrote:Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro.

Not my favorite but unlike any book I’ve ever read. Simply haunting.

Passage by Connie Willis.
It's about dying and the last part of the book has always stayed with me. I think about it often, and that doesn't happen to me with many books I've read as an adult being that memorable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_(Willis_novel)

Anonymous wrote:Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner and The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving

Crossing to Safety really shocked me at the end. I disliked it so much but the end rang so true. Definitely one I didn't expect and will not forget.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t answer this question! It depends too much on genre, mood, age I read it and if it held up on subsequent reads (or not, but I still have some affection for it), etc!

What kinds of books do you like??

I have to agree with this!! Personally, I will always say Pride and Prejudice followed by the controversial Gone with the Wind, both of which I read in middle school. Still love Austen for her insights into societal expectations on women and moving within those confines and sorry, still love GWTW for the amazing characters and story that you can almost see in front of you. I haven't reread GWTW in the past 15 years, but I am sure there would be more problematic aspects that I didn't notice. Obviously it was a book of its time, not sure how people will continue to look at that in the future.

More recent reads that I love are Emily St. John Mandel books which are definitely a certain taste, Marilynne Robinson books which are very dense and contemplative, Americanah and the Neapolitan Novels.

Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wolf Hall series.

I just reread them all in order and just realized that the first and third books are mirrors of each other. I loved them before but find them even more impressive now.

Agree, love The Wolf Hall series.

Good answer. There's a lot to be learned from these books, about life and society and relationships and writing.