Books That Induce Nostalgia

[FoghornBellows]

For me, nostalgia is something that can't quite be articulated. I'll hear a song for the first time in three years, I'll be hit with bittersweet awe, and I'll become wistful.
I was wondering if any of you know of any good books that might instill that feeling.

[FoghornBellows]

C'mon, there has to be some pedantic colossus that could've been drawled out in five pages. Dig up some names.

[dfloyd]

People feel nostalgic depending upon the time they lived through. If you were born in 1970, you can't feel noslalgic about the fities or sixties. So no certain book, movie, song etc an make a person feel nostagia without having lived through the era when or about that the piece recalls.

[FoghornBellows]

If you're stating, and this may be a misrepresentation, that only period pieces induce nostalgia, I'll have to disagree. "The Catcher in the Rye" left me nostalgic for Holden Caulfield's presence and story-telling mere pages before I completed the book.

[prendrelemick]

CIDER WITH ROSIE of course.

[Dinkleberry2010]

A lot of people seem to be nostalgic about the 1960s--they seem to look upon it as a time of "flowers in your hair" and so-called free love and great music and attending "peaceful" demonstrations and the whole woodstock nation and generation thing. In reality the 1960s was a violent decade, full of atrocities and inhuman acts and works of horror and terror that still reverbrate and have their consequences and effects to the present day.

An example of a work of nostalgia about the 1960s is Jerry Ruben's book "Growing." It's really sickening.

[Travis_R]

I'm not sure if it's nostalgia, but something stirs inside me when I read the beautiful language used in Lolita.