Novels that do not die

Tell us about novels that you've read but still lives inside you with its tiny details and unforgotten characters. Maybe yours will be included in someone's summer list for reading , who knows :)
Bread Seller is one of the best novels ,it's an extraordinary novel if I may say. I'd love to know if any of you had the experience of reading this novel.
The Horrible Years is another unforgettable novel, about the World War, a soldier describing the miseries of the destructive war and how he saw his closest friend passing away .

Mordicai richler's "Barneys Version." It illuminated what it is to be Man. It illuminated what it was to be a writer, a lover, and many other things i cannot speak of at this point.

I promise to write their names when I come back online, because, they are many not one as you stated in my mind. Lol.

A few that I recall: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (though poetry), Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (though a play), The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Silas Marner by George Eliot.

I think that I have two for sure.

The first one is Precious Bane by Mary Webb. Reading that book was like keeping a secret. For a while it lingered there, and then I was dying to tell someone about it. The story is so simple but yet so gigantic at the same time. I could see the corn being harvested, the dragonflies, and feel what the main character, Prue, felt for Woodseaves. Okay I had to pause for a minute to reminisce. My all time favorite I think...only one other book comes close...

My second is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It is a new novel. You can hear the piano and feel what the blind woman feels while she is playing it. The Cemetary of Forgotten Books is wonderful. I can smell its dust and I wish I could go there with Daniel (The main character)....like I said before, reminisce...

I could go on forever about these books. I think I have mentioned both of them elsewhere on LitNet...just read them.

Hello Grace, I saw you mentioned Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I'm glad you can read authors from Spain (my country) as far as California. I haven't read the book and was thinking about getting it. So you think it's worth reading, right? Thank you! :)

Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan, Water Music by T.C. Boyle, and the Inspector Rebus series by Ian Rankin.

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Originally Posted by Bastet

Hello Grace, I saw you mentioned Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I'm glad you can read authors from Spain (my country) as far as California. I haven't read the book and was thinking about getting it. So you think it's worth reading, right? Thank you! :)

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Hi Bastet. Yes, his book Shadow in the Wind was wonderful. Of course I read its English Translation...but if I wanted to, I could attempt the Spanish. For a new novel, it was very, very good. I would get angry when I had to put it down. Hope you read it and have fun.

Your country is beautiful, I hope someday to visit.

:) I will definitely read it then, grace. Maybe we can comment on it after I'm done ;)

Sure thing Bastet. We can start our own thread or something :D

Well,
I think I will not, God Willing, forget the characters in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers as long as I live. It is a magnificent novel. Paul Morel, Mr Morel, Mrs Morel, Miriam, Clara... Vivid characters in ones mind.
I wonder how the readers here did not mention any of Jane Austen's novels. Hers are greatly rich in characters and emotions. I love Sense and Sensibility so much. Who can forget Marianne's speech when she was leaving her home, saying, "Dear, dear Norland! when shall I cease to regret you? --- when learn to feel a home elsewhere? --- O happy house!..." Who can forget her sensibility?
Pride and Prejudice is incomparable, with its charming Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. Oh, Darcy's character is unforgettable! I love him dearly!
This is what is in my mind for now... I will see if something comes up!

I should say Catch 22 by Heller and Catcher in The Rye by Salinger. I can't forget the way Milo Minderbinder made money out of the war and how he created a (himself) joint venture company which is called M & M (Milo & Minderbinder). About Catcher, I can always imagine Holden and his hunting cap.

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Originally Posted by Ahmed-Adel

Pride and Prejudice is incomparable, with its charming Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. Oh, Darcy's character is unforgettable! I love him dearly!
This is what is in my mind for now... I will see if something comes up!

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Sure, Austin is one of my favorite. She has a great sense for the society and its events. I love when she pasteurizes the gossips that goes in women's community lol . what about Elizabeth Gaskell, any one interested in her stories that dig deeply into the catastrophes of the societies, namely the English society during the time she lived?

There's so many novels that have made their permanent mark on me, too many to mention really but I'll give it a try. ;) Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, all of Tolstoy's novels...and a few of his short stories as well, Demons, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and his Idiot will contintue to haunt me the rest of my days. The Forsyte Saga is another, I don't know that I will ever "meet" a character that so completely enthralled me as Soames did. I loved Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and hope and pray that he'll write another novel with those characters because I do miss them so. I loved the relationship between the mother and Everett and the role religion played in the book The Brothers K by David James Duncan, the ending got a tad bit melodramatic but the interplay between the members of that family play out in my mind often. And Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul is responsible for my very significant crush on Thor, the Thunder God.

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Originally Posted by subterranean

Catcher in The Rye by Salinger . . . About Catcher, I can always imagine Holden and his hunting cap.

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I have no idea how I could have forgotten to list The Catcher In The Rye, too - one of the books that got me most interested in literature. :nod: