Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me

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O Sol é para Todos
de Harper Lee
78,318 membros
1,431 resenhas
½ 4.4
5 Members
SqueakyChu, PitcherBooks, desertbloom, cej1027, MichelleAnza
2
Jane Eyre
de Charlotte Brontë
58,836 membros
913 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
jillmwo, smcwl, cej1027, TheTowers
3
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
de Nelson Mandela
4,857 membros
62 resenhas
½ 4.3
3 Members
angekenn, ahef1963, TheTowers
Explicações
ahef1963: This book was seminal as it awoke stirrings of social justice in me, and made me realize how much I take for granted.
4
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
de Susanna Clarke
26,948 membros
772 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
timspalding, TheoClarke, Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: One of my top books of all time. I am in awe of the world she created.
5
Johnny Got His Gun
de Dalton Trumbo
3,691 membros
75 resenhas
4.2
3 Members
waitingtoderail, SqueakyChu, PitcherBooks
6
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings
de J. R. R. Tolkien
9,000 membros
57 resenhas
½ 4.6
3 Members
timspalding, Athabasca, cej1027
7
Never Let Me Go
de Kazuo Ishiguro
22,780 membros
937 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
SqueakyChu, Marissa_Doyle, TheTowers
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: Haunting.
8
The Sparrow
de Mary Doria Russell
7,698 membros
406 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
timspalding, imyril, KimarieBee
Explicações
imyril: I think I mostly just loved the idea of Jesuits in space, but I also loved the characters and the prose. Knowing it will end badly just added to the bittersweet pleasure.
9
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
de Gil Courtemanche
728 membros
21 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu
Explicações
imyril: Haunting and horrifying.
10
The Secret History
de Donna Tartt
20,275 membros
554 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
imyril: My Latin teacher made us read it. We were all deeply grateful, and then teased him mercilessly. Wonderfully dark, angst-ridden, alienating and alluring. Such prose and singular characters.
11
The Book Thief
de Markus Zusak
44,841 membros
2,120 resenhas
½ 4.4
3 Members
KimarieBee, TheoClarke, ahef1963,gilroy
Explicações
ahef1963: I just read this a couple of months ago, but it's a work I will never forget. Both brilliant and devastatingly sad.
12
Cama de Gato
de Kurt Vonnegut
22,290 membros
300 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
waitingtoderail, Charon07
13
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
de Azar Nafisi
12,983 membros
279 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
imyril, mkbird
Explicações
imyril: Enlightening, enthralling and inspiring.
14
Pride and Prejudice
de Jane Austen
80,480 membros
1,365 resenhas
½ 4.4
2 Members
desertbloom, ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Pride & Prejudice is the first classic novel that I really enjoyed. It was the cross-over from childhood reading to adult reading.
15
O Silmarillion
de J. R. R. Tolkien
34,866 membros
272 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
imyril, jillmwo
Explicações
imyril: The only Tolkien I still dip back into. It shaped so much to follow, and shaped so many of my preferences.
jillmwo: His beautiful creation story -- I just love it.
16
Middlemarch
de George Eliot
17,703 membros
330 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
thorold, desertbloom
17
Pnin
de Vladimir Nabokov
4,209 membros
80 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
timspalding, smcwl
18
Catch-22
de Joseph Heller
39,971 membros
524 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
SqueakyChu, PitcherBooks
19
The World Without Us
de Alan Weisman
5,926 membros
188 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
mkbird, SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: Provides some insight into our role and effect on the planet.
20
Cuckoo's Egg
de C. J. Cherryh
983 membros
12 resenhas
4
2 Members
Athabasca, PitcherBooks
21
Exodus
de Leon Uris
4,192 membros
66 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
SqueakyChu, Athabasca
22
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories
de Ursula K. Le Guin
2,354 membros
31 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
jillmwo, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
jillmwo: Two stories in this collection, April in Paris and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
23
The Wind in the Willows
de Kenneth Grahame
23,657 membros
329 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
jillmwo, PitcherBooks
Explicações
jillmwo: I reread the Christmas chapter almost every year. I got this book as a gift on my 8th birthday before we moved to Bangkok.
24
Cloud Atlas
de David Mitchell
17,657 membros
682 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
TheoClarke, Charon07
25
Instructions
de Neil Gaiman
988 membros
54 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, PitcherBooks
26
The Perilous Gard
de Elizabeth Marie Pope
1,592 membros
42 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
PitcherBooks, Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: Wonderful, spooky, truly captures the "otherness" of the Fae in folklore.
27
O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio
de J. D. Salinger
69,460 membros
1,078 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
waitingtoderail, desertbloom,cej1027
28
These Old Shades
de Georgette Heyer
2,369 membros
78 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
KimarieBee, Athabasca
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
de E. L. Konigsburg
16,133 membros
278 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
ahef1963: My favourite book as a young teenager. As an adult I took my children to the museum a couple of times a month and we would figure out where we would live if we ran away to a museum.
30
Ender's Game
de Orson Scott Card
41,070 membros
1,045 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
gilroy
31
Little Women
de Louisa May Alcott
26,376 membros
398 resenhas
4
Member
Charon07
32
Mrs. Dalloway
de Virginia Woolf
20,593 membros
329 resenhas
3.9
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Needs no explanation
33
Peter Pan
de J. M. Barrie
18,854 membros
324 resenhas
3.9
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Explicações
SomeGuyInVirginia: My grandmother gave me this book for my birthday when I was very small. I was disappointed it wasn’t something more interesting, but it awakened my passion for books.
34
The Histories
de Herodotus
10,067 membros
85 resenhas
4.1
Member
timspalding
35
A History of Western Philosophy
de Bertrand Russell
6,753 membros
56 resenhas
4.2
Member
proximity1
36
Dark Lord of Derkholm
de Diana Wynne Jones
2,430 membros
57 resenhas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
de Rob Sheffield
1,851 membros
65 resenhas
3.8
Member
hipdeep
38
Hurry Up, Slowpoke (Wonder Books Easy Readers)
de Crosby Newell
64 membros
5
Member
SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: This was the book that I asked everyone to read to me, before I could read it myself.
39
The Prince of Tides
de Pat Conroy
5,818 membros
108 resenhas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
40
The Dice Man
de Luke Rhinehart
2,361 membros
53 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
TheoClarke
41
If This Is a Man / The Truce
de Primo Levi
2,296 membros
32 resenhas
½ 4.5
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: A book that makes you think "If everyone read this, we could be sure it would never happen again"
42
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
de Alan Garner
1,925 membros
48 resenhas
4
Member
imyril
Explicações
imyril: I read this very young and it introduced me to the concept of satisfactory but unhappy endings. Also, the Earldelving. Gah.
43
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
de Neil Postman
1,892 membros
20 resenhas
3.9
Member
proximity1
44
Pagans and Christians
de Robin Lane Fox
1,415 membros
12 resenhas
3.9
Member
timspalding
45
From Anna
de Jean Little
500 membros
8 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: A childhood favourite. The wonder of that first pair of glasses, after years of being labeled as slow and clumsy.
46
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
de Myles Horton
257 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
hipdeep
47
The Wolf Hunt
de Gillian Bradshaw
199 membros
11 resenhas
3.9
Member
Athabasca
48
Baneful Sorceries or The Countess Bewitched
de Joan Sanders
6 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.5
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: I read this when I was a young teen, and it has profoundly affected how I write.
49
The Handmaid's Tale
de Margaret Atwood
42,199 membros
1,135 resenhas
4.1
Member
imyril
Explicações
imyril: One of the first dystopian novels I ever read, which plays on several themes that are close to my heart.
50
Brideshead Revisited
de Evelyn Waugh
12,556 membros
265 resenhas
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: The literary equivalent of an earworm: you know it's a bad book, but you can never get it out of your head...
51
The Last Unicorn
de Peter S. Beagle
7,508 membros
191 resenhas
4.2
Member
Charon07
52
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
de Oliver Sacks
5,433 membros
114 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: Made me look at listening in a whole different way.
53
Taran Wanderer
de Lloyd Alexander
4,989 membros
61 resenhas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
54
The Curse of Chalion
de Lois McMaster Bujold
4,823 membros
173 resenhas
4.2
Member
Athabasca
55
Lost Horizon
de James Hilton
3,962 membros
100 resenhas
3.9
Member
jillmwo
Explicações
jillmwo: The idea of setting aside the culture and treasures of the ages so that they don't get destroyed.
56
The Diary of a Nobody
de George Grossmith
3,268 membros
92 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
TheoClarke
57
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
de Charles Mackay
2,666 membros
41 resenhas
3.8
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Explicações
SomeGuyInVirginia: Même chose.
58
My Childhood
de Maxim Gorky
1,053 membros
15 resenhas
4
Member
smcwl
59
The Secret Country
de Pamela Dean
895 membros
22 resenhas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
60
The Fionavar Tapestry 1. The Summer Tree 2. The Wandering Fire 3. The Darkest Road
de Guy Gavriel Kay
616 membros
7 resenhas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: The first fantasy novel (I read the trilogy in one volume) that I ever truly, deeply loved.
61
Mabinogion Tetralogy
de Evangeline Walton
577 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: Retelling of the classic of Welsh mythology. Just beautiful.
62
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript
de Robert K. Merton
207 membros
8 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
waitingtoderail
63
Freeze Frames
de Katharine Kerr
183 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
mkbird
64
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (Abridged Edition)
de David Riesman
42 membros
½ 3.5
Member
proximity1
65
A Marginal Jew :
de John P. Meier
10 membros
2 resenhas
Member
timspalding
66
Life of Pi
de Yann Martel
43,572 membros
1,013 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
SqueakyChu, KimarieBee,gilroy
67
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
de Jared Diamond
24,961 membros
375 resenhas
4.1
Member
timspalding
68
O Chamado da Floresta
de Jack London
20,078 membros
321 resenhas
3.8
Member
KimarieBee
69
Their Eyes Were Watching God
de Zora Neale Hurston
19,092 membros
345 resenhas
4
Member
hipdeep
70
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
de Victor Hugo
14,138 membros
176 resenhas
3.9
Member
Charon07
71
Are You My Mother?
de P. D. Eastman
12,482 membros
260 resenhas
4.1
Member
waitingtoderail
72
Grendel
de John Gardner
6,043 membros
107 resenhas
3.8
Member
smcwl
73
Death Comes for the Archbishop
de Willa Cather
5,921 membros
147 resenhas
4
Member
Athabasca
74
Tales of the City
de Armistead Maupin
4,978 membros
106 resenhas
3.9
Member
thorold
75
Winter's Tale
de Mark Helprin
4,705 membros
140 resenhas
4
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: Haunting as well, but in a very different way from the Ishiguro.
76
The Kraken Wakes
de John Wyndham
1,823 membros
51 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
imyril
Explicações
imyril: This could as easily have been Triffids. Wyndham introduced me to apocalypse fiction, and I love both books for their evocative descriptions of a ruined London.
77
Language in Thought and Action
de S. I. Hayakawa
940 membros
10 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
78
The Survivor
de James Herbert
477 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Explicações
SomeGuyInVirginia: Scared me to death as a kid.
79
The Young Clementina
de D. E. Stevenson
220 membros
14 resenhas
3.8
Member
SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: A protagonist I really related to.
80
The Spotted Sphinx
de Joy Adamson
134 membros
1 resenha
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Started my life-long fascination with all things African.
81
Le destin technologique
de Jean-Jacques Salomon
6 membros
½ 4.3
Member
proximity1
82
The Time Traveler's Wife
de Audrey Niffenegger
39,442 membros
1,271 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
imyril, KimarieBee,gilroy
Explicações
imyril: This stays with me for its haunting implications. Sad, sentimental, yet satisfying.
83
A Christmas Carol
de Charles Dickens
24,620 membros
523 resenhas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
84
The Day of the Triffids
de John Wyndham
7,453 membros
207 resenhas
4
Member
KimarieBee
85
The Society of the Spectacle
de Guy Debord
2,875 membros
28 resenhas
4
Member
proximity1
86
The Swimming-Pool Library
de Alan Hollinghurst
2,013 membros
35 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
87
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
de Laurie Garrett
1,738 membros
27 resenhas
4.1
Member
SylviaC
Explicações
SylviaC: I like epidemic books, and this one was pretty comprehensive at the time.
88
The Enormous Room
de E. E. Cummings
1,459 membros
26 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
89
Madame Curie: A Biography
de Eve Curie
1,203 membros
25 resenhas
4
Member
smcwl
90
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
de Donald C. Johanson
1,061 membros
8 resenhas
4
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Explained to me, in layman's terms, the science of paleontology and awoke in me a love of the subject matter.
91
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
de Ursula K. Le Guin
907 membros
20 resenhas
4.2
Member
jillmwo
Explicações
jillmwo: She explains some things so well. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie is an essay that has stuck with me.
92
Was
de Geoff Ryman
900 membros
15 resenhas
4
Member
Charon07
93
A Joyful Noise
de Janet Gillespie
36 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.6
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Explicações
Marissa_Doyle: One of the truly happiest books I've ever read.
94
A Divina Comédia
de Dante Alighieri
21,715 membros
188 resenhas
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
95
Villette
de Charlotte Brontë
8,768 membros
144 resenhas
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
96
The Power and the Glory
de Graham Greene
7,732 membros
123 resenhas
3.9
Member
timspalding
97
The Tin Drum
de Günter Grass
7,582 membros
93 resenhas
4
Member
thorold
98
The Cloister Walk
de Kathleen Norris
2,682 membros
32 resenhas
4
Member
jillmwo
Explicações
jillmwo: It's the lifestyle as much as Norris' writing.
99
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
de Catherine Drinker Bowen
1,661 membros
14 resenhas
4.1
Member
waitingtoderail
100
A Stolen Tongue
de Sheri Holman
250 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
Charon07