Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me

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78,041 medlemmar
1,430 recensioner
½ 4.4
2
58,574 medlemmar
912 recensioner
4.2
3
4,832 medlemmar
62 recensioner
½ 4.3
3 Members
angekenn, ahef1963, TheTowers
Förklaringar
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
26,865 medlemmar
772 recensioner
3.9
3 Members
timspalding, TheoClarke, Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: One of my top books of all time. I am in awe of the world she created.
5
3,673 medlemmar
75 recensioner
4.2
6
8,969 medlemmar
57 recensioner
½ 4.6
7
22,728 medlemmar
938 recensioner
3.8
3 Members
SqueakyChu, Marissa_Doyle, TheTowers
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: Haunting.
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7,668 medlemmar
405 recensioner
4.1
3 Members
timspalding, imyril, KimarieBee
Förklaringar
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
726 medlemmar
21 recensioner
3.9
2 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu
Förklaringar
imyril: Haunting and horrifying.
10
20,131 medlemmar
552 recensioner
4.1
3 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu, ManWithAnAgenda
Förklaringar
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
44,544 medlemmar
2,118 recensioner
½ 4.4
3 Members
KimarieBee, TheoClarke, ahef1963,gilroy
Förklaringar
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
22,213 medlemmar
297 recensioner
4.1
13
12,925 medlemmar
279 recensioner
½ 3.6
2 Members
imyril, mkbird
Förklaringar
imyril: Enlightening, enthralling and inspiring.
14
80,089 medlemmar
1,363 recensioner
½ 4.4
2 Members
desertbloom, ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: Pride & Prejudice is the first classic novel that I really enjoyed. It was the cross-over from childhood reading to adult reading.
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34,703 medlemmar
269 recensioner
3.9
2 Members
imyril, jillmwo
Förklaringar
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.
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17,621 medlemmar
330 recensioner
4.2
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4,200 medlemmar
80 recensioner
3.9
2 Members
timspalding, smcwl
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39,815 medlemmar
523 recensioner
4.1
19
5,907 medlemmar
188 recensioner
3.8
2 Members
mkbird, SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: Provides some insight into our role and effect on the planet.
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980 medlemmar
12 recensioner
4
21
4,178 medlemmar
65 recensioner
4.1
22
2,347 medlemmar
32 recensioner
3.9
2 Members
jillmwo, ManWithAnAgenda
Förklaringar
jillmwo: Two stories in this collection, April in Paris and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
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23,480 medlemmar
329 recensioner
4.1
2 Members
jillmwo, PitcherBooks
Förklaringar
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.
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17,588 medlemmar
681 recensioner
4.1
25
987 medlemmar
54 recensioner
½ 4.3
26
1,582 medlemmar
42 recensioner
½ 4.3
2 Members
PitcherBooks, Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: Wonderful, spooky, truly captures the "otherness" of the Fae in folklore.
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69,251 medlemmar
1,075 recensioner
3.8
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2,365 medlemmar
78 recensioner
4.1
29
16,053 medlemmar
279 recensioner
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Förklaringar
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.
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40,912 medlemmar
1,044 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
gilroy
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26,256 medlemmar
396 recensioner
4
Member
Charon07
32
20,511 medlemmar
330 recensioner
3.9
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: Needs no explanation
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18,707 medlemmar
321 recensioner
3.9
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Förklaringar
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.
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9,956 medlemmar
85 recensioner
4.1
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6,735 medlemmar
56 recensioner
4.2
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2,426 medlemmar
59 recensioner
4.1
37
1,845 medlemmar
65 recensioner
3.8
Member
hipdeep
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62 medlemmar
5
Member
SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: This was the book that I asked everyone to read to me, before I could read it myself.
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5,794 medlemmar
108 recensioner
4.1
40
2,354 medlemmar
53 recensioner
½ 3.5
41
2,288 medlemmar
32 recensioner
½ 4.5
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: A book that makes you think "If everyone read this, we could be sure it would never happen again"
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1,916 medlemmar
48 recensioner
4
Member
imyril
Förklaringar
imyril: I read this very young and it introduced me to the concept of satisfactory but unhappy endings. Also, the Earldelving. Gah.
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1,884 medlemmar
20 recensioner
3.9
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1,413 medlemmar
12 recensioner
3.8
45
488 medlemmar
8 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: A childhood favourite. The wonder of that first pair of glasses, after years of being labeled as slow and clumsy.
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255 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 4.4
Member
hipdeep
47
199 medlemmar
11 recensioner
3.9
Member
Athabasca
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6 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 4.5
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: I read this when I was a young teen, and it has profoundly affected how I write.
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42,013 medlemmar
1,134 recensioner
4.1
Member
imyril
Förklaringar
imyril: One of the first dystopian novels I ever read, which plays on several themes that are close to my heart.
50
12,537 medlemmar
266 recensioner
4
Member
thorold
Förklaringar
thorold: The literary equivalent of an earworm: you know it's a bad book, but you can never get it out of your head...
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7,473 medlemmar
192 recensioner
4.2
Member
Charon07
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5,408 medlemmar
114 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: Made me look at listening in a whole different way.
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4,962 medlemmar
61 recensioner
4.1
Member
hipdeep
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4,804 medlemmar
173 recensioner
4.2
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Athabasca
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3,951 medlemmar
100 recensioner
3.9
Member
jillmwo
Förklaringar
jillmwo: The idea of setting aside the culture and treasures of the ages so that they don't get destroyed.
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3,260 medlemmar
92 recensioner
½ 3.7
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2,656 medlemmar
41 recensioner
3.8
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Förklaringar
SomeGuyInVirginia: Même chose.
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1,046 medlemmar
15 recensioner
4
Member
smcwl
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890 medlemmar
24 recensioner
3.8
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613 medlemmar
7 recensioner
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: The first fantasy novel (I read the trilogy in one volume) that I ever truly, deeply loved.
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578 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: Retelling of the classic of Welsh mythology. Just beautiful.
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206 medlemmar
8 recensioner
½ 4.3
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183 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
mkbird
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42 medlemmar
½ 3.5
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10 medlemmar
2 recensioner
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43,423 medlemmar
1,012 recensioner
3.9
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24,863 medlemmar
373 recensioner
4.1
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19,892 medlemmar
320 recensioner
3.8
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18,979 medlemmar
343 recensioner
4
Member
hipdeep
70
14,062 medlemmar
176 recensioner
3.9
Member
Charon07
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12,410 medlemmar
260 recensioner
4.1
72
6,028 medlemmar
107 recensioner
3.8
Member
smcwl
73
5,890 medlemmar
146 recensioner
4
Member
Athabasca
74
4,956 medlemmar
107 recensioner
3.9
Member
thorold
75
4,695 medlemmar
139 recensioner
4
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: Haunting as well, but in a very different way from the Ishiguro.
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1,820 medlemmar
51 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
imyril
Förklaringar
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.
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938 medlemmar
10 recensioner
½ 4.4
78
475 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Förklaringar
SomeGuyInVirginia: Scared me to death as a kid.
79
220 medlemmar
14 recensioner
3.8
Member
SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: A protagonist I really related to.
80
134 medlemmar
1 recension
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: Started my life-long fascination with all things African.
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6 medlemmar
½ 4.3
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39,420 medlemmar
1,268 recensioner
4.1
2 Members
imyril, KimarieBee,gilroy
Förklaringar
imyril: This stays with me for its haunting implications. Sad, sentimental, yet satisfying.
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24,452 medlemmar
521 recensioner
4.1
Member
hipdeep
84
7,405 medlemmar
207 recensioner
4
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2,860 medlemmar
27 recensioner
4
86
2,006 medlemmar
36 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
87
1,734 medlemmar
27 recensioner
4.1
Member
SylviaC
Förklaringar
SylviaC: I like epidemic books, and this one was pretty comprehensive at the time.
88
1,454 medlemmar
26 recensioner
½ 3.7
89
1,198 medlemmar
25 recensioner
4
Member
smcwl
90
1,058 medlemmar
8 recensioner
4
Member
ahef1963
Förklaringar
ahef1963: Explained to me, in layman's terms, the science of paleontology and awoke in me a love of the subject matter.
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901 medlemmar
20 recensioner
4.2
Member
jillmwo
Förklaringar
jillmwo: She explains some things so well. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie is an essay that has stuck with me.
92
898 medlemmar
15 recensioner
4
Member
Charon07
93
36 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 4.6
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Förklaringar
Marissa_Doyle: One of the truly happiest books I've ever read.
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21,615 medlemmar
187 recensioner
4.1
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8,739 medlemmar
144 recensioner
3.9
96
7,702 medlemmar
123 recensioner
3.9
97
7,562 medlemmar
93 recensioner
4
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thorold
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2,676 medlemmar
32 recensioner
4
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jillmwo
Förklaringar
jillmwo: It's the lifestyle as much as Norris' writing.
99
1,657 medlemmar
14 recensioner
4.1
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250 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
Charon07