I would like to read some really good books that you just couldn’t put down or were just on your mind for a while after you finished reading. Like they just popped into your head a lot, or you were still puzzling some things out.
Preferably fiction, but non-fiction is ok as well.
One book that I thought about for a decent amount of time after I finished was ‘The Silent Patient’ by Alex Michaelides.
Thanks!
by MrFancyBusDriver
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Lonesome Dove
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The namesake by jhumpa lahiri
Homecoming by Kate Morton.
The Keeper by Graham Norton.
Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Rebecca
Pillars of the Earth
The Namesake
Lonesome Dove
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Both of this changed my brain chemistry forever.
There’s a scene in a hospital in The Bell Jar- I won’t go in to any detail, but the language in that scene chilled me to my core.
The poppy war series by R F kuang
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.
Crime and Punishment. The moral dilemmas, the empathy I felt for Raskolnikov… I actually had a fever for 3 days while reading the book which not so coincidentally was during the parts where he was also sick and raving. Really great read, I highly recommend it.
The other book that left me thinking deeply for many days afterwards is Norwegian Wood. It’s about loss.