Lately I’ve been trying to find books that don’t just entertain me while I’m reading them, but actually stick with me days (or even weeks) after I finish.
One that really did that for me was The Stranger by Albert Camus. It’s not a long read, but something about the main character and the way everything unfolds just felt… off, in a way that kept me thinking about it way after I finished.
I’m open to pretty much any genre, as long as it has that kind of impact the kind of story that makes you pause and think or see things a little differently.
What’s a book that stayed in your mind long after you finished it?
by gilko86
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The people in the trees. Hanya Yanagiharas debut novel. Omg it starts in a way that you almost feel like there’s no point, the twist has been revealed in the first page. But as you read you get lost from the original point until it all hits you at the end. I thought about this book for 2 weeks after I finished and I still think about it almost weekly. Sometimes I feel almost ashamed that I was duped for even a second while reading it.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I think about The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka very often. It is such a painful book to me. Sometimes I cry just thinking about it.