Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me

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78,144 utenti
1,431 recensioni
½ 4.4
2
58,646 utenti
912 recensioni
4.2
3
4,842 utenti
62 recensioni
½ 4.3
3 Members
angekenn, ahef1963, TheTowers
Spiegazioni
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
26,896 utenti
773 recensioni
3.9
3 Members
timspalding, TheoClarke, Marissa_Doyle
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Marissa_Doyle: One of my top books of all time. I am in awe of the world she created.
5
3,675 utenti
75 recensioni
4.2
6
8,988 utenti
57 recensioni
½ 4.6
7
22,745 utenti
938 recensioni
3.8
3 Members
SqueakyChu, Marissa_Doyle, TheTowers
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Marissa_Doyle: Haunting.
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7,678 utenti
406 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
timspalding, imyril, KimarieBee
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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
727 utenti
21 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu
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imyril: Haunting and horrifying.
10
20,186 utenti
553 recensioni
4.1
3 Members
imyril, SqueakyChu, ManWithAnAgenda
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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
44,659 utenti
2,118 recensioni
½ 4.4
3 Members
KimarieBee, TheoClarke, ahef1963,gilroy
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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
22,237 utenti
297 recensioni
4.1
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12,941 utenti
279 recensioni
½ 3.6
2 Members
imyril, mkbird
Spiegazioni
imyril: Enlightening, enthralling and inspiring.
14
80,208 utenti
1,364 recensioni
½ 4.4
2 Members
desertbloom, ahef1963
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ahef1963: Pride & Prejudice is the first classic novel that I really enjoyed. It was the cross-over from childhood reading to adult reading.
15
34,743 utenti
269 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
imyril, jillmwo
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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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17,638 utenti
331 recensioni
4.2
17
4,202 utenti
80 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
timspalding, smcwl
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39,862 utenti
524 recensioni
4.1
19
5,912 utenti
188 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
mkbird, SylviaC
Spiegazioni
SylviaC: Provides some insight into our role and effect on the planet.
20
980 utenti
12 recensioni
4
21
4,180 utenti
65 recensioni
4.1
22
2,350 utenti
32 recensioni
3.9
2 Members
jillmwo, ManWithAnAgenda
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jillmwo: Two stories in this collection, April in Paris and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
23
23,532 utenti
329 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
jillmwo, PitcherBooks
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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
17,599 utenti
682 recensioni
4.1
25
989 utenti
54 recensioni
½ 4.3
26
1,587 utenti
42 recensioni
½ 4.3
2 Members
PitcherBooks, Marissa_Doyle
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Marissa_Doyle: Wonderful, spooky, truly captures the "otherness" of the Fae in folklore.
27
69,336 utenti
1,075 recensioni
3.8
28
2,365 utenti
78 recensioni
4.1
29
16,089 utenti
279 recensioni
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Spiegazioni
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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40,955 utenti
1,045 recensioni
½ 4.3
Member
gilroy
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26,289 utenti
396 recensioni
4
Member
Charon07
32
20,544 utenti
330 recensioni
3.9
Member
thorold
Spiegazioni
thorold: Needs no explanation
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18,752 utenti
321 recensioni
3.9
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
Spiegazioni
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
9,978 utenti
85 recensioni
4.1
35
6,733 utenti
56 recensioni
4.2
36
2,427 utenti
59 recensioni
4.1
37
1,846 utenti
65 recensioni
3.8
Member
hipdeep
38
62 utenti
5
Member
SylviaC
Spiegazioni
SylviaC: This was the book that I asked everyone to read to me, before I could read it myself.
39
5,799 utenti
108 recensioni
4.1
40
2,355 utenti
53 recensioni
½ 3.5
41
2,292 utenti
32 recensioni
½ 4.5
Member
thorold
Spiegazioni
thorold: A book that makes you think "If everyone read this, we could be sure it would never happen again"
42
1,920 utenti
48 recensioni
4
Member
imyril
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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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1,888 utenti
20 recensioni
3.9
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1,415 utenti
12 recensioni
3.8
45
489 utenti
8 recensioni
½ 4.3
Member
SylviaC
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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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256 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 4.4
Member
hipdeep
47
199 utenti
11 recensioni
3.9
Member
Athabasca
48
6 utenti
1 recensione
½ 4.5
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Spiegazioni
Marissa_Doyle: I read this when I was a young teen, and it has profoundly affected how I write.
49
42,074 utenti
1,134 recensioni
4.1
Member
imyril
Spiegazioni
imyril: One of the first dystopian novels I ever read, which plays on several themes that are close to my heart.
50
12,550 utenti
266 recensioni
4
Member
thorold
Spiegazioni
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
7,481 utenti
192 recensioni
4.2
Member
Charon07
52
5,416 utenti
114 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
SylviaC
Spiegazioni
SylviaC: Made me look at listening in a whole different way.
53
4,975 utenti
61 recensioni
4.1
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hipdeep
54
4,812 utenti
173 recensioni
4.2
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Athabasca
55
3,958 utenti
100 recensioni
3.9
Member
jillmwo
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jillmwo: The idea of setting aside the culture and treasures of the ages so that they don't get destroyed.
56
3,262 utenti
92 recensioni
½ 3.7
57
2,662 utenti
41 recensioni
3.8
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
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SomeGuyInVirginia: Même chose.
58
1,048 utenti
15 recensioni
4
Member
smcwl
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890 utenti
24 recensioni
3.8
60
614 utenti
7 recensioni
4.2
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: The first fantasy novel (I read the trilogy in one volume) that I ever truly, deeply loved.
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577 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 4.3
Member
Marissa_Doyle
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Marissa_Doyle: Retelling of the classic of Welsh mythology. Just beautiful.
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206 utenti
8 recensioni
½ 4.3
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183 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
mkbird
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10 utenti
2 recensioni
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43,474 utenti
1,012 recensioni
3.9
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24,891 utenti
373 recensioni
4.1
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19,953 utenti
319 recensioni
3.8
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19,011 utenti
343 recensioni
4
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hipdeep
70
14,085 utenti
176 recensioni
3.9
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Charon07
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12,450 utenti
260 recensioni
4.1
72
6,036 utenti
107 recensioni
3.8
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smcwl
73
5,895 utenti
146 recensioni
4
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Athabasca
74
4,962 utenti
107 recensioni
3.9
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thorold
75
4,699 utenti
140 recensioni
4
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Spiegazioni
Marissa_Doyle: Haunting as well, but in a very different way from the Ishiguro.
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1,822 utenti
51 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
imyril
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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
939 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 4.4
78
475 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
SomeGuyInVirginia
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SomeGuyInVirginia: Scared me to death as a kid.
79
220 utenti
14 recensioni
3.8
Member
SylviaC
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SylviaC: A protagonist I really related to.
80
134 utenti
1 recensione
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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ahef1963: Started my life-long fascination with all things African.
81
6 utenti
½ 4.3
82
39,374 utenti
1,269 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
imyril, KimarieBee,gilroy
Spiegazioni
imyril: This stays with me for its haunting implications. Sad, sentimental, yet satisfying.
83
24,494 utenti
522 recensioni
4.1
Member
hipdeep
84
7,417 utenti
207 recensioni
4
85
2,865 utenti
28 recensioni
4
86
2,006 utenti
36 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
87
1,737 utenti
27 recensioni
4.1
Member
SylviaC
Spiegazioni
SylviaC: I like epidemic books, and this one was pretty comprehensive at the time.
88
1,455 utenti
26 recensioni
½ 3.7
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1,198 utenti
25 recensioni
4
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smcwl
90
1,059 utenti
8 recensioni
4
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ahef1963
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ahef1963: Explained to me, in layman's terms, the science of paleontology and awoke in me a love of the subject matter.
91
904 utenti
20 recensioni
4.2
Member
jillmwo
Spiegazioni
jillmwo: She explains some things so well. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie is an essay that has stuck with me.
92
899 utenti
15 recensioni
4
Member
Charon07
93
36 utenti
1 recensione
½ 4.6
Member
Marissa_Doyle
Spiegazioni
Marissa_Doyle: One of the truly happiest books I've ever read.
94
21,657 utenti
187 recensioni
4.1
95
8,746 utenti
144 recensioni
3.9
96
7,713 utenti
123 recensioni
3.9
97
7,561 utenti
93 recensioni
4
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thorold
98
2,677 utenti
32 recensioni
4
Member
jillmwo
Spiegazioni
jillmwo: It's the lifestyle as much as Norris' writing.
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250 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Charon07