What 4 books do you most vividly remember reading?

[Maureen]

1. I'm another huge fan of John LeCarre's Little Drummer Girl. Every time I reread it I am once again struck by with a few tiny changes it could have been written in whatever year I was reading it.

2. Madam, Will You Talk by Mary Stewart I must have been about ten when I first read this masterpiece of romantic suspense.

3.The Source by James Mitchner has influenced my religious and moral choices most of my life. It was a hard slog for a twelve year old.

4. Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton is my current favorite. A tour de force in characters, plotting and twisty turns.

[Dan]

1.Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Noble House - James Clavell
4. A tie between The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris or
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum.
This is not an easy list to form, you see I cheated on 4. Too may options.

[SherryRose]

Burial Rites
Wuthering Heights
Night Circus
The Graveyard Book

[Elizabeth]

New List!
Cinderella Girl by Carin Gerhardsen
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Gone by Mo Hayder
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell

[Tom]

Wow! Thought this would be easy 'til I thought about it for a few seconds. Suddenly I had more like 4 dozen than just 4! But OK, without too much deliberation, I'll go with:

1) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle -- received a copy of it for my 9th birthday, still have it, and yes, read it again as this month's BOTM selection.

2) Dracula by Bram Stoker -- also first read as a kid and it precipitated a confrontation with a disapproving nun who happened to be the principal of the school I was attending at the time.

3) Ghost Story by Peter Straub -- read in my early teens and it scared the hell out of me.

4) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara -- picked this up by chance before heading out on a road trip when I was in college. Intense, poignant, riveting. I barely noticed the miles passing by.

Oh and so many other contenders...

[Amy]

1. A Piece of Cake
2. Still Alice
3. Pretty Girls
4. New Moon

[Amy]

Guess that diff then the last time haha

[Bill]

Dan wrote: "1.Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Noble House - James Clavell
4. A tie between The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris or
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum.
This ..."

Just read Lonesome Dove for the first time and loved it. The Stand is my favorite Stephen King. Great picks!

[Bill]

Elizabeth wrote: "New List!
Cinderella Girl by Carin Gerhardsen
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Gone by Mo Hayder
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell"

I liked Raven Black very much. I've been trying to figure out where to begin a dive into Ruth Rendell, so maybe A Demon in My View is a place to start.

[C.]

[Monica]

OK - I will just pick four off the top of my head
1. The Flame & the Flower
2. Needful Things by Stephen King (also the one movie that didn't disappoint after reading the book)
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
4. What Alice Forgot

[Marie]

We can only list 4? Too bad as there is so many.

1) It by Stephen King
2) The Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
3) Gone But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin
4) The Diogenes Triolgy (Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead) - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (these books still stand out in my mind - very creepy and scary - good to read for Halloween)

[David]

In no order:
1/ Criminal Conversation - Evan Hunter - the story (especially the ending) haunted me for a long time
2/ Promised Land - Robert B. Parker - the first Spenser novel I ever read.
3/ Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy - one of the best techno-thriller novels ever
4/ The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly - A great intro to a new series by a master of the mystery novel.

[Kirsten]

The 4 most recent ones that are still with me:

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
The Sound of Glass by Karen White

[Jeffrey]

1984 by George Orwell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Magnolias in Paradise by Leonard Seet
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

[Mara]

Sweet Savage Love series, P.S. I Love You, Me Before You, Murder on the Orient Express

[Matt]

Native Son by Richard Wright
Brotherhood of the Rose by David Morrell
Lady Boss by Jackie Collins
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

[Moonlight]

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

[M.A.R.]

Toni Morrison - SULA
Albert Camus-THE STRANGER
Yaa Gyasi - HOMEGOING
Steg Larsson -THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

[Kelly]

Interview With a Vampire-Anne Rice
Pet Sematary-Stephen King
The Once and Future King-T.H. White
The Mists of Avalon-Marion Zimmer Bradley

All excellent!

[Amit]

The Book Thief - Mark zusak
Never Let Me Go - kazuo ishiguro
The New York Trilogie - Paul Auster
Dune - Frank Herbert

[ReadAlongWithSue recovering from a stroke★⋆. ࿐࿔]

The one by John Mars
Void by David Standiford
White is the coldest color by john Nichols
The escape by C L Taylor

[Rory]

I read 90% fiction but honestly the books that stay with me are often nonfiction.

Death of a President - William Manchester
Boy on a Rooftop - Russian invasion of ? Hungry or Poland
Crouching Tiger - Peter Navarro
No Greater Honor - C. Rice
& any Alistair MacLean or Tony Hillerman book

[Maureen]

Rory wrote: "I read 90% fiction but honestly the books that stay with me are often nonfiction.

Death of a President - William Manchester
Boy on a Rooftop - Russian invasion of ? Hungry or Poland
Crouching Tige..." I started reading Alistair McLean when I was about nine. I still remember some scenes with heartbreaking clarity.

[Tina]

Those are just 4 of the best that I've read in the past 6 months (I just started reading again after an approximate 20 year hiatus!)

[Rory]

Maureen wrote: "Rory wrote: "I read 90% fiction but honestly the books that stay with me are often nonfiction.

Death of a President - William Manchester
Boy on a Rooftop - Russian invasion of ? Hungry or Poland
C..."

Yeah, like in BREAKHEART PASS . . . Oh!! and New Orleans. How about crawfish etouffee.

[Maureen]

I wish I could actually get non-Chinese crawfish up here. I miss Ruby Red shrimp from /gulf shores area.

I think on lists like these, To Kill a Mockingbird should be a freebie and not count. I don't even include it for that reason.

[David]

The Day of The Jackal....Frederick Forsyth
The Berkut.... Joseph Heywood
The Godfather......Puzo
East of Eden.....Steinbeck

Perhaps, if I add to that four, it would be
Charm School.......Demille (for the unique plot and humor)
In Cold Blood........Capote.

Of these books, all were read many years ago, ie. at least 20 years or more, so they the plots stand out. Something that I read last week or last year have not stood the test of time.

[Linda]

Swan, The Stand, Along Came a Spider, and Battlefield Earth

[Helen]

In the Woods by Tana French, The Stand by Stephen King, Medicus by Ruth Downie