Name a book that literally came to life in your mind. A book that made you feel like you were a part of its world.
Name a book that literally came to life in your mind. A book that made you feel like you were a part of its world.
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Jane eyer
Love the classics as well as the modern Dracula was one of my favorites as well as pride and prejudice.
Me too
Hounded, the first book in the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne, the other was Olmec Obituary by L.J.M Owne, the first of her Dr Pimms series. 🙂
Might have to look those ones up lol
@Laura I has halfway through Hounded, when I called up my local bookshop and put the entire series on order, and I never do that :). I had borrowed Hounded from the Library.
Sounds worth it then haha my husband might not be happy though. My bookshelf is sagging already.
@Laura then you need new and more shelves 😀
I told him I’m making an entire wall into a bookshelf.
That is a good idea 🙂
2 books I read in 2018. Both historical fiction. The Orphan Tale by Pam Jenoff and Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. I got so lost in the world of both books, I forgot I was reading.
Love it when that happens. Your world fades away and you can focus on the things that truly matter….getting to the next chapter lol
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Little House on the Prairie series. I was a kid when I read it the first time and I traveled from the big woods to Walnut Grove.
My mom named me after the character Laura Ingles.
Not my middle name tho lol
Lol
Outlander series, Gone With the Wind, any phillipa grwgoru book, as a child Little House on prairie series
Love the outlander series much better than the movie
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende sort of stands out a bit, but all books thay I bother to read to the end of do that, so thousands of them.
A winter Garden and Firefly Lane Kristin Hannah The Nightingale as well.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Into the wilderness series by Sara donati
Saving Grace, Beartown, Poisonwood Bible, Anne of Green Gables, When Breath Becomes Air, A walk in the Woods, could write down many!
It’s always a problem of too many choices lol
Wuthering Heights
This one has been on my list for a while lol
Little Women, most of the Narnia tales, ocean at the end of the Lane.
Read Narnia can’t wait to start reading it with my daughter.
The Lord of the Rings which i read at 12 X
So many the selection is one of them?
The Night Circus
In This House of Brede
Narnia series. Anne Cleeland series
The children of Blood and bone✨
Just finished this one in two days. Was sad the ending didn’t go as I hoped but I hope she makes a second one.
@Laura the second one is coming soon ??
I’m ready??
Good because I need to know what comes next lol
Most books do that for me.. id have to say the first ones would of been the famous five series.
Lunar Chronicles ????
The Belgariad!
Outlander
Oliver Twist
The Passion
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
so so many, cant just pick 1 it’ll be unfair
Dom Quixote.
My first ones where the famous five (which even inspired me to write my own stories.) But more recently it has been skullduggery pleasant books
Harry Potter
One of my favorites. My paper backs have been read so much they are fall in apart. Even started reading them to my child.
Definitely, from the first moment we meet the boy who lived in the cupboard, JK Rowling makes you feel like you could be him and a part of his world. We experience each new experience with him. I felt the awe and I was a grown adult reading them. I can only imagine what that must have felt like as a child reading them for the first time. ❤️
The City of Bones
Loved the books, the movie, and the t.v. series.
The Dark Tower series
For sure!
Shantarum
By a long shot
Boys in the Boat.
Swan Song ❤❤❤
Exiles Song
The Far Pavilions
The Lord of the Rings.
One of my many favorites.
So many, but my faves are the Harry Potter series, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Haha kindred spirits lol love them
I would say Nancy Drew
My favorite growing up.
Jane Eyre
Elephant Song; Brittmari was here; The Nightingale; The Art of Crashlanding; The Hunger Games; The Girl you left behind… ❤
Beautiful Ruins
The Three Pines series by Louise Penney.
The Twilght series.
When I was young Heidi was my go to book ,the mountains were so real
Maia by Richard Adams
Lord of the Rings
Every book I read makes me become a part of it’s world. That is exactly what a book should do.
Someone Knows My Name. I just read it.
@Beverly such a great book!
@Beverly that book was AMAZING!!!!
The Narrow Road to the Deep South
I escape in to the worlds I read
The Kitchen Boy by Robert @Tara.
Outlander
To kill a mockingbird
Anything by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter
Most books I’ve read are a great escape!
Boardwalk Summer by Meredith Jaeger
Poetic Anthology by Fernando Pessoa.
Harry Potter series
Looking Back to See Maxine Brown
Hard to choose when I have read so many wonderful books. The Outlander series, books by Maeve Binchey, Rosamunde Pilcher, Nora Roberts (JD Robb), Karen Kajewski, and the list goes on.
Where The Crawdads Sing
Perelandra by Lewis (C. S.)
There have been many, Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow and Can’t Wait to get to Heaven but most recently The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor.
I loved ‘Standing in the Rainbow’
It’s one of my very favorites, have you read the next books in the series Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven? If you haven’t you should it’s just as good and then there’s also The Whole Town’s Talking kind of a prequel to it all.
I didn’t know there was a series, it was an accidental find.
How exciting, I’ll check them out, thank you xx
You’re welcome, The Whole town’s talking was written just a few years back. There is also another book that kinda, sorta goes with the series too it’s call Welcome to the World Baby Girl. Fannie Flagg is one of my favorites to read. Hope you can find the others and read them too. I
I love to share my favorite books with others and hope they enjoy them as much as I did.
The Great Alone
Most books I read do that
Percy Jackson series, I always thought I’m one of the demigod ???
Most books
Gone with the Wind
Yes. This is my favorite book and movie of all time.
@Kelly mine too
Most of the books I’ve read and loved.
Exactly!
Fiddleback by J.M. Morris. My favourite book ever. Lent it to a friend, never got it back, now I can’t get a copy anywhere.
I know that feeling. It’s rough.
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Still have to read Alice in wonderland
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke❤️
Yes!
Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey To Unlock The Secrets Of The Universe by Mike Massimino. (unexpected reaction)
All books do that for me. I always put myself in every book I read or create
So Many..I can get lost in a book.
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon. I’m reading it now.
Most of the books, and some worlds stay with me long
time traveler’s wife
That is hard. So many do that. Life In A Jar is one of the more prominent ones in my mind.
All of my books do this.
@Susan Me too
@Gail ?
Shadowland by Peter Straub
The Game of Thrones series
Lonesome Dove, A prayer For Owen Meany
Books by Michael J Sullivan and Sarah J Maas
The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
The Secret Garden, Nancy Drew, Anne of Green Gables
Sadly, The Exorcist, totally got under my skin. Stephen King’s book, the Stand, did the same thing. On the positive side are Twilight trilogy and the Outlander series.
Every time I get a cold the stand pops in to mine.
A Man Called Ove
The ShoemakersWife.
where the crawdads sing
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
The Diary of Anne Frank haunted me for life. I read it too young.
Number the stars and Ann Frank were both read too young. I was in fourth grade.
Harry Potter
Where the Wild Rose Blooms, by Lori Wick
It goes way back to when I was younger, The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.
I loved that book when I read it years ago
@Stacey Me too! I felt like I was there! It was amazing! 🙂
The Hobbit, Lord of The Rings series-read all back in the 60’s and thought what great movies they would be,but technology wasn’t up to it at that time,and then when they did make movies,of course they changes a lot to satisfy Hollywood’s “creativity” instead of the author’s.
Diana Gabaldon’s Voyager series!
John Sanford prey series
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Solo A Star Wars Story made me feel like a part of its book world, I saw the actual movie, now I keep reborrowing this book by the same name of the movie, since I now stuggle with completing reading this book, but at least the library understands and as long as no one else wants to read this book, they keep redoing it to two renewals each time I go to check on its status on whether someone else wants to reads it (if not, I get to reset the renewals to twice, and hope I can push this book right to the end). I keep putting this book off, but really I should read it right to the end, when it’s too cold to go take the city bus just to read it while enjoying a diet pop or coffee (my favorite hangout is KFC because I’ve got friends there who kept my diet pop to $1.35 and I and I can have up to four or five refills free, the manager likes me there to keep an eye on his restaurant, and I stay quiet and out of whoever is causing him and me trouble (like I should be kicked out, not them, when it should be them kicked out for wanting me kicked out for opening my big mouth). I came back the next day and said sorry to the manager, and he said it was a good thing I was honest, or I would lose my privilege of the $1.35 medium diet soda pop (the next guy wouldn’t care if I was bullied or not).
The Stand, The BookThief, The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, The Secret Garden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Water for Elephants. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff.
Was the book Book Thief better than the movie?
@Laura They always are… Yes definitely
Not always haha I personally liked the Lord of the rings movie better than the book. But only because of the music lol
The Talisman.
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk.
Tomorrow Died Yesterday
My most recent reads ‘Gentleman in Moscow’ and ‘White Fang’ but if I enjoy a book I get lost in it!
Mythago Wood– Robert Holdstock
As child – charlottes web, ya- the chronicles of Narnia, the Harry Potter series, adult – To Kill A mockingbird, Time To Kill.
The first time I read The Shinning , when the topiary animals came to life my heart was beating so fast I had to put the book down. What a rush!
@Chris Stve skin’s books are like that. Have you ever read ” The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? You simply lose yourself in that book.
Yes I have,and you are so right!
Anything Steven King writes. He is the best story writer in the world today.
Lots of them if not most.
Anything written by Terry Goodkind, but his novel Faith of the Fallen was the best.
Inkheart!
Chronicles of Narnia
Beauty – Sheri S Tepper
Inkheart!
The Skulduggery Pleasant series??♀️
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright ??
Lord of the Rings
bORN IN FIRE By Nora Roberts .
vc
Msomi and Me by Brian Connell.
“Half of a yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Adichie
Every book I read
Lady of Hay
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Wuthering Heights.
The Little House Series
All of the Harry Potter books
Black Like Me, when i was about nine.
I read that MANY years ago – when it first came out
Narnia.
Divergent and The Hunger Games
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
@Kathy loved.
There are several that make me just set back and think and cry but 2 of the was by Tom Brokaw 1) The Greatest Generation Speaks and the 2) The Greatest Generation. If you ever read non fiction read these
The witching hour by Anne Rice
Been dying to read this one haha
@Laura It is excellent!
Anne Freeman’s Traveling Funeral. I forget the author, but I felt like I was sometimes one of the main characters with each main character in the book!
Lonesome Dove
Gone with the Wind. I was reading about 7th or 8th grade. My mom called me for dinner. I was shocked because I was reading the part where Scarlet was digging for something to eat because they had no food. I was so into it, I assumed we didn’t have food either.
The book i’m reading rn the book on Mel Tillis i feel like part of his band because it is that good
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas…and it was not a nice part of the world to be in.
Gone with the wind, Moby Dick, pride and prejudice
The Bible
Most books make me a part of their world. Only a very few have not
The bible