The ending of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Finished it on a train. Had to walk up and down the carriage to process it and calm down

Similar for The Stars My Destination

It feels crazy when books actually affect your health. I got severly depressed after reading Heart of Darkness and got really claustrophobic when reading House of Leaves. Your mind is going, it's just a book, but your body is going, nope!

The only ones that depress me are the ones that take ages to finish. I love the watchmaker craft of Conrad (and Greene) tbh. Including Heart of Darkness, maybe moreso The Secret Agent

Oh I loved the book, but the content got to me and made me feel things.

Basically what books made you go "Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! I need to talk about this." after you read them.

Soooo many! All-time favourites: The Lightning of August by Jorge Ibargüengoitia The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal Elective Affinities by J.W. von Goethe 1/2

I've been eyeing some Haruki Murakami

His work is excellent all around. This one is just my absolute favourite because it is extra weird. 😅

Recent favourites: Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler The Imperial Radch Trilogy by Ann Leckie The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

The Vorrh! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/248404...

So many but I am never not thinking about 'The Raven Tower' by Ann Leckie!

I haven't read that one yet. Let me just push that way up my TBR there...lol

Honestly, sometimes a single line can do it for me. It doesn't even have to be the whole book.

I read Siege of Burning Grass through an audiobook, but I need to buy the book itself just so I can highlight and share quotes.

It absolutely gave me that "reading late at night under the covers with a flashlight" feel, I wish I could recapture the sensation of reading it for the first time

YES! That's what I want.

I think the last one for me that did that was Lev Grossman's *The Bright Sword*. But there are lots of levels of it. Like I just started Daniel M Ford's *Advocate* (third in his Warden series), and fell right into it. "Oh, yeah. This one's going to *go*."

When I was younger, building my reading appetites... Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville Animorphs by KA Applegate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Raft by Steven Baxter The Stand by Stephen King

In young adulthood Discworld by Terry Pratchett Uplift War by David Brin The Dark Tower by Stephen King Eon by Greg Bear Caves of Steel by Issac Asimov As an adult The Way of Kings and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Permutation City by Greg Egan Snow Crash by Neal Stevenson

Oooo I've been looking for an Egan book to jump into the work.

If you haven't read it, it's a head trip

Want a strange list? VALIS by Phillip K Dick Tender is the Night/Fitzgerald The Fall/Camus You Only Live Twice/Fleming Appointment in Samara/O’Hara The Postman Always Rings Twice/Cain

I feel it.