A book that has made you think long after you have finished reading it

Mot just one book but (m)any of those published by Virago. Back in the eighties the building in which I worked had a library in the basement. Th librarian stacked circular stands with Virago books. The authors were mainly women from the turn of the 19th century and early part of the 20th and I hadn't heard of most of them. One that I really enjoyed was My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. It was made into a film with Judy Davis and Sam Neill and is about a young woman from an impoverished Australian farm.

I found them interesting because they were about similar struggles to those that women have today - careers, husbands and families and friends. It surprised me how little things have really changed.

The Pilgramage by Paulo Coehlo.
I envy such faith and marvel at the extraordinary experiences.
I would love to meet him.

I did Pincher Martin by William Golding for A level, and it’s stuck with me.

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini still makes me shudder whenever I think of it. How could people be so horrid.