A friend and I were talking yesterday about books that haunted us when we were younger. Those books that your teacher handed you and never left you. His was "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannert O'Conner. Mine was "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. Both are short stories you can find anywhere.

So my question to you guys, because I'm curious and am looking to inspire the same hauntings in my own students: what piece of literature form your youth stays with you today? And why would you recommend it?

If you can't remember the name, tell us about it. Maybe we can figure it out!

Does anyone have any book recommendations where the main character is a corporate slave and they're constantly torn between giving up their sense of self for the corporate world or just walking away from their job

I recently read a couple of heavy books in quick succession (Hell of a Book and Chain-Gang All-Stars) and desperately needed something lighter after. I know a lot about of people would turn to a romance or a mystery, but those genres just aren’t for me!

I ended up reading a couple of fantasy books (The Bewitching and The Binding). Although the romance was a bit heavy in the latter, the world itself was interesting enough that I was captivated.

What do you turn to when you’ve been reading too much about heavy topics?

I want to try making a personal list of books to read that have at least one diehard fan. I'm looking for the book that you bring up when someone says they want to get back into reading. The one you don't think ever gets enough attention because something else in that genre became popular. The one where people say "that was a book?" after discovering a movie or tv show they enjoyed was based on a novel.

My list starts with Howls Moving Castle, my own personal choice, that I have actually recommended to anyone asking.