We asked on Facebook: What’s the most unforgettable book you’ve ever read?

“Night” by Elie Wiesel.

– Jacki Hart Nielsen

“Ulysses” by James Joyce.

– Susan Meads-Leahy

“The Rosy Crucifixion” (trilogy: Sexus, Nexus and Plexus) by Henry Miller. “Only because my wife just voted for Joyce’s “Ulysses” and I felt I should give Miller the nod.”

– Michael Leahy

“The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver. “Amazing characters, well-developed, and to me, the style of writing allowed me to think and consider, and didn’t tell me what to think.”

– Lisa Wilson Velasquez

“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez.

– Kathleen DiNatale

“One Hundreds Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez. “I wept when I got to the last page. I didn’t want that book to ever end.”

– Karla Klay

The Bible.

– Tracy Calvert

“Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves” by Barry Gifford.

– Robert Zahn

“A Garden of Earthly Delights” by Joyce Carol Oates. “Mesmerizing and surreal. About people I might have known without knowing it. She’s an incredibly talented chronicler of all of us, from everywhere.”

– Holly Thorson

“A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess.

– Dan Braverman

“An Embarrassment of Mangoes” by Ann Vanderhoof.

– Lawrence Nalewak

“Love is a Wild Assault” by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland. “A book about early Texas starting in Brazoria County.”

– Gladys Haak

“The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory.

– Suzanne Little

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce.

– Neil Wilson

“The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway. “Read it. Lived it. Loved it.”

– George Liberato

“The Haunted Mesa” by Louis L’Amour.

        – Donna Heinrich

“The House on the Strand” by Daphne du Maurier. “Not about Galveston. My favorite book of all time.”

– Paul Ray Heinrich

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. “But it runs a distant second to the Bible.”

– Bob Senter

“The Godfather” by Mario Puzo.

– Manny Chan

“Flawed Dogs: The Novel” by Berkeley Breathed. “It tells in humorous detail the accounts of several dogs who’ve been given up to the pound and why the owners relinquished them. It reminds that dogs without homes are only imperfect because they live without love — that’s how we’re flawed.”

– Debbie Borque

“Rain of Gold” by Victor Villaseñor. “You hear, see, feel and taste all that is written.”

– Belinda Reyes Sandoval

“Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo. “I assigned it to my college students for awhile, but they thought it was too depressing.”

– Janene Amyx Davison

“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine. “Published January 9, 1776. We need to reprint about 100 million copies.”

– Michael Alan Basham

“Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.

– Wayne O’Quin

“The Shack” by William P. Young. “Great book at a time I needed it.

– Ron Wooten

“The Shack’ is a phenomenal book everyone should read.”

– Richard Conner

“Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern. “I have laughed my head off reading this book; it’s kind of crass but hilarious.”

– Deeva Brantley

“The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty.

– J. Roy Hall

“Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss

– Joey Quiroga