What is a very good book you have read that you do not think many other people might read themselves?

Question

My answer to my own question is Q by Luther Blisset.

Answer 1

Completely agree with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Anne Brontë is the overlooked sister, but I found it better than Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

Anyway- I'd have to go with Eva Ibbotson's books. People read the summaries of her stories and dismiss them, thinking that she is another JK Rowling imitator. What they don't think to do is check the publication date. Ibbotson has been writing at least twenty years before Rowling, and is much better. Her plots are a bit predictable, but they are written with such engaging characters and funny ideas!

Answer 2

Delores Claiborne by Stephen King

Answer 3

Welcome to the N.H.K. by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.  

Answer 4

House of the Scorpion. It's pretty long and you really have to analyse..but if you understand all the symbolism you might like it...another one is The Colour Purple.  

Answer 5

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing, all part of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. They look at the cover and are like "Pssssh, that looks retarded," but they are the best books I have ever read in my entire life, and nothing compares to them. You get lost in the books. If a character is in pain, it's like your them, because you feel pain.

It's really strange.  

Answer 6

The pillow book of Sei Shonagon

Answer 7

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff - it is extraordinarily well written, well researched, freaking hilarious and so very entertaining.  More people should be reading it

Answer 8

The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson .

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hop...

The Night Land

by William Hope Hodgson  

[O]ne of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.¡ª Excerpted from The Night Land on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Answer 9

i would have to say the hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo. i think most people think its like the Disney movie but its completely different.

Answer 10

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by the neglested Bronte sister, Anne.

and

The Way We Live Now  by Anthony Trollope

I think its his best.

Answer 11

If you liked Q you might like The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco which not a lot of people have probably read.

Answer 12

My immediate thought was Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, but that was an international bestseller so I guess it doesn't match your criteria. However, I have met few people who have read it, let alone heard of the author.

Anyway, if I shall have to choose a more suitable book, it'll be The Liar, by Stephen Fry. Not many people seem to have read it, nor any of Fry's other fiction, including his many fans. He writes excellently, his passion for vocabularly and meticulous structure shining though.  

Answer 13

One of mine is Barefoot Soldier by Johnson Beharry VC