list of the month - memorable books

...what are your most memorable books? And why?
"Bleak House" – Charles Dickens
"Excession" – Iain M Banks
"Microserfs" – Douglas Coupland
"Mr Vertigo" – Paul Auster
"Oryx and Crake" – Margaret Atwood
"Perfume" – Patrick Suskind
"Snow falling on cedars" – David Guterson
"That old ace in the hole" – Annie Proulx
"The Chrysalids" – John Wyndham
"The magic faraway tree" - Enid Blyton
"The man who mistook his wife for a hat" – Oliver Sacks
"The Mars Trilogy" – Kim Stanley Robinson
Feb 2007