I need GRIPPING page- turners...

[tethersend]

Am off work with a broken shoulder, in pain and so, so bored...

Please recommend me some absorbing books!

I love books about WW2, but am up for reading anything set at any time, ever.

Please help. I need books to blow me away and take my mind off things.

[tethersend]

Oh, and they must be available on the kindle

[tethersend]

Thanks BTP- what are those two about, then?

[tethersend]

Yes, am too lazy to google

[KittensoftPuppydog]

There' a sarah waters book set in ww2. You can't do better than that. Night watch I think it's called.

[DuchessofMalfi]

Have you read The Shadow of The Wind? I read it this summer and was completely gripped by the story.

[Sonotkylie]

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer. 20s to present day in Czechoslovakia. Brilliant.

[PinkFairyArmadillo]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. It's one of the very few books I've read that I literally couldn't put down, I had to read it all in one sitting. Thankfully it's not as long as most of his other books

[voituredepompier]

In order of ease of reading

Gone Girl

Wolf Hall and its succesor Bringing up the Bodies about the life of Thomas Cromwell - but only if you like very detailed historical books, incredibly well written

The Big Short and Boomerang both by Michael Lewis - the first about what caused the 2008 financial crash, the second looking at how individual countries got into the mess - some pretty damming and funny insights into national cultures.

[MrsTwgtwf]

Gone Girl, and if you like that (it's a bit marmite) then the other 2 she's written.

The Black House trilogy by Peter May. If you like that, he's written other series you can work through.

[bluebump]

Yes to Shadow of the Wind as mentioned above, that was the best book i've read in ages. There are two more to follow that one that I must get. The author (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) did a great webchat on here a while ago.

I also loved the Sarah Waters Nightwatch recommendation, that was actually my favourite one of hers I think.

I read Birdsong recently too, WW1 rather than WW2 but gripping and gritty.

[tethersend]

Thanks all

Ok, have read and hated Gone Girl, have seen NightWatch on TV so know the plot which rules it out for me at the moment, ditto Birdsong. I'm not a big fan of the detective genre, but I could be persuaded...

I like the sound of The Glass Room and perhaps The Shadow of The Wind...

Any more suggestions gratefully received.

[VBisme]

I am loving "the hundred year ols man who climbed out of a window".

Have you read "lovely bones"?

Also "The book of lost things".

[tethersend]

The hundred year old man got right on my tits. So to speak

Don't fancy the lovely bones, feeling too weepy

The Book of Lost Things sounds good...

[OiVaVoi]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Also Stoner by John Williams. Both fantastic page turners.

[Ratatouille1977]

Rush of blood by mark billingham. It's gripping until the end.

[Broodzilla]

Was going to suggest Gone Girl

Jodi Picoult? I've read quite a few of hers, they're not as "bubbelgum-y" as they might seem at first glance.

You can get free previews on Kindle, download a few and whichever makes you go "damn" at the end of the preview should keep you going.

[tinierclanger]

The Moonstone and The Woman in White, if you haven't already read them? Obv not WW2 but gripping!

Likewise, all the Ira Levins.

Ooh, have you read The interpretation of murder? That's a good one, and his other one was good too.

[tharsheblows]

I just used the word "gripping" to describe Apple Tree Yard and my favourite book this summer was The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. With Apple Tree Yard, if you don't like the description, you probably won't like the book. But that's less true of The Wall - it's more than its description would suggest.

[tharsheblows]

I also loved Angelmaker and The Gargoyle - so I second BeerTricks on those.

I'm going to order the first Bryant and May now....

[LeslieKnope]

A Song of Ice and Fire. Seriously.

I was the biggest skeptic about the series and have just rinsed the first 3 books in a month

SO good!

[MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet]

If you're happy to go sci-fi, then Wool by Hugh Howey (first of a trilogy which continues with Shift, then Dust) is excellent!