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Totally engaging can't-put-down needed

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katiegolightly · 10/04/2012 15:40

Yes this is lazy, but Amazon recommendations aren't cutting it for me today. I'm hoping to stock up on a few can't-put-down-totally-all-engrossing novels to occupy the coming days and nights!

Nothing too clever or stretchy but nothing too airport trash vomit-inducing. Can't be doing with something that takes 8 chapters to get into. Anyone read anything recently worth writing home about?

Things that recently went down well were Time Travellers Wife, The Help, Go To Sleep and yes, embarrassingly I did like all the Harry Potter books.

One Day was just a bit too naff for me, couldn't put my finger on it :-/ (yes I know that's hard to say following my last admission...)

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fotheringhay · 10/04/2012 15:45

I'm near the end of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis and finding it very un-put-downable.

It's not very long though, about 205 pages, so won't engross you for long.

whereismywine · 10/04/2012 15:45

At the risk of a post too many, do you use goodreads? very useful.

whereismywine · 10/04/2012 15:44

Oh and Me before You is far better than it's cover suggests. I loved that too, very easy to read and not like One Day at all, promise.

whereismywine · 10/04/2012 15:43

This year I have loved:

The Language of Flowers and The Company of Liars. Both very different but they were easy to get into and I wanted to read them in the day which is a good sign for me.

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