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Please recommend a page turner, not necessarily crime?

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IDontMindMarmite · 02/02/2021 14:56

I find myself immediately bored by stories from the perspectives of police/FBI/private investigators. I wouldn't say i dislike the crime genre completely, but I just find a lot featuring those to be done to death.

I would love to get my teeth into a great book though, any ideas?

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Confusedandshaken · 17/03/2021 20:47

The Institute by Stephen King. It's not a horror story more of a paranormal thriller but at times the suspense/terror was so much I had to put the book down and leave it for a couple of days.

Or there's Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton. A thriller about a shooting in a school. I didn't sleep well while I was reading that one!

Laquila · 17/03/2021 11:45

The Psychopath Test is brilliant!! All Jon Robson books are great really. The one about fundamentalism particularly.

ineedtostop · 17/03/2021 10:04

The Psychopath Test is really interesting. Going to read the Midnight Library next.

TableSetting · 16/03/2021 18:18

The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean. Recommended to me by a customer and it was great.

Mooey89 · 16/03/2021 18:16

The midnight library. Best book I’ve read in a verryyy long time.

TheVanguardSix · 16/03/2021 18:13

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

It's just such a good read and totally fascinating!

ineedtostop · 16/03/2021 18:10

Coming back to say I've just finished the most incredible book. A bit like Educated. A memoir (no crime involved!) but an absolute page turner from beginning to end, and so beautifully written and poetic. The Road to My Daughter by Elisabeth Spencer. Not a book I would normally have gone to except I saw her interviewed in The Times and it was...I'm speechless! The courage, the emotion. It will grab you and you learn so much and come away with tears in your eyes (in a good way). It's my next bookclub recommendation for sure.

applecatchers36 · 14/03/2021 17:45

Was just going to say Education by Tara Westover it is fascinating and a true story a real story of survival against the odds

ineedtostop · 14/03/2021 17:42

Agree the 19th Wife. Also similar (but not fiction) Educated by Tara Westover.

Viviennemary · 13/03/2021 14:50

I like Robert Goddard. Mystery type books sometimes with crime involved. My favourite of his was Caught in the Light. It was a bit far fetched but for me a page turner.

Oblomov21 · 09/03/2021 17:33

Marking

Standrewsschool · 24/02/2021 20:20

Reading The Glass House which I’m enjoying.

Also Heatwave by Kate Riordan.

PiggyPlumPie · 24/02/2021 17:09

@Costalatte I just came on to say The Other Passenger!

Couldn't put it down!

NutellaEllaElla · 24/02/2021 17:05

Never too late! I'm devouring books like nobody's business at the moment

Laquila · 24/02/2021 16:41

I also enjoyed the first Detective Gamache book by Louise Penny - clever detective stories set in Quebec.

Laquila · 24/02/2021 16:40

I raced through "When No-one Is Watching" by Alyssa Cole - I think that was a rec from here or maybe Instagram. It's tricky to categorise but it's a sort of satirical psychological thriller set in a rapidly gentrifying NY neighbourhood. I don't want to ruin it for anyone but it deals with some really big themes and is very thought-provoking. Blackly comic too.

Annasgirl · 24/02/2021 16:22

OP, I hope I am not too late for you - try reading "The Appeal", so many layers, really innovative storytelling - I read it in 2 days as I could not wait to get back to it when I put it down.

NutellaEllaElla · 23/02/2021 13:12

Thank you, I can't wait for libraries to reopen, i'm spending a fortune haha.

I just finished Valentina by S Lynes, it was pretty good if perhaps stereotypical.

Tureen · 23/02/2021 05:47

I’ve just read Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy from a few years ago and found it compelling in a claustrophobic way — it’s literary fiction, about a young Englishwoman who obsessively stalks and befriends a Japanese-American writer in New York. Shades of Notes on a Scandal, but done via social media — OS is brilliant on what it’s like obsessing about someone via SM.

OhWhyNot · 22/02/2021 23:16

Another vote for American Dirt

LifeInAHamsterWheel · 19/02/2021 22:23

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins - I was gripped from the start, loved it.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. So interesting as well as gripping.

magicstar1 · 16/02/2021 22:18

@Pumpkinandseeds I love Eddie Flynn, and I have my mother hooked on them too.

Have you read The Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer OP? They’re a whole series and definitely page turners.

vxa2 · 16/02/2021 22:16

Grown ups by Marian Keyes

Costalatte · 16/02/2021 22:16

I’ve just read The Other passenger by Louise Candlish, absolutely loved it!

BabloHoney · 16/02/2021 22:09

Just finished The Push by Ashley Audrain. If you liked We Need To Talk About Kevin you’ll enjoy this one.. it’s so gripping and unsettling, bit far fetched in places but I couldn’t put it down, read it in two days!