what books couldnt you put down?

What you looking for Caykon? I've got a few books kicking around at the moment that I could send for postage.

I've just read Margaret Attwood, Alias Grace which was very good; Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell was a bit strange, but ultimately satisfying and definitely one of my unputdownable books (and you can tell from this sentence that I'm proper gifted in English, like!). The Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, Christopher Brookmyre was fantastic. I read it in a day. Loved it, loved it, loved it. I liked the Time Travellers wife too (but don't have it any more). Anything by Armistead Maupin too. Oh...and junk book wise, I LURVE Kelley Armstrong's werefolf/witch books. They're like chocolate...smooth and comforting and one never seems enough really.

Love books, love life

Woman of the Edge of TIme by Madge Piercey. One of my very favourite books

Just read The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, took it everywhere with me, read it on the loo, while cooking .. it is also very short so easy to read in one sitting.

To kill a mockingbird
Handmaids tale
Ninteen eighty four

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Anything by Terry Pratchet
Bleak House
Villette - Charlotte Bronte

I could go on but TBH my memory is failing me...

What Was Lost- Catherine O'Flynn
Secret- Phillipe Grimbert
This Thing of Darkness- Harry Thompson, but you will have to take breaks as it is about 600 pages!
Time Travellers Wife
American Gods- Neil Gaiman

Agree with LOTS of these
Ben Elton - yes yes yes the man is a genius :-)
The Red tent
We need to talk about Kevin
Monster Love (disturbing but compelling)
Mourning Ruby

Ihave read loads of Judy Picoult and some are great (My sister's keeper and Salem Falls) and some are not so good (the tenth circle) but read "19 minutes" recently and it's fantastic.
ALso loved

To be someone- Louise Voss
Anything written by Lisa Jewel or Nick Hornby
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Time travellers wife
Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons

grapes of wrath, steinbeck
life of pi
duchess of devonshire
fanny hill
catch 22
tess of the durbervilles
enchanted april
the sheltering sky
early john irving

I read a lot from chick-lit to classics and usually once I'm into a book I can't put it down. However, these are some that stick in my mind as ones I really couldn't put down:

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières (shame the film was so crap)
Noble House - James Clavell
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy (much better than the film)
The Devil Wears Prada (you must read it even if you've seen the film which was no where near as good)
The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler
Atonment - Ian McEwan
The Secret History - Donna Tart
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

stayed up until 4am reading the wasp factory

ooh starbear, i agree with all of yours & the red tent - fantastic. Also Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett an epic with rather unpromising subject matter on the surface but fab!

Oooh, anything by Matthew Reilly or James Rollins, totally gripping. My husband says Matthew Reilly regularly ruins our sex life and makes me grumpy (read - tired), I can read, and read and read and before I know it, its 1 a.m.

Birdsong.
I was literally holding my breath for the last third of the book. I had to finish it quickly or I thought I'd suffocate!

Birdsong.
I was literally holding my breath for the last third of the book. I had to finish it quickly or I thought I'd suffocate!

I love the Poisonwood Bible, which I have read 3 times. Also just had a look on my bookshelf and books that jump out are:

Cloud Atlas and other books by David Mitchell
Stolen Child - Keith Donoghue
The Secret History - Donna Tarte

If you don't mind being a bit teenage, the Stephanie Meyer vampire books are kind of addictive too. Even my mum who is 50+ enjoyed them!

Have read and loved most of the recommendations on this thread .

The red tent..i sat up till 4am to finish it

Oh, and 'I'm Not Scared'. The film's great, too.

Time Traveller's Wife.

The Handmaid Tale
Damage
Pefume

didn't read it that recently but Bonfire of The Vanities sticks in my mind. Didn't expect to get into it but was absolutely gripped, great story, great detail. Unputdownable. Also read The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan in one fell swoop recently: woke up at some ungodly hour, picked up the nearest book (that was it) and read it through. I haven't done that for years! Another one that was great, if a little more difficult to get in to was LA Confidential by James Ellroy.

Perfume - Patrick Suskind. Weird and a bit scary but very well written.
Small Island - Andrea Levy. Lovely book 1948 England, very nostalgic and makes me think of my Grand dad who I never met as he was kill in the East End.
All of the No1 Ladies Detective stories. Alexander McCall Smith put the kettle on get the biscuits kind of stories fab

The Savage garden - can't remember who wrote it, but I really enjoyed it
The Last King of Scotland, although I read it after watching the film