Please recommend a smart-phone addict a novel to get lost in! First book for years!

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I need to kick my phone addiction and try to read a book instead in the evenings. It's so long since I read a book that I don't know where to start.

Anyone recommend a book? Must be very gripping and easy to get into. Want something I can't put down!

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity
Crazy Rich Asians and sequels

I second Big Little Lies and add Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

What genre do you normally read or is there anything you hate?

Another vote for Eleanor Oliphant.

The Cows was also good.

The book of dust, Philip Pullman

I am Pilgrim. Takes gripping to new heights.

Thanks all.

Genre wise I like good chick lit/romance hard to find so gave up looking a few years ago) but open to trying anything really.

I read a lot of non fiction books still, always have. It's fiction I struggle with - can't get into anything.

Now you see her by Heidi perks is quite a page turner.
The Woman in the Window by A J Finn is a page turner. Seems they are making it into a film.

Where the crawdads sing is amazing

Non fiction - Poverty Safari by Loki was good. Don't agree with everything he says but it's an interesting mix of autobiography and social commentary. Also liked Leap In by Alexandre Heminsley.

Chick-Lit. I quite like Mhari McFarlane, and recently read a couple of Shari Low books that were good.
If you want to push your boundaries a bit I LOVED The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

Or Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg.

Cecilia aherne, Karin slaughter, Mark billingham are all in out downable. Also just read diaries of a junior doctor by Adam Kay, well worth a read

Fatwa- Living with a death threat.

It’s about a woman who goes to Egypt, meets a man there, gets married etc... and then decides she needs to leave; it is unbelievably gripping and so tense.

Just to say, it’s a true story,, written by the woman herself.

Oh I really enjoyed I Am Pilgrim. There's a sequel coming out next year, I think.

Fatwa looks really good, thanks.

Just checking out the others!

I'm really enjoying "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stuart Turton at the moment.

It's a murder mystery meets Groundhog Day, with supernatural elements. The eponymous Evelyn Hardcastle is murdered at a party, and the protagonist repeats the day of the murder trapped in the body of a different party guest each day. He has to solve her murder to break the loop.

I love that book @fox but it really divides opinion on here. I thought it was original and gripping and I couldn't put it down.

Tge hearts Invisible furies. I read it after it was recommended on another thread and loved it

A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseni

The Power by Naomi Alderman was pretty good. It's about how women in the future get this mutation and they can give electric jolts through their finger tips. And then everything changes... men become afraid of women, armies become mostly women, women gangs on streets threatening and harassing men, women CEOs, women presidents, etc. It was actually kind of fascinating. There were some pretty tense (actually kind of scary!) parts though.

For chick lit, I would recommend Milly Johnson, her books are really good, also second Bug Little Lies.

Girl on a train is easy read page turner.

The hearts Invisible furies

Will try Big Little Lies!

Should have said - I can't handle anything futuristic, unrealistic, fantasy. Some of the plots of books recommended here do sound immense though!

@tiddlyipom Milly Johnson reviews are consistently amazing - thanks, will definitely try her books!

I was going to recommend Vox by Christina Dalcher but having just seen one of your updates it may not be your thing. It IS amazing though.

If you like the sound of Milly Johnson books I would also suggest those by Heidi Swain. And maybe Paige Toon (her newest just came out and I saw it on offer in sainsburys)