Please recommend an unputdownable book

[Celeriacacaca]

I have just found out I will have quite a bit of time next week that I don't usually have and would love to spend some of it reading. Please recommend a book I can lose myself in!

[Blankscreen]

Star of the North

Brillant story set in North Korea.

[PeaBea]

Rebecca by daphne du maurier. It's a corker.

[FannyAnne64]

The second sleep by Robert Harris - if you like SciFi.

[Beamur]

YY to Ben Aaronovitch.
Wolf Hall
The Goldfinch
The time travellers wife
Memoirs of a Geisha
David Copperfield
Dark materials trilogy
Love in a cold climate
The Polar Bears explorers club (from DD)

[surlycurly]

My sister the serial killer. Can't remember the author. It's set in Nigeria and it's great!

[VerbenaGirl]

I can’t put down The Things You Find in Rockpools at the moment!

[BikeRunSki]

Anything by Douglas Kennedy. I’d start with The State of the Union.

[PumpkinKing]

The Help
The Color Purple
Secret Life of Bees

[coffeeagogo]

Second Eleanor Oliphant - very enjoyable and sad
The signature of all things - I couldn't put this down
A thousand splendid suns
Gone with the wind (random!)

[Crimsonpetalandthewhite]

Fortunes rocks - Anita shreve

[Toseland]

I recommend all of Lee Child’s books and ‘the Shadow of the wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[TigerJoy]

Ah yes Memoirs of a Geisha and All the light we cannot see definitely

Have you read Anna Karenina? I couldn't put it down but it's a long book so if you have a big chunk of time it is well worth reading. Skim read the chapters when he goes on about farming and the several chapters about the bloody duck hunt. But an absolutely brilliant portrayal of romantic love and its limitations.

[CoffeeBeansGalore]

Easy reading trilogy - Why Mummy Drinks. Why Mummy Swears. Why Mummy Doesn't Give a #$%*. By Gill Sims. Made me laugh & cry. Very "true to life". Absolutely loved them.

[shinynewapple]

If you are going with recommendations of Lianne Moriaty look at her older books- I was really disappointed in her most recent book.

Agree with Lisa Jewell's; don't like the Jo Jo Moyes stuff

[MadameJosephine]

Anything by Khaled Housseni - my favourite is A thousand splendid suns

The hearts invisible furies - I read it after seeing it recommended on here and loved it

[CilantroChili]

The Shadow of the Wind is indeed a wonderful book.

[JesusHRooseveltChristAgain]

Just finished The Lost Man by Jane Harper - loved it!

[Redkatagain]

Gone with the wind. So much better than the film and definitely the best book I've ever read

[NoProblem123]

Jodi Picolt
For funny - Well Groomed
For sad but amazing - The Story Teller

Also, The Time Travellers Wife..... poor Henry ☹️

[Samosaurus]

I really enjoy FG Cottam’s books. Also recommend Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. If you enjoy travel books, any of Paul Theroux’s train journey books - I particularly love The Old Patagonian Express. Enjoy your reading time. That’s pretty much the only thing I miss about my life pre-children, whiling away hours (or days) with books 📚

[Celeriacacaca]

Wow, thank you all. Some great recommendations there! I'm spoilt for choice.

[limpbizkit]

B A Paris - if you're like me and love a psychological thriller. I neglected my responsibilities reading those books

[Fightthebear]

Alys, Always by Harriet Lane.

Psychological thriller but also an astute observation of class differences in professional London.

Just finished my first Lee Child book “Killing Floor”. Not my usual genre at all but couldn’t put it down.

[Wheat2Harvest]

Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

[morrisseysquif]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.