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!

[Dowser]

Fall of giants..

[SuzieBishop]

Anything by Jodi Picoult OP - her books are just absolutely gripping!! Honestly don’t know how she does it.

[OkayGo]

Not a fiction but 'this is going to hurt' by Adam Kay was brilliant

[Fatshedra]

His Bloody Project is a good book and settles you firmly in the past.
Not a happy read btw.
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - very topical. The four Chapters are Gay, Women, Race, Trans - gives a common sense view to these hot topics.

[Moondancer73]

Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Mummy - Anne Rice

[Helmetbymidnight]

has anyone said 'daisy jones and the six' yet?

brilliant book!

[katmarie]

The first fifteen lives of Harry August. Absolutely fascinating, I was hooked all the way through.

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - was really sad when I finished it

Memoirs of a Geisha fantastic book but have never been able to read it again which is a real shame as I got so lost in it

Americanah - absolutely loved this book and great on audio books too

The Hearts Invisible Furies - very funny and sad at times another book that is also wonderfully read on audio books

[Redmarchingband]

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Wonderful book is based on dementia but I couldn’t put it down

[thatonesmine]

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. In which a born-again Christian travels to another planet to minister to the inhabitants. Utterly compelling.

[Lobsterquadrille2]

Agree with many of the above; also East of Eden - Steinbeck, No More Meadows - Monica Dickens, The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver, The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.

[MatildaCat]

The Song of Achilles or Circe, both by Madeline Miller. Read Circe first, was so gutted when it ended I went straight out to by Miller's other novel and started it straight away. Hope she has more stories she'dnlike to tell.

Bookmarking this thread to return to when I've finished Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. Just 50 pgs in but proving really good so far!

[Clawdy]

Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase. Really unputdownable read.

[BikeRunSki]

This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kaye
Memoirs of a junior doctor.
Funny, scathing, political, heartbreaking in places. He’s got a new one out today too.

[WildRosie]

Guide To Adhesives by Sue Pergloo. I still can't put it down.

[BikeRunSki]

😂😂😂😂 @WildRosie, I nearly looked for that on Amazon

[YolandiFuckinVisser]

Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson

[Fatshedra]

Have to say I found Elizabeth is Missing jumped around too much and I skipped to the end. (had lived through DM's brief dementia, maybe I didn't want book on it)

[Kalim8]

The shadow of the wind

[Hydrogenbeatsoxygen]

Loving this thread. ❤️

I would add anything by Diane Chamberlin.

[Hydrogenbeatsoxygen]

The Cactus - Sarah Haywood

Even better than Eleanor Oliphant.

[Hydrogenbeatsoxygen]

Diane Chamberlain even

[Sally99]

@LittleSweet - I started the The Girl With All The Gifts but gave up after the first couple of chapters as it seemed to be about child experiments ?

[MrsJBaptiste]

Behind closed doors - Ba Paris

I must have raced through this book to see what happened in the end. All my friends also read it and loved it!

[Me150267]

Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay particularly his earlier books. Fionavar trilogy, Lions of Al-rassan, Tigana. Also agree LJ ross (DCI Ryan). I also love Roddy Doyle.