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Please recommend an unputdownable book

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Celeriacacaca · 16/10/2019 20:20

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!

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Dowser · 17/10/2019 18:15

Fall of giants..

SuzieBishop · 17/10/2019 18:16

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

OkayGo · 17/10/2019 18:23

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

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Fatshedra · 17/10/2019 18:26

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 · 17/10/2019 18:41

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

Helmetbymidnight · 17/10/2019 18:43

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

brilliant book!

katmarie · 17/10/2019 18:49

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

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 17/10/2019 19:40

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 · 17/10/2019 19:42

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

thatonesmine · 17/10/2019 19:48

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 · 17/10/2019 19:51

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 · 17/10/2019 19:53

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 · 17/10/2019 20:36

Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase. Really unputdownable read.

BikeRunSki · 17/10/2019 20:42

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 · 17/10/2019 20:47

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

BikeRunSki · 17/10/2019 20:58

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

YolandiFuckinVisser · 17/10/2019 22:59

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

Fatshedra · 18/10/2019 06:50

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 · 18/10/2019 06:55

The shadow of the wind

Hydrogenbeatsoxygen · 18/10/2019 07:23

Loving this thread. ❤️

I would add anything by Diane Chamberlin.

Hydrogenbeatsoxygen · 18/10/2019 07:25

The Cactus - Sarah Haywood

Even better than Eleanor Oliphant.

Hydrogenbeatsoxygen · 18/10/2019 07:41

Diane Chamberlain even

Sally99 · 18/10/2019 08:01

@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 · 18/10/2019 08:26

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 · 18/10/2019 17:02

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.

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