Please recommend an unputdownable book

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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!

Rosewater by Tade Thompson. Also part of a trilogy. And I'm reading the Temeraire series, Naomi Novik - dragons meet the Napoleonic wars, they're well written. Don't worry if that sounds dry, the dragons are very personable and funny. Also, Uprooted by the same author.

@matildacat I read both ages ago but they just came to me for some reason! What else would you recommend? Have you read the Wayfarer trilogy?

Oh and I liked House of Leaves by Mark z Danielewski too. Long time since I read it though.

I’ve just finished Absolute Proof by Peter James. I enjoyed it, i’d give it &1/2 out of 5

Agree with the book theif also All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doeer.
All time favourite (at the moment anyway!) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, there are 8 books and I'm on my third read of them

I started to read Vox by Christina Dalcher on a train in May, finished it once I got home that night and am still thinking about it now it was so good.

I recently read and loved The Cows by Dawn O’Porter. I was really surprised by how good it was.

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs or another for Elinor Oliphant

The Goldfinch is awful.

You won’t go far wrong with Rebecca.

Oh no, I’m reading the goldfinch now.
It’s quite a hard read but I’ve invested too much time in it not to finish.

I've just enjoyed Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and now on to A God In Ruins which so far is equally keeping my attention. I love her style of writing. In between I found Eleanor Oliphant refreshingly different.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ... quite possibly the most beautifully written book I've ever read (and I've read a lot)!

Cassamin The Goldfinch perks up a bit at the end but it’s a hard slog, I agree.

Agree about Donna Tartt's books; excellent but overlong. I think Little Friend (?) is the best one.

Barbara Vine: Fatal Inversion, House of Stairs.

Motherland by Paul Theroux: strangely compelling.

The Slap - another gripping one!

I also love crime non-fiction:

A Very English Scandal.
Strange Death of David Kelly.

Dangerous Hero by Tom Bower - about the rise and rise of Jeremy Corbyn.

Anything by Alison Weir, either fiction or non. And Wolf Hall/ Bring Up The Bodies.

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton was a good read. I enjoyed and immediately read another of hers but it wasn't quite as good. Kate Morton is Australian but you'd never know, her English countryhouse settings in the book are perfect imv.

I found The Slap dull dull dull. I managed a chapter.
tbf, seems like I only like non-fiction nowadays.
Or young adult fiction.

Couldn't put down The Fifth Risk recently.
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay is addictive, too.

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

If you have a window that looks out to your garden you should read it there.

I've just finished The Outsider by Stephen King. Really enjoyed it, it was fascinating.

Or I'd recommend anything by Joanne Harris if you've not read her books before.

Another one by Daphne du Maurier that I couldn’t put down - My Cousin Rachel. The tension building in that book is unbelievable. Best thing I read last year.

Just a few of my favourites: Toni Morrison 'Beloved', Charles Frasier 'Cold Mountain ', , anything by Sarah Waters. For funny light hearted reading: Bill Bryson, James Herring, Alexander McCall Smith.
I could recommend so many!!

This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay annoyed me intensely. His attitude towards the gynaecological needs of older women was atrocious.
Recommend The Secret History and The Goldfinch if you have a chunk of time to read them.

@Sally99 regarding The Girl With All the Gifts being about child experiments- sort of (trying not to spoil it) but the focus does shift. I can’t usually read books with children featuring unhappily but I loved this & the sequels. If you like the sci-fi apocalyptic genres then I would definitely persevere a bit more.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

@BestIsWest I was worried nothing would live up to Rebecca! Will try that one next

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