To ask what book you could not put down?

[Anonynony]

I'm heading away tomorrow (and I've had a million threads about it, thank you MNers for sorting my life out!) and I want to bring a book that I absolutely won't be able to put down! Just me and DD so I'll be in relatively early in the evenings so a really good book is essential!
I've packed The Help as I've heard it's great?

So what book could you just not put down?

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. About slavery in South Carolina in early 19th century. Shocked when I got to the end and found it was based on real life sisters and I had never heard of them.

Yes, I liked The Help. I also find Nicci French books unputdownable - I really like the current Frieda Klein series but the ones from the nineties are good too - The Memory Game and Killing Me Softly are excellent. They're psychological thrillers with female protagonists and quite a humane approach.

Anything by Jilliane Hoffman, Karen Slaughter and Harlen Cobin if you like a bit of psychological murder mystery.
For a good read try Diane Chamberlane (Summer's Child is great).
For chick flick try Lucy-Anne Holmes.
Have a great holiday!

Oh excellent I have an unread Nicci French upstairs

I have just finished Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O' Farrell.It was brilliant:-)

Instructions for a Heatwave or The vanishing of Esme Lennox, both by Maggie OFarrell

Lol cross posts on Maggie O'Farrell!!

The Goldfinch. I still miss it.

Why is this in AIBU?

Because I'm a rebel ssim

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, much appreciated!

Me before you by Jojo Moyes I read it in one night.

Enjoy your holiday.

Just come back from Turkey, celebrating my DD 21st! I was given a kindle as a present. Tara Brown trilogy, Born, Born to fight and Reborn!!! Amazing...very Hunger Games ish. I read all three in two days so not very taxing but brilliant. As an avid reader I could go on for hours! Nicci French very good and Secret smile is a page turner. I like Stella Duffy and Room of lost Things. I love any Lee Childs and want to run off with Jack Reacher. Random Acts of Heroic Love is great too. Remember that lots of hotels have a 'library' where people leave their read books. I don't do 'chic-lit' but Tasmina Perry is a bit different. Good beach read. And any Tom Wolf especially My name is Charlotte Simmons. Oh to be back on the beach!!! Am decorating and the WHOLE house is in chaos! Have a great time.

I just read Life After Life (finally) and thought it was brilliant.

I couldn't put Apple Tree Yard down.

I've just read Fractured which cost me 59p and I read in one sitting. It's a bit chicklit and only took me 2 hours, but I didn't put it down in that time.

Anything by Kazou Ishiguro, but especially never Never Let Me Go.

Oh I adored Never Let Me Go tree!

'Gone Girl'

I have Gone Girl upstairs too! Unread!
Yippie

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt. Brilliant book, quite long but keeps your attention right up to the last page.
I'm about re read her first book, A Secret History.

yabu

Books I genuinely couldn't put down, and even read whilst walking down the street:

The Help
Wild Swans
The Other Boleyn Girl
Pride and Prejudice
Gone With The Wind

Zillions more that I enjoyed a lot, but these I literally couldn't put down.

David Pelzer
Alice Sebold (the lovely bones and lucky)
Banner of silks
At the toss of a sixpence
judas touch
anything by Helen Forrester

Kite runner!

Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day
Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies

Cross Stitch series by Diana Gabaldon.