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?

Robin Hobb.

I'm rereading all of her trilogies again and am absolutely lost in the world and characters she has created. The first one to start with is "The Assassins Apprentice". You can go on from there.

Life after Life, Kate Atkinson

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - I've recommended it to a lot of people, and so far they've all adored it. It starts slowly, but press on and you'll suddenly find yourself unable to put it down..!

It took me a while to get into 'The Help' but then I was peeling my eyes open at 2am to read more :).

Also the Game of Thrones books by George R R Martin are fantastic if you want something gripping but not too challenging.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Goldfinch but it took me AGES to get into, and I actually gave up for about a month when I was a third of the way through it. The Secret History is great and I would say more accessible.

I liked girl with a dragon tattoo, but not the violence.

One that always makes me laugh is Me Talk Pretty Someday by David Sedaris.

Lately a book my dd1 (12) was reading. It's "The Fault in our Stars" by John Green. It's brilliant.

Recent books I couldn't put down have been:

The Book of You by Claire Kendal. A woman is being stalked and draws parallels between her experience and the trial she is currently sitting in on as a member of the jury. I absolutely had to know what happened.

I've also enjoyed Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant and Precious Things by Colette McBeth. Both very good books that make you want to find out what happened. In the first, a woman finds a body and falls under suspicion as the murderer and in the second a woman's best friend goes missing and she finds her entire life turned upside down as a result.

And I've just finished a Nicci French book as well, Waiting for Wednesday, which I really enjoyed. I've read all the Nicci French books and was just thinking about re-reading a couple because this one has put me in the mood for the older ones that aren't part of the series.

And something a little different, Night Film by Marisha Pessl is fantastic and has lots of lovely illustrated pages made to look like internet reports and magazine interviews. It's about an investigative journalist who has been discredited following an aborted investigation into the life of a reclusive film director. When the director's daughter is found dead, the reporter finds himself compelled to reopen his past investigation, which had cost him his career and his marriage before, but this time might cost him his sanity as well. I was gutted to finish it, I liked it so much.

I've just read Uncle Tom's Cabin and found that pretty unputdownable. Pretty harrowing though. A surprising find behind a kitsch title was 'Welcome to the World, Baby Girl' by Fannie Flagg. Someone gave it to me and I didn't read it for year's because the title put me off but it is a lovely heartwarming tale that I got deeply into.

Anything by Belinda Bauer. I have also just today finished The Passage by Justin Cronin, which did draw me in after some initial scepticism on my part.

The Day Of The Jackal - Frederick Forsyth.

If you like chicklit then I highly recommend Thirteen Weddings by Paige Toon. Fever by Mary Beth Keane is great if you like historical fiction. And I second the recommendation for The Fault in Our Stars and John Green's other books.

I loved A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini. Also, Kite Runner by the same author.

They were well recommended to me be a friend and also by my daughter, and I couldn't put them down.

Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
Gone with the Wind (despite the racism )
Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (intellectual murder mystery set in medieval monastery). I was glued to it.

Topseyt Hosseini has recently brought a new one out too - can't remember the name but going to download tonight. The two you mentioned are fantastic.

My sisters keeper by Jodi Piccoult I was gripped to but if you have seen the film might not have the same effect.

Yes Man by Danny Wallace. I've never read another book so quickly and never found another book so funny that I couldn't breathe. The fact that it's non-fiction makes it even better.

I loved the green mile, didnt talk to DH the whole holiday.

I've just finished reading Room by Emma Donaghue. I started it in my lunch break and had to force myself to go back to work. I had read it all by the next day.

It's written from a 5 year old boys perspective and is about how he has never left the room in his entire life. He thinks the entire world is inside the room. His mum had been kidnapped years before.

Apple tree yard I read this in one sitting while dp was been treated as a day patient in hospital.

I recommend this to everyone as I can't put it down and I've read it about three more times since and each time it has me on the edge of my seat even though I know the ending. Eleven hours by Paulina Simons it's so so good.

CJ Sansom's Shardlake series are unputdownable if you like historical crime fiction.

Second vote for the fault in our stars

I couldn't put down ds' manual for making his latest airfix model. Though that was because he'd spilt some of the glue on the cover and didn't tell me until I picked it up. He then complained I'd ripped the cover.

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