Tell me a book that you just couldn't put down.

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I haven't read anything good for ages.
I like autobiographical, some historical, I do like psychological thrillers. I liked The Girl on The Train. I like Louise Candlish.
I'm not keen on chick lit. I don't like a happy ending.

Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes....definitely not for the faint-hearted!

I agree with pp's about Room. It is one that I couldn't put down.

Autobiographical/historical: I enjoyed When a Crocodile Eats the sun and the Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks ( not the best writing in the world, but interesting)

a few things by Karin Slaughter:

Triptych
Cop Town

Kate Atkinson:

Life After Life

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Apple Tree Yard, can't remember who wrote it , sorry but I was hooked.

The goldfinch. Best book I've read in years.

The stand by Stephen king is also very good.

Oh yes, I agree with Kate Atkinson & Kate Morton - anything by them. Kimberly Freeman is similar.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (and all her others)

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin

I like anything by Emily Barr, too, but difficult to get in Canada.

The Snowman - Jo Nesbo

The Deaths by Mark Lawson is very good. Life in the posh cotwolds and how despite everyone putting on a rosy show, things are not how they seem.

Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly is also very good
"What could be worse than a child going missing? When it’s your best friend’s child. And it was on your watch... An emotionally fraught psychological thriller and a shrewd examination of family life - and the evil that can lie beneath. "

Pillars of the earth, by Ken Folett. Historical fiction. It's a big one but I could not put it down.

An oldie but goody, Dog Eat Dog by Ed Bunker. The film Reservoir Dogs was based on this. Not a 'nice' book, crime obviously, with fairly unlikeable characters, lots of swearing and most definitely not a happy ending. Unput-downable - just what would they do next? I read this in record time.

'The boy that never was' a gripping literary thriller set in Tangiers.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides. Also gripping. I love the word 'gripping'

I am pilgrim was brilliant!

yy to the rotters club!

The tales of the city series are great.
Also Harry Potter.

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller

"the reluctant fundamentalist". genuinely unputdownable!

Anything by Donna Tartt but her The Secret History is especially good.

I would go with any Paulina Simons book.

I especially loved 'Tully' and defiantly read 'The Bronze Horseman' and subsequent books. I rarely re-read but have done so many times with her books. 'The Girl in Times Square' is also fab.

Otherwise try 'The Gargoyle' and 'The Night Circus'. Love reading!

Hex.

Another for The Rotters' Club, and anything by Jonathan Coe. Anything by Elena Ferrante. Anything by Marylinne Robinson.

I second the recommendation if "I let you go" by Claire MacIntosh. It has a twist which hits you so hard you cannot stop reading!

I loved the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, I could not bear to put the books down, loved them!

Seconding kate Atkinson if you don't want a happy ending they are quite gripping

I agree with A Thousand Splendid Suns. Read that over two days. The other books I've done that with are We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which I loved; The Revenant (have never seen the film); The Virgin Suicides (have never seen that film either).