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.

I'm reading The House on Cold Hill by Peter James and will then move onto his newest Roy Grace novel once my DH has finished it (hopefully before Christmas!)

The Husband's secret by Lianne Moriarty

If you liked The Girl on the Train, definitely try I Let You Go and also The Kind Worth Killing. DH reads about two books a year and he's currently half way through the latter and loving it. Easy read and brilliant end.

We Go Around in the Night and are Consumed by Fire, fantastic debut novel by Jules Grant. A story about lesbian bikers in gangland Manchester but really about love and friendship. Couldn't put it down and I'm still thinking about the characters a few weeks later.

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; a fantastic read, gripping

Antigona and Me - Kate Clanchy; a real life tale, superb and gripping

I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti; what a book

Bad Blood - Lorna Sage; fantastically written autobiography

Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson; a wonderful, gentle, gripping read

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Room was by Emma Donoghue 😊

I also liked the trilogies Divergent and the maze runner 😉

I also second the girl on the train

The Kite Runner

London Belongs To Me - that was the last one to get under my skin even though it's just a normal boom about normal people.

Ha ha, I was going to say The Girl on the Train!

Fergus McNeill, Knife Edge - that's good. Or Amanda Jennings, In Her Wake.

another vote for Kate Atkinson - love her stuff

also a book I still remember not being able to stop reading (on honeymoon - it got awkward) LA Confidential - fab

and my fave none fiction book (no out of print I think) You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again - Julia Philips - amazing!

Cloud Atlas, The Goldfinch, any John Green for teenage angst.

Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter
I Let You Go - Claire Mackintosh
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Secret History by Donna Tartt. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The art of being Normal - read it in one night

Eleanor and Park

I read 'the shock of the fall' in a few hours was a really lovely moving book.

And yes to 'I let you go' is a great book . A proper page turner .

Gone girl - reaaaallly could not put it down (though didn't get past the first 15 minutes of the film when it came out)

Recently read the girl on the train and whilst I enjoyed it I thought gone girl was even better (my current benchmark)

Hubby recently got me into 'his' books and I have to say I've realllllly got into the Ben hope books by Scott Mariani

I loved The Historian, Shantaram and the Ken Follett historical fiction trilogy running through world war 1, 2 and and Cold War. The names escape me.

We need to talk about Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

Fingersmith, by Sarah Walters

The Little Stranger, by Sarah Walters

The Time Traveller's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Found them all gripping, in very different ways

I know what you mean Madame, though I did read another one of hers called The Post-Birthday World which was good, a sort of Sliding Doors type theme. Not a patch on WNTTAK though, that truly blew me away at the time....

Based on your OP Cant I recommend The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale. Literally read any minute I could. A true story, with pics, very well written. Really think you might like it.

Lots of good suggestions though.

I really liked the first Hunger Games book. The other two, meh, but the first one is brilliant.
I also got glued to The Camera Killer by Thomas Galvanic. ITs a seriously odd book, but I couldn't put it down, it drags you in and the ending is just Woah! (sorry, I had no other way of describing it, and I'm going to go and read it again now...)

Room !

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

Anything by Douglas Kennedy, couldn't put "The Heat of Betrayal" on holiday last summer.

The Girl on the Train is utter shite. It has the most annoying protagonist ever created. Don't subject yourself to that!