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.

The Girls-Lori Lansens
Dark Places- Gillian Flynn. (I read this in one sitting.)
The Wasp Factory-Iain Banks. (A bit gory and it's hard going. But I liked it)
Witch Light-Susan Fleming (Historical fiction.)
Lullabies For Little Criminals- Heather O'Niel (Not very cheerful either.)
Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
Transporting- Irvine Welsh
Wuthering Heights-Emily Brontë

Reading Pet Sematary by Stephen King at the moment. It's really good so far. :)

Some of Nicci French stuff is alright 🙂

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson. It has a really unappealing looking cover but was riveting!

It's based on the story of Darwin's voyages on the Beagle around South America so is partly historical (which you'd like) but is written in gripping fiction narrative and was just a bloody good read. Action adventure drama, but also fascinating as it was based on real events. Great book.

I've just read the CL Taylor books, The Lie, The Accident and The Missing.
They are very good!

I've just read the CL Taylor books, The Lie, The Accident and The Missing.
They are very good!

Apple tree yard, the magpies, Gone girl

For non-fiction, I have just finished If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm. It's about the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women during WW2. Utterly fascinating, horrifying and I devoured it. Sad, hidden history. I hadn't known about the camp until I spotted that book. Excellent read.

11.22.63 - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Gracekeepers - Kirsty Logan
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Anything by Jo Nesbo

Authors I love - Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen, Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter, Mark Edwards, C L Taylor, S J Watson

Anything be Kate Atkinson
Anything by Iain Banks
I'm currently reading the Harry Hole books by Jo Nesbo and been staying up far too late to finish one more chapter!

I love these threads!

I'd recommend in no particular order

"The Martian" by Andy Weir,
"A thousand splendid suns" by Khalid Hosseini
"The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King
"The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb
"Choke Chain" by Jason Donald
"The Kitchen House" by Kathleen Grissom

The Expats
All quiet on the western front
Les miserables
Gone with the wind
Outlander
Snobs
All the 80s jilly cooper books
The boy in striped pyjamas
Anything by Anne O'Brien

Agree with the people who said The Magpies. Brilliant book.

My favourite book ever is Wool by Hugh Howey. It's actually part of a trilogy and the next two are fab as well. I've actually read the entire trilogy twice.
It's a dystopian/futuristic type series. I was gripped by the third chapter!

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes......could not put it down!
Anything by Tim Weaver-fast paced crime books....very well written.
I let you go

I just finished reading Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett. A fairly quick read but very entertaining and a bit dark. It was an impulse purchase but I'm very glad I did! They've made a movie based on it - "Ask me Anything"

I couldn't put down Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland to the extent that I was three stops past where I was supposed to get off when I looked up from it on the bus.

Floss I found the beginning of Wool gripping but after a bit the constant up and down the steps started to annoy me a bit! I found it a page turner in that I wanted to know what was going to happen but it took way too long to get there in my opinion - I believe it started out as a short story and I reckon it would be way better if it was shorter, as it's a great premise.

I found "the uncommon reader" hilarious and read it all in one go, and then for a thriller I like anything by William Boyd - gripping

If you don't like a happy ending I strongly recommend The Stone Man by Luke Smitherd.

Electricity by Ray Robinson

Room by Emma Donahue

All Families are Psychotic and Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland

Boy A (can't remember authors name)

We Need to Talk About Kevin and Big Brother by Lionel Shriver

The Talented Mr Ripley

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

OP I haven't RTFT. If you like autobiographical, without a guaranteed happy ending can I suggest Do No Harm by Mr Marsh. He is a consultant neurosurgeon who writes about his life. Fascinating.

I work in a bookshop, I see lovely new books every day. Do No Harm was the first book I took off the shelf to look at & bought 20 mins later.

It is gripping, moving, very funny at some times, very sad at others.

I'm both shaken and fascinated by JK Rowling's three Cormoran Strike books written as Robert Galbraith.
Definitely Kate Atkinson.

Kippery Dippery I loved Do No Harm. I read it on my Kindle, finished it, and went straight back to the beginning and read it again.

Pauline Simmons eleven hours.

Could not stop turning the page I really was on the edge of my seat.

Room is excellent too.