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 second/third The Goldfinch. So absorbing - you're in a whole different world.

What about the Karla trilogy - John Le Carre?

Oh yes, Do No Harm was brilliant. Fascinating and surprisingly easy to read.
I've also recently loved, H for Hawk.

Margaret Atwood -
The Handmaid's Tale

Another vote for Michelle Paver's Dark Matter here - read it all in one go, couldn't put it down!

And Ken Follet's Century series, although the first one is by far the best.

Also, These Shallow Graves and A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly are really wonderful.

The John Shakespeare series by Rory Clements. Similar to the Shardlake series by C J Sansom.

Oooh I've recommended this book so many times! One of the few books I had to read twice and would happily read again, This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson. Based on historic events, so that might float your boat. It's about Captain Robert Fitzroy and his travels on the HMS Beagle and his friendship with Charles Darwin. It is completely fascinating and gripping, I was gripped by it. It also tells the story of Jemmy Button and Feugia Basket and the feugians who were kidnapped, taken from Tierra Del Fuego and brought to London and presented at court, theirs is a very sad story that I won't give away in case you aren't already familiar with it. Fitzroy's own struggles with his mental health are interesting, though the man was possibly a bit of a genius. The book is very dark, no happy beginnings or endings here! Even the author sadly died just after publishing his first and last novel. His descriptions of places like the galapagos and patagonia are wonderful.

Have I raved enough?

Another one I loved was Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale.

yorksha

Yes, me too

The one that got stuck to my hand!!

fiction version of abiography... didn't think I would enjoy this as not my usual choice but William Boyd Any Human Heart is amazing, I'm going to buy hisnew one sweet caress.. would thoroughly recommend it

The Loney Andrew Hurley unsettling and v good

Dark Matter Michelle Paver is my fave ghost story ever, genuinely creepy

A God In Ruins Kate Atkinson also good, shame that I can't stand her

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
Handmaid's tale - Atwood
Emily Barr - various books
Liane Moriarty - various books
A town like Alice - Shute
Across the universe trilogy - Beth Revis
Under the never sky - Rossi

A million little pieces by James Fray

Do No Harm, memoir of a neurosurgeon. Utter brilliance.

Lisa Jewell- The House We Grew Up In, Paula Daly, What Kind of Mother Are You? Armistead Maupin- More Tales of The City, The Handmaid's Tale, The House of Stairs-Barbara Vine.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. It might be slightly out of season now though.

Have just started reading the Crimson Petal and the White. So far, so good.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Beach Alex Garland and 11/22/63 Stephen King

Joyland by Stephen King is also excellent

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is also very good

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

I really enjoyed Wayward Pines. Quite different to the to show.

The Rushed series by Brian Harmon is pretty good too.

Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Moseley. It's a collection of letters written by the Mitfords to each other. Absolutely compelling and fascinating.

There are only 2 books that I absolutely could not put down. We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Time Travellers Wife.

Definitely C J Samson, Shardlake series.

Anything by Kate Morton

Susan Howatch novels are incredible like Wheel of Fortune

I also like Phillipa Gregory monarchy novels

Anything by Agatha Christie or the Agatha Raisen books by M.C . Beaton
very easy reading

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Unputtdownable and absolutely devastating. This book has stayed with me for months after reading it.