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For the love of God find me something to read

102 replies

LEMtheoriginal · 24/10/2017 22:02

I need a page Turner that will hold my attention.

Will give anything a go just no mis lit

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IJoinedJustToPostThis · 24/10/2017 22:07

Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London series.

Taffeta · 24/10/2017 22:07

Britt Marie Was Here
How to Stop Time
Before the Fall

I’m reading Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles at the mo - def a dip in and out book. Recipes and lots of mumbling. It’s just lovely.

TheRealGussieFinkNottle · 24/10/2017 22:08

Oooh so many to recommend!!

The Wrong Knickers by Bryony Gordon is quite good - really funny. And We'll always have Paris by Emma Beddington is good too! Both are memoirs.

The Jeeves and Wooster books are amazing too - they'll have you laughing in no time! Grin

Madwoman5 · 24/10/2017 22:09

The hundred year old man....
Anything by james rollins
Jeffrey deaver

MissClareRemembers · 24/10/2017 22:11

I’ve just discovered Kathy Reichs. Totally hooked.
I’d second Jeeves & Wooster. Pure joy to read.

okeydokeygirl · 24/10/2017 22:11

The vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O Farrell. Great Read. I f you have not done them yet The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. The latter not for the fainthearted .

Bodicea · 24/10/2017 22:12

Anything by Lianne moriarty. I raced through everything she has written within a few months. Am now in mourning.

Namethecat · 24/10/2017 22:13

I let you go - Claire Mackintosh.

NobodyKnowsTiddlyPom · 24/10/2017 22:14

I've just started a book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It's had amazing reviews on Goodreads and Amazon. Usually I don't choose a book based on reviews but I liked the premise in the blurb and I'm enjoying it so far.

I can also highly recommend the Mercy Thompson series for something slightly supernatural, Bill Bryson's travel books for some hilarious anecdotes and the Outlander series for a spot of historical fiction.

MuddlingMackem · 24/10/2017 22:14

Yes, to the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, fab read.

If you like supernatural stuff then there's a series called the Keeper Chronicles, by a north east author. They're available on kindle if you can't get them mail order. Author is Michelle Birbeck. They're more young adult and not as chunky a read as the Dragon Tattoo ones.

RocketPockets · 24/10/2017 22:15

Life after life by Kate Atkinson! Absolutely brilliant read

Neuroticwoman · 24/10/2017 22:17

Anything by Alexander McCall smith

YogiYoni · 24/10/2017 22:18

I’ve judt read ‘All the Light We Cannot See’. Incredible.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 24/10/2017 22:19

Dorothy Dunnett

busyboysmum · 24/10/2017 22:19

I love the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child for mindless entertainment.

I read a great series of time travelling books by Kage Baker. The Company series.

Also loved Robin Hobbs Assassin Series which is fantasy with dragons in.

drinkyourmilk · 24/10/2017 22:20

I'm reading 'the girl with all the gifts ' at the moment. I'm loving it

TittyGolightly · 24/10/2017 22:21

Sapiens by Noah Harari.

MrTrebus · 24/10/2017 22:22

OMG I'm reading an amazing book at the moment on my kindle it's like 28 days later but in a book. Can't think of the name but I'll find out! If you like that sort of thing this is brilliant I struggle to put it down.

doctorcuntybollocks · 24/10/2017 22:22

11.22.63 by Stephen King is a real page-turner.

SaucyJack · 24/10/2017 22:24

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a read in one day kinda book.

Strange little book. Genuinely sad ending.

MrTrebus · 24/10/2017 22:24

Found it! It's called "all the little children" by Jo Furniss

undertheradarplease · 24/10/2017 22:25

I'd strongly recommend Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier - the first book that terrified and enthralled me all at once.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1966548162

Alabasterangel6 · 24/10/2017 22:26

Some already suggested here but confirming and adding my own page turners from the last few months....

Wonder by A J Palacio
Eleanor Oliphant is completely.... By Gail Honeyman
I loved The Holding by Graham Norton (about as deep as a puddle but very enjoyable)

Also favourites; yes to Claire mackintosh but her first was better than her second. Ditto Jesse Burton (miniaturist was awesome, muse was 'meh'). 'Into the darkest corner' is another unforgettable can't put down book.

Anything by Maggie O Farrell.

oncewasawarrior · 24/10/2017 22:27

Station Eleven.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven

hmcAsWas · 24/10/2017 22:27

Currently reading ‘Good Me, Bad Me’ by Ali Land. From the back cover: “Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way Annie can make her stop is to hand her into the police. With a new foster family and a new name - Milly - she hopes for a fresh start. Now, surely, she can be whoever she wants to be. But as her mother’s trial looms, the secrets of Milly’s past won’t let her”

It is a compelling read