To ask you to name a book you couldn't put down?

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I've started getting into reading again and now looking for book recommendations. I don't know if it's just me not enjoying reading as much as I used to, but some of the titles I've read/attempted to recently just don't seem to grab my attention and I struggle to get through them.

I'm currently reading People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd. It's ok, but a bit slow.

I prefer mysteries and thrillers.

Please give me some ideas!

Have you tried the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman? They are a great read if you want a page turner that isn't too taxing.

Strange Sally Diamond

A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.

I absolutely LOVED it

Any shari lapena or lisa jewell books. Harlen coben is good too

I like Danuta Kot's series set around Bridlington, Life Ruins and Someone Who Isn't me. I like Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series, though I was very frustrated by the most recent one. Louise Pennny is usually very readable.

All of taylor Jenkins Reid’s b

I've just gone through my GoodReads for the mysteries/thrillers I've rated quite highly, and this is my list :)

The Strike series by Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling (book one: The Cuckoos Calling)
The Shardlake series by CJ Sansom (book one: Dissolution)
Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny (book one: Still Life)
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Bone Collector, Jeffrey Deaver (also a series, but only read one so far)
Dublin Murder Squad, Tana French (book one: Into the woods)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Rivers of London series, Ben Aaronovitch
The Broken Girls, Simone St. James
The Good Daughter, Karin Slaughter
Long Bright River, Liz Moore
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
Thief River Falls, Brian Freeman
Three Hours, Rosamond Lupton

Ooooops try again, all the books written by:
taylor Jenkins Reid
Ali Lowe
liane moriaty
and more recently- This family by Kate Sawyer.

Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend (and if you love it, there are three more in the series!)

The Push and The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

Plaything by Bea Setton

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

Playing Nice by JP Delamere

I've read the Couple Next Door but it was a while ago actually! I think I read that pretty quickly

A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine.

Shogun by James Cavell, inspired by watching the series but the book is phenomenal. Took me two weeks though!

I always recommend American Gods by Neil Gaiman as it's fabulous

Anything by Stephen King, Fairy Tale isn't scary if you don't want horror.

I read the Peter James and Chris Carter Series as good pulp fiction. Nary a romance shall cross my bookshelf though!

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Don't try these they're really badly written. Neil Gaiman is always an easy and entertaining read.

Girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy by Steig Larrsen and I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. I had many, many late nights with both of them because I simply could not stop reading!

The job ( this is a thriller) or the persuit of happiness ( not a thriller but really good spanning the war and present day)by Douglas Kennedy

The best of times or sheer abandon by penny vincenzi - both massive books but excellent

Anything by Martina Cole or Linwood Barclay would fit the thriller category

Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter. It's the first Inspector Morse book, I've not been able to put it down unlike some of the books I've read.

Also sometthing different but Neverwhere by Neil Gaimen, so much fun to read and imagine what the London in the book is like.

The Likeness by Tana French!

Mr Candid by Jules Hardy.

Colleen Mcollough’s book in Caesar, which led me to her entire mammoth series Masters of Rome. If you like history they are incredible.

I recently enjoyed The Scarlet Papers

the Tim Weaver David Raker series is good

Hunted by Abir Mukherjee

Agree with Shari Lapena. Good easy reads in one sitting.
Robert Goddard thriller/mysteries from 20 years ago but not his recent stuff.
My favourite author Jane Harper has written a few thriller type books set in Australia. I can't put these down! Just keep re-reading them.