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!

Definitely I Am Pilgrim. Couldn't put it down to the point that my husband took a photo of me cooking with it.

Just read Hello Beautiful and really loved that.

Loved all the old Patricia Cornwell books, the newer ones not so much.

A Little Life

Ooh yes forgot Linwood Barclay. Another thriller writer who keeps your interest going.

Anything by Harlan Coben gets me reading chapter after chapter to find out the answers.

Where The Crawdads Sing.

A little life 😂

that was only one of a very few books I couldn't finish due to content-and I love a bit of misery lit!

I did love I am pilgrim though 😃

Right this is giving me the hump now 😂

this was awful!

but I love love love the fact that unlike mathematics-literature is subjective and thank heavens for that!

Antonia Hodgson The Thomas Hawkins novels. Wonderful historical thrillers.
Amor Towles novels

Mrs Murphy Hires A Cleaner by Kath Kincaid.

second Hamnet

Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Saffon

Noble House - James Clavell

Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy (film version nowhere near as powerful)

Agree with PP re Lisa Jewell, easy reads but page turners. Ditto Maeve Binchy

If you like novels steeped in social history:
Woman of Substance -Barbara Taylor Bradford

I used to devour Iris Gower's series of novels set in Wales

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

Elly Griffiths - Ruth Galloway series are really good. Anything by Michael Connelly too! I love Maeve Binchy and have re-read them so many times - not thrillers but very engrossing stories that you can't put down. Start with Light a Penny Candle. Love the Strike series by Robert Galbraith as well.

Ooh you reminded me of a similar one - the Rome series by Kate Quinn.

Exactly this, some of these would bore me to tears just like some would hate what I read. Then some books in a series are absolutely shit when others I can't put down (the Shardlake ones come to mind, the early ones were really good, later ones not so much).

American Dirt, hooked from the first couple of pages.

Lindsey Davis Falco series, a Roman detective series, humorous, historical and a page turner. The first book is The Silver Pigs.

I've never understand the love for TTMC. I really like RO and hus debut novel waa really hyped up so i bought it. It turned out that it was really boring and quite twee, i gave uo ready it pretty quickly.

Wow, my comment barely makes sense and I can't edit on my phone!

Second vote for Jane Casey.

You are welcome to your opinion! 😆

The person who lent me that book said she knew I’d love it. She then lent me another book that she knew “I would love” and I hated it!

I love all of Erin Kelly's books,but in particular 'The Poison Tree' and 'The Sick Rose'. I finished both of them in a couple of days.

A Game of Thrones by George R.R.Martin.

Very much like the TV series - medieval fantasy type world, hyper-realistic, lots of sex, blood and guts - absolutely brilliant 👏

You must read Strange Sally Diamond … it is absolutely brilliant

If you like mysteries and thrillers try Dorothy Koomson.

The friend
Brighton mermaid
The day that you left.

I enjoy her books a lot. Her first "my best friends girl" I could not put down.

I am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes
if you like thrillers / crime / then this is a brilliant book
It’s
I read it in one night and stayed up till 5am to Finnish it

Martina Coles earlier books were really good
her recent ones are crap

The David Raker series by Tim Weaver - centred around missing persons investigations. All real page turners IMO.