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!

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Any good non fiction reads?

I agree with Strange Sally Diamond - I read it a couple of weeks ago and loved it!

Not a thriller at all, just a wonderfully written and absorbing book about a life, Lessons by Ian McEwan, I couldn't put it down, all his books are excellent.

It might not be your thing - the The Heart’s Invisible Furies. I couldn’t put it down, a really beautiful book that will make you feel every single emotion. Very funny too

Also agree with I Am Pilgrim.

Codename Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Educated by Tara Westover
The Choice by Edith Eger

For something more lighthearted there's always and forever Georgette Heyer.

And fun urban fantasy reads by Helen Harper, Donna Augustine, Heather G Harris, and Lauretta Hignett.

Ooh. And Lindsay Buroker, especially Death Before Dragons, and The Emperor's Edge series.

I’ve been reading some of my old book on my kindle lately

horror - one long night by Richard Laymon
this guy is sick and I wonder what sort of childhood he had to write such a “Vivid “book but his writing is excellent
only book where I got up and checked the doors were shut 😂😂

another horror is James Herbert The Rats trilogy

The Splendid and the Vile, about Churchill in 1940, I'm reading at the moment and it's fascinating.

Agree re Lisa Jewell. I’ve just read, and really
enjoyed, The Beach Hut by Leah Pitt. Raced through it on holiday and my mum now has my copy and is doing the same.

Another vote for Strike books and I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. DH has also just finished his latest book Year of the Locust.

Wrong place wrong time by Gillian McCallister, so good!
What happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan
The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
No one saw a thing - Andrea Mara

‘Stolen Focus’ by Johann Hart
’Educated’ by Tara Westover
’The Splendid and the Vile’ by Erik Larson
’This is Going to Hurt’ by Adam Kay

Glad to see several people mentioned “I am Pilgrim”
its definitely a book that hooks you from the start and has so many twists that you don’t see coming

it’s well written and not to many characters that you get confused 😂😂. And I actually felt sorry for the bad guy in the end

Im Surprised that it’s not been made a a big film

Qualify by Vera Nazarian

It's on audible, included last time I checked. I found it quite gripping.

The Maiden by Kate Foster

I recently read The Institute by Stephen King. It was my first King book I've ever read and I was definitely impressed. I could not put it down!

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini a couple of years ago and I genuinely could not put that book down. It was amazing, I was sad when it finished. Beautifully written, emotional, thought provoking - just everything you want from a book. I would go as far to say it's my favourite book.

Not all thrillers, but these are some of my favourite books from the last year or so:

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Glad to see the positive reviews for Strange Sally Diamond as I've just bought this.

if you like edgy urban magic, try the King's Watch series by Mark Hayden. His action novels without magic in are good too.

House of Glass by Hadley Freeman, about her Jewish family history, a fascinating book.
Educated by Tara Westover about her appalling fundamentalist Mormon background and her escape from it via college and university, shocking and uplifting.

Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantell.

The Witch Trade by Michael Malloy. I tend to prefer children's books!

@melisma Girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy by Steig Larrsen

Omg! I adore Colin Dexter. He’s my favourite author. The Morse books are so beautifully written. Hope you read them all after Last Bus To Woodstock x Sorry just reread your post. Do you not like the others?

It's a while ago I read these, and not to everyone's taste but I remember staying up until the early hours reading the Philip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy. Not sure I've done that with anything since, but most recently the book I've read where I couldn't wait to get time to pick it up was Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow. Absolutely loved it

'Alive' was brilliant. I couldn't believe what people went through and many survived