Need a 'can't put down'

[Munzle]

You know what I mean... where you pretend that you need the loo loads just so you can go and read your book?! On holiday next week and it's ages since I've read a book that had me furiously turning the pages. Don't like chick/lit, murder/mystery. Last book I read that had me gripped like this was Time Traveller's Wife, and We need to Talk about Kevin. Any suggestions?

My recent can't-put-downs were

Water for elephants
The 13th Tale

I also reccomend

The help
The 19th wife

The Passage - different but unputdownable for me

I loved The Help too - another one that's meant to be brilliant but I haven't read yet is 'The memory of love'

Enjoy your holiday!!!

My recent can't put downs are :

Water for elephants
The Help

Just finished this afternoon When god was a rabbit which was OK but not like the above. I'm on the look out for the next read so will watch this thread .

Recent ones for me include Room, The Hand That First Held Mine, Into the Darkest Corner and the Shardlake books.
I am also really enjoying Pigeon English which I have just started.

Have just finished and loved A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth. I would also recommend True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies.

bradsmum - come talk passage with me over here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/adult_fiction/1244275-The-Passage-by-Justin-Cronin

Jodi picoult and phillipa Gregory having staying up to all hours reading.

Have you read Perfume?

The Passage

One Day

Angels- Marian Keyes

Geralds Game

Plain truth by Jodi Picoult, Killing Floor by Lee Child, Room by Emma Donoghue, loads of others but can't think right now.

I just finished The Girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons yesterday. Big thick book and I practically brought it in to the bathroom with me. sorry, tmi!

Anything by Douglas Kennedy. Especially "A Special Relationship" and "The Pursuit of Happiness". Don't let the naff names and girly covers put you off.

Another Paullina Simons from me - The Bronze horseman. Fave book ever

Yes to Perfume.
Yes to The Passage.
Yes to Shardlake but you won't like those because they are murder/mystery - bloody good ones though.

Room, One Day, A Thousand Splendid Sunsets, The Dressmaker, We Are all Made of Glue, Kafka on the Shore, to name but a few. I was involved in world book night so could send you a copy of One Day as I still have a few left. It's a beautiful story and the film is out in August. If you would like a copy then just message your address.

Strivingtosmile, which comes first in that trilogy. is it tatiana or the bronze horseman? I have a secondhand copy of T&A but I can't find any clue as to whether it's the first in the trilogy or not. I want to read them in the right order.

I read Perfume years ago. Very good but you'd be finished it very quickly.

Bikerunski, interesting you say that because the extremely romantic titles do put me off. I imagine them being like Leslie Pearse books. (i've read a couple and enjoyed some and raised my eyes at others).

Great thread, just marking my spot !

No, Douglas Kennedy is not like Lesley Pearce smaltzy crap at all (have only read Stolen, and only finsihed it to see if it would get better). Douglas K writes well, deals with "issues", hs strong female leads and is gripping, real page turner stuff. Try one, and you'll be straight on Amazon to order the rest. I suspect that the titles and covers are a publisher's marketing ploy to attract female readers because of the female leads.

Room, The Island (Victoria Hislop), When will there be good news (Kate Atkinson) - just been on tv.

The Tent, The Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy
The Slap

Have just finished Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup - it was one of those that I snuck into the toilet with me

I like Vikras Swarup a lot, thought Q&A was much better than the film

Hello! First Mums net message ever! I too loved The Help - best thing I've read in ages. Perfume also good and I'm a bid fan of the No1 Ladies Dectective book - they're absolutely charming