Totally engaging can't-put-down needed

[katiegolightly]

Yes this is lazy, but Amazon recommendations aren't cutting it for me today. I'm hoping to stock up on a few can't-put-down-totally-all-engrossing novels to occupy the coming days and nights!

Nothing too clever or stretchy but nothing too airport trash vomit-inducing. Can't be doing with something that takes 8 chapters to get into. Anyone read anything recently worth writing home about?

Things that recently went down well were Time Travellers Wife, The Help, Go To Sleep and yes, embarrassingly I did like all the Harry Potter books.

One Day was just a bit too naff for me, couldn't put my finger on it :-/ (yes I know that's hard to say following my last admission...)

I think the cover for Me Before You, and also perhaps the title alongside, give a totally different impression to what the book is actually like and also about. I have bought one of Jojo Moyles other books, Ship of Brides, which I have just started. It also has a slightly naff cover but will hopefully be of far more substance inside.

Susan Hill's Serrailler are good.

As are Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books. Case Histories is the first one.

Agree with PP re: Erin Kelly. Just read her last one, The Sick Rose.

I recently really enjoyed Gillespie and I by Jane Harris.

Whatever you do, DON'T waste good money and time on Revenge of the Tide by Elizabeth Haynes - it is quite simply awful. And I should know, I've read some crap in my time.

This is a bit of a random list, but just off the top of my head:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fatherland by Robert Harris