Can you recommend me a good book?

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I am in desperate need for a new book to read on the kindle, no happy endings, no soppy fluffy love stories or shitty porn. I want a herione but a dark, maybe tragic storyline. I want something hardcore that's going to stay with me and take my mind off things.

The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantine. I have just read it and it is a very very good book.

The hunger games

The Book Thief.

You'll find loads of recommendations here

A thousand splendid suns. It's certainly not a light & fluffy read, but it will stick with you forever.

Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood - dark, tragic, heroine, fabulous book....

An older one but I've just read and enjoyed The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Wuthering Heights
Jamaica Inn
Rebecca
These Is My Words

Daughter of smoke and bone, fantastic book

Seconding The Handmaid's Tale. First real 'feminist' book I read, had a real impact upon me.

Second the hunger games trilogy. Not fluffy, really cared for the characters, and unputdownable. A great read.

Game of Thrones! You got heroines coming out your ears! And I'll second "Euphemia's" suggestion too!

Oh and you are being vvvvvvvvvU!

The Night Circus? I haven't read it yet but it sounds brilliant!

The Little Stranger (Sarah Walters) - chilling story set in postwar Britain, beautifully written.

Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) - fabulous epic account of migrant workers travelling Depressing era States. Absolutely my all time favourite.

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.

Or just any of her Women of the Otherworld series.

The Labyrinth of Osiris by Paul Sussman. Main characters are two men but there are some strong women too. Brilliant read.

Another vote for The Hunger Games. Totally engrossing.

Ken Follets century series is good, kind of family saga

I've just finished The Wicked Girls. Very very good.

I loved 'The Night Circus'. In fact I've read it twice.
Anything by Angela Carter.
Possession. A.S. Byatt.

Metro 2033 is great and very unfluffy!

Wolf hall
Bring up the bodies
The thousand autumns if Jacob de Zoet
A thousand splendid suns
An instance of the fingerpost

Ooh! The girl with the dragon tattoo & other 2 in the millennium trilogy.

Bloody brilliant!