tell me a really really gripping unputdownable read....

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I need it for a long haul flight to stop me being scared (see here

i am reading "goodbye, dearest Holly" about holly wells who was murdered in soham. i can't put it down, and although i know how it all ended, it's disgusting to read how the families were treated by the police.
For a lighthearted read i recommend anything by sophie kinsella, and jodi picoult is fantastic too.

"The Kite Runner" superb, but probably not for a plane if you're likely to be feeling worried/upset anyway, as it's heart-rending.

Have you read "The Time Traveller's Wife" already, because that would be good, although again, it's pretty wrenching in places.

One of my favourites is "The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax" - a superb book about a rather strange child and his rather strange mother! "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas" is certainly gripping but very short, so wouldn't last you the whole journey by any means.

But it's very good,so I'd probably pick that one to start off with!

I ahve just finished a really good book.
It's called " I choose to live" by Sabine Dardenne...true story, she was abducted on 28th May 1996 (when she was 12)...talking about the time she was abducted and how that peadophiliac monster brainwashed her, and a bit about the trial, etc...excellent book! Gripping for sure and gruesome, aswell, although, she doesn't go into detail to much about the sexual ordeal,, etc...but she doesn't have too...!
Brave young woman!
I got it from a Charity shop, but Amazon does have it here

I always save Stephen King Novels for flghts because I can't put them down. All of them are good.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Corrections by Jonathon Frantzen
or if it's a REALLY long flight, what about A Suitable Boy (soooo love that book) by Vikram Seth, if you haven't read it already? Might last you for the flight back too...

The Chalice by Phil Rickman - it's huge and scary so might take your mind off real lief scary things like flight. I stayed up til 4am reading it because I was too scared to put it down until I'd finished it.

loved the kite runner, have just finished 5 quarters of the orange which i really couldn't put down( Joanne Harris)

I have to agree with Molesworth - The Quincunx (Palliser), The Woman in White or The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins), Toast, The Handmaid's Tale - all great. Also A Suitable Boy and Possession.
If you want a little more trashy, try The Stand by Stephen King.

Jeffrey Eugenides: 'Middlesex'

Donna Tartt: 'The Secret History' and 'The Little Friend'.

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ooh polecat, I haven't read A Suitable Boy (offputtingly big) but did love An Equal Music, and not read Possession either but I will do now on strength of your obviously excellent taste

Joanne Harris or Maggie O'Farrell (especially her first 'After You'd Gone') quite easy and gripping. I also enjoyed The Five People You Meet In Heaven but it's very short!

A Fair Exchange by Michele Roberts is also very good.

Second (or third) Possession & the Wilkie Collins books. I wish I hadn't read them yet, so I could enjoy them for the first time all over again.

Les Miserables is fantastic (although I suggest you skip the huge chunk about the Parisian sewer system).

Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie.

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On the lighter side, 'Katherine' by Anya Seton is great.

Complicity - Ian Banks

Woah, what on earth is going on there...who's doing it and who will get caught

but you'll finish it half way through the flight.

Will Self Great Apes is a good (if hard) read

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Anything by Harlan Coben. I can never read the words fast enough.

I can never put Diary of a Nobody down. Great book!

just arrived from amazon:

The kite runner
a fine balance
suite francaise
and the one by william boyd about a woman spy in the second world war - am ashamed to admit I have forgotten the title

anyway they all look so fabby I can't decide what to read first

I didn't like The red tent,is there something wrong with me,couldn't be bothered to finish it.

Loved and would say agood read for plane as failry light
Curious Incident in the night
Handmaids tale

Woman in White is brilliant but I don't think a plane read .

birdsong by sabastian faulks

oh yes,The kite runner,bloody brilliant

As per the others:
Rebecca
The Kite Runner
The Woman in White
East of Eden (favourite book ever)
but also...
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Insider by Piers Morgan
Anything by David Starkey (such a readble historian, reads like a novel)
Gone with the Wind/The Thornbirds/Valley of the Dolls (all trashy but totally brilliant)