Looking for can't-put-me-down book recommendations please!

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I've been struggling to find a book to get stuck into, and I'm hoping somebody will be able to recommend something for me.

I enjoy thrillers, I've just finished the new Peter Swanson book as I loved 'The Kind Worth Killing' but I was soooo disappointed. Also recently read 'The Rosie Result' and 'Eleanor Oliphant' which I enjoyed but wasn't racing back to read more. You can't beat that feeling, when you're not reading the book but you're still thinking about it.

My favourite author is Donna Tartt.
I love reading WW1 literature.
Also love chick lit- really enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians last year.

If anyone can recommend a brilliant new book I'll be your best friend for the rest of the weekend

I’ve just read Craig Schaefer’s The Loot and really enjoyed it. It’s a thriller and, I hope, the first in a series.

My favourite thriller writers are Lee Child, Zoe Sharp and John Connolly.

JD Robb combines the chick lit with thriller thing - and if you enjoy them, there are 40+ to read, (I’d stop at about #40, I think they might be ghost-written from then on).

Rennie Airth and Jacqueline Winspear write crime novels set in the aftermath of WWI. Airth is a particularly good writer.

I’m not a fan of Donna Tartt, so cant help you there!

All The Light We Cannot See

The Hearts Invisible Furies

A Man Called Ove - took me a while to get into, but once I did I loved the characters. A lovely book.

The Feed. Gripping

It's not a thriller and it's possibly a 'weird' choice but I really was gripped by Mae West's book about being the daughter of Fred and Rose West and all the horror that came with being born into that family and raised in that home. A tough but good read, for sure.

The Orphan X series by Gregg Hurwitz. The reading equivalent of watching a Jason Bourne film.

Into the darkest corner by Elizabeth Haynes

If you like WW1 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters may work? I loved it.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon

The Post-birthday World by Lionel Shriver

I don't think the OP was looking for non- fiction feminist books.

I second The Heart's Invisible Furries.

The Snakes by Sadie Jones. Incredibly good.

Just read a great book - Temple Four by R J Bardwell - it had the tone of a Donna Tartt but a faster pace and reminded me a bit of Alex Garland's The Beach which was one of my all time favourites. Set in Guatemala at the Mayan site of Tikal and had me from the first page all the way. Lots of twists.

Going off on a tangent here but I just went to Amazon here to look at the above mentioned book and this is a screenshot of the results. How crap is that?

Old Baggage by Lissa Evans is set just after World War One and is very readable, with a strong, likeable central character, and is also very moving and funny.

The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters, also set just after World War One, is a cracking read.

If you like JD Robb - and they get really good again after about #44 - you might also like...
Janet Evanovich - slightly slapstick but fun
Tess Gerritsen
Karin Slaughter
Kathy Reichs (these became the Bones TV series)
"Richard Castle" - a ghostwritten spin off from a TV series
SR Garrae.
All contemporary cops/detectives/thriller/crime.
On the non-fiction side, I just read Michelle Obama's Becoming and it was AMAZING.

Try The School Run by Helen Whitaker.

I guess it’s chick lit but it also very funny and on point about Parenting today. Very cheap to download too

Not a new book but after a bit of a reading slump I'm reading Fatherland by Robert Harris - can't put it down.

Sweetpea by C J Skuse. Not one to be read if you're easily offended though.
The First Casualty by Ben Elton.

just finished Karen Rose - death is not enough very good

The Time Traveller’s Wife is excellent.

Circe by Madeline Miller is fantastic. A feminist retelling of the Greek Myths in The Odyssey. So good, best book of the ten I’ve read this summer. I also loved Where The Crawdads Sing.

If you like thrillers I find Nicci French and Barbara Vine unputdownable

The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Berniers

"Days Without End" by Sebastian Barry. Set during the civil war in the US it's one of my favourite reads from last year.

Also, "No Angel" by Penny Vincenzi, set in the UK during WW1 and is the first of 3 books about the same family.

You'll be drawn into both books immediately, I found them both unputdownable!