Please recommend me a good book that I will get straight into?

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Rubbish attention span at the moment could someone please recommend me something that will grab my attention immediately?
Tia

If your attention span is short these days, how about short stories?

I can relate to a shorter attention span, and short stories can do the trick! I'd also recommend books with multiple POV's such as Gervase Phinn's Dales series or William Nicholson's Sussex series. The books follow a ton of different characters, so if you find yourself bored by one plot you can quickly get to reading about somebody else whom you might find more interesting!

Room

or

The Girl on the Train

Intensity by Dean Koontz. Came out a million years ago but it grabs you from the start.

I'm reading Normal People atm and it's managing to hold my attention

The Silent Patient. SO good.

The walking harlot by Inny Lorentz.

Just have started rereading it again and it really does grab your attention from the first page.

I recently read The Family Upstairs and that was quite easy to get into.

American Dirt
The Midnight Library

Both grabbed me from the start.

Another vote for American Dirt!

Louise Kennedy’sThe End of the World Is A Cul de Sac or Lucy Caldwell’s Intimacies — both new short story collections.

The mother in law by sally hepworth

American Dirt, one of the most shocking starts to a novel I have ever read.

Shocking as in disturbing??

I've read quite a few of these good suggestions thank you.

Grown Ups by Marian Keyes. Deals with some serious issues in a very entertaining way.

Another vote for The Family Upstairs. I couldn’t put it down.

I Let You Go by Clare Macintosh. Dramatic start, and it doesn't let up all the way to the end. But trigger warning - death of young child and domestic abuse storylines.

Also came on to say American Dirt like several pp's. It's not shocking as in disturbing, I don't think.
It's about a woman and her son trying to escape to the US after a drug cartel kill her husband. Its enthralling.

I let you go is great!

Some good ideas on here😊

The push
Girl a

The Push was excellent. Well written, unputdownable and lingers in one's memory.

Josephine Tey, 'The Franchise Affair'.

Gripping story, and a masterclass in writing.