A book you couldn't put down!!

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I'm hoping just to dedicate some time to getting back into reading...
Have a young child so it's not always possible!!

I think I've been trying to read Rosie Project for three years now !!

Looking for recommendations for your best book, book you couldn't put down to try and start something new that will keep me interested....
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And a big Yes to The Goldfinch❤️
Started to watch the film.......just terrible.

Similar position with a little DC! And I've recently flown through:

• Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
• Daisy Jones and The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
• Verity (Colleen Hoover)

The Giver of Stars

Just blitzed through The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Technically a young adult book but I loved it.

I also adore Gregory Ashe’s Hazard and Somerset book series’.

To Paradise is the latest book by the same author. I absolutely loved it and was gripped. It was very different but completely absorbing and brilliant

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Its biographical, the author and her husband lost their farm and livelihood, days after being told of his terminal diagnosis. They decided to walk the South West coastal path and it is strangely uplifting and thought provoking.
Giver of Stars was lovely, but The Goldfinch needed a really good editor. About 2/3 of it was padding and could have been cut out.
YY to Where the Craw Dads Sing , and Rose Tremain, although my favourite is the Long Road.
Also "The Panter of Silence" by Georgina Harding

Good to hear positivity about To Paradise. It’s in my TBR pile.
I LOVED A Little Life too.

@BettyCake that's very interesting - thank you!

Can’t bring myself to watch the film as I just know it won’t come close to the book!

Another vote for Jodi Taylor's chronicles of st Mary's. I've read them all, including the short stories & the time police & everyone I've suggested them to has loved them!

Have just read You be Mother by Meg Mason in 2 days and about to start Sorrow and Bliss. Also love Elizabeth Jane Howard. For a contemporary read Lucy Dawson is very easy and satisfying.

I’m currently reading the non fiction book Pandoras jar by Natalie Haynes absolutely love her Stand up for classics podcasts as well and love books like the Song of Achilles etc

I think I'm going to start with Sorrow and Bliss...although, without spoilers, is it very sad 😆 or is it bliss...sorry I can't do sad books or books about death, dying children anything like that..

Also keen for a funny book you couldn't put down..

Relatively easy reads that I've read recently, but still found page turning - The Wonder (Emma Donohue) and Orphans of the Storm (Celia Imrie)

I’ve just read “Really Good Actually” by Monica Heisy, it was very funny. It’s about a young woman whose short lived marriage comes to an end and how she deals with it. It sounds as though it should be depressing but it isn’t. It manages to combine being both funny and affecting.

Sorrow and bliss isn’t too sad, its actually quite funny and heartwarming. I wanted to sob in parts, but the overall feeling the story leaves isn’t sad.

I’m sad I’ve finished it 😕

Any of TM Logan's books always grip me! I recently read Lies in about 3 days as I couldn't put it down

A very current one: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. It looks like a huge tome in hardback, but don't be daunted; her writing is effortless and beautiful, and the narrator/protagonist's voice is so original, funny, moving and compelling you just have to keep reading to see what he's going to say and do next.

we read Sorrow and Bliss for my book club and it was universally liked… I got a bit tired of the character before the end. ( it’s better than the Rosie Project which I found average) My recommendation would be American Dirt… which was quite a dark subject matter but adrenaline inducing.

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans.
Hilarious, touching, easy to read, very good on relationships. And it's the first of a trilogy if you really like it!

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley, there are lots of books in the series so if you like the first one you can keep going.

I never finished the Rosie Project
I did, but shouldn't have bothered

Anything by William Boyd, especially Any Human Heart.

The push by Ashley Audain

Bloody brilliant compulsive read!

I'd second this.

And / or Liane Moriarty - I pretty much got through Big Little Lies in a day!!