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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Anything by Joanna Trollope.
'Wolf Hall' - though 'Bring up the Bodies' was even better (by Hillary Mantell).
John Grisham is usually easy reading....

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Anything by Lionel Shriver

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis.
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn.
Emma by Jane Austen.
The *Girls" trilogy by Edna O Brien.
Not a book but a play: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Most books written by Barbara Vine, but especially Dark Adapted Eye

I loved the husbands secret too. Have you read what Alice forgot? I enjoyed that too

I haven’t. Will check it out!

Thinking about it, I have often enjoyed a book without being gripped. It’s funny, actually, but few books truly grip me. Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Aldous Huxley, etc, much as I admire them, don’t hold me prisoner. I will get to the end, but not because I feel I just have to.

Certain novelists, however, hook you. Dickens is a good example. Even his fans will admit that he has faults (the absurd coincidences, the mawkishness, the ridiculous/melodramatic dialogue, etc), yet the man is a magician. Conrad and Woolf may be superior artists, but they lack something, a sort of X-factor. Dickens and Jane Austen won’t let you go.

If I was struggling to read, the massive tome that is The Goldfinch wouldn’t be my go-to choice 😁

I’d honestly try Jodi Taylor and see if she suits you

Growns up Marian Keyes, Pachinko

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - what a book that is! I'm nearly at the end of it now and have loved every minute. I hadn't liked the description of it other people had given me so put off reading it, but it's amazing and I don't want it to end. To give an idea of how much I love it, I'm reading it on holiday on my phone kindle app, which I hate usually!

It was a loooong time ago, but The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - first one of hers I read (and only one I finished, I hated The Franchise Affair). Loved DoT though.

Daisy Jones and the six - also a tv show now on Amazon prime

I find when I haven't read for a while Cecelia Ahern is a way in, the books are quite 'light' and are a bit like modern day fairytales.

I've just raced through Liz Nugent 'Strange Sally Diamond ' after a long break from reading. It grabbed me ftom start and I'm back in reading groove again!

@Scout2016 Just wanted to say thanks for your recommendations - I love Wally Lamb too so sought out some others on your list, have read Bitter and Sal this week and thoroughly enjoyed both 😊

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Anything by TM Logan. Fairly short chapters and quick moving storylines. I always find his books to be the sort where I say one more chapter and it ends up being 6 more

Books I couldn't put down

Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlian. About time travel which made me 🧐 but is amazing.

Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlakn

Woman in the white kimono by Ana Johns

The red tent by Anita Diamant

@Maximo2 oh I am chuffed! I never know what to expect when I see I'm tagged so it was a nice suprise thank you.
I enjoyed Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True but I wasn't sure I was interested in the premise of We Are Water so I made the mistake of listening to the audio book instead. Oh my, one of the characters was so creepy and repulsive it made my skin crawl listening to him. Not read any others yet.

Yes, I loved those too but wasn’t sure about We Are Water either - it tickles me that it took him 9 years to write the other three, so I guess he was too nippy with that one 🤣

Giving ‘Ask Again, Yes’ a go now, just started.

Have you read The Queen of Bloody Everything or 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World? They are both ones I have enjoyed recently as much as those on your list.

Anything by Terry Pratchett

The Viceroy's Daughters.

I'm really into short stories at the moment as I don't have the time, energy or focus for a novel.

Polly Babbington - Pretty Beach series, or Darling Island series

I've not RTFT but at the moment I'm enjoying 'easy to read, chick flicks' so anything by Jenny Colgan or Colleen Hoover

No I haven't read either Maximo, will look them up - thanks!