Unputdownable Book

[RayofSunshine18]

What is your number one, unputdownable book, that you would recommend to absolutely anyone and everyone that will listen. Either fact or fiction - I am looking for some inspiration!

I'm on the second of the Strike series and I am reading it at every possible moment. It's riveting!

Any of the Reacher books by Lee Child. I race through them at speed.
For a bit of contrast, The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher.

The only book that ever made me miss my stop on the bus was Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland.

Absolutely agree... only man I'd leave my husband for! Reacher.. not Lee child's!

The TV series is fantastic.

Daniel Jupp -

Gates of Hell: Why Bill Gates Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World

For me:
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Poisonwood Diary - Barbara Kingsolver

I would've agreed with that a few years ago but the most recent Reacher books have been so, so disappointing.

He's getting old now is JR, he needs to settle down and find a good woman preferably me

The House on the Strand, by Daphne du Maurier

On the island
By Tracy Garcia Grey

I read it in a night and then started to reread it the next day. I stayed up all night 😂 everyone I've recommended it to has loved it too!

I've been binging on the big 19th-century classics this year. It's surprising how well they stand up. With every single one I was hooked and desperate to know what happens in the end. To my shame, I'd never read any of them before:

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Jane Austen: Emma
Thomas Hardy: Return of the Native
Dickens: Great Expectations

The early Shardlake books (CJ Sansom) are very much like this, IMO.

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin - deceptively simple writing and a twist at the end

Blood orange

I really enjoyed David Baldacci s early books.
The perfect husband by Lisa gardener
Most of tami hoags
The dead room by Chris mooney

The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant.

Read it over 20 years ago and still remember how gripping it was. Annoyingly I seem to have lent my copy to someone over the years and not had it returned as I can't find it anywhere!

Michelle Paver’s adult fiction - wonderful ghost stories.
Agatha Christie, especially The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Claire Chambers - Small Pleasures

I found Wilkie Collins unputdownable - both 'The Moonstone' and 'The Woman in White'. I kept going to bed ridiculously late because I just couldn't stop reading!

Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
Desolation Island by Patrick O’ Brian
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

A tree grows in Brooklyn by betty smith and dairy of an ordinary woman by Margaret Forster
(Sorry for grammar, phone not being smart!).
Currently loving Demon Copperhead by Barbara kingsolver.

Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody - could not put it down.

The Stand, Stephen King.

On The Beach by Neville Shute - its weirdly hypnotic, though I read it in first lockdown so possibly my mental health state at the time influenced it.