Can you recommend an unputdownable book?

[Seemslikethat]

As the title says really…

I enjoy reading fiction and non-fiction. Fiction - some books I’ve really enjoyed are…
Penance -Eliza Clark
All the broken pieces -John Boyne
The day Shelley Woodhouse woke up - Laura Pearson
Wrong Time Wrong Place - Gillian McAllister
Tell Me How This Ends - Jo Leevers
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Satsuma Complex -Bob Mortimer
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Five People you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom
The Stand -Steven King
Catch 22 -Joseph Heller
The Time Traveller’s Wife

I've also read quite a lot by Michael Connelly, Harlen Coben, Joanna Cannon, Jodi Picoult, Lisa Jewell, Hazel Prior, Rachel Joyce, Mike Gayle, Fredrick Bachman and Matt Haig. I hated the Crawdads book and wasn’t keen on the Thursday Murder Club.

Non-fiction - I like people’s travel tales or when they do ‘challenges’ eg Tony Hawks Round Ireland with a Fridge or the George Mahood books. I also like insights into people’s work eg Adam Kay or other medical people or people who work in police / prisons / courts etc. I read a good one about someone who was a disaster victim identification specialist.

Looking forward to your recommendations!

Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
Edited to add: any Barbara Vine

The Women - Kristin Hannah

Still Life by Sarah Winman - in fact anything by Sarah Winman!

You enjoy books that give an insight into people's jobs and mention the law. You might have read these already, but they are all very readable.

No Comment - Jess McDonald, about being a fast track recruit in the Met Police.

Dr Amanda Brown is a compassionate woman who has written three books about being a prison doctor -The Prison Doctor, Women Inside and The Final Sentence.

Chris Atkins - A Bit of a Stretch, The Diaries of a Prisoner. He is a journalist and film maker who ended up in prison for fraud. He writes very well about how awful prisons are.

When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easyhope is superb - she's a disaster planner and it's her professional autobiography.

I really like musicians' autobiographies and most recently enjoyed Duff McKagan's and also Dave Grohl's.

Fictionwise, anything by Kate Atkinson and there's the sequel to
The Satsuma Complex about to come out. The Stephen King short story collection You Like it Darker is good - the story The Answer Man is a tour de force.

I really enjoyed Alex James' (him from Blur) autobiographies @LaMadameCholet - he's got two, the first is all sex, drugs and rock & roll; and the second is all cheese. It made me laugh a lot 😁

The Heart's Invisible Furies, Still Life and Circe have been my favourites from the last couple of years.

Just finished a Claire Douglas thriller (The Woman Who Lied) and really enjoyed it.

Just finished this on a recommendation and l enjoyed it but didn't quite get the hype - it was good but not unputdownable

If you like Bill Bryson and Tony Hawks, you'll love McCarthy's Bar and The Road To McCarthy, by the late wonderful Pete McCarthy. David Niven's Bring On The Empty Horses and The Moon's A Balloon are both really good.

Fiction, anything written by John Boyne!
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff is such a good read. Songbirds by Christy Lefteri.

My sister's keeper
although it is sad

I've just finished Homecoming by Kate Morton which was very compelling. Kept me guessing to the end.

Also Us by David Nicholls and The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas.

Dead Lovely by Helen Fitzgerald
The Tent The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy - this was made into a short bbc tv series which was terrible, but the book is brilliant!e
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

I also hated Tomorrow…..
Dnf Still Life

Tbh I can’t really think of any unputdownable books that I’ve read recently. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve read a lot of books in my almost 60 years or if there really is nothing new and everything seems to be a rehash of something else

I would recommend Jenny Eclair as a writer though

If you like Kristin Hammer try The Women. I couldn’t put it down.

Absolutely LOVED Circe!
Am currently enjoying The Turkish Detective series by Barbara Nadal ( and there's lots of them, love a good series )
Recently enjoyed Moths and the sequel, Toxxic, interesting dystopian fiction about a virus that only affects men...

Loved loved loved that book.

Absolutely detested The Goldfinch. I only read it because I was off sick for a few months post hysterectomy and was bored.

I found Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow a bit Meh, tbh.

Love Lisa Jewell, Dorothy Koomson and Marian Keyes.

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.
The Siege by Helen Dunmore.

The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Luiz Zafon was amazing. I couldn’t put it down.

Anything by Louse Beech- How to be Brave is my favourite. She also writes under Louse Swanson. End of Story blew me away, but it made me cry. Big, ugly cry.

I forgot to add Gone Girl as another book I couldn't put down.

Of all Kate Atkinson's books, my fav is her first - Behind the scenes at the museum -- though I can't reread the chapter involving the WW2 dogfight, it made me cry too much.

Thank you. I’ve already read the Chris Atkins one and I’ll take a look at the others.

Ah, yes, I really enjoyed When the dust settles. I read it on holiday this year.

Those of you who recommended Strange Sally Diamond, I read it all today, so thank you!

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Two are tomes but I couldn't put them down

Also:

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (have just reread this)
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Didn't "get" The Goldfinch either @Spidey66 neither did my book club but it often crops up on MN as a good read