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!

Chris Whittaker - We Begin At The End

Seconding this. An excellent book. Anyone I know who has read it really enjoyed it

Sue Watson is brilliant!
I also love Lisa Jewell

Anyone like either of those and can recommend another author . I've nearly finished both their offerings !

Into The Darkest Corner - Elisabeth Hayes/Haynes...? Very gripping, a real page turner

This is a fab book!

I second that, love his books, hilarious.

Me too! And now my internal voice has an apalachian accent!

If you like nonfiction I'd recommend

Nothing to Envy - Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

If you can wait to October my favourite author has a new book coming out called Poor Girls.

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Another one I just picked from the library, thinking typical crime novel. Totally different to what I expected. Much more moving too.

Have you ever read the Harry Potter books? I’ve read quite a few of the booked you’ve read (the Kite runner and the time travellers wife among my faves) and I always dismissed the Harry Potter book as children’s books, and then I gave them a go. Absolutely brilliant, so good I may reread them and I rarely do that.

New writer. Fledging by Rose Diell - about a woman’s choice NOT to have children. Note - it’s Fledging not Fledgling. Well written and not preachy and not political

Anything by Liane Moriarty, Lucy Clarke or Charity Norman.

‘Born a crime’ by Trevor Noah. ‘The Red Notice’ by Bill Browder.

Totally agree with this!

None of this is true was absolutely brilliant

The Girl with Seven Names is the book about the girl who escapes from North Korea. I loved that book as well. Also American Dirt, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, I am Pilgrim, All the Light We Cannot See, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, My Sisters Keeper, The Nightingale. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde and How to Look for a Lost Dog by Ann M. Martin are two books that haven't been mentioned much/at all, but I thought were great.

100% recommend anything by Sarah Winman, but especially Still Life.

another recommendation is book is When All is Said - Anne Griffin

Chris Whittaker All the colours of the dark; The Hearts invisible furies - John Boyne

I love The Handmaid’s Tale! Also enjoyed the Testaments

Shuggie Bain is absolutey unputdownable! Shocking, harrowing and very bleak but a fantastic debut novel by Douglas Stuart. I hear his second book Young Mungo is just as good as Shuggie, if not better but I haven't yet read it.

Older books - Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier is one of my faves.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - autobiographical, about him and his family growing up in abstract poverty in South of Ireland. Another unputdownable one.

If you want lighter fun reading Marian Keyes is a great writer and her books can be both heartbreaking and hysterically funny at the same time. Irish chick lit at its best.

Round Ireland with a fridge is also one of my favourite books. Tony's other books are pretty good too though not on par with the Fridge!

Happy Reading!

The Passage Trilogy was gripping

@SirStanley

The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer

Second this one. Read it when it came out and it has stayed with me.

@Westiemomma young mungo is also awesome 👍

you might like Motherwell by Deborah Orr and Scabby Queen by Kristin Innes if you enjoyed those? X