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!

In memoriam - Alice Winn

I think the best book I’ve ever read, but be prepared to cry

Agree with A Thousand Splendid Suns and also Half of a Yellow sun. I also love The God of Small Things.

I used to read so much, but I couldn't get through Catch 22 and I didn't enjoy The Time Travellers Wife.

Still Life - Sarah Winman
swan song - Robert McCammon
station eleven - Emily St John mandel

The Gossip's Choice and its sequel The Midwife's Truth by Sara Read.
They're excellent.

All the Strike books are excellent too.

Amazon keeps recommending both of these to me and I don’t know which to choose!

Anyone know when the new Cormoran Strike is out?

I Love You I Love You I Love You

All the noughties nostalgia ❤️

Saving this excellent thread !

Any book with contact adhesive on the cover.......

No release date yet but it's called The Hallmarked Man

I bought and am loving American Dirt (can't put it down either) but wish you'd warned how harrowing it is!! (admittedly I should have read the blurb!) This this one will stay with me like The Kite Runner did.

Gosh @sequin2000 sorry about that it's a few years since I read it and just remembered being riveted. My other recommendation is definitely harrowing also so be prepared for that one should you try it (Only Plane In The Sky)

Currently halfway through listening to Snap by Belinda Bauer. Excellent so far. It's a bestseller murder genre but so much better written than most. Some lovely humorous elements.

I always recommend The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. She creates a brilliant sense of time place and people.

Ooh and The Woman in White

Maureen Lee is another fab author, just love her books, most I find real page turners

Ooh I think we have similar taste so I will mark place.

I have loved these:

The end of the world running club - post apocalyptic musing on family life/roles
The Rosie Project - fun characters and intriguing mystery
The Midnight Library - Sliding Doors-esque story.
In the Heat of the Moment - this is brill, it's by a firefighter-turned-psychologist.
The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin changes one thing a month for a year.
Yes Man - Danny Wallace - absurd and hilarious. He just says yes to everything and documents the results.
The Heathrow Doctor - loved this (insight into job one)
Marie Browne Narrow XYZ books - she renovates a narrowboat and moves into it with no prior experience.

I thought E O is CF was a very poor Margaret Forster rip off and found it boring after all the hype it received.

Trying not to replicate any previous books but recent reads I couldn’t put down :
Yellowface
Little Eve
The Anomaly
Cecily

Am about to start reading The Bee Sting, but wondering whether to swop to Demon Copperhead?

Have just finished Birds without Wings which has taken 2 separate attempts to get into, but once I was past 300 pages (halfway through…) couldn’t put it down! l think LdB is magnificent but that tested me somewhat….

I would do bee sting and demon. Both fairly hefty in size though. Both of them easy reads.

I'll definitely try that too thanks. Have you seen Come from Away the musical with a similar story line? It's absolutely amazing. I've not read the book but it's based on The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Am on holiday & have both

@sequin2000

Yes, Come From Away, the Broadway edition is currently on Apple TV + I keep meaning to set aside a couple of hours for it. Only Plane... is an oral history and is lots of people just talking about their experience. It's beautifully done.

Anything by Kristin Hannah, Octavia Butler and Chiminada Ngozi Adiche

im not sure if they’ve been mentioned but The Mercies and Burial Rites are both fantastix

@sequin2000

I was explaining 9/11 and what it was like to someone who was 1 at the time the other day. I felt ancient.

Ooh, so it's just the order then! Bee sting then Demon. Although I reckon you'll need a palate cleanser in between, so you can sink into the next batch of characters.