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!

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a fantastic novel about the prejudice faced by Koreans living in Japan. It's a beautiful book

Oh I loved the mercies. Good call!

I thoroughly enjoyed the Calamity Jane series by Kathleen Bacua. You can get 1 free on amazon kindle, so try before you buy.

Great capers, funny and just 100% enjoyable.

I loved The Goldfinch, then my DP recommended The Secret History by the same author but I couldn't get into it

I've only ever read three books that I just couldn't put down:
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Foundling - Stacey Halls

I have never heard of American Dirt so I will look that up. Thanks for the mention.

OP have you read The Midnight Library? It's not great literature but I found the idea absolutely addictive reading.
Another easy read but gripping to me - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

Demon Copperhead. It's brilliant. One of the best novels I've read in years.

Station Eleven

Like PP I loved The Goldfinch but it does ramble on a bit at the end.

I never thought I would enjoy Greek mythology but these are books I couldn’t put down:
The song of Achilles
Circe
The silence of the girls
The women of Troy
Stone Blind

@JosieRay
I loved all those too.
Have you heard the podcast ‘Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics’?

For anyone that enjoyed Tony Hawk's Round Ireland with a Fridge you might like to try Last of the Donkey Pilgrims by Kevin OHara. True story of an American guy who travels the circumference of Ireland with a donkey back in 1979. Lots of great tales are told and it's a really enjoyable read.

Catfish by Sadie Norman, it's brilliant.

The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My Mum loved that book, as well.

Cutting for Stone was great.

Try a few of the classics. It's surprising just how good many of them are. I've worked my way through several of the heavyweights this year – books I'd always meant to read but never got round to.

Dickens: David Copperfield
Jane Austen: Emma
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray
Thomas Hardy: Return of the Native
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

What surprised me was just how gripping they all were. With every single one I was hooked and wanted to know what happened in the end. Classics are classics for a reason. Next on my list is Vanity Fair, and then I want to give D. H. Lawrence a try – I've never read a word he wrote.

@Dappy777

Vanity Fair is brilliant

I recommend Sons And Lovers and Lady Chatterly for Lawrence

Yes, I was going to start with Sons and Lovers. A writer I admire said Ulysses and Lawrence's Women in Love were the two greatest novels of the 20th century, so that is on my list for sure.

Glad to see a thumbs up for Vanity Fair. I keep meaning to try Henry James as well.

I found Ulysses hard work I'm not ashamed to admit it. I think Middlemarch is the greatest novel (of those I've read )

@Dappy777

Jane Eyre is fabulous, one of my all time favourites. All of the Bronte sisters books I've read have been great. I've only managed about half so far but the rest are on my tbr pile.

I enjoyed Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, it was a great story however I struggled with a lot of his language and had to spend lots of time using the mini dictionary at the back of the book.

I have most of the classics on my tbr pile or on my Amazon and Goodreads wishlist. The time has never seemed right to read them but I'm determined to crack on with them as I'm realising lately that life doesn't go on forever ...

I’m loving this thread, I’ve written down so many recommendations.

A book that stayed with me for many months is A Gentleman in Moscow.
I tried so hard not to read it too quickly because I didn’t want it to end…

The Serial Killers Wife series is are gripping and easy to read and anything by Andrea Mara

I read that over the summer. It is brilliant.

Never read autobiographies but recently read Norman Wisdoms MyTurn, really good read and not even a huge fan, just quite fascinating how he went from being effectively a street urchin to one of the biggest comedy/ film stars of his time

Should I read Bee Sting or Yellowface next? (I have them both)

And for classics - Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9ann bronte) or The Way We Live Now (Trollope)

I've just finished The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue which was fantastic.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is up there with Jane Eyre as my favourite Bronte novels. It really is brilliant. Supposedly based on their brother.