Unputdownable books

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Hello everyone 👋🏻

I have a new year's reading resolution for 2025- I would like to read (at least!) one book a month throughout the year.

Please can you share with me your unputdownable book recommendations? The books which kept you hooked and you couldn't wait to get back to reading? Can be any genre/age- all suggestions welcome!

Thanks so much 🙏🏻❤️

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor a Jenkins Reid

The idea of you Robbine Lee

Here one moment Lianne Moriarty

The nightingale Kristen Hannah

Weyward Emilia Hart

Another vote for Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

Also sped through This Could Be Everything by Eva Rice.

Am really enjoying this too!

Thanks so much for all the suggestions- I have a jam-packed year of brilliant books ahead of me! Yesterday, I started reading the very first book suggested 'Last One at the Party' and I was absolutely gripped- so much so that I continued reading way too late into the night and finished it this afternoon. Felt so great to be totally absorbed in a book again, thank you :D

Yes, I've read this before and really enjoyed it 🙂

very good! 😄

Yes I read that and had the same response - read in one sitting. Also, although it’s not high brow by any means, it really stuck with me for quite a long time afterwards. Kept imagining what it would be like to live through such a thing 🙈😳

American Dirt is still my top un-put-downable book!!

Thomas Hardy and Dickens are absolute master storytellers and hook me to the end. I'm a big believer in the test of time. Books become classics for a reason.

I didn't read Pride and Prejudice until later in life, and somehow avoided learning the plot. So I stayed up half the flippin night because I wanted to know if Lizzie and Darcy get together.

Speaking of classics, Agatha Christie, M R James and the Sherlock Holmes books all keep me hungry to the end.

Loved American dirt too ❤️

North Woods by Daniel Mason, loved it!

Anything by Kristen Hannah (I’m currently reading The Great Alone), also anything by Liane Moriarty.

Agree about anything by SA Chakraborty

Arcadia by Iain Pears - it's sort of midway between literary fiction and fantasy/sci-fi, pretty compelling
Possession - AS Byatt, just such an enjoyable read
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope. A book about a contested will may not sound that compelling, but this is startlingly modern in many ways, and has an unusually well portrayed friendship between two women as written by a Victorian man. I find Trollope veyr underrated and his books are great for historical escapism. Often nothing very dramatic happens, but they just immerse you in 19th C England
The Woman in White/The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins. Fantastic mysteries and the Woman in White has one of my favourite female literary characters ever, Marian Halcombe.