Absolutely Unputdownable Books Part 2

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Hope nobody minds me setting up a new thread - other one very long.

Come on ladies - give me your ideas

Life of Pi is the best book I have read.

Also really enjoyed Enduring Love by Ian McEwan and Fatwa, Living with a Death Threat by Jackie Trevine (?), keep forgetting to mention that one on these threads.

Have the Secret History on my book shelf, will read some time this year!

Oh I forgot - Atonement by Ian McEwan - brilliant brilliant book......

posey, yes I have read some of his other stuff and liked it. I find his style of writing quite captivating. I think I probably did the Closed Circle a misjustice because it was a very good book, certainly the best I have read since the Rotters Club.

roobie, I think the Closed Circle is still only out in hardback - not sure. I normally wait till books are in softback but I just couldn't wait for this one!

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know exactly what you mean. Somehow manages to get you right in there.

woman in black - of course, I must read it
Woman in White is vey very good too

Has anyone read the recent Toni Morrison, Love I think it is called?

cupcakes, agree with you about agatha christie, also love Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey books (but have read them so many times I can almost recite them!
I have recently finished Kate Atkinson's latest, Case Histories, really excellent, I cried at the end (anyoen else read it?)
Also by KA, her Whitbbread winnign Behind th e Scenes at the Museum is unputdownable too.
Recommended the Secret history to a colleague who was off sick and she loved it. I do too. why has it never been filmed??

Chocfreeclary, I've just read Case Histories and thought it was fab. Almost, but not quite, as good as Behind the Scenes at the Museum which is definitely one of my favourite ever books.

Would agree with the person who mentioned The Poisonwood Bible - a brilliant, thought-provoking book that was also easy to read.

Have got The Closed Circle on my bedside table but haven't started it yet...it's so difficult to curl up in bed with a hardback.

I'm reading The Perfect Storm, which is pretty good but not unputdownable. Of recently read books, I thoroughly enjoyed Outlander (aka Cross-Stitch); great escapist stuff, loved The Namesake, The Time-Traveller's Wife (fascinating), Brideshead Revisited (again!), The House of Mirth... Life of Pi, White Teeth, Cold Mountain, Middlesex and Cold Comfort Farm are waiting to be read but I'm not really looking forward to any of them. Very disappointed with The Da Vinci Code. The dialogue was terrible. Anita Shreve's Light On Snow was surprisingly good... I'd gone off her a bit.

Life of Pi is the best book I've read in ages

kite runner, anyone? or notes on a scandal?

Thumbs up for The Poisonwood Bible, The Secret History and Behind the Scenes At the Museum as well!

notes on a scandal a good read for sure (hello bundle, how are the hampers?)

hamper-tastic, soozy. (could murder some noodles...scampers off to canteen in search of some)

Reading Middlesex just now, so far I'm hooked.

I enjoyed Notes on a Scandal.

Private Peaceful- Michael Morpurgo.

Absolutely fab, don't care that it is aimed at kids (9-12!) It is a definate unputdownable book!

Now this has to make a film, and given the right cast/screenplay could be brilliant... although not as good as the book.

Read it.

The (a?) child in time - Ian McEwan; The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

"Burned Alive" by Souad. Book about a palestinian woman who was burnt by her brother in law on purpose for fancying a local fellow. Truly horrific true story but one of absolute spirit.

4 unputdownables I remember from a long time ago, read and re-read over the years: The Greengage Summer, by Rumer Godden, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, My Family and Other Animals and Fillets of Plaice, both by Gerald Durrell. Hilarious!

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Just want to recommend Angels' Crest by Leslie Schwartz. An easy and compelling read.

Loved The Kite Runner, brilliant!!

Between Two Enternities by Rosemary Kay. Have never been so touched by a book in my life.. and have been avidly reading since the age of 6. I wrote to the author (never done that before) and got a lovely personal letter back.

It's written from the point of view of a baby born at 23 weeks. It was made into a TV film called This Little Life which didn't disappoint, as films often do, (screen play was written by Rosemary Kay, probably why).

My DS was not prem.. but had similar experiences.. and it was as if HE (as he was then)was talking to me from the incubator. sob This book is absolutely NOT all doom and gloom though. Totally unputdownable.

SJ x