What was the last book that really gripped you?

[TittyGajillions]

As in couldn't put it down, couldn't wait to find out what happens next?
I'm in a bit of a reading slump and haven't had that feeling of wanting to sit and just read for a while.
I have a long tbr but nothing is quite taking my fancy.

Thanks everyone, I've read quite a few of these already but I'll check out the others.

Daisy Jones and the Six
Covenant of Water
Girl, Woman, Other
The Matt Haig, How to stop Time
Remarkably Bright Creatures

I've recently enjoyed All my mothers.

Just finished American Dirty which was interesting but an absolute catalogue of misery! I wouldn't say I enjoyed it.

The most recent David Nicholls book, You Are Here.

Huge recommend for All The Colours Of The Dark

Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn series. I'm not reading them in order, started with 'Thirteen' and couldn't put it down.

Still life, Sarah waters.

The lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. Just finished it-utterly amazing.

Placemarking!

The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

totally absorbed in both and sorry to reach the end.

Cloud atlas.

Currently very gripped by Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk.

I absolutely loved All the colours of the dark

If you want a new release; I’ve just finished Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and loved it.

I have joined at finished this thanks to your recommendation. I really enjoyed it and have recommended it to my book club so thank you.

Brilliant!

@TheGanderI read Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil in advance of a trip to Savannah, GA. It was good to see all the locations in the book (which I loved!) Family that live there tell me the characters were real and only very thinly disguised.

• I have just finished this.

I found Wild Dark Shore quite gripping.

Also, if you want something non-highbrow, A Court of Thorns and Roses — it is absolute dogshit but readable in a Twilight kind of a way

I’m reading Homage to Catalonia. I find it absorbing and insightful. I’ve been finding it hard to stick to a book but this has really got me.

Recent favourite reads:

*When you disappeared by John Marrs
*All the Strike books by Robert Galbraith
*All the Elly Griffiths/Ruth Galloway series (so sad when I'd read them all)

And more recently

Peter Graingers books about Policemen DC Smith - they are only available on Kindle, but the first one is now in paperback called An Accidental Death - brilliant series of books.

it is absolute dogshit but readable in a Twilight kind of way

Cosign this 😂

I've just read Everything is beautiful and everything hurts by Josie Shapiro. It's based around the main character's attempt to run a marathon. I've never run anything, but somehow it really resonated with me. I read it in two days, although it is quite short.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver really gripped me, and I still think about it a lot. I'm keen to re-read, but want to read David Copperfield first.

That’s really interesting. I’ve never been to the Deep South but for me that book was second best to actually going. Seems the Deep South spawns the best US fiction somehow.

Two books I have recently read and loved enough to pass onto friends:

The coldest place on earth https://amzn.eu/d/06Q1yhAP
Burial Rites by Kent, Hannah (February 27, 2014) Paperback https://amzn.eu/d/09wapmdF

anything by Lissa Evan’s

finally - can’t put down the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. Funny, clever and enough bad language to make you squirm!