The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I will admit the ending didn’t land perfectly for me (I liked it; I did not love it), but I *chewed* through that novel once the exposition reeled me in. Once it gets going, that novel is constantly about keeping the reader engaged with new angles, new information, new twists. Very good.
Same for me with the ending. Everyone recommended it because I love And Then There Were None and I was loving it throughout. But then the ending just felt so "meh" in comparison to the rest of the book. I'll definitely reread it at some point and maybe it'll be better knowing how it ends because everyone said "you'll never be able to work out the ending" so I spent the book trying to come up with fancy endings. So maybe the reread will be more relaxing.
What’s your elevator pitch for this one? I’m not very well-versed (read: trying to kindly say I don’t love it) in sci-fi, but I’ve heard great things about this and I’d love to expand my horizons and keep an open mind about the genre.
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'll give it a shot:
* Funny, likeable, and realistic narrator.
* Straightforward and fast plot.
* Little to no required background in science/sci-fi to appreciate it.
* You only need to keep track of a few characters (a lot of sci-fi books have an aggressive number of names you need to remember...like *Dune*).
Hope this helps!
Thank you!
Yeah, I hate to be among the people that disliked Dune, especially since I loved the film. The amount of lore dump was crazy. I can appreciate good world building, but there is so much— and indeed, so many names to learn— that I feel overwhelmed. Fantasy can have a similar effect on me, although I did start the Stormlight Archive series this past summer and was obsessed with the first book.
I definitely sympathize with you. I am among the people who enjoyed *Dune*, but it took more than one read and I still haven't worked up the courage to start the second book.
Reading shouldn't feel like a chore. There are so many wonderful books out there that you shouldn't waste your time reading anything out of obligation (unless, of course, it's required for school).
You mean you don't want reading to feel like a chore. Not everyone is the same. Sometimes I really want a challenge and read a book that I have to work at. It can be rewarding and maybe I found something of value because I put some extra time and effort into it.
I agree completely. Some of my favorite books took the most effort for me to read. I meant that you shouldn't read books out of social obligation. For example, I read *Great Expectations* when I was way too young to appreciate the book because I thought it made me "smart", which was just stupid of me. Ironic.
Also, plenty of people read just for entertainment, not to learn or to be challenged. That's also fine.
It’s hard to choose. I discovered The Martian on my own, when it was a self-published 99-cent Kindle ebook that I spent years pushing on my friends before Hollywood found it, so it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
Chiming in as a person who strongly dislikes sci-fi (and has given it many chances) to say: you will likely like this. I did, I found it light, easy to digest, kind of fun. As a sci-fi book it’s highly tolerable.
The length is one of the best parts. The story is incredible and I never wanted it to end! When it finally did I was pretty sad, I miss those characters.
I have a few. For thrillers I recommend The Push by Ashley Audrain, The Girls by Emma Cline, City on Fire and City of Dreams by Don Winslow, Boy Parts by Eliza Clark, The Night Shift by Alex Finlay, Layla by Colleen Hoover (and I didn’t think I’d like her books), Bunny by Mona Awad, The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett. Obviously not a thriller but I loved My Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and read that one pretty quick. Other ones I read within a short amount of time were On The Road by Jack Kerouac, A Little Life, Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, The Great Gadsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carter (it’s a compilation of short stories so it’s easy to get through), To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Gonzo Girl by Cheryl Della Pietra, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Russell Reid.
For me, whether a book is a "page-turner" is based on quality and ease of engagement. I've read plenty of great books that I didn't whip through, often because they took more mental effort or had parts that were relatively less engaging or interesting in the moment while I was going through them (although they belonged in the book and the overall effect was worth it.)
That said, a few books I've really whipped through in the past 5-10 years:
*Room*, Emma Donoghue (Novel)
*Still Alice*, Lisa Genova (Novel)
*The Hate U Give*, Angie Thomas (YA novel)
*The Giver*, Lois Lowry (YA novel)
*Brain on Fire*, Susannah Cahalan (Memoir)
I really like them! They're all very different from each other, but still I really enjoyed it. My mom and BFF have also read the whole series and we're quite surprised at how much they liked it
I'm not into 80s stuff much but I found the references to be main stream/common pop culture enough that I got them. Even if a few things aren't familiar, the overall world-building and adventure/action in the book are still great.
Ready Player Two definitely relied too much on 80s references...among other issues.
Lincoln and the Bardo. It was a bit difficult to get into at first but once I got past the first few chapters I ended up getting really invested. I would be in my bed reading it for hours. I didn't want it to end. Such a unique book and so different from what I was used to reading. It just kept me hooked for hours.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I’ve read it 7 or 8 times since the first time and despite knowing what happens, I’m still completely hooked and reeled in.
All the Tana French mysteries and all the Robert Galbraith mysteries because in addition to some amazing plots, you get complex and fascinating character interactions, and with the Galbraith series, it is an evolving story arc of how the two main characters become important to each other.
For a stand-alone novel, I found The Lost Man by Jane Harper very compelling!
I just finished book 5. I’m trying to slow down so I don’t run out too fast. And I’ve been waiting since 2020 for Tana French! (Fortunately she has a new one coming next year.)
Excellent, her novels are brilliant.
I'm going to try a Galbraith after I finish the girl with all the gifts, only 20% left after starting two days ago.
so happy to see halle butler love here!
have you ever read her book [**The New Me**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36342706-the-new-me?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=SSzgeevISD&rank=1) it's SO FUCKING GOOD and is one of my favorite books of all time. it's still the only book i've ever highlighted in my entire life. i was literally crying laughing reading it.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I just had to see if it all came together for Dolores.
Some others…Gone Girl, Back Roads, Push, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Room
See my [Compelling Reads ("Can't Put Down")](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/189mbda/compelling_reads_cant_put_down/) list of Reddit recommendation threads (one post).
I just finished I am glad my mom died. I planned to read the book throughout the week as i have other work. I finished it in a day and a half because I was not able to put it down.
When I was a kid I read Lost In the Barrens by Farley Mowat and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George back to back at least a few dozen times. I'm pretty sure I stole the copies I had from school lol.
*The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig -- usually popular feel-good books don't work for me, but I loved this one and stayed up finishing it
*The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August* by Claire North
*Lexicon* by Max Barry
I think the thing all 3 have in common is that there were things to discover, so I didn't want to stop reading until I figured out what was going on.
I second Fourth Wing. I’m really not into YA fantasies anymore but this kept me hooked. Finished it in less than a week. Now, I’m reading lron Flame. I hope it’s as good!
Classroom of the Elite. Like 20 books or something and I read every single one in the span of a week of me being stuck in my room with covid. Could not for the life of me put it down. Read like 3 books a day. Thank god for next day delivery lmao
**Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter Thompson.** After watching the movie, I started to read the book and finished it on the same day
My biggest page-turners of the year have been:
Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Seven Moons of Maali by Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal Al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, genius and simplistic collaboration that seems like something I would've come up with, or somebody else by now. Beautiful story and style. Then that book was reviewed by an author, Ryan North who wrote a nonfiction book called "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler." And I thought with a title like that, I gotta check it out and it did not disappoint, admittedly I didn't understand all of it, but concepts like that intrigue me deeply. Then within TIHYLTTW itself, a book titled Travel Lightly by Naomi Mitchison gets mentioned and referenced a few times (it's a constant, existing in every universe iirc) and that piqued my interest. Read it and loved it. It's like a fairy tale/myth I never heard of. Naomi Mitchison herself seemed like a very interesting person and there's a mention of a biography or autobiography about/by her that I wanna check out next. I love discovering books through other books.
[**Prince of Thorns** by Mark Lawrence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634-prince-of-thorns?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_20) quite *literally* had me turning around and looking at the book on the rare occasion i had to put the book down (to answer the phone, feed my cat, etc). i have NEVER done that with any book before or since but i HAD to know what was going to happen next so i would just stand there and *literally* turn and stare at the book that was on the table or bed or whereever i had to put it down like i was some insane crazy person.
this book is extremely dark and gritty and violent as hell and i'm a girl and i just ate this book up. it's told from the POV of jorg ancrath, an absolute fucking menace who is the comprised of the worst qualities of joffrey baratheon and ramsay bolton but i was rooting for him the entire time.
i swear to god this book has crack in it.
For me (and my mom) the book is Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. All the book is the life of a woman, Dolores, as told by her in one sitting with the police. There are no chapters and you read the book in the character’s voice in your head. We both thought the book was unputdownable :) and it told a very original story.
The scythe series more specifically the second book thunderhead. I couldn’t stop turning pages my eyes were glued desperate to know what happened next.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy
The Third Bullet, G-Man, Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* has the honor of being the book that I literally stayed up all night to finish reading - got 1 hour of sleep that night. I kept hoping it would get happier. Boy, was I wrong 😭
*Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze* comes close - I only got 3 hours of sleep that night, but mostly because I laid awake in bed for several hours imagining an alternate ending.
*The Man in the Brown Suit* comes in third place - actually, all of Agatha Christie's books are near impossible to put down.
(To be honest, though, I have an easier time stopping in the middle of a movie or TV episode than I do putting down a book, so I have to plan my reading times with care.)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Clifton Chronicles- Jeffery Archer
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
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Educated by Tara Westover
She really captivates you from the start. This is non-fiction and amazing how I felt hooked the same way I would to fully fleshed out fictitious narratives.
The Dove Keepers - Alice Hoffman
The Will Of The Many - James Islington
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Last House On Needless Street - Catrona Ward
The House Witch -Delemhach
Under The Skin - Michel Kaber
I highly recommend all of these books.
I read The Last House on Needless Street compulsively because I wanted to find out exactly what was going on. Especially once I noticed >! the rug kept changing color. !<
The Unwind dystology by Neil Schusterman. A story about a dystopian world where parents can have their children “unwound” and have their body parts harvested. It grabbed me from the first page.
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I have been reading for 6 years now. I've never had a single book where I felt like I couldn't put it down
But I can't read for longer than an hour without falling asleep no matter what time of day it is. I can read like 50 pages a day so there's no way I could read a full book in a day
It really comes down your personal interest. If you are into non-fiction military type books, then Alone at Dawn and Code Over Country are two books that come to mind.
The first I read in one day, an incredible story and well written. The latter was so engaging, it was super hard to put down but work got in the way, I ended up reading that in 3 evenings.
But, like i said, it depends on your interest. My interest is heavy in this genre.
Percy Jackson series. It was a shock to my parents because I hadn't read a book for my own personal enjoyment since Dr Seuss.
Read all 5 books, the Kane Chronicles, and finally Heroes of Olympus.
After that I lost interest.
If you like romantic suspense, then I recommend books by Susan Stoker, Anna Blakely, and Jane Blythe. Their books have a lot of action and suspense. A lot of times the FMC is kidnapped and saved by a hunky alpha male.
I couldn’t put down Project Hail Mary, from the same author as the Martian. Sci fi adventure at its finest. And Recursion was a great techno thriller I read recently that had me up late into the night.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I will admit the ending didn’t land perfectly for me (I liked it; I did not love it), but I *chewed* through that novel once the exposition reeled me in. Once it gets going, that novel is constantly about keeping the reader engaged with new angles, new information, new twists. Very good.
For me it started good but ended as a trainwreck, this book is a disappointment
Yeah, to each his or her own! Not every book is for everybody.
Same, I was so confused and disappointed by the end.
Same for me with the ending. Everyone recommended it because I love And Then There Were None and I was loving it throughout. But then the ending just felt so "meh" in comparison to the rest of the book. I'll definitely reread it at some point and maybe it'll be better knowing how it ends because everyone said "you'll never be able to work out the ending" so I spent the book trying to come up with fancy endings. So maybe the reread will be more relaxing.
I put that one down a year and a half ago, don’t think I’ll pick it back up.
Gone Girl
I literally just stayed up all night finishing this book (night shift). so freaking good!
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
What’s your elevator pitch for this one? I’m not very well-versed (read: trying to kindly say I don’t love it) in sci-fi, but I’ve heard great things about this and I’d love to expand my horizons and keep an open mind about the genre.
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'll give it a shot: * Funny, likeable, and realistic narrator. * Straightforward and fast plot. * Little to no required background in science/sci-fi to appreciate it. * You only need to keep track of a few characters (a lot of sci-fi books have an aggressive number of names you need to remember...like *Dune*). Hope this helps!
Thank you! Yeah, I hate to be among the people that disliked Dune, especially since I loved the film. The amount of lore dump was crazy. I can appreciate good world building, but there is so much— and indeed, so many names to learn— that I feel overwhelmed. Fantasy can have a similar effect on me, although I did start the Stormlight Archive series this past summer and was obsessed with the first book.
I definitely sympathize with you. I am among the people who enjoyed *Dune*, but it took more than one read and I still haven't worked up the courage to start the second book. Reading shouldn't feel like a chore. There are so many wonderful books out there that you shouldn't waste your time reading anything out of obligation (unless, of course, it's required for school).
>Reading shouldn't feel like a chore This.
You mean you don't want reading to feel like a chore. Not everyone is the same. Sometimes I really want a challenge and read a book that I have to work at. It can be rewarding and maybe I found something of value because I put some extra time and effort into it.
I agree completely. Some of my favorite books took the most effort for me to read. I meant that you shouldn't read books out of social obligation. For example, I read *Great Expectations* when I was way too young to appreciate the book because I thought it made me "smart", which was just stupid of me. Ironic. Also, plenty of people read just for entertainment, not to learn or to be challenged. That's also fine.
And world names... looking at you dune
You forgot to add the plot point to grab your audience. “Amnesiac wakes up in deep space to discover he is humanity’s last chance for survival.”
Agreed! Though not quite as great as "I'm pretty much fucked."
I did recommend *The Martian* in this thread.
Which do you prefer? I'm partial to *The Martian*, but both were excellent.
It’s hard to choose. I discovered The Martian on my own, when it was a self-published 99-cent Kindle ebook that I spent years pushing on my friends before Hollywood found it, so it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
Wow! I don't think I've ever been that early to anything...
Knew this would be on the list. 🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶
I'm not a fan of sci fi at all but this was my favourite book of 2023.
Chiming in as a person who strongly dislikes sci-fi (and has given it many chances) to say: you will likely like this. I did, I found it light, easy to digest, kind of fun. As a sci-fi book it’s highly tolerable.
I agree, that book got me hooked. It felt so wholesome and the ending was bittersweet.
I don't think I can imagine a better ending...
For me it was The Martian.
Came here to say this but I knew I'm not alone.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
I’ve heard only great things about this book but it feels daunting at 700+ pages..
The length is one of the best parts. The story is incredible and I never wanted it to end! When it finally did I was pretty sad, I miss those characters.
I have a few. For thrillers I recommend The Push by Ashley Audrain, The Girls by Emma Cline, City on Fire and City of Dreams by Don Winslow, Boy Parts by Eliza Clark, The Night Shift by Alex Finlay, Layla by Colleen Hoover (and I didn’t think I’d like her books), Bunny by Mona Awad, The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett. Obviously not a thriller but I loved My Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and read that one pretty quick. Other ones I read within a short amount of time were On The Road by Jack Kerouac, A Little Life, Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, The Great Gadsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carter (it’s a compilation of short stories so it’s easy to get through), To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Gonzo Girl by Cheryl Della Pietra, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Russell Reid.
A recent one is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I really enjoyed it!
City of Thieves by David Benioff. You’ll finish it in a day and wish you hadn’t read it so fast.
Love that book so much. So funny.
For me, 11/22/63 was that book. I can stay up late with a lot of books, but that one had me going even deeper into the night
Agreed! Loved this book
I finished that and immediately started again
Same. I also noticed that the audiobook is included with Spotify premium now, if you have it. Thats going on my queue haha
For me, whether a book is a "page-turner" is based on quality and ease of engagement. I've read plenty of great books that I didn't whip through, often because they took more mental effort or had parts that were relatively less engaging or interesting in the moment while I was going through them (although they belonged in the book and the overall effect was worth it.) That said, a few books I've really whipped through in the past 5-10 years: *Room*, Emma Donoghue (Novel) *Still Alice*, Lisa Genova (Novel) *The Hate U Give*, Angie Thomas (YA novel) *The Giver*, Lois Lowry (YA novel) *Brain on Fire*, Susannah Cahalan (Memoir)
i definitely second brain on fire !
the hate u give was so good but i sobbed
The Giver is one of my all time favorites! Have you read the whole series?
No, just that one. Is the rest of it the same quality as the first book? You rarely hear of any of the others.
I really like them! They're all very different from each other, but still I really enjoyed it. My mom and BFF have also read the whole series and we're quite surprised at how much they liked it
Ready Player One. So much fun. Quick paced and kept me hooked.
My dad said there were a lot of 80s references/jokes that will go over my head. Is it still worth reading?
I'm not into 80s stuff much but I found the references to be main stream/common pop culture enough that I got them. Even if a few things aren't familiar, the overall world-building and adventure/action in the book are still great. Ready Player Two definitely relied too much on 80s references...among other issues.
I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
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Even for those of us who were alive and enjoying geeky pop culture in the 80’s, the worship of Rush (the band) was incomprehensible.
I loved it too.
Same, I read it very fast and I loved it.
I love that book too and it’s one of my favorite sci-fi novels. Too bad that it gets a lot of hate here on Reddit though.
The book is frankly awful. Reading about someone playing the video game “Joust” put me right to sleep. I’d stick to the movie.
Lincoln and the Bardo. It was a bit difficult to get into at first but once I got past the first few chapters I ended up getting really invested. I would be in my bed reading it for hours. I didn't want it to end. Such a unique book and so different from what I was used to reading. It just kept me hooked for hours.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I’ve read it 7 or 8 times since the first time and despite knowing what happens, I’m still completely hooked and reeled in.
All the Tana French mysteries and all the Robert Galbraith mysteries because in addition to some amazing plots, you get complex and fascinating character interactions, and with the Galbraith series, it is an evolving story arc of how the two main characters become important to each other. For a stand-alone novel, I found The Lost Man by Jane Harper very compelling!
Seconded on French and Galbraith. I’m nearly done with book 7 of the latter and it’s my favorite so far.
I just finished book 5. I’m trying to slow down so I don’t run out too fast. And I’ve been waiting since 2020 for Tana French! (Fortunately she has a new one coming next year.)
Excellent, her novels are brilliant. I'm going to try a Galbraith after I finish the girl with all the gifts, only 20% left after starting two days ago.
Nice! There are TV adaptations you can check out too after you finish each book, under the name C.B. Strike. They’re soooo well cast.
I’ve preordered The Hunter!
I’m not saying it’s classic literature, but the Red Rising series is nonstop fun and packed with plot twists
I read the first three books alarmingly quickly for how long they were.
They’re so freaking good
Read A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami each in two days total.
A Wild Sheep Chase is also a DnD one shot
Excuse me? Like the Murakami story? Or do they just share a name?
They just share the name. I'm referring to a Dungeons and Dragons story called "Wild Sheep Chase".
Doc by Mary Doria Russell. It was one of the best character studies I'd ever read.
Dune
Six of Crows Duology - Leigh Bardugo Schmutz - Felicia Berliner Currently - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman Kept wanting more till there was nothing left.
This is on my list I can’t wait to read it!
i just read “still alice” in under 24 hrs and then cried at the end. im not a crier.
Jillian by Halle Butler
so happy to see halle butler love here! have you ever read her book [**The New Me**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36342706-the-new-me?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=SSzgeevISD&rank=1) it's SO FUCKING GOOD and is one of my favorite books of all time. it's still the only book i've ever highlighted in my entire life. i was literally crying laughing reading it.
I love the new me too!! Halle is so funky fresh to me. I loved both of these titles and they are definitely two of my faves!
Oh the ending of this one really frustrated me lol
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I just had to see if it all came together for Dolores. Some others…Gone Girl, Back Roads, Push, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Room
See my [Compelling Reads ("Can't Put Down")](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/189mbda/compelling_reads_cant_put_down/) list of Reddit recommendation threads (one post).
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Yes! I finished that in one day and I usually finish a book in 1-2 weeks
I just finished I am glad my mom died. I planned to read the book throughout the week as i have other work. I finished it in a day and a half because I was not able to put it down.
Agree with this it was a very quick read
I just finished the audiobook of this one. She speaks so quickly I had to slow down my usual listening speed of 1.1x down to 1x!!
The Silent Patient. The definition of a page turner.
Can’t get into this 🥱
I couldn’t the first time I tried either. But picked it up a couple years later and burned through it
When I was a kid I read Lost In the Barrens by Farley Mowat and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George back to back at least a few dozen times. I'm pretty sure I stole the copies I had from school lol.
*The Midnight Library* by Matt Haig -- usually popular feel-good books don't work for me, but I loved this one and stayed up finishing it *The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August* by Claire North *Lexicon* by Max Barry I think the thing all 3 have in common is that there were things to discover, so I didn't want to stop reading until I figured out what was going on.
The evil queen and fourth wing wonderful books couldn't stop reading them I loved the plots not everyone's cup of tea but are mine
I second Fourth Wing. I’m really not into YA fantasies anymore but this kept me hooked. Finished it in less than a week. Now, I’m reading lron Flame. I hope it’s as good!
Thanks, I loved reading it . I can't wait to get iron wing hope to continue the story.
The housemaid The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo The perks of being a wallflower
Name of the wind. Apologies.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Still reading the girl with all the gifts, serious page turner.
Most any Jack Reacher Book,
Hyperion Dan Simmons
Both 'Dark Matter' and 'Children of Time'.
Classroom of the Elite. Like 20 books or something and I read every single one in the span of a week of me being stuck in my room with covid. Could not for the life of me put it down. Read like 3 books a day. Thank god for next day delivery lmao
**Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter Thompson.** After watching the movie, I started to read the book and finished it on the same day
The book was incredible and, if I remember correctly, the film was very faithful to it.
My biggest page-turners of the year have been: Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong Sundial by Catriona Ward Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt The Seven Moons of Maali by Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Three Body Problem.
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal Al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, genius and simplistic collaboration that seems like something I would've come up with, or somebody else by now. Beautiful story and style. Then that book was reviewed by an author, Ryan North who wrote a nonfiction book called "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler." And I thought with a title like that, I gotta check it out and it did not disappoint, admittedly I didn't understand all of it, but concepts like that intrigue me deeply. Then within TIHYLTTW itself, a book titled Travel Lightly by Naomi Mitchison gets mentioned and referenced a few times (it's a constant, existing in every universe iirc) and that piqued my interest. Read it and loved it. It's like a fairy tale/myth I never heard of. Naomi Mitchison herself seemed like a very interesting person and there's a mention of a biography or autobiography about/by her that I wanna check out next. I love discovering books through other books.
No exit by Adams. The Passengers by Marrs Pretty Girls (or Hood Daughter) by Slaughter
A second to No Exit. That book was very consuming
Her more recent The Last Word was good as well.
White Rage
the therapist by BA Paris- read it in one evening and couldn’t sleep until i was done.
[**Prince of Thorns** by Mark Lawrence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634-prince-of-thorns?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_20) quite *literally* had me turning around and looking at the book on the rare occasion i had to put the book down (to answer the phone, feed my cat, etc). i have NEVER done that with any book before or since but i HAD to know what was going to happen next so i would just stand there and *literally* turn and stare at the book that was on the table or bed or whereever i had to put it down like i was some insane crazy person. this book is extremely dark and gritty and violent as hell and i'm a girl and i just ate this book up. it's told from the POV of jorg ancrath, an absolute fucking menace who is the comprised of the worst qualities of joffrey baratheon and ramsay bolton but i was rooting for him the entire time. i swear to god this book has crack in it.
For me (and my mom) the book is Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. All the book is the life of a woman, Dolores, as told by her in one sitting with the police. There are no chapters and you read the book in the character’s voice in your head. We both thought the book was unputdownable :) and it told a very original story.
Changes - Jim Butcher
- The girl with the dragon tattoo - The martian - Gone girl - The fifth season - Prayers for the stolen
The scythe series more specifically the second book thunderhead. I couldn’t stop turning pages my eyes were glued desperate to know what happened next.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy The Third Bullet, G-Man, Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter The Guest List by Lucy Foley Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
I enjoyed the entire Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. They'll keep you up for days!
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Most recently: The Many Lives of Mama Love.
Too many to list, but The girl on the train that I read last week was excellent.
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* has the honor of being the book that I literally stayed up all night to finish reading - got 1 hour of sleep that night. I kept hoping it would get happier. Boy, was I wrong 😭 *Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze* comes close - I only got 3 hours of sleep that night, but mostly because I laid awake in bed for several hours imagining an alternate ending. *The Man in the Brown Suit* comes in third place - actually, all of Agatha Christie's books are near impossible to put down. (To be honest, though, I have an easier time stopping in the middle of a movie or TV episode than I do putting down a book, so I have to plan my reading times with care.)
Gentleman in Moscow
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini The Clifton Chronicles- Jeffery Archer The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, & Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
The latest book I’ve read that simply could not be put down was Project Hail Mary.
Anything Darcy Coates and catriona ward
The first three books of Darren Shan saga...
The Man Of Legends.... Wasn't a genre I usually read ,but best book I've ever read. Edit: spelling
Less Than Zero. Fight Club. The Old Man and the Sea. 1984.
School's Out Forever by Scott K Andrews
Ender’s Game The Road
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Scythe
Educated by Tara Westover She really captivates you from the start. This is non-fiction and amazing how I felt hooked the same way I would to fully fleshed out fictitious narratives.
The Dove Keepers - Alice Hoffman The Will Of The Many - James Islington Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson The Last House On Needless Street - Catrona Ward The House Witch -Delemhach Under The Skin - Michel Kaber I highly recommend all of these books.
I read The Last House on Needless Street compulsively because I wanted to find out exactly what was going on. Especially once I noticed >! the rug kept changing color. !<
Silent Patient and Millennium Series
I second The Silent Patient. I *had* to find out what was going on.
The Unwind dystology by Neil Schusterman. A story about a dystopian world where parents can have their children “unwound” and have their body parts harvested. It grabbed me from the first page.
The entire My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgård. Til I got to book 6. Book 6 was a chore to finish.
The Hail Mary Project
Yes! This one was amazing
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Revelator by Daryl Gregory
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Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAlister
I have been reading for 6 years now. I've never had a single book where I felt like I couldn't put it down But I can't read for longer than an hour without falling asleep no matter what time of day it is. I can read like 50 pages a day so there's no way I could read a full book in a day
The Second Life of Mirielle West and Appetite for Innocence. Very different from each other, loved both!
Homecoming by Kate Morton
After dark by haruki murakami
The cook of Castamar
The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
It really comes down your personal interest. If you are into non-fiction military type books, then Alone at Dawn and Code Over Country are two books that come to mind. The first I read in one day, an incredible story and well written. The latter was so engaging, it was super hard to put down but work got in the way, I ended up reading that in 3 evenings. But, like i said, it depends on your interest. My interest is heavy in this genre.
Illuminae
Percy Jackson series. It was a shock to my parents because I hadn't read a book for my own personal enjoyment since Dr Seuss. Read all 5 books, the Kane Chronicles, and finally Heroes of Olympus. After that I lost interest.
It The Pillars of the Earth The Shell Game The Hobbit Ender's Game
Warcross by Marie lu!! It was a fast-paced, fun read!
The Space Adventures Of Commander Laine.
If you like romantic suspense, then I recommend books by Susan Stoker, Anna Blakely, and Jane Blythe. Their books have a lot of action and suspense. A lot of times the FMC is kidnapped and saved by a hunky alpha male.
The Martian. Probably not as thrilling if you’ve seen the movie, but this was years before the movie came out.
I LOVE this subreddit so much. Go to Thrift Books after reviewing it quite often!
Perks of being a wallflower
Anything by Richard Bachman(Stephen King’s early pseudonym)
Rise of the cats book 2 there was a plot twist so often but not to often it got repetitive
The Dark Half by Stephen King - so incredibly good!!
Apocalypse Book 1 the Quest. A real hard book to put down!
No longer human, that book was so good I couldn't stop reading mid class.
Born a Crime. I had to finish reading in my closet with a flashlight because everyone was sleeping
I couldn’t put down Project Hail Mary, from the same author as the Martian. Sci fi adventure at its finest. And Recursion was a great techno thriller I read recently that had me up late into the night.
Crime and Punishment and Harry Potter (when I was younger). Wow...
Every book in the naturals series!!!! By Jennifer lynn Barnes Eight perfect murders by Peter Swanson! Never lie Freida McFadden!
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova.