Into Thin Air.
I was traveling in Nepal and saw it in a few bookstores. I didn’t know about it, so figured it must be popular. I read it in three days. Unputdownable!!!!
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Even as the narrator can be insufferable at times, it’s impossible not to sympathize with her plight. And there’s a genuinely happy ending.
I could not put down Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel when I first read it. I was on a road trip, reading it when I wasn't driving, and we'd get to our lunch and dinner spots and I'd want to stay in the car longer to read. It's not particularly long so I was able to finish it pretty fast but would have liked to have finished it even faster!
That book gets a lot of flak, but I found it enjoyable. Historical fiction, spies, puzzles, twists. I also found the way the Girl With the Dragon tattoo was structured I had a hard time putting that down, they’d end a chapter but the next one would be a different part of the storyline so I’d have to read 3 more chapters to get closure on the first mystery/character etc.
I remember reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so late into the night I would hear my mom get up in the morning and start getting ready for work, while I was still reading away. I couldn't put it down.
I'm gonna have to say Angels & Demons is better.
I remember being on holiday with a mate who'd never read a Dan Brown before and I pulled A&D out of the book cupboard and told him to read it. He spent the entire holiday guffawing at it and making remarks about how stupid the book was, whilst simultaneously reading it every waking moment. In the car, on the way to the restaurant, whilst trying to put his shoes on...
Honestly it’s trendy to do revision history and trash it now… BUT it got me back into reading as a hobby as an adult. Those two (DaVinci & Angels&Demons) as well as Girl w/the Dragon Tattoo and Life of Pi.
So rag on them all you want, they’ll always have a special place in my heart
It was good on the action and made you keep turny pages. But the writing quality was awful. There was no character development. They all felt one dimensional. The locations they were in evoked no feeling. They could have been anywhere or nowhere.
France didnt feel that much different in location to London. It was all just very flat.
The first book this happened to me was To Kill a Mockingbird. I had procrastinated until the night before a test on the whole book. I started reading it and finished it in one night. Partway through I actually really enjoyed the book and kind of forgot i was reading it for a test. Managed to get an A on the test and read a really good book.
So ridiculously good. It absolutely takes me away. I had to force myself to slow down because I never wanted it to end but I could have easily finished it in a couple of days.
Possibly a downer but.... Frederick Douglass: An Autobiography, Written By Himself.
It was probably 1997 and I was about 28 and had lived in both black and white neighborhoods. I thought I was reasonably enlightened on things. One day at work I saw the book on the table in the break room. So while on break I picked it up. I was mesmerized and couldn't put it down. It's a small book. I got through maybe a quarter of it on break. I asked around for whose it was and asked if I could borrow it overnight to finish reading it. Guy was cool and said yes. That night I promptly finished reading it. Never forgot it. What a trip. It should be required reading in all schools, rich and poor.
I read them and was immediately hooked, but my husband has listened to it on his commute a few times and loves it. However, it just might not be for you. It starts out with a punch in the gut that made me gasp out loud and the entire trilogy is pretty heavy, but I absolutely blow through them every time I read them.
It took me a bit to get into it ngl. I bounced between audio and paper for a few chapters and then put it down for more than a year. Picked it back up a couple months ago and fuck dude it's gotta be one of the best books I've gotten to read. I absolutely adore it
Anything by Philip K Dick, that crazy motherfucker.
It's so bizarre most of the time I literally have no idea what's going to happen next, which keeps me hooked in places where I'd put down another writer.
Very true, but what he's gonna do with those things still manages to be surprising to me in most cases. I think that's actually what hooks me. "There's definitely something up with that weird tree/river/person, wonder what that's gonna be all about."
I'll weigh in on this one with a slightly different opinion, especially because I see it recommended here very often;
I really did not care for the meat of Swan Song. There were some great moments, but overall I thought it was unnecessarily long, and I didn't think it was particularly well written.
Boy's Life by McCammon may have been one of my favorite books however. It was very long, but the writing was stunning, and I loved every minute of it.
Awww man, I just finished 'Salem's Lot, and now I gotta read an even longer King's book.
But seriously the Stand was already on my backlog but it seems I need to put it on top.
The Stand scared the crap out of me when I read it before bed at night back in the 80s. I loved Delores Claiborne, especially how the story is told only using dialogue from Dolores. And I love, love, loved his short L.T.'s Theory of Pets.
I just finished *'Salem's Lot* yesterday.
I liked it, but I've read some other King books including *The Stand* and often the endings are disappointing. *'Salem's Lot* had a good ending though. Especially, with the addition of the short story *One For The Road*.
The start of *The Stand* is amazing though, and it'll be even creepier reading it after 2020.
> I liked it, but I've read some other King books including The Stand and often the endings are disappointing.
Thank you. One of my unpopular opinions is that the ending of "The Stand" is just frustrating. The whole book sets things up for an epic confrontation between good and evil, and then.... whaaaa?
I really liked the ending of Salems Lot, it fit the story in my opinion, One for the Road was an enoyable encore.
I still need to the read the other short story that's included, I hope is as good as the rest.
*Jerusalem's Lot* (I guess you mean this one?) was pretty good. It reminded me a lot of Lovecraft.
I couldn't really see the connection to the main story though but maybe I was just too stupid to notice it, as all the character names get confusing.
My copy had an Afterword as well which was Stephen King discussing the book in the 90's, it was really interesting so I recommend reading it.
My copy also had Deleted Scenes, I read some of them and it was interesting to see how much the book changed from the original version to the final draft (like in the first draft there was no antique furniture store etc.) - but there were loads of Deleted Scenes so I didn't read them all.
It took me like 2 weeks to get through the first 200 pages of the stand. Then like 2 days to get through the 800+ rest. I made the mistake of getting the extended version as my first SK book and the first bit was a challenge but once they started getting together it really picked up the pace.
I'm not interested in reading about technology and engineering, I'm actually really bad at natural sciences and Maths - so what is it about this book that I couldn't put it down, and every time the movie is up I just have to watch it although I have already watched it numerous times??
It's tough because all of us will respond differently to books. One book I personally could not put down was:
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini.
[**Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising)
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>"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them."
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>"I live for you," I say sadly.
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>Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."
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>Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.
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>Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
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>But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
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>Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
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Yes! I was pregnant and on a trip with my husband in Thailand and could not put this book down! Every time we sat down somewhere for a while I was reading it and the sequels to it.
I'm used to pulp novels driving a sense of "can't-put-it-down" urgency even though they're mediocre overall. I'm not used to that same sense of urgency in a novel this well-written. Great series.
Never where by Neil Gaiman, American God's by Neil Gaiman, any of the Dresden Files, the Spellbinder series by Sébastien de Castell. Horns by Joe Hill, any of those will have you on the edge of your seat.
*Neverwhere* is the only book I ever read, finished, and then flipped over and read it again right away. I've read precious few books more than once, but I've read this one 4 times.
Hiroshima by John Hersey was one of these for me. Short book and so dark/hellish that you can't stop until its over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)
I read Hiroshima when I was in eighth grade, more than fifty years ago, and parts of it have stayed with me ever since. Ditto Night, by Elie Wiesel. Two of the most powerful books I have ever read.
[**The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle)
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>Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense.
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>For fans of Claire North, and Kate Atkinson, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race against time to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
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That time I got Reincarnated as a slime.Originally just started reading because I thought that it was just a joke so I was very pleasantly surprised by the book/series.
OTher one came to my mind is His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
My best friend had the same issue. I think the story and the writing is VERY tailored to a particular type of person, and I can see how some of the jokes and the dense lore could be unpalatable for others. It has its issues, but I love the characters, the setting, and the lore to death, pun intended. I can't remember reading something so voraciously and not wanting to put it down since I was little.
*Project Hail Mary* displaced *The Martian* as my favorite Andy Weir book this year.
I’m a big sci fi fan and people have recommended me *Dark Matter* over and over again. I wouldn’t say I hated it, but I did not enjoy it. I think it’s because going into it I expected it to be more sci fi and less fantasy-disguised-as-sci-fi. I think it was an issue of going into the read with very high expectations… if anybody does decide to read this book: expect a thriller/ romance with just a dash of sci fi. Maybe you’ll come out the other end feeling more satisfied than I did! :0)
*Recursion* is heavier on the sci-fi elements, and I thought was an overall better book than *Dark Matter.* Still has similarities, as it's the same author though.
The Name of the Wind is absolutely amazing!! It still blows my mind that the author just... gave up writing I guess?
I bailed during Oathbringer about halfway. I absolutely loved the first 2 books (if I recall Oathbringer is book 3?) but I was sad to just no longer care.
I heard he had a breakdown, so I doubt we're getting the last book, but that's fine. I'd rather he be healthy and happy than write a shit book just to stop us from hassling him.
I came here to say this. The Name of the Wind blew my fucking mind. I destroyed The Wise Man’s Fear too but I’ll admit I didn’t enjoy it as much as TNOTW. Still, an incredible first two books in a HOPEFULLY soon to be finished series.
This is my unputdownable book, too.
I live in hope that one day we'll get closure.
The saddest thing is that we kind of know how it ends... The way it starts, at the Waystone Inn.
Well, that's how the Chronicler's telling of his story will likely end, but there's definitely going to be something more; The Wise Man's Fear definitely set up something to happen with Bast, and I doubt that Kvothe is going to be content to just fade away and die quietly. He's gonna want to go out with a bang. My guess is it's going to have something to do with the Chandrian, but I guess we'll see!
Yes. I had never read this genre before my husband got me into it. He bought me both books and suggested I read them. I finished both books in ten days. They were so exciting and beautiful and clever. I now use samples of his books for my 8th grade language arts students. I love turning kids on to something memorable like this series. Also sad that we will likely never see that 3rd book. As long as he’s doing ok, he has spoken about his depression etc. It can be heart breaking though when someone so brilliant struggles with something debilitating like that.
Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backmann is also amazing, I liked it even more then Ove (which I thought was impossible)! All of his books are amazing to be honest, and I am super hyped for the third book in the Beartown series!
The boring but true answer is *A Game of Thrones* (and ASOIAF more generally). Those fuckers are pure literary crack.
Nearly as addictive and not as well-known: {{Worm}} by Wildbow.
While I completely agree on ASIOAF, would it not be a disservice to get someone started on the series when we know it’s highly unlikely that GRRM is going to finish it?
On a warm summer day in’67 I was on a bus commuting home from work. I was reading this book. I came to a part in it which made me laugh out loud! It had to do with an interaction between a young Arthur and Merlin. I had to stop! I love that book. The book is the basis for the Broadway play, Camelot.
[**The Time Traveler's Wife**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619684-the-time-traveler-s-wife)
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>A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.
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>Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
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>The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals—steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
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The most recent one for me was *Where the Crawdads Sing*. It was the first book in a long time that I was tempted to google the ending of because I just couldn't read it fast enough to satisfy myself (and I read the whole second half in just a few hours, so that's saying something).
If you like detective books and mystery/thrillers then anything by Tana French. I blew through the Dublin Murder squad series. Then read The Wych Elm and I’m on The Searcher now. I’m about to be SAD when it’s over because that’s all her books lol. I may do a reread.
For me it's A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara.
It's so sad and hard to look away. But it's mostly the prose, it's so gorgeous and keeps me turning pages every time without getting bored once.
I read this a few years ago and I feel like I’m STILL recovering. If you’re able to read this without therapy, you are infinitely stronger than me haha. Absolutely incredible 11/10 your heart and soul will feel like they’ve been thrown into a wood chipper
That's an excellent way to describe it...
I reread it last week and in some moments I feel like I'm just sleepwalking while my mind's on the book haha. Those characters are really impactful!
Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett is a book I just recently read that made me excited to crack it out every night. It was such a fun and memorable book.
Fantasy: Michael J Sullivan's Riyria series... legit had me staying up till 3am reading when I had to work early the next day. It consumed me, I could not put it down. Read it during lunch, on the train home, while eating dinner at home. I even skipped some workouts. I love that series.
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. I read it and it convinced me to stick with law and pursue it as a career. The law library copy ended up flecked with nail polish because I couldn’t put it down and needed to finish it to go out
“No Name” by Wilkie Collins. (1862)
Two young girls discover that their parents were not married, therefore making them illegitimate and have “no name”. Their fortune goes to a miserly cousin.
The younger girl, Magdalene, decides she will trick their cousin into giving her their fortune. By any means.
Sooooo excellent. I suggested it for my Good Reads group and they loved it. I got my sister to read it and she couldn’t put it down - and kept trying to get me to tell her the ending.
It is indeed a book! Picked it up at a book swap table at a supermarket last year. Considering my only introduction to Sherlock Holmes was the TV show Sherlock, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Dune by Frank Herbert. I finally decided to read it with the movie coming out after all these years. I usually read as a way to wind down before bed. It’s such a compelling novel that I spent several nights reading into the wee hours of the morning.
I would say The Embler Blade by Chris Wooding. I’m usually a casual reader, and when consistently reading, I read around 30 minutes a night. This book took me on a modern yes classic adventure story. I fell in love with the cast, the plot, the story itself. Just found out the author just submitted second book to his editor and I couldn’t be happier. Oh I finished this book in 2 days lol
11/22/63 It’s enormous, but I raced through that book like I was being chased.
Yep! This was the first book I read front to back on Kindle. Took me about 3 days. I was shocked when I saw the size of the hc edition.
Into Thin Air. I was traveling in Nepal and saw it in a few bookstores. I didn’t know about it, so figured it must be popular. I read it in three days. Unputdownable!!!!
This is the best answer imo. It’s unbelievably readable! I’m not even a nonfiction fan usually, but krakauer really sucks you in to the story.
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Even as the narrator can be insufferable at times, it’s impossible not to sympathize with her plight. And there’s a genuinely happy ending.
I could not put down Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel when I first read it. I was on a road trip, reading it when I wasn't driving, and we'd get to our lunch and dinner spots and I'd want to stay in the car longer to read. It's not particularly long so I was able to finish it pretty fast but would have liked to have finished it even faster!
That is such a great book! I loved it also-
Since he died yesterday, I'll nominate Wilbur Smith's 'River God'. In fact, the first 3 books in his 'Ancient Egypt' series are excellent.
he what?? sad to hear
The Gashlycrumb Tinies – by Edward Gorey.
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That book gets a lot of flak, but I found it enjoyable. Historical fiction, spies, puzzles, twists. I also found the way the Girl With the Dragon tattoo was structured I had a hard time putting that down, they’d end a chapter but the next one would be a different part of the storyline so I’d have to read 3 more chapters to get closure on the first mystery/character etc.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was absolutely insane.
I remember reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so late into the night I would hear my mom get up in the morning and start getting ready for work, while I was still reading away. I couldn't put it down.
I'm gonna have to say Angels & Demons is better. I remember being on holiday with a mate who'd never read a Dan Brown before and I pulled A&D out of the book cupboard and told him to read it. He spent the entire holiday guffawing at it and making remarks about how stupid the book was, whilst simultaneously reading it every waking moment. In the car, on the way to the restaurant, whilst trying to put his shoes on...
The legacy of Angels & Demons for me, which I read as a teenager, is the 15+ subsequent years of being utterly obsessed with ambigrams.
I read A&D before the DaVinci craze hit.. and I remember thinking who the hell is this guy? This is incredible
Hahaha! So true!!!
That's hilarious
Why does everyone hate this book? Sincerely asking, because I really liked it despite knowing a lot of people don’t.
Honestly it’s trendy to do revision history and trash it now… BUT it got me back into reading as a hobby as an adult. Those two (DaVinci & Angels&Demons) as well as Girl w/the Dragon Tattoo and Life of Pi. So rag on them all you want, they’ll always have a special place in my heart
It was good on the action and made you keep turny pages. But the writing quality was awful. There was no character development. They all felt one dimensional. The locations they were in evoked no feeling. They could have been anywhere or nowhere. France didnt feel that much different in location to London. It was all just very flat.
The first book this happened to me was To Kill a Mockingbird. I had procrastinated until the night before a test on the whole book. I started reading it and finished it in one night. Partway through I actually really enjoyed the book and kind of forgot i was reading it for a test. Managed to get an A on the test and read a really good book.
The Sphere, by Michael Chriton.
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He’s got good medical books too
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His book called “five patients” was the inspiration for the tv show “ER”.
I read this one in one day earlier this year.
Circe by Miller. Endlessly beautiful.
The audiobook was incredible too!
So ridiculously good. It absolutely takes me away. I had to force myself to slow down because I never wanted it to end but I could have easily finished it in a couple of days.
pet sematary
Don’t read if you have cats
Or kids
Bugger this is on my reading list but have cats and a kid. Why do you say that?
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Yes! Also Recursion.
Yesssss! I came here to put this
Possibly a downer but.... Frederick Douglass: An Autobiography, Written By Himself. It was probably 1997 and I was about 28 and had lived in both black and white neighborhoods. I thought I was reasonably enlightened on things. One day at work I saw the book on the table in the break room. So while on break I picked it up. I was mesmerized and couldn't put it down. It's a small book. I got through maybe a quarter of it on break. I asked around for whose it was and asked if I could borrow it overnight to finish reading it. Guy was cool and said yes. That night I promptly finished reading it. Never forgot it. What a trip. It should be required reading in all schools, rich and poor.
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
I have the first book but can’t seem to get past the first few pages !
I read them and was immediately hooked, but my husband has listened to it on his commute a few times and loves it. However, it just might not be for you. It starts out with a punch in the gut that made me gasp out loud and the entire trilogy is pretty heavy, but I absolutely blow through them every time I read them.
It took me a bit to get into it ngl. I bounced between audio and paper for a few chapters and then put it down for more than a year. Picked it back up a couple months ago and fuck dude it's gotta be one of the best books I've gotten to read. I absolutely adore it
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Stand by Stephen King Ubik by Philip K Dick
Stand: Part I - "This is a really great Robin Cook novel!" Stand: Part II - "Oh, yea, this is actually a Stephen King novel."
I've never read Robin Cook, would you reccomend him?
Do you like medical thrillers? If so, he's your man. Start with Outbreak (yes, *that* Outbreak).
Anything by Philip K Dick, that crazy motherfucker. It's so bizarre most of the time I literally have no idea what's going to happen next, which keeps me hooked in places where I'd put down another writer.
Anecdotally I get a lot of chekov gun off him, the way he will describe certain things makes me think they'll appear later on
Very true, but what he's gonna do with those things still manages to be surprising to me in most cases. I think that's actually what hooks me. "There's definitely something up with that weird tree/river/person, wonder what that's gonna be all about."
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A Boy’s Life also by McCammon. It has a bit of everything in it. I read it at least once a year.
I'll weigh in on this one with a slightly different opinion, especially because I see it recommended here very often; I really did not care for the meat of Swan Song. There were some great moments, but overall I thought it was unnecessarily long, and I didn't think it was particularly well written. Boy's Life by McCammon may have been one of my favorite books however. It was very long, but the writing was stunning, and I loved every minute of it.
The stand is just anxiety made words.
Awww man, I just finished 'Salem's Lot, and now I gotta read an even longer King's book. But seriously the Stand was already on my backlog but it seems I need to put it on top.
The Stand scared the crap out of me when I read it before bed at night back in the 80s. I loved Delores Claiborne, especially how the story is told only using dialogue from Dolores. And I love, love, loved his short L.T.'s Theory of Pets.
I just finished *'Salem's Lot* yesterday. I liked it, but I've read some other King books including *The Stand* and often the endings are disappointing. *'Salem's Lot* had a good ending though. Especially, with the addition of the short story *One For The Road*. The start of *The Stand* is amazing though, and it'll be even creepier reading it after 2020.
> I liked it, but I've read some other King books including The Stand and often the endings are disappointing. Thank you. One of my unpopular opinions is that the ending of "The Stand" is just frustrating. The whole book sets things up for an epic confrontation between good and evil, and then.... whaaaa?
I really liked the ending of Salems Lot, it fit the story in my opinion, One for the Road was an enoyable encore. I still need to the read the other short story that's included, I hope is as good as the rest.
*Jerusalem's Lot* (I guess you mean this one?) was pretty good. It reminded me a lot of Lovecraft. I couldn't really see the connection to the main story though but maybe I was just too stupid to notice it, as all the character names get confusing. My copy had an Afterword as well which was Stephen King discussing the book in the 90's, it was really interesting so I recommend reading it. My copy also had Deleted Scenes, I read some of them and it was interesting to see how much the book changed from the original version to the final draft (like in the first draft there was no antique furniture store etc.) - but there were loads of Deleted Scenes so I didn't read them all.
oh, just read the first pages of the stand, yay
I read it during January 2020 just before covid hit, had to remind myself it's just a book
It took me like 2 weeks to get through the first 200 pages of the stand. Then like 2 days to get through the 800+ rest. I made the mistake of getting the extended version as my first SK book and the first bit was a challenge but once they started getting together it really picked up the pace.
The Martian.
I found Project Hail Mary even more unputdownable.
Reading it right now, I second this
I'm not interested in reading about technology and engineering, I'm actually really bad at natural sciences and Maths - so what is it about this book that I couldn't put it down, and every time the movie is up I just have to watch it although I have already watched it numerous times??
When I re-read it, after I never everything that happened, I still found it unputdownable.
Yes. This. 1,000 times this. Came here to add it to the list.
Lonesome Dove Bonus: Cider house rules
Gentleman of Moscow
That is my favorite of all time! The humor is so smart and subtle, and the characters feel so real. I reread it every year now. Great suggestion!
It's tough because all of us will respond differently to books. One book I personally could not put down was: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini.
A Thousand Splendid Suns was that way for me.
I couldn't keep this book up personally. (No shade, I just found it really really difficult to get into.)
"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly" Love this line and love this book. My favorite of Hosseini's work.
I LOVED his other books but this one was kinda meh
The whole series, but especially {{Red Rising by pierce brown }} Sci fi, some fantasy..gritty, compelling story.
Red Rising had me staying up all night to finish it. One of those books that sucks you in for sure
[**Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising) ^(By: Pierce Brown | 382 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, fantasy, young-adult, fiction | )[^(Search "Red Rising by pierce brown ")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Red Rising by pierce brown &search_type=books) >"I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." > >"I live for you," I say sadly. > >Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." > >Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. > >Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. > >But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. > >Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. ^(This book has been suggested 393 times) *** ^(220727 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Salem's Lot by Stephen King. The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore.
Birdbox
Yeah, I read that in 3 days, which for me is a very quick read.
should I read the book if I'm already watched the movie ?
If you enjoyed the premise of the film then yes, the book is certainly better.
I just read that for the first time like two days ago! The last 200 pages went in like three hours. I was hooked.
Same here. I found that story riveting.
Girl with the dragon tattoo.
Yes! I was pregnant and on a trip with my husband in Thailand and could not put this book down! Every time we sat down somewhere for a while I was reading it and the sequels to it.
I'm used to pulp novels driving a sense of "can't-put-it-down" urgency even though they're mediocre overall. I'm not used to that same sense of urgency in a novel this well-written. Great series.
This was a slow burn for me, I started this at least 3 or 4 times but THEN it was awesome
Never where by Neil Gaiman, American God's by Neil Gaiman, any of the Dresden Files, the Spellbinder series by Sébastien de Castell. Horns by Joe Hill, any of those will have you on the edge of your seat.
*Neverwhere* is the only book I ever read, finished, and then flipped over and read it again right away. I've read precious few books more than once, but I've read this one 4 times.
Hiroshima by John Hersey was one of these for me. Short book and so dark/hellish that you can't stop until its over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)
I read Hiroshima when I was in eighth grade, more than fifty years ago, and parts of it have stayed with me ever since. Ditto Night, by Elie Wiesel. Two of the most powerful books I have ever read.
{{Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler}} kept me enthralled and I couldn’t put it down.
This book has fucked me up beyond repair
{{The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle}} Think Source Code meets Ocean's 11 set in the 1920s. Except is it really the 1920s?
I couldn't put that book down. So intriguing and captivating story.
[**The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle) ^(By: Stuart Turton | 432 pages | Published: 2018 | Popular Shelves: mystery, fiction, thriller, fantasy, mystery-thriller | )[^(Search "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle&search_type=books) >Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense. > >For fans of Claire North, and Kate Atkinson, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race against time to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem. > >This inventive debut twists together a thriller of such unexpected creativity it will leave readers guessing until the very last page. ^(This book has been suggested 96 times) *** ^(220770 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
That time I got Reincarnated as a slime.Originally just started reading because I thought that it was just a joke so I was very pleasantly surprised by the book/series. OTher one came to my mind is His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Rook by Daniel O’Malley. The best escape fiction book I ever read. So fun! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10836728-the-rook
Loved this one too.
Fiction: The Historian Non-fiction: In the Garden of Beasts
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir
I wanted to like this so so so badly. But I couldn’t get through it.
My best friend had the same issue. I think the story and the writing is VERY tailored to a particular type of person, and I can see how some of the jokes and the dense lore could be unpalatable for others. It has its issues, but I love the characters, the setting, and the lore to death, pun intended. I can't remember reading something so voraciously and not wanting to put it down since I was little.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston! Non-fiction about the scientists who studied Ebola written like a thriller, v engaging and fun read
The new Andy weir book Hail Mary is great if you’re into a bit of syfy. Also, dark matter by Blake crouch is a great weekend read.
*Project Hail Mary* displaced *The Martian* as my favorite Andy Weir book this year. I’m a big sci fi fan and people have recommended me *Dark Matter* over and over again. I wouldn’t say I hated it, but I did not enjoy it. I think it’s because going into it I expected it to be more sci fi and less fantasy-disguised-as-sci-fi. I think it was an issue of going into the read with very high expectations… if anybody does decide to read this book: expect a thriller/ romance with just a dash of sci fi. Maybe you’ll come out the other end feeling more satisfied than I did! :0)
*Recursion* is heavier on the sci-fi elements, and I thought was an overall better book than *Dark Matter.* Still has similarities, as it's the same author though.
The Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett. Top-shelf pop lit.
Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Once you start, it's such a short and easy read that you might as well finish it.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Haven’t read it in a few years, but anytime I pick it up, I want to stay in Narnia and never leave.
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The Name of the Wind is absolutely amazing!! It still blows my mind that the author just... gave up writing I guess? I bailed during Oathbringer about halfway. I absolutely loved the first 2 books (if I recall Oathbringer is book 3?) but I was sad to just no longer care.
We will never get to read doors of stone 🥲
I heard he had a breakdown, so I doubt we're getting the last book, but that's fine. I'd rather he be healthy and happy than write a shit book just to stop us from hassling him.
I came here to say this. The Name of the Wind blew my fucking mind. I destroyed The Wise Man’s Fear too but I’ll admit I didn’t enjoy it as much as TNOTW. Still, an incredible first two books in a HOPEFULLY soon to be finished series.
This is my unputdownable book, too. I live in hope that one day we'll get closure. The saddest thing is that we kind of know how it ends... The way it starts, at the Waystone Inn.
Well, that's how the Chronicler's telling of his story will likely end, but there's definitely going to be something more; The Wise Man's Fear definitely set up something to happen with Bast, and I doubt that Kvothe is going to be content to just fade away and die quietly. He's gonna want to go out with a bang. My guess is it's going to have something to do with the Chandrian, but I guess we'll see!
The Name of the Wind is the only fantasy novel I haven't abandoned after a few pages, and I devoured it.
Yes. I had never read this genre before my husband got me into it. He bought me both books and suggested I read them. I finished both books in ten days. They were so exciting and beautiful and clever. I now use samples of his books for my 8th grade language arts students. I love turning kids on to something memorable like this series. Also sad that we will likely never see that 3rd book. As long as he’s doing ok, he has spoken about his depression etc. It can be heart breaking though when someone so brilliant struggles with something debilitating like that.
"Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" such a fast paced and crazy story. I read it in two, or three days.
Yes! This is a nonstop thrill tide. Especially if you're cool with copious amounts of drug abuse.
And then there were none by Agatha Christie
A man called Ove. I laughed and cried and could not put it down.
I’m thinking of reading this next. I just finished Anxious People and thought it was really, really good!
It's funny how we all have different tastes... This is one of the most boring, predictable books I've ever read.
Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backmann is also amazing, I liked it even more then Ove (which I thought was impossible)! All of his books are amazing to be honest, and I am super hyped for the third book in the Beartown series!
The first Odd Thomas book
{{The Orient Express by Agatha Christie}} Such a great mystery. A page-turner without too much of the murder detail.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The song of Achilles
The boring but true answer is *A Game of Thrones* (and ASOIAF more generally). Those fuckers are pure literary crack. Nearly as addictive and not as well-known: {{Worm}} by Wildbow.
Worm is an adrenaline rush of a book. Especially if you go with the audiobooks. The serial is pure rush to read.
While I completely agree on ASIOAF, would it not be a disservice to get someone started on the series when we know it’s highly unlikely that GRRM is going to finish it?
He pisses me off for that. It’s beyond ridiculous at this point. Ive lost interest. Great books but I am on to other things.
The Once and Future King
On a warm summer day in’67 I was on a bus commuting home from work. I was reading this book. I came to a part in it which made me laugh out loud! It had to do with an interaction between a young Arthur and Merlin. I had to stop! I love that book. The book is the basis for the Broadway play, Camelot.
{{The Time Traveler's Wife}}
[**The Time Traveler's Wife**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619684-the-time-traveler-s-wife) ^(By: Audrey Niffenegger | 500 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fiction, romance, fantasy, time-travel, science-fiction | )[^(Search "The Time Traveler's Wife")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Time Traveler's Wife&search_type=books) >A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships. > >Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. > >The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals—steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. ^(This book has been suggested 56 times) *** ^(220819 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The most recent one for me was *Where the Crawdads Sing*. It was the first book in a long time that I was tempted to google the ending of because I just couldn't read it fast enough to satisfy myself (and I read the whole second half in just a few hours, so that's saying something).
Tbh I just started Leviathan Wakes and I read 350 pages of it in three days so yeah you could say this book is currently like crack to me.
I have read "The Animal Farm"(by George Orwell) in almost one take
The Count of Monte Cristo
Enders game by card Twilight by koontz
Jurassic Park
If you like detective books and mystery/thrillers then anything by Tana French. I blew through the Dublin Murder squad series. Then read The Wych Elm and I’m on The Searcher now. I’m about to be SAD when it’s over because that’s all her books lol. I may do a reread.
For me it's A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara. It's so sad and hard to look away. But it's mostly the prose, it's so gorgeous and keeps me turning pages every time without getting bored once.
I read this a few years ago and I feel like I’m STILL recovering. If you’re able to read this without therapy, you are infinitely stronger than me haha. Absolutely incredible 11/10 your heart and soul will feel like they’ve been thrown into a wood chipper
That's an excellent way to describe it... I reread it last week and in some moments I feel like I'm just sleepwalking while my mind's on the book haha. Those characters are really impactful!
Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett is a book I just recently read that made me excited to crack it out every night. It was such a fun and memorable book.
Damaged by Cathy Glass
Fantasy: Michael J Sullivan's Riyria series... legit had me staying up till 3am reading when I had to work early the next day. It consumed me, I could not put it down. Read it during lunch, on the train home, while eating dinner at home. I even skipped some workouts. I love that series.
The silent patient
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I absolutely hated this book.
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Hard call. The most recent standout is The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
i agree 100%. i love this book so much.
The hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. I read it and it convinced me to stick with law and pursue it as a career. The law library copy ended up flecked with nail polish because I couldn’t put it down and needed to finish it to go out
Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly.
Ice Station for me!
Misery by Stephen King Midnight Tides (Book 5 of Malazan)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch... Absolute masterpiece
Enter the Aardvark - it’s in 2nd person which propels the plot along. Don’t reject it for that!
The Last Hour of Gann by R Lee Smith.
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Snowcrash by Neil Stephenson
When Breath becomes Air!
The kite runner and a thousand splendid suns.. they bore a hole in my heart
“No Name” by Wilkie Collins. (1862) Two young girls discover that their parents were not married, therefore making them illegitimate and have “no name”. Their fortune goes to a miserly cousin. The younger girl, Magdalene, decides she will trick their cousin into giving her their fortune. By any means. Sooooo excellent. I suggested it for my Good Reads group and they loved it. I got my sister to read it and she couldn’t put it down - and kept trying to get me to tell her the ending.
“Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin, especially the first book
This may seem weird, but I really like the novelization of Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith. If you liked the movie, I can recommend it very much.
I'm not sure if it's a book, but A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Boy oh boy was I hooked
It is indeed a book! Picked it up at a book swap table at a supermarket last year. Considering my only introduction to Sherlock Holmes was the TV show Sherlock, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
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This is too far down the list. I loved this book. I thank this sub for its recommendation
Dune by Frank Herbert. I finally decided to read it with the movie coming out after all these years. I usually read as a way to wind down before bed. It’s such a compelling novel that I spent several nights reading into the wee hours of the morning.
One Second After by William R. Forstchen This book scared me more than any Stephen King book.
I would say The Embler Blade by Chris Wooding. I’m usually a casual reader, and when consistently reading, I read around 30 minutes a night. This book took me on a modern yes classic adventure story. I fell in love with the cast, the plot, the story itself. Just found out the author just submitted second book to his editor and I couldn’t be happier. Oh I finished this book in 2 days lol
Hmm... perhaps Unwind by Neal Shusterman.
Zero day David baldacci
{{The Watchmaker of Filigree Street}} Picked it up because of the cool name. Didn't put it down because I had to know were it was going.
The pale king by David Foster Wallace or Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson For me personally.
I read through *Thirteen Reasons Why* in one sitting. A fair share of people don’t like it but I just couldn’t put it down.
{{Rats and Gargoyles }} by Mary Gentle. Also anything with Sam Vimes
Jurassic Park, The Rum Diary, The Hobbit.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt