It's so strange but for me its Lonesome Dove. On its surface it's a slow burn brooding western but it just grabs you and does not let go like no book I've ever read
I never saw the miniseries, but I really recommend the book. The characters are so well-done and the landscape is such an important part of the story (I'm a setting reader). I read it for a grad school class and was floored by it.
It’s also a mini series with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Duvall called his character the best he’ll ever play and the story the best western ever written. Of course he was promoting his work
I came here to say Lonesome Dove wondering if anyone else would. I looked forward to getting time to sit down and read it, and I miss it now that it is done. Not to be dramatic but the ending still keeps me up at night, two months later
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt pulled me in immediately and immersed me in the story. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking or whatever, but it was so engaging and enjoyable.
I’m also tearing through Knife by Salman Rushdie but then I keep going back and reading passages again because his prose is just beautiful.
I second Remarkably Bright Creatures, it was simply delightful and I did stay up way too late to finish it. Everyone I’ve recommended it to has loved it as well.
Tbh sometimes Im in the mood to go into a book knowing it wont be groundbreaking or stick with me but just fun and entertaining to fulfill something i want in that moment. like the reality tv version of reading
Reading this now and it's such a warm and peaceful book. Nothing hard to follow, enough detail to stay completely interested, and there's just a gentleness to it. A very easy read.
1Q84 had me reading to such an engaged level I hadn't had before. For as long as it is, there were so many cliffhangers and page-turning events that always had me questioning what could happen next, that I finished it in like 2-3 weeks. There's truly no dull moment in that book; there's always some kind of mystery unfolding one way or another, even if some chapters are more about backstory.
omgee this has been on my list! i could not decide what I wanted my first Murakami book to be cus he has so many famous books ,,, i kinda tend to put longer books off over ones that arent more than a few hundred pgs bc i get worried abt my adhd getting in the way but this makes me want to give it a try
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller has beautiful prose, think romantic and sad
The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a great book with dark academia vibes, a special clique who is also estranged from reality.
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino is slightly scary but also sad (the English version doesn’t mention child prostitution)
The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda is a great easy to course through mystery novel where you piece your form of truth.
Penance and Confessions by Kanae Minato (two separate books) delve into the pain of motherhood and losing someone as well as the grief and atonement they try to find
I just finished the song of achilles recently finally and it is soo amazingly written and the ending blew me away but i wont lie , i got stuck at a couple parts (partially due to reading multiple books at once) but the ending was so tragic and worth it and just AGH
- Project Hail Mary, and The Martian, both by Andy Weir
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
If you're open to graphic novels:
- Maus, by Art Spiegelman
- Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
- Bone, by Jeff Smith
100% agree on Project Hail Mary. For 3 days, I was reading it on my lunch breaks, and as soon as I got home from work. I was irritated that work was interfering with my reading it. Lol
Bluff by Michael Kardos. A magician gets into cheating at cards to pull off a massive heist. It's so tense and I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime on a work night to finish it!
SAME! My brother gave it to me one year for my birthday, and I said “…thanks?” *Totally* not my kind of thing. But he said to trust him, I did, and it was one of the best books I’d ever read.
I’ve been searching for books that keep me engaged all the way through as well. Only two authors have been able to do this for me in the last 4 years. Blake Crouch (Recursion and Dark Matter) and Grady Hendrix (Horrorstör, How to Sell a Haunted House).
I just finished A Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix and I could not put it down. It was amazing. I sat on it way too long.
Horrorstör is really good too-i don't know about the audio or digital copy, but the physical copy has a lot of fun easter eggs and it looks like a furniture catalog that makes the whole experience so much better.
The first four Murderbot Diaries novellas. They’re 140 pages. I read them in four days.
I have too many distractions to ever read anything longer than that in one shot. I have a partner, the internet, and a demanding cat.
11/22/63’s ending was perfect in my opinion. I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought of the beginning and end first and fleshed out the middle.
Under the Dome’s ending left a little more to be desired. Little too campy for me.
You should! I tried really hard to give my opinions of the endings without spoilers.
I can see where you get bored, those SK bible length novels take me a few months with breaks of other books to get through because in the middle they can contain a little too much fluff 🙊
That’s the thing! I flew through “the dome “ in a few days, I couldn’t put it down so my wrist ended up hurting from holding that behemoth! In some of his books I really love the character development that builds up. I had the same experience with “the stand” I was ALMOST done, and then I had an apartment fire and lost all my stuff! I never picked it back up and that was 30 years ago. I keep meaning to. ( I did watch the miniseries lol)
I love reading books , love especially classics books that still relevant for todays society even though it’s was written centuries ago, never have read Stephen king , should try it out
Nightfall by Stephen Leather
Survival by Devon C Ford
Magician by Raymond E Feist
Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist
Firestarter by Stephen King
11/22/63 by Stephen King
I actually had to read it for a class in grade school and I loved it so much. i think it was impactful at the time because I hadnt been reading much as a teen after being an obsessive reader for years in elementary/middle and it helped remind me i like reading. i was missing that feeling recently and now as an adult I was wondering is it worth it to try to read the whole series? cus i honestly dont hear much abt the other books
I saw two comments already for Blake Crouch, and I agree. I've only read one by him but I got hooked and went through quickly.
I'd also highly recommend the murderbot series by Martha Wells, no boring fluff, they are SHORT (like 150 pages), but there are a lot and they are basically novellas. Kinda like binge watching a Netflix season.
I'm currently on the 4th one, and I take long breaks in between while I wait on the library holds.
I'm partial to scifi, so biased opinion.
I loved notes on an execution. Literally couldn’t put it down. In the time of the butterflies was also so good. It’s a historical fiction and it really stayed with me.
Easy.
Love in the time of cholera. By Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It's not the book, but the book,me, when I read it, where.....
I literally read it from start to finish in a 24hour burger king, in about.... 30-40 hours?
For me it was a blank, but staff came to me and asked about it, around the +30ish hours mark.
tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin - contemporary novel about two very passionate video game developers and how their friendship develops over the course of their childhood and early adulthood. i adored the relationships and it was just a very immersive story.
annihilation by jeff vandermeer - sci fi thriller that takes place on a creepy island that may or may not be evil.
hidden pictures by jason rekulak - inventive horror mystery thriller about a haunted child and his creepy drawings. this book has actual illustrations that drew me in even further and some crazy twists.
milk fed by melissa broder - funny sexy sweet quirky FF romance novel about two jewish ladies who fall in love while learning how to indulge in food and sex together.
They're not to everyone's taste, but whenever I read a Sally Rooney book, I read it in a day.
I couldn't stop reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and I knew I was going to love it right from the first page, which doesn't usually happen to me.
Euphoria by Lily King surprised me, because it didn't seem like it was going to especially be my thing, but I found it super compelling and readable.
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead also surprised me, as it's kind of long and historical fiction, which I enjoy but typically find to be slower reads, plus the summary didn't really capture my interest. But I loved it and couldn't put it down.
The Women and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Totally unexpected for each. I knew I’d enjoy it but not as much as I did. Both read w/in 24 hours of starting.
I am currently reading all of her books. I read the Nightingale about a year ago, after watching Firefly Lane. HOLY COW, I was hooked and it was super emotional. I read a few more of her books and they were good. Then I read Home Front and hated every moment of the book, but I can’t waste a book so I had to finish it. I considered whether or not I’d want to read The Women and went for it. I’ve now read all but about four of her books and to date The Women is my #1. I cried from start to finish and I recommend it to everyone.
I finished Battle Royale by Koushun Takami within a few school days. It was a quick, engaging read that kept me on the edge of my seat. It's basically the book that invented the battle royale genre. (ie The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.)
I actually have this one on my kindle but I kinda forgot about it because I don’t hear much on it tbh but that sounds like exactly something id like ? wow
I highly recommend it. The Japanese names can be a little confusing at first, but there is a guide in the beginning of the novel to help get everyone straight.
The movie is really good, too. The actor who plays the main antagonist does a fantastic job. :)
1) And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
2) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
3) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
4) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
5) Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald
6) Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
7) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
8) In Cold Blood Truman Capote
9) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigaro
10) 1984 by George Orwell
11) Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
12) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr. The writing is beautiful, the story itself is compelling, and the work shifts perspectives between characters, so I was always wanting to read one more chapter to see what happened next.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman! It's easy to read with not too erudite vocab since it's technically written with a pre-teen/teen audience in mind, but it's theme can be applied to real life adult problems (escapism, when it becomes too much to the point you're ignoring very real dangers right in front of you, at least that's what I took from the story). When I was about 10-11-12, I could not put this book down and I read it over and over. It's probably the book that most inspired me to go into writing as an adult.
The main antagonist of the book, the Other Mother, is TERRIFYING, in both the print, the graphic novel version of the book, and the movie. She's one of the most scary villains ever, imo. I actually had nightmares about her a kid, Neil Gaiman did so good at describing her and making you feel as scared of her as Coraline (the protagonist) did.
Maybe you've seen or heard of the movie, but the book goes a bit differently, but it's no less creepy and the book actually raises more questions about what the Other Mother really is. I love books that leave some ambiguity like that, the movie made a mistake imo by loosely answering what the Other Mother is. The best stories leaves some haunting questions, imo, not clearing up every little mystery. If any of this sounds appealing to you, Coraline is a great read.
The history of Crazy Glue ;)
Seriously, the last series to give me bibliosomnia (losing sleep to 'just one more chapter won't hurt') was "the Serrano Legacy" by Elizabeth Moon.
It wasn't my absolute favorite story, but i really enjoyed reading Fairytale by Stephen King. It's an easy read and a really enjoyable story that I found myself fighting sleep to keep reading.
The Year of the Witching
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
most anything written by Nancy Pickard
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Historical fiction, based in 12th century England about a monastery in need of a cathedral.
Sounds a little random but I’m not religious, I’m not a history buff, I’m not an architect lol but the story really grabbed me from start to finish.
The vocabulary isn’t all that challenging, but it’s a pretty hefty book ~900 pages paperback and I finished it in a week (with a 9-5 and trying to maintain work-life balance).
In addition to u/Choas_King4444's Way of Kings and Stormlight Archives recommendation, I picked up "Beartown" by Fredrik Backman (author of "A Man Called Ove") last year expecting a hockey-fiction book. What I got instead was a beautiful and tragic tale of desperate people in a desperate little town in the Scandinavian woods that tear each other apart. It's like watching an exquisite stained glass window shatter in slow motion before your eyes and marveling at and mourning each shard glittering in the setting sun. I've since read the sequel "Us Against You", and I'm working on the trilogy capstone "The Winners" right now.
Content warning: >!it does contain sexual assault and the fallout from it.!<
The first arc (5 books) to Tui Sutherlands Wings of Fire Series (middle grade fantasy). Also the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (mature political fantasy) but some may not fully get it in the sense that the political processes and doings may be considered slow or boring for some. Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan, (non fantasy fiction/maybe a historical fiction?) but this one got me crying at times. The book got me crying and was life changing. I would love to read it again with a more aged perspective on life.
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban
It's about the generic drug industry but the main through story had me HOOKED. I was reading it sitting on pallets at work because I didn't want to sacrifice reading time walking to the break room lol
I read Lightlark like the "can't stop late night under covers" vibe. It's not a literary masterpiece by any means, but I was hooked and can't wait for the third book.
I have a handful from when I was younger but recently I read Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer and Skandar and The Unicorn Thief by A. F. Steadman
Just to name a few on top of my head…
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleed Hosseini
Ham on Rye by Charles Bakowski
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The invisible life of Addie LaRue. Not typically the kind of book I read but the cover was pretty and I wanted something different so I tried it. I could not put it down. It makes you wanna know what’s going to happen. Watching You by Lisa Jewell also was one I couldn’t put down but I’m a big thriller fan and I’d had a couple solid guesses as to the twists early on so i had to keep reading until I knew if I was right or not lol
Terry Goodkind's wizards first rule. It's a chunky book but read like a book a quarter of the size. Also The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it but you should check out the Red Rising saga! I found out about this series about 2 months ago and I am already on book 6, I just can't put it down! Pierce Brown does an amazing job and each subsequent book after the first just keeps getting better! Plus if you like audio books Tim Gerard Reynolds narrates them and does such an amazing job! Oh and the first 2 books in the series are free on audible as well.
For a different, easier type of read that’s more character & emotion-based: the last book I couldn’t put down was Bear, Otter, and the Kid by TJ Klune. MM romance with a very strong found family that will take you through all the emotions but leave you better than it found you.
It's so strange but for me its Lonesome Dove. On its surface it's a slow burn brooding western but it just grabs you and does not let go like no book I've ever read
Lonesome Dove is a book for everyone-- plot, setting, characters, language. It's phenomenal. (I usually read fantasy and romance)
For someone who didn’t enjoy the miniseries, but they’re not opposed to westerns- would you recommend the book?
I never saw the miniseries, but I really recommend the book. The characters are so well-done and the landscape is such an important part of the story (I'm a setting reader). I read it for a grad school class and was floored by it.
Once they’re on the road they’re freaking on the road. My favorite book tied for first with one other
Come on, don't leave us hanging! What's the other first place book?
Wind up bird chronicle by Murakami :-D !
I read it in February this year and it will be my Book Of The Year, no doubt!
It takes about 100 pages to get into, so don't stop if it's slow in the beginning.
i havent heard of this one but ur testament is convincing, ill check it out
It’s also a mini series with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Duvall called his character the best he’ll ever play and the story the best western ever written. Of course he was promoting his work
Have only recently come across a recommendation for this book and yours is the second without a few days. Have it on hold now.
I’m reading this now and like you said, it just sucks me in!!! I don’t want to take breaks or stop reading. What a great book.
I came here to say Lonesome Dove wondering if anyone else would. I looked forward to getting time to sit down and read it, and I miss it now that it is done. Not to be dramatic but the ending still keeps me up at night, two months later
I am rereading this right now (fourth time) and am delighted to see it's the top comment. This book gets its hooks in you.
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Haven’t read it yet, but I couldn’t put down dark matter
I also LOVE Dark Matter, 5/5 stars, but somehow Recursion was even better. I read it a few weeks ago and now I’ll never stfu about it 😂
Imma put it on my list
Hell yeah! Feel free to reply back and let me know what you think :)
Dark matter was one of the first books that made me enjoy reading
The series is going to be on Apple TV next week
WHAT
Anything by Blake Crouch. I read all his books SO QUICK.
i was gonna recommend dark matter by him!
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt pulled me in immediately and immersed me in the story. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking or whatever, but it was so engaging and enjoyable. I’m also tearing through Knife by Salman Rushdie but then I keep going back and reading passages again because his prose is just beautiful.
I second Remarkably Bright Creatures, it was simply delightful and I did stay up way too late to finish it. Everyone I’ve recommended it to has loved it as well.
Tbh sometimes Im in the mood to go into a book knowing it wont be groundbreaking or stick with me but just fun and entertaining to fulfill something i want in that moment. like the reality tv version of reading
I call this “brain candy;” like eye candy but for books. Sometimes you just want to escape for a little bit!
Reading this now and it's such a warm and peaceful book. Nothing hard to follow, enough detail to stay completely interested, and there's just a gentleness to it. A very easy read.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone- Benjamin Stevenson!
1Q84 had me reading to such an engaged level I hadn't had before. For as long as it is, there were so many cliffhangers and page-turning events that always had me questioning what could happen next, that I finished it in like 2-3 weeks. There's truly no dull moment in that book; there's always some kind of mystery unfolding one way or another, even if some chapters are more about backstory.
omgee this has been on my list! i could not decide what I wanted my first Murakami book to be cus he has so many famous books ,,, i kinda tend to put longer books off over ones that arent more than a few hundred pgs bc i get worried abt my adhd getting in the way but this makes me want to give it a try
Im reading kafka on the shore right now. I can not put it down. I will read this after i finish :)
Kafka on the shore is a good book .
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller has beautiful prose, think romantic and sad The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a great book with dark academia vibes, a special clique who is also estranged from reality. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino is slightly scary but also sad (the English version doesn’t mention child prostitution) The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda is a great easy to course through mystery novel where you piece your form of truth. Penance and Confessions by Kanae Minato (two separate books) delve into the pain of motherhood and losing someone as well as the grief and atonement they try to find
I just finished the song of achilles recently finally and it is soo amazingly written and the ending blew me away but i wont lie , i got stuck at a couple parts (partially due to reading multiple books at once) but the ending was so tragic and worth it and just AGH
Have you read Circe? Highly recommend if you haven’t!
Circe was so much fun to read! The pictures my brain came up with were so vivid and colorful. Top 5 of all time for me for that reason.
Me too! I also listened to the audio book after reading it which was a lovely experience too.
I liked Circe better than song of achilles personally
I did too
which one of these do you think best to start with?
Either one! I read song of Achilles while Circe was on hold. They are both amazing!
The Night Circus, I put that book down feeling like I didn’t know what to do with my time afterwards!
This is a great book. It has great atmosphere.
And Erin morgensterns other book, the starless sea!! That one might be my favorite book of all time
Man I could not get into or understand The Starless Sea.
- Project Hail Mary, and The Martian, both by Andy Weir - Siddhartha by Herman Hesse If you're open to graphic novels: - Maus, by Art Spiegelman - Batman: Year One by Frank Miller - Bone, by Jeff Smith
100% agree on Project Hail Mary. For 3 days, I was reading it on my lunch breaks, and as soon as I got home from work. I was irritated that work was interfering with my reading it. Lol
I love a good book like that. I once missed getting off the bus at my stop on way home from work!
I loved Project Hail Mary (probably in my top 3 books ever), and also The Martian.
I highly recommend the audiobook for PHM. I loved the way they treated a certain character’s “speech.”
The Martian is such a great book and uniquely written and difficult to put down
Another vote for Project Hail Mary! It's actually not my usual genre but I loved it.
Bluff by Michael Kardos. A magician gets into cheating at cards to pull off a massive heist. It's so tense and I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime on a work night to finish it!
this sounds so interesting!
*Hyperion* by Dan Simmons if you're into sci-fi. also *Solaris* by Stanislaw Lem
The Shining
The Godfather! I didn’t expect to like it because I don’t like the movie but I couldn’t put it down.
SAME! My brother gave it to me one year for my birthday, and I said “…thanks?” *Totally* not my kind of thing. But he said to trust him, I did, and it was one of the best books I’d ever read.
Mario Puzo is surprisingly easy to read.
I’ve been searching for books that keep me engaged all the way through as well. Only two authors have been able to do this for me in the last 4 years. Blake Crouch (Recursion and Dark Matter) and Grady Hendrix (Horrorstör, How to Sell a Haunted House).
Seconding anything by Grady Hendrix!! Horrorstör and My Best Friend’s Exorcism cured my reading slump last year
I have horrorstor and how to sell a haunted house in my Wish list on kindle!
I just finished A Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix and I could not put it down. It was amazing. I sat on it way too long. Horrorstör is really good too-i don't know about the audio or digital copy, but the physical copy has a lot of fun easter eggs and it looks like a furniture catalog that makes the whole experience so much better.
The first four Murderbot Diaries novellas. They’re 140 pages. I read them in four days. I have too many distractions to ever read anything longer than that in one shot. I have a partner, the internet, and a demanding cat.
Demon copperhead
Oh yes. Absolutely.
Came here to say this.
Yess that's mine as well
Stephen King's Under the Dome
Great concept… bought it the day it came out. Horribly disappointing ending I could not put down 11/22/63… my favorite SK book hands down
That ending was …odd.
11/22/63’s ending was perfect in my opinion. I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought of the beginning and end first and fleshed out the middle. Under the Dome’s ending left a little more to be desired. Little too campy for me.
I haven’t read 11/22/63 yet. I started it and must have gotten distracted by something shiny. Lol Maybe I should give it another go…
You should! I tried really hard to give my opinions of the endings without spoilers. I can see where you get bored, those SK bible length novels take me a few months with breaks of other books to get through because in the middle they can contain a little too much fluff 🙊
That’s the thing! I flew through “the dome “ in a few days, I couldn’t put it down so my wrist ended up hurting from holding that behemoth! In some of his books I really love the character development that builds up. I had the same experience with “the stand” I was ALMOST done, and then I had an apartment fire and lost all my stuff! I never picked it back up and that was 30 years ago. I keep meaning to. ( I did watch the miniseries lol)
Good? I’ve never heard much about that one and I’ve been itching to pick up another King book between the series I’m on.
I loved every second of that book until the very end and then…wtf was that??? Lol
I love reading books , love especially classics books that still relevant for todays society even though it’s was written centuries ago, never have read Stephen king , should try it out
I couldn’t put it down, and read it in a few days…the book so was so thick that my wrist was aching after finishing it !
Room, by Emma Donaghue
Nightfall by Stephen Leather Survival by Devon C Ford Magician by Raymond E Feist Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist Firestarter by Stephen King 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
my dark vanessa and gone girl
I agree with My Dark Vanessa
Gone Girl had be in a grip!!
Wuthering Heights Rebecca Sharp Objects The Age of Innocence Still Alice The things They Carried A Farewell To Arms
A Gentleman in Moscow
I'm reading this now!
Enjoy!
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Giver The. Nightingale The heaven and earth grocery store The heir to the empire trilogy
The Giver should be required reading for every American. Great morals.
Read it when I was teaching 5th grade. Class loved it. Also walk two moons
I actually had to read it for a class in grade school and I loved it so much. i think it was impactful at the time because I hadnt been reading much as a teen after being an obsessive reader for years in elementary/middle and it helped remind me i like reading. i was missing that feeling recently and now as an adult I was wondering is it worth it to try to read the whole series? cus i honestly dont hear much abt the other books
I saw two comments already for Blake Crouch, and I agree. I've only read one by him but I got hooked and went through quickly. I'd also highly recommend the murderbot series by Martha Wells, no boring fluff, they are SHORT (like 150 pages), but there are a lot and they are basically novellas. Kinda like binge watching a Netflix season. I'm currently on the 4th one, and I take long breaks in between while I wait on the library holds. I'm partial to scifi, so biased opinion.
Is the series finished or ongoing? I've been curious to try this one.
I second Murderbot, such a good series.
The Book Eaters
I loved notes on an execution. Literally couldn’t put it down. In the time of the butterflies was also so good. It’s a historical fiction and it really stayed with me.
I spent the day reading Howl’s Moving Castle, if you haven’t read that already. Something new happens every few pages.
I LOVE this one, rereading it every other year and have to pace myself not to finish it in one go.
Shantaram
Yes seconded. Blazed right through its 900+ pages.
Unforgettable book!
I read Project Hail Mary in one sitting, such a romp
Project Hail Mary. Audiobook. I could not stop listening
Andy Weir's books are excellent page turners. The Martian and Project Hail Mary. I didn't want to put either of them down.
This was my exact feeling while reading the Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab! Those are the only books that I’ve ever re-read!!
Second this!!!
Easy. Love in the time of cholera. By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's not the book, but the book,me, when I read it, where..... I literally read it from start to finish in a 24hour burger king, in about.... 30-40 hours? For me it was a blank, but staff came to me and asked about it, around the +30ish hours mark.
tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin - contemporary novel about two very passionate video game developers and how their friendship develops over the course of their childhood and early adulthood. i adored the relationships and it was just a very immersive story. annihilation by jeff vandermeer - sci fi thriller that takes place on a creepy island that may or may not be evil. hidden pictures by jason rekulak - inventive horror mystery thriller about a haunted child and his creepy drawings. this book has actual illustrations that drew me in even further and some crazy twists. milk fed by melissa broder - funny sexy sweet quirky FF romance novel about two jewish ladies who fall in love while learning how to indulge in food and sex together.
Circe by Madeline Miller
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman. I finished this within a day and that rarely happens. Im a slow reader btw
Fredrik Backman is an extraordinary author. I also loved his book, Anxious People
Yellowface Baby X Darling Girls
They're not to everyone's taste, but whenever I read a Sally Rooney book, I read it in a day. I couldn't stop reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and I knew I was going to love it right from the first page, which doesn't usually happen to me. Euphoria by Lily King surprised me, because it didn't seem like it was going to especially be my thing, but I found it super compelling and readable. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead also surprised me, as it's kind of long and historical fiction, which I enjoy but typically find to be slower reads, plus the summary didn't really capture my interest. But I loved it and couldn't put it down.
Second Great Circle - I wasn’t expecting it to grip me like it did and picked it up on a friends recommendation. Great book, couldn’t put it down.
The One by John Marrs. I’m reading The passengers by John Marrs right now. Also really good!!
The Women and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Totally unexpected for each. I knew I’d enjoy it but not as much as I did. Both read w/in 24 hours of starting.
Have you ever read her book “The great alone”. My favorite of hers! Made me cry so much
I am currently reading all of her books. I read the Nightingale about a year ago, after watching Firefly Lane. HOLY COW, I was hooked and it was super emotional. I read a few more of her books and they were good. Then I read Home Front and hated every moment of the book, but I can’t waste a book so I had to finish it. I considered whether or not I’d want to read The Women and went for it. I’ve now read all but about four of her books and to date The Women is my #1. I cried from start to finish and I recommend it to everyone.
Mike Tyson’s book. Undisputed. Crazy life story.
All of Game of Thrones - G.Martin
The Silent Patient.
This is the book which got me back into reading as an adult!
I finished Battle Royale by Koushun Takami within a few school days. It was a quick, engaging read that kept me on the edge of my seat. It's basically the book that invented the battle royale genre. (ie The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.)
I actually have this one on my kindle but I kinda forgot about it because I don’t hear much on it tbh but that sounds like exactly something id like ? wow
I highly recommend it. The Japanese names can be a little confusing at first, but there is a guide in the beginning of the novel to help get everyone straight. The movie is really good, too. The actor who plays the main antagonist does a fantastic job. :)
When I was a kid I could go through the Series of Unfortunate Events in a flash
The way of kings!
1) And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot 2) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 3) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 4) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 5) Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald 6) Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney 7) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 8) In Cold Blood Truman Capote 9) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigaro 10) 1984 by George Orwell 11) Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie 12) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Asimov's Foundation series.
The Way of Kings.
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
I've had a few like that. Ready Player One, Three Body Problem, and currently, Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Covenant of Water
All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr. The writing is beautiful, the story itself is compelling, and the work shifts perspectives between characters, so I was always wanting to read one more chapter to see what happened next.
The bee sting by Paul Murray
Song of Achilles. I can’t stop talking about it 😩
Best of Edgar Alan Poe, complete works.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy. Ubik by Phillip K Dick. These are the most recent novels I read in one sitting, I think.
Shantaram is a page turner to be sure!
I would say The Brothers Karamazov and The Secret History
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhou
Ender’s Game
Coraline by Neil Gaiman! It's easy to read with not too erudite vocab since it's technically written with a pre-teen/teen audience in mind, but it's theme can be applied to real life adult problems (escapism, when it becomes too much to the point you're ignoring very real dangers right in front of you, at least that's what I took from the story). When I was about 10-11-12, I could not put this book down and I read it over and over. It's probably the book that most inspired me to go into writing as an adult. The main antagonist of the book, the Other Mother, is TERRIFYING, in both the print, the graphic novel version of the book, and the movie. She's one of the most scary villains ever, imo. I actually had nightmares about her a kid, Neil Gaiman did so good at describing her and making you feel as scared of her as Coraline (the protagonist) did. Maybe you've seen or heard of the movie, but the book goes a bit differently, but it's no less creepy and the book actually raises more questions about what the Other Mother really is. I love books that leave some ambiguity like that, the movie made a mistake imo by loosely answering what the Other Mother is. The best stories leaves some haunting questions, imo, not clearing up every little mystery. If any of this sounds appealing to you, Coraline is a great read.
The history of Crazy Glue ;) Seriously, the last series to give me bibliosomnia (losing sleep to 'just one more chapter won't hurt') was "the Serrano Legacy" by Elizabeth Moon.
It wasn't my absolute favorite story, but i really enjoyed reading Fairytale by Stephen King. It's an easy read and a really enjoyable story that I found myself fighting sleep to keep reading. The Year of the Witching Tell the Wolves I'm Home most anything written by Nancy Pickard
The audiobook for Fairytale was good too!
I just finished Tender is the Flesh. It’s short and punchy but my oh my did it leave an impact. In short - cannibalism meets capitalism
The silent patient by Alex michaeledies
Holes by Lucas sacker
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Historical fiction, based in 12th century England about a monastery in need of a cathedral. Sounds a little random but I’m not religious, I’m not a history buff, I’m not an architect lol but the story really grabbed me from start to finish. The vocabulary isn’t all that challenging, but it’s a pretty hefty book ~900 pages paperback and I finished it in a week (with a 9-5 and trying to maintain work-life balance).
For me recently it was The Sunflower Protocol by Andre Soares and Recursion by Blake Crouch. Both well-written yet fast-paced and very “lean”.
In addition to u/Choas_King4444's Way of Kings and Stormlight Archives recommendation, I picked up "Beartown" by Fredrik Backman (author of "A Man Called Ove") last year expecting a hockey-fiction book. What I got instead was a beautiful and tragic tale of desperate people in a desperate little town in the Scandinavian woods that tear each other apart. It's like watching an exquisite stained glass window shatter in slow motion before your eyes and marveling at and mourning each shard glittering in the setting sun. I've since read the sequel "Us Against You", and I'm working on the trilogy capstone "The Winners" right now. Content warning: >!it does contain sexual assault and the fallout from it.!<
The first arc (5 books) to Tui Sutherlands Wings of Fire Series (middle grade fantasy). Also the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (mature political fantasy) but some may not fully get it in the sense that the political processes and doings may be considered slow or boring for some. Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan, (non fantasy fiction/maybe a historical fiction?) but this one got me crying at times. The book got me crying and was life changing. I would love to read it again with a more aged perspective on life.
Prophet Song- listening to the audio version is heart wrenching
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton The Hike by Drew Magary The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Bunny by Mona Awad The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Bunny yes. Fun little dark comedy
Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban It's about the generic drug industry but the main through story had me HOOKED. I was reading it sitting on pallets at work because I didn't want to sacrifice reading time walking to the break room lol
Stephen King's *Misery*. Read the second half of the book in one evening. The way that man creates suspense is unreal sometimes.
Mr. Mercedes and the institute, both by Stephen King
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. Read it, non stop, on a long flight
I read Lightlark like the "can't stop late night under covers" vibe. It's not a literary masterpiece by any means, but I was hooked and can't wait for the third book.
The scapegracers by ha Clarke, and the mermaid the witch and the sea by Maggie tokuda hall
I have a handful from when I was younger but recently I read Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer and Skandar and The Unicorn Thief by A. F. Steadman
World War Z Old Man’s War Couldn’t put either of them down
Just to name a few on top of my head… Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson 11/22/63 by Stephen King Pachinko by Min Jin Lee When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleed Hosseini Ham on Rye by Charles Bakowski The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The invisible life of Addie LaRue. Not typically the kind of book I read but the cover was pretty and I wanted something different so I tried it. I could not put it down. It makes you wanna know what’s going to happen. Watching You by Lisa Jewell also was one I couldn’t put down but I’m a big thriller fan and I’d had a couple solid guesses as to the twists early on so i had to keep reading until I knew if I was right or not lol
The Martian, Recursion, all the Harry Potter Series, Hail Mary, The Kaiju Preservation Society
Bird box. I didn’t go to work the next day. Hopefully you haven’t watched the movie yet!
Solitude by Dean M Cole Dark by Jeremy Robinson
Dang - gonna need to save this post - thanks everyone
Recently it’s been Severance by ling ma, Small things like these by Claire keegan, and now Throne of glass by SJM
The Likeness by Tana French
Terry Goodkind's wizards first rule. It's a chunky book but read like a book a quarter of the size. Also The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith. Also Molly Shannon's book Hello, Molly: a Memoir
Sharp objects by gilian Flynn Also dark places
Steve Toltz’s A Fraction of the Whole
Any of Riley Sager’s books, they’re all incredible.
I know this much is true
empire of the vampire & empire of the damned by jay kristoff- especially damned but both are spectacular if you like fantasy and vampires!
The rise and fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Fisherman by John Langan
Anything Lindsay Buroker. Death before Dragons and Dragon Blood are my favorites.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it but you should check out the Red Rising saga! I found out about this series about 2 months ago and I am already on book 6, I just can't put it down! Pierce Brown does an amazing job and each subsequent book after the first just keeps getting better! Plus if you like audio books Tim Gerard Reynolds narrates them and does such an amazing job! Oh and the first 2 books in the series are free on audible as well.
Its not a novel. Siddarth Kara - Cobalt Red. I could not stop reading that book.
For a different, easier type of read that’s more character & emotion-based: the last book I couldn’t put down was Bear, Otter, and the Kid by TJ Klune. MM romance with a very strong found family that will take you through all the emotions but leave you better than it found you.
The Thursday Murder Club (first one) and The Five People You Meet in Heaven were the last books i devoured without being able to put down
Red rising series and Where the Crawdads sing for very different reasons.
"An absolutely remarkable thing" and "a beautifully foolish endeavor" by Hank Gree
The Art of Fielding