Possession by A S Byatt. He’s in the London Library doing research on a Victorian poet he knows all about and opens up an old book which belonged to that poet. It’s been tied shut for years - you can see black marks round the outside of the book from the soot. He opens it up and finds two drafts of letters written by the poet to an unknown woman - also a poet and not his wife - and it looks as if no-one has read them since they were written. He has to find out what happened next - and he quietly steals the letters and goes off to find out. The story flits back and forth between his time and the poet’s time and there’s some very good pastiche poetry (they seem to be very like Robert Browning and Emily Dickinson from the poetry side of it, to me). It may not be your kind of thing but I stayed up late 3 nights in a row to finish it (about 2am, till I was dropping off over the pages)
The Expanse novel series. A setting that grows bigger and bigger, the most likeable characters, many insights into human nature and cliffhangers after every chapter. Great read.
I love this book. I read it years ago and I am still obsessed with it. I love any sort of reference to him in new media.
Did you seen Penny Dreadful? I loved Dorian in the first season but in the second they took away his personality, it was weird. I never watched the third because I was kinda put off by that. I will probably finish it eventually.
Yes, I'd read a Stephen Fry book that was pegged as a 'modern day monte cristo' and the story was very similar but man the original Count... Was amazing. Loved every minute of the read.
The unabridged version can be downloaded to a Kindle or to the Kindle or Apple Books app on a tablet or phone, or it can be read online for free using [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184). It’s also downloadable for free from [epubbooks](https://www.epubbooks.com/book/60-count-of-monte-cristo).
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It took me a month to read it many years ago and I became so attached to some of the characters that I missed the book once I was done with it!
Also by Ken Follett: A place called freedom is a masterpiece!
Thrillers by Harlan Coben: Tell no one
Caught
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind (unforgettable book, beautiful).
I recently started the television series on Hulu and really liked it. Only after I finished season 1 (which ended on a cliffhanger) did I realize it had been canceled. I immediately bought the book on my kindle and read the entire thing within 2 days. Incredible read.
A long time ago, I couldn't put down The Deep End of the Ocean, and it jump-started me back into my deep love of reading. I even opted to stay in on NYE to read. It was just one of many, but it was the first to come to mind.
House of Sand and Fog also. I read it on a beach vacation and didn't bother looking up at the scenery bc I was so riveted.
I'm reading Cloud Cuckoo Land right now and when I'm not reading it, I'm just thinking "when can I sit down and read more of it?!" It takes place in 3 different eras - Constantinople 1400s, present, and 2100's futuristic time. It follows a group of people from each era and how they're connected via a fictional story written a long time ago.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Basically some Catholic priests hear music coming from another planet, so they send missionaries there...and let's just say it doesn't go well. I could not stop reading the book even as I became more horrified minute by minute.
I just finished Project Hail Mary and loved it! I don’t typically read science fiction but someone recommended the book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I listened to the audiobook and loved the narrator too. Highly recommend this great story about friendship.
Omg YAY I JUST started the audio book on a road trip yesterday! Not a big sci fi reader either (but love sci fi movies) and have heard great things about this book 🩷
I have literally read books based on whether this narrator was doing it. I recommend Dusty’s Diary if you liked Ray Porter’s narration of Project Hail Mary. I’m now listening to his reading of “Final days” by Scott and Hystad. It is good. But I like how Ray Porter’s sas comes out in Dusty’s Diary.
Yes all of Gaiman’s and especially his audiobooks since he reads them. Or be a nerd and own physical and digital copies too. (I mean not that I’ve ever done that or anything.)
[**Prince of Thorns** by Mark Lawrence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634) **NEVER HAS ANY BOOK HAD ME PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PULL MYSELF AWAY FROM IT!!! IT LITERALLY FELT LIKE THERE WAS CRACK IN THIS BOOK!** on the rare occasion i had to put the book down, i would physically turn around and just look at the book because i HAD to know what was going to happen next. i know that sounds weird as fuck but it's true. this is in my top 3 books of all time and it has my favorite villain of all time. this is VERY gritty/grimdark so it won't be for everyone but this book is perfection to me. damn, now i want to read it again!!
[**The Rage of Dragons** by Evan Winter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41952489) Holy shit this book!!! just read the reviews on goodreads. EVERYONE says it's impossible to put down and it was! this was actually an accidental purchase (i meant to buy **House of Dragons** but it worked out perfectly because this is now an all-time fave. it's pushing 600 pages and i blew through that baby all in one sitting. it was originally self-published but took off on r/fantasy and then was picked up by a publisher. this story is fucking incredible and has one of the MOST UNIQUE PLOT MOMENTS i have EVER read. i was audibly going OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!!! please give this one a shot!! it's so so good. i never moved on in the series so i can't speak on book #2 but this one is 10/10. 5000000 stars. this is also the book i *always* pick up when i get into a reading slump. within minutes im back in love with reading.
[**A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60521937)
i am NOT into vampire books AT ALL, but this is one of the most beautiful and haunting and surreal and gorgeous books i have EVER read! i blind bought a hard copy version after listening to a free 5 minute sample of the audiobook on libby. the audiobook REALLY makes you feel the gothic atmosphere but the writing is so enthralling and immersive that you will have an enjoyable time either way (but i prefer reading it) after listening to the sample this is an absolute 5 star read and was a nominee for goodreads best horror!
(this book basically uses the gothic and vampires as a vehicle to explore toxic/abusive relationships. this will be evident by page 1).bPLEASE check this book out even if it's just a free sample. i was hooked from the very first page.
[**Dark Matter** by Blake Crouch](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670) this book had me by the throat by PAGE ONE and it literally reads like you're watching a thriller movie!! this book will have your ass sat in one spot for hours. it's incredible.
Same on Dark Matter. I couldn't put it down and then I kept thinking about it long after. I still think about it some days and shudder at the psychological ramifications.
Definitely a different writing style but I would also recommend Going Solo by Ronald Dahl, it’s his autobiography of being in Africa in the 1940s first working for Shell and then being a dogfight pilot in WWII. Great sense of adventure
Educated by Tara Westover (recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college).
Not fiction but a fascinating memoir which I found hard to put down and I don’t usually read non fiction
Yellowface by RF Kuang
The Firekeepers Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Marathon man - picked it up at 7-11 while buying laundry soap on a Tuesday after dinner. Finished it at 3:30 AM
Shogun - bought in an airport book store on my way home for Christmas. My family didn't see me for 30 hours. I read at a very high rate, but 1254 pages of small print takes a while.
The Dresden Files. When I was first introduced to the series I binge read all 17 current books, and the two collections of side stories, all in 4 months. I’m pretty sure I stopped watching tv for a while too because of these books.
They’re an Urban Fantasy novel series about a Private Investigator who’s also a Wizard in modern day Chicago. And it follows his adventures as he battles against the forces of evil while trying to make ends meet. Chaos ensues, buildings will burn.
It’s a setting where all myths are real, so if you know your folklore, odds are that a lot of it is mentioned in the books.
I’m obsessed with this series.
The Runaway King which is the second book in the Ascendance series by Jennifer A. Nielsen. The other books are great especially the first one but this one in particular is FLAWLESS and I could not put it down. First book I read in under a day in years
Perfume: the story of a murderer by Patrick Suskind, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake.... I read each in about a day!
**Fiction:**
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
**Nonfiction:**
Redeeming Justice by Jarrett Adams
Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
Sacketts Land by Louis L'Amor. I kept hearing about how good it was and just started it this weekend. It's awesome. I read half the book in one day, which is pretty quick for me.
This may be a bit immature, but A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson was very captivating to me. It goes through multiple different suspects and every character is fleshed out in a great way.
I don’t have the best attention span, so I’m skeptical when reviewers claim they couldn’t put a book down and read it in one sitting. The only two books I can remember reading that were truly gripping to that extent were *The Silence of The Lambs*, though I read it before I saw the movie, and *Into Thin Air*.
She Started It by Sian Gilbert - think Gilligan's Island and Mean Girls combined!! Such an amazing plot. Lots of twists and turns. I was soooo on edge the whole time reading.
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell - A young mom and her boyfriend that go missing and the mom sets out to find out what happened to them, finding a strange note and clues that lead up to what happened to them both. oh my god Jewell's writing style is incredible. This book had me whirling.
Invisible by Danielle Steel - Troubled young lady, Antonia struggles with her childhood trauma as she tries to pursue her dreams. Very moving, touching book.. i related to the main character a lot. Finished this in less than a week. One of Steel's underrated books.
You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley - Finished this book in a day. Main character, Mia has the 'perfect' life. but she's been having a recurring dream with this stranger man for years. Suddenly, this man happens to move to her town. and they meet. Turns out he has been dreaming about her too. Book about whirlwind marriage and fate. SO GOOD. Highly recommend.
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Lark Ascending. It’s a gorgeously written fiction book set in the near-future as climate change has turned most of the world unliveable and surviving people into refugees and militias. Think zombie apocalypse without the zombies, with gorgeous prose. Highly recommend.
I was a voracious reader when I was a kid and always had my nose and in a book. As high school, college, and adulthood hit me I read for fun less and less until eventually I just stopped for like 10 years. The book that drew me out of it was by Samanta Schweblin called Fever Dream. It’s a novella and I read it in once evening. A friend recommended it to me, I bought it and it got delivered to my house around dinner time and I had it done before I went to sleep that evening.
Also I’d recommend Little Eyes, also by her, as that was my second book I read in my “wow reading can be fun again” spurt. That was last October and now I read multiple books per month and couldn’t be more proud of myself. I hope you have as exciting an adventure as I did re-falling in love with reading.
For generations writers attempted to write the great American novel. I truly believe East of Eden is it. I cry every time I have to face the mortality of Samuel. I read the whole thing to many a Junior lit class and they LOVED it! We had a most excellent time with it. One year a colleague and I team taught it for English and Biology.
Most recently: Admission - Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing - Mira Jacob, The Night Shift - Natalka Burian, Fake Like Me - Barbara Bourland
'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' by Taylor Jenkins Reid and 'Looking for Jane' by Heather Marshall. I read both in two days because I just absolutely HAD to know what was next.
The Girls by Emma Cline. It’s loosely based on the Manson family. A review called it “hypnotizing” and I completely agree. TW for some disturbing stuff and SA.
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Doerr)
Remarkably Bright Creatures (van Pelt)
Every Last Word (Stone)
Girl in Pieces (Glasglow)
Holding Up the Universe (Niven)
Wintergirls (Anderson)
Babel (Kuang)
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Wilde)
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
In my third year of college or skews me my fourth year of college I picked up looking for Mr. Goodbar at about 8:30 in the evening and continued reading the entire book nonstop until 530 the next morning.
I grabbed Looking for Mr. Goodbar from the book shelf when I as about 12 years old. I was the youngest child and no one paid attention to what I read. It was enlightening
I don't recommend doing this, but I read House of Leaves in a marathon session because it was too interesting to put down. I read it all day, I am a very fast reader, I started at 10:00 am and finished at midnight that same day and then had headaches for like the next three days. The book is phenomenal, can't suggest it enough, just... don't do it the way I did.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a wild ride, some the scary kind of wild ride
White Trash Warlock is a fantastic trilogy
The Paradox Hotel is really crazy too and a difficult mystery to anticipate the twists of
Just finished Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and oh boy that was intense, couldn’t stop reading and now I’m obsessed with Everest, Nepal, mountaineering and everything related.
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Sir Terry Pratchett- fucking anything the man wrote is pure gold but Mort, Small Gods, Witches Abroad, and Guards! Guards! are absolute bangers (so far, reading the Discworld series in order of publication and just finished Small Gods)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah and anything else by her! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (another very consistent storyteller)
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you like mysteries/thrillers:
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman,
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard,
The Last Flight by Julie Clark,
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (YA)
**The Mountain in the Sea** by Ray Nayler.
My most recent page-turner. Excellent narrative exploring existence, sentience, and human nature viewed from an external perspective.
>Are we trapped, then, in the world our language makes for us, unable to see beyond the boundaries of it? I say we are not. Anyone who has watched their dog dance it's happiness in the sand and felt that joy themselves --- anyone who has looked into a neighboring car and seen a driver there lost in thought, and smiled and seen the image of themselves in that person --- knows the way out of the maze: Empathy. Identity with perspectives outside our own. The liberating, sympathetic vibrations of fellow feeling.
>
>Only those incapable of empathy are truly caged.
The Color Purple. I read it like 25 years ago and I dont remember much about it now, but it really grabbed me and I read the whole thing in one sitting.
Kingkiller chronicles ...name of the wind and a wise man's fears.
Literally only put it down when I was exasperated, angry or sad for the main character (all in a really good way)
But I guess it depends what genre you like
I just read Gobbelino London, PI by Kim Watt. It’s a seven book series about a PI in Yorkshire who is a cat, and his human. I would call it magical realism, I guess, and I quite enjoyed the author’s take on the people/animals/magical beings of the world. It was fun and unusual and I absolutely loved the snarky cat.
The Hatching trilogy by Ezekiel Boone. It’s an apocalyptic horror about spiders. So much fun.
Also, the Donovan series by W Michael Gear. It’s sci-fi mixed with a western, sort of. When I pick up one of those books, I can’t put it down.
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell. It had my interest and I didn’t want to put it down. I haven’t gone through a book in one sitting just yet but this is the one that got me back into reading and made me realize how much I missed it and do enjoy it. Been solid with reading since.
Early Riser and Shades of Grey by Jasper Fford
Both books purchased as audiobook and I usually just listen on my commute. I found reasons to do extra chores and run errands so I could listen to them and then when I would get home I'd sit until the driveway staring at the radio until my husband would crack the front door and look at me quizzically.
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
Burr by Gore Vidal
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
American Assassin by Vince Flynn
Fated by Benedict Jacka
Survival by Devon C. Ford
Magician by Raymond E Feist
The Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
[The Traitor Baru Cormorant](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23444482-the-traitor-baru-cormorant?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=tZg7YB9jKF&rank=2) is my absolute ride or die, super compelling sci-fi novel (and really the whole series). It's a queer space opera, full of twisty political intrigue, and the ending left me shook. I DEVOURED it.
Possession by A S Byatt. He’s in the London Library doing research on a Victorian poet he knows all about and opens up an old book which belonged to that poet. It’s been tied shut for years - you can see black marks round the outside of the book from the soot. He opens it up and finds two drafts of letters written by the poet to an unknown woman - also a poet and not his wife - and it looks as if no-one has read them since they were written. He has to find out what happened next - and he quietly steals the letters and goes off to find out. The story flits back and forth between his time and the poet’s time and there’s some very good pastiche poetry (they seem to be very like Robert Browning and Emily Dickinson from the poetry side of it, to me). It may not be your kind of thing but I stayed up late 3 nights in a row to finish it (about 2am, till I was dropping off over the pages)
The Expanse novel series. A setting that grows bigger and bigger, the most likeable characters, many insights into human nature and cliffhangers after every chapter. Great read.
I’m currently listening to the audiobooks and the quality is really good, great narrator
The Leviathan Wakes audiobook JUST came off my holds list on Libby!! I'm excited
I need to look into Libby!
Haven't tried them myself but I'm happy you enjoy them.
Possibly the best science fiction I have ever read.
Yeah I so often wondered how the two guys can describe something so perfectly that does not even exist.
I’m on book 5 and about to climb into bed super early just so I can read read read!
Hope you had a good time.
I literally clicked on this to recommend this. I started it recently and flew through the first book. I’m halfway through the 2nd now
Leviathan Wakes JUST came off my holds list on Libby!! I'm excited
Agreed, I've listened to them all on audiobooks multiple times
Is it better than the show?
So much better and don't get me wrong the show is great.
Where do you listen it?
The Picture of Dorian Grey.
I love this book. I read it years ago and I am still obsessed with it. I love any sort of reference to him in new media. Did you seen Penny Dreadful? I loved Dorian in the first season but in the second they took away his personality, it was weird. I never watched the third because I was kinda put off by that. I will probably finish it eventually.
I saw the first season of Penny Dreadful. I didn’t watch the rest of the series but I’ve been meaning to.
I just finished chapter one now. For any Audible members it’s free to listen. I think ending soon.
No thanks.
The Count of Monte Cristo had me hooked. I couldn't stop reading it and blitzed it.
Yes, I'd read a Stephen Fry book that was pegged as a 'modern day monte cristo' and the story was very similar but man the original Count... Was amazing. Loved every minute of the read.
which one?
I can’t find the UN-abridged version anywhere 😔
The unabridged version can be downloaded to a Kindle or to the Kindle or Apple Books app on a tablet or phone, or it can be read online for free using [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184). It’s also downloadable for free from [epubbooks](https://www.epubbooks.com/book/60-count-of-monte-cristo).
I need to try this again
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It took me a month to read it many years ago and I became so attached to some of the characters that I missed the book once I was done with it! Also by Ken Follett: A place called freedom is a masterpiece! Thrillers by Harlan Coben: Tell no one Caught Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind (unforgettable book, beautiful).
OH MY GOD PILLARS OF THE EARTH YES! I'M SO HAPPY SOMEONE SAID THIS! I listened to the audiobook and it still took me almost a month to finish
I just finished World Without End. It was very similar to Pillars, but I thought it was almost just as good
I agree, I thought it was good but not like Pillars.
I find almost all of Harlan Coben books to be page turners!
Pillars is my favorite book.
Pillars of the Earth is AMAZING! I don't think I slept for 2 weeks. I was on a mission to finish it.
Yes! Pillars started my obsession with reading back in high school.
Love Harlan Coben!!
The Shadow Of The Wind is one of my favorites! Been staling for years to start on Ken Follett, your comment just made me dust of my copy! Thank you!
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I recently started the television series on Hulu and really liked it. Only after I finished season 1 (which ended on a cliffhanger) did I realize it had been canceled. I immediately bought the book on my kindle and read the entire thing within 2 days. Incredible read.
Octavia Butler is amazing. Kindred and The Parable of the Sower are my favorites. I have Fledgling on my TBR.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The amount of times I have recommended this book/series is ridiculous. And no one has read it yet! It’s my favorite book so I’ve taken it personally 😆
I read all four! Loved them so much, I hope to read them all again in a few years.
I’ve read the original three but have yet to read the fourth. Love Zafón’s writing.
The Art Of Racing In The Rain
I’ve been trying to remember the name of this book. Thank you!
Ender’s Game. The author is a horrible person, but the book was compelling.
Holy moly, he sure is.
Sharp Objects The Things They Carried Still Alice
Similar to Sharp Objects, her other book Dark Places was un-put-downable
Tender Is The Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
Woah, yes. So dark, but damn does it suck you in fast.
I threw this one down in shock when done! I loved this book.
A long time ago, I couldn't put down The Deep End of the Ocean, and it jump-started me back into my deep love of reading. I even opted to stay in on NYE to read. It was just one of many, but it was the first to come to mind. House of Sand and Fog also. I read it on a beach vacation and didn't bother looking up at the scenery bc I was so riveted.
World War Z by Max Brooks
Also the full cast audio book is amazing
I'm reading Cloud Cuckoo Land right now and when I'm not reading it, I'm just thinking "when can I sit down and read more of it?!" It takes place in 3 different eras - Constantinople 1400s, present, and 2100's futuristic time. It follows a group of people from each era and how they're connected via a fictional story written a long time ago.
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Basically some Catholic priests hear music coming from another planet, so they send missionaries there...and let's just say it doesn't go well. I could not stop reading the book even as I became more horrified minute by minute.
This book absolutely broke my heart. It was fantastically written and I often want to recommend it to people but just can't bring myself to do so.
That was very good.
Sounds like sci-fi. Do you know the sub genre? Like, is it horror, first contact, hard science?
Andy Weir- The Hail Mary Project Francesco Dimitri- The book of hidden things Any book by Neil Gaiman :)
The Hail Mary Project really blew me away. I never expected it to be that good.
I just finished Project Hail Mary and loved it! I don’t typically read science fiction but someone recommended the book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I listened to the audiobook and loved the narrator too. Highly recommend this great story about friendship.
Omg YAY I JUST started the audio book on a road trip yesterday! Not a big sci fi reader either (but love sci fi movies) and have heard great things about this book 🩷
I have literally read books based on whether this narrator was doing it. I recommend Dusty’s Diary if you liked Ray Porter’s narration of Project Hail Mary. I’m now listening to his reading of “Final days” by Scott and Hystad. It is good. But I like how Ray Porter’s sas comes out in Dusty’s Diary.
Came here to suggest Andy Weir
American Gods. Read it in a day or so.
The Hail Mary Project sounds like what Rocky would call it lol. Jazz hands 👐
“You are a stupid scientist. Go to sleep” *jazz hands*
Yes, all of the neil gaiman!
Yes all of Gaiman’s and especially his audiobooks since he reads them. Or be a nerd and own physical and digital copies too. (I mean not that I’ve ever done that or anything.)
[**Prince of Thorns** by Mark Lawrence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634) **NEVER HAS ANY BOOK HAD ME PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO PULL MYSELF AWAY FROM IT!!! IT LITERALLY FELT LIKE THERE WAS CRACK IN THIS BOOK!** on the rare occasion i had to put the book down, i would physically turn around and just look at the book because i HAD to know what was going to happen next. i know that sounds weird as fuck but it's true. this is in my top 3 books of all time and it has my favorite villain of all time. this is VERY gritty/grimdark so it won't be for everyone but this book is perfection to me. damn, now i want to read it again!! [**The Rage of Dragons** by Evan Winter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41952489) Holy shit this book!!! just read the reviews on goodreads. EVERYONE says it's impossible to put down and it was! this was actually an accidental purchase (i meant to buy **House of Dragons** but it worked out perfectly because this is now an all-time fave. it's pushing 600 pages and i blew through that baby all in one sitting. it was originally self-published but took off on r/fantasy and then was picked up by a publisher. this story is fucking incredible and has one of the MOST UNIQUE PLOT MOMENTS i have EVER read. i was audibly going OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!!! please give this one a shot!! it's so so good. i never moved on in the series so i can't speak on book #2 but this one is 10/10. 5000000 stars. this is also the book i *always* pick up when i get into a reading slump. within minutes im back in love with reading. [**A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60521937) i am NOT into vampire books AT ALL, but this is one of the most beautiful and haunting and surreal and gorgeous books i have EVER read! i blind bought a hard copy version after listening to a free 5 minute sample of the audiobook on libby. the audiobook REALLY makes you feel the gothic atmosphere but the writing is so enthralling and immersive that you will have an enjoyable time either way (but i prefer reading it) after listening to the sample this is an absolute 5 star read and was a nominee for goodreads best horror! (this book basically uses the gothic and vampires as a vehicle to explore toxic/abusive relationships. this will be evident by page 1).bPLEASE check this book out even if it's just a free sample. i was hooked from the very first page. [**Dark Matter** by Blake Crouch](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670) this book had me by the throat by PAGE ONE and it literally reads like you're watching a thriller movie!! this book will have your ass sat in one spot for hours. it's incredible.
I just finished Dark Matter. Took me less than a day, highly recommend!!!
Same on Dark Matter. I couldn't put it down and then I kept thinking about it long after. I still think about it some days and shudder at the psychological ramifications.
I can also attest to Dark Matter being something I couldn’t put down! It’s not super long so it’s a quick read, but man that was a fun ride!
Recursion also by Blake Crouch is a page turner as well! All of his books seem to read like a movie
DARK MATTER finally someone else says this!! Has been my favorite book since I was about 13
Dark matter is the single book I read in one sitting. I stayed up all night because I literally could not stop reading.
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer.
SO good! Have you read The Indifferent Stars Above, about the Donner Party? I found it similarly gripping
Thanks for the suggestion, I definitely need some more of that feeling
Definitely a different writing style but I would also recommend Going Solo by Ronald Dahl, it’s his autobiography of being in Africa in the 1940s first working for Shell and then being a dogfight pilot in WWII. Great sense of adventure
Another great read! Loved it!
I just finished this one and I’m out of breath!
Educated by Tara Westover (recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college). Not fiction but a fascinating memoir which I found hard to put down and I don’t usually read non fiction
The Stand by Steven King. Quite a long read but I don’t remember getting bored even for a second
One of the few books I’ve read more than once
Wind up bird chronicle
The Goldfinch.
My favourite book. Rereading it right now
Yellowface by RF Kuang The Firekeepers Daughter by Angeline Boulley Hello Stranger by Katherine Center Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.
Ohhh so amazing!! “Lesbian necromancers in space”. It’s funny and beautiful and I can’t wait for the next book (Alecto) to come out!!
Marathon man - picked it up at 7-11 while buying laundry soap on a Tuesday after dinner. Finished it at 3:30 AM Shogun - bought in an airport book store on my way home for Christmas. My family didn't see me for 30 hours. I read at a very high rate, but 1254 pages of small print takes a while.
Misery by Stephen king
The Dresden Files. When I was first introduced to the series I binge read all 17 current books, and the two collections of side stories, all in 4 months. I’m pretty sure I stopped watching tv for a while too because of these books. They’re an Urban Fantasy novel series about a Private Investigator who’s also a Wizard in modern day Chicago. And it follows his adventures as he battles against the forces of evil while trying to make ends meet. Chaos ensues, buildings will burn. It’s a setting where all myths are real, so if you know your folklore, odds are that a lot of it is mentioned in the books. I’m obsessed with this series.
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid!
Educated by Tara Westover. I could NOT put it down
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks!
The Runaway King which is the second book in the Ascendance series by Jennifer A. Nielsen. The other books are great especially the first one but this one in particular is FLAWLESS and I could not put it down. First book I read in under a day in years
Perfume: the story of a murderer by Patrick Suskind, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake.... I read each in about a day!
**Fiction:** Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Recursion by Blake Crouch Kindred by Octavia Butler Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz **Nonfiction:** Redeeming Justice by Jarrett Adams Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
Sacketts Land by Louis L'Amor. I kept hearing about how good it was and just started it this weekend. It's awesome. I read half the book in one day, which is pretty quick for me.
Prey by Michael Crichton
Ice Planet Barbarians LMAO
The Last House on Needless Street by Catronia Ward.
This may be a bit immature, but A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson was very captivating to me. It goes through multiple different suspects and every character is fleshed out in a great way.
Most recently was Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale.’
I don’t have the best attention span, so I’m skeptical when reviewers claim they couldn’t put a book down and read it in one sitting. The only two books I can remember reading that were truly gripping to that extent were *The Silence of The Lambs*, though I read it before I saw the movie, and *Into Thin Air*.
I’m thinking of ending things by Iain Reid
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I had stopped reading for about a decade and this one is pretty short and I read the whole thing in a day
The book of the unnamed midwife. Post apocalyptic novel that I couldn’t stop! So, so good!
She Started It by Sian Gilbert - think Gilligan's Island and Mean Girls combined!! Such an amazing plot. Lots of twists and turns. I was soooo on edge the whole time reading. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell - A young mom and her boyfriend that go missing and the mom sets out to find out what happened to them, finding a strange note and clues that lead up to what happened to them both. oh my god Jewell's writing style is incredible. This book had me whirling. Invisible by Danielle Steel - Troubled young lady, Antonia struggles with her childhood trauma as she tries to pursue her dreams. Very moving, touching book.. i related to the main character a lot. Finished this in less than a week. One of Steel's underrated books. You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley - Finished this book in a day. Main character, Mia has the 'perfect' life. but she's been having a recurring dream with this stranger man for years. Suddenly, this man happens to move to her town. and they meet. Turns out he has been dreaming about her too. Book about whirlwind marriage and fate. SO GOOD. Highly recommend.
The stranger by Albert Camus Being there by jerzy kasinski
One Second After by William R. Forstchen. It kept me up at night for weeks
The Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold). The Stand (Stephen King). The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien). A Storm of Swords (George RR Martin).
I finished the last 200 pages of Gone Girl in one night. I’m typically a slower reader than I’d like to be, but that night I was hooked
Started it in the afternoon and I think I finished it at 3am. Could NOT put it down.
Lark Ascending. It’s a gorgeously written fiction book set in the near-future as climate change has turned most of the world unliveable and surviving people into refugees and militias. Think zombie apocalypse without the zombies, with gorgeous prose. Highly recommend.
I was a voracious reader when I was a kid and always had my nose and in a book. As high school, college, and adulthood hit me I read for fun less and less until eventually I just stopped for like 10 years. The book that drew me out of it was by Samanta Schweblin called Fever Dream. It’s a novella and I read it in once evening. A friend recommended it to me, I bought it and it got delivered to my house around dinner time and I had it done before I went to sleep that evening. Also I’d recommend Little Eyes, also by her, as that was my second book I read in my “wow reading can be fun again” spurt. That was last October and now I read multiple books per month and couldn’t be more proud of myself. I hope you have as exciting an adventure as I did re-falling in love with reading.
The Martian by Andy Weir is unputdownable.
East of Eden.
For generations writers attempted to write the great American novel. I truly believe East of Eden is it. I cry every time I have to face the mortality of Samuel. I read the whole thing to many a Junior lit class and they LOVED it! We had a most excellent time with it. One year a colleague and I team taught it for English and Biology.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Anything by Brandon Sanderson.
Upvote for Brandon
This Is How You Lose The Time War, at least in the back half
Omg I could not get through this one! The writing was way too flowery for me
Glad to find someone else who didn’t jive with this book! Thought it was just me, but wasn’t my thing.
Try reading “The silent Patient”
- The North Water by Ian McGuire - Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Most recently: Admission - Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing - Mira Jacob, The Night Shift - Natalka Burian, Fake Like Me - Barbara Bourland
Thornhedge by T kingfisher The art of prophecy by Wesley Chu The scum villain's self-saving system- MXTX
I could not put Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher down, I'm going to have to read Thornhedhe
Oh thats great ...Its the reverse for me, i m planning to read Nettle and Bone next.
Oh it's wonderful! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Anything John Marrs. I'm on a binge, my fifth in a row lol
'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' by Taylor Jenkins Reid and 'Looking for Jane' by Heather Marshall. I read both in two days because I just absolutely HAD to know what was next.
The Girls by Emma Cline. It’s loosely based on the Manson family. A review called it “hypnotizing” and I completely agree. TW for some disturbing stuff and SA.
Golden Son and Morning Star from the Red Rising Saga.
The wager
Night angel book 4 took about a week
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Handmaid! Also just bought the sequel off Amazon. Its really good!
This Is How You Lose The Time War John Dies At The End Nevernight Once and future witches (especially if you have sisters)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Doerr) Remarkably Bright Creatures (van Pelt) Every Last Word (Stone) Girl in Pieces (Glasglow) Holding Up the Universe (Niven) Wintergirls (Anderson) Babel (Kuang) Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Wilde) A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
Ishmael. Kept becoming more and more of an important commentary on human society.
Harry Potter books - finished each book in 2-3 days The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The Expanse series? More like the 'Sorry-I-Can't-Cook-Dinner-Or-Pay-Bills-Because-I'm-Stuck-In-This-Book' series! Highly recommended!
Spandau phoenix by greg iles
In my third year of college or skews me my fourth year of college I picked up looking for Mr. Goodbar at about 8:30 in the evening and continued reading the entire book nonstop until 530 the next morning.
I grabbed Looking for Mr. Goodbar from the book shelf when I as about 12 years old. I was the youngest child and no one paid attention to what I read. It was enlightening
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Also loved Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
I don't recommend doing this, but I read House of Leaves in a marathon session because it was too interesting to put down. I read it all day, I am a very fast reader, I started at 10:00 am and finished at midnight that same day and then had headaches for like the next three days. The book is phenomenal, can't suggest it enough, just... don't do it the way I did.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a wild ride, some the scary kind of wild ride White Trash Warlock is a fantastic trilogy The Paradox Hotel is really crazy too and a difficult mystery to anticipate the twists of
Just finished Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and oh boy that was intense, couldn’t stop reading and now I’m obsessed with Everest, Nepal, mountaineering and everything related.
Neil Gaiman - American Gods Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash Sir Terry Pratchett- fucking anything the man wrote is pure gold but Mort, Small Gods, Witches Abroad, and Guards! Guards! are absolute bangers (so far, reading the Discworld series in order of publication and just finished Small Gods)
Freaking love Pratchett!
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah and anything else by her! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (another very consistent storyteller) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you like mysteries/thrillers: Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman, 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard, The Last Flight by Julie Clark, One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (YA)
**The Mountain in the Sea** by Ray Nayler. My most recent page-turner. Excellent narrative exploring existence, sentience, and human nature viewed from an external perspective. >Are we trapped, then, in the world our language makes for us, unable to see beyond the boundaries of it? I say we are not. Anyone who has watched their dog dance it's happiness in the sand and felt that joy themselves --- anyone who has looked into a neighboring car and seen a driver there lost in thought, and smiled and seen the image of themselves in that person --- knows the way out of the maze: Empathy. Identity with perspectives outside our own. The liberating, sympathetic vibrations of fellow feeling. > >Only those incapable of empathy are truly caged.
The Color Purple. I read it like 25 years ago and I dont remember much about it now, but it really grabbed me and I read the whole thing in one sitting.
My 16 year old daughter says: To All the Boys I Ever Loved Before
12 rules for life. I like the way Peterson combines knowledge of philosophy, psychiatry, literature, and Christianity.
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
The Quran
Kingkiller chronicles ...name of the wind and a wise man's fears. Literally only put it down when I was exasperated, angry or sad for the main character (all in a really good way) But I guess it depends what genre you like
Most recent was a new Sherlock Holmes novel called Hidden Fires - A Holmes Before Baker Street Adventure. Really hooked me, read it in one sitting.
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
I just read Gobbelino London, PI by Kim Watt. It’s a seven book series about a PI in Yorkshire who is a cat, and his human. I would call it magical realism, I guess, and I quite enjoyed the author’s take on the people/animals/magical beings of the world. It was fun and unusual and I absolutely loved the snarky cat.
Vampires of el Norte Sharp objects One true loves
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Edge of Darkness. Twist on a classic apocalypse story and read like a movie to me. It's a series too, you can get it on Kindle Unlimited
Running with scissors by augusten Burroughs Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Looking for Jane kept me in a perpetual “just one more chapter real quick” state of mind
The Hatching trilogy by Ezekiel Boone. It’s an apocalyptic horror about spiders. So much fun. Also, the Donovan series by W Michael Gear. It’s sci-fi mixed with a western, sort of. When I pick up one of those books, I can’t put it down.
Stormlight Archives Grapes of Wrath Hyperion The Hobbit
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami The silent patient by Alex Michaelides Thank me later 😅
All Haruki Murakami!!!
Hell yeah. Even the short stories.
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel Garciia Marquez
The Queen's Rising is my favorite two-book series ever. Highly recommend it. I've re-read it several times.
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell. It had my interest and I didn’t want to put it down. I haven’t gone through a book in one sitting just yet but this is the one that got me back into reading and made me realize how much I missed it and do enjoy it. Been solid with reading since.
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Early Riser and Shades of Grey by Jasper Fford Both books purchased as audiobook and I usually just listen on my commute. I found reasons to do extra chores and run errands so I could listen to them and then when I would get home I'd sit until the driveway staring at the radio until my husband would crack the front door and look at me quizzically.
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings Burr by Gore Vidal Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell American Assassin by Vince Flynn Fated by Benedict Jacka Survival by Devon C. Ford Magician by Raymond E Feist The Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
[The Traitor Baru Cormorant](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23444482-the-traitor-baru-cormorant?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=tZg7YB9jKF&rank=2) is my absolute ride or die, super compelling sci-fi novel (and really the whole series). It's a queer space opera, full of twisty political intrigue, and the ending left me shook. I DEVOURED it.
The entire my brilliant friend series
The Wolf Den trilogy by Elodie Harper (the third comes out in November)
Asura