What Books Can't You Put Down? - Page 2

[Starry-eyedMom]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was a really awesome story, with such a unique heroine.

There is a series:

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2nd book)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (3rd book coming out in May)

But that's it, folks, because the author, Stieg Larsson, died before the manuscripts were published.

[newbymom05]

Thomas Perry, especially The Butcher's Boy and Sleeping Dogs. The protagonists are a hit man and the female FBI agent on the case. Read The Butcher's Boy first, though--it intro's the characters and Sleeping Dogs is so great you should save it for last.

[4myfinn]

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
I find anything by Amy Tan absolutely irresistible! I can never put her books down. I love The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Kitchen God's Wife, A Hundred Secret Senses, and (of course) The Joy Luck Club.
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund. I've read it three times!
I recently read The Thirteenth Tale and just couldn't stop thinking about it, even when I wasn't reading it.
I love all the Harry Potter books.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood is another priceless treasure.

I am a book fiend and could go on for hours, but I'll just leave it here.

[MamaDona]

Originally Posted by Proxi

I kept seeing The Hunger Games in the youth lit area, and I finally picked it up to see what the excitement was all about. Well worth it... couldn't put the book down, nor could I put the sequel down. I can't wait for the third!

Thanks for the recommendation! I barreled through it last night, only to find that the sequel isn't available on Kindle.

[Smokering]

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Lord of the Rings... but I realise not everybody feels that way.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Time-Traveller's Wife - actually it helps to read this one all at once, or the chronology can get confusing. For obvious reasons. If you don't have time to forget where you're up to, it helps!

Harry Potter, of course. I recently reread the whole series and they're very page-turny.

The Green Mile by Stephen King.

Anything by Jane Austen.

Bridget Jones' Diary.

The Da Vinci Code. Not because it was good. But because Dan Brown made each chapter about three paragraphs long and ended each one on a cliffhanger and made all his characters think! In short! Dramatic. Sentences. Like this!?, and it somehow kept you flipping through it. I dunno if I'd go so far as to recommend it, but it fits the criterion.

[Nitenites]

The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris
The Lily Bard Series by Charlaine Harris
The Harper Connelly Mysteries by Charlaine Harris
The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
The Earth's Children series by Jean Auel (though the quality of this series drops dramatically after Mammoth Hunters, book 3)

[Nitenites]

Okay, maybe The Mitford Series didn't keep me on the edge of my seat, but it was still a nice read.

[greeny]

Most recently, The Other Boleyn Girl.

[lakeruby]

I LOVED The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (and everyone I know has loved it too! Highly recommended!!)

Also, old favorites that I love to re-read:
Cold Sassy Tree
The Hundred Secret Senses both by Amy Tan
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Secret Life of Bees
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Wise Child and Juniper both by Monica Furlong
The Anna Papers and EVERYTHING ELSE by Ellen Gilchrist
Sister of My Heart
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

I also have been enjoying the Twilight series-- which suprises me...but I'm on the second book and looking forward to the next.

[Aubergine68]

Sword of the Lady by S. M. Stirling. In fact, I'm trying to browse mdc and read it at the same time

[womama]

I recently read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James.

A great book about women slaves on a plantation in Jamaica. Fictional but fascinating. It is definitely one of those wonderful books that take over your life until you finish the last sentence!

[Storm Bride]

That's a hard question to answer, as I pretty much can't put down any book that I'll bother to finish at all. (That is, books tend to be either "can't put it down" or "can't read it at all" for me.)

But...the ones I not only can't put down, but don't even realize time is passing until I look up and go "oh, bedtime?", and then take the book to bed?

The Vorkosigan series, by Lois McMaster-Bujold (also really enjoyed the Sharing Knife, but Miles Vorkosigan may be my all-time favourite protagonist)
The Earth's Children series, by Jean Auel
The Videssos Cycle, by Harry Turtledove

Got to go help dd1 with some math...I'll try to think of some others...

[mamalisa]

Originally Posted by Smokering

[I]

The Da Vinci Code. Not because it was good. But because Dan Brown made each chapter about three paragraphs long and ended each one on a cliffhanger and made all his characters think! In short! Dramatic. Sentences. Like this!?, and it somehow kept you flipping through it. I dunno if I'd go so far as to recommend it, but it fits the criterion.

I swear, this made me laugh out loud. I read mostly in the bathtub, unless somehow my kids are leaving me in peace to read. It's such a simple thing to read around the family because it's short and to the point every 4 pages. You're not going to miss much if you're not intensely reading.

[babycarrier]

World War Z
Christopher Moore books - laugh out loud funny

[Aubergine68]

Originally Posted by farmlife

World War Z

Oh, yes! I was dreaming about the zombie apocalypse from that book just last night.

[Nitenites]

Just finished The Hunger Games. LOVED IT!