I've got a completely free day tomorrow and I want to spend it reading something I can't put down. I'm looking for a book that's totally absorbing and fast-paced, but not necessarily short just incredibly compelling.
The last book I read in a single sitting was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
What's a book you devoured in one day? Any genre is welcome!
by sokkyaaa
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I read “the 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared” in one day. It’s short, funny and at the same time incredibly engaging. Also a speed course through history. I loved it
A Short Stay in Hell
The Chess Player by Stefan Zweig, is incredible and largely doable in a day.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will either forcibly grab you by the lapels from page one and you’ll be in it to the end or it won’t click and you can try something else 😉
Sky Burial by Xinran.
Make your bed. You can read it in one go.
Water by John Boyne : short novella, can be read alone or as part of 4 book “Elements” series. All are excellent. Water tells story of a woman fleeing the public disgrace of her husband, by going to a remote island in Ireland. Each novella connects to previous as minor characters in one become major characters in next, but all work as standalone books.
The Correspondent – by Virgia Evans: tells the story of Sybil van Antwerp, a retired lawyer, by her letters. Starts cosy, but becomes gripping as various dramas, grief, loss, loves from her life are intertwined and revealed. I don’t normally especially like novels in form of letters, but this is excellent, moving, gripping, cathartic.
Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
The Martian by Andy Weir. Seriously.
The old man and the sea, cannery row and the little prince