ISO books that are hard to put down once begun. It can be a little difficult at times to get into a book and remain there without my attention wandering elsewhere. I would love something that might hold my interest from start to finish.
Books that have been a hit for me:
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell – full of zany family antics, humour, and scientific observations, the descriptions of which were also quite humorous. Hard to stop reading
Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck – very enjoyable travelogue
There’s no Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura – MC goes from one job to the next in search of the perfect easy job. Loved the descriptions of each of her roles and observations
Not looking for sci-fi, fantasy, or romance and also nothing existential or dark, please. Thrillers are fine as long as well written, and would like to avoid sexual assaults in my reads.
by Neon_Aurora451
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Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum
And then there were none by Agatha Christie
A Gentleman in Moscow
Anything by James Herriot – he was a vet in Yorkshire for fifty years and he wrote several books of funny or moving anecdotes
Angela’s Ashes (and its sequel Tis) by Frank McCourt (he wrote a few more as well) – very warm and funny autobiography despite his tough childhood in Limerick
Thursday Murder Club? 🙂 I zoomed through that one.
Anything by Rose George, Judy Melinek, Caitlin Doughty, or Mary Roach.
“The Gift of Fear” (a very important read) by Gavin De Becker.
“Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital” by Sheri Fink.
I just read The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber and loved it. It’s a true story and the author has a writing style I really enjoyed.