We've all had those books where the first paragraph just hooks you completely and you end up reading way past your bedtime.
I'm looking for my next can't-put-it-down read. For me, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch was like that—the suspense started immediately.
What's a book that grabbed you from the very beginning and didn't let go? I'd love to hear your most compelling page-turners!
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Carter Beats the Devil!!
Restless by William Boyd
Humans – Matt Haig
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
Money – Martin Amis
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Dungeon Crawler Carl. I just started book #4.
Sisters Brothers
James
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer (non fic)
The Shining – Stephen King (fic)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (fic)
I picked up This is Happiness by Niall Williams. Laugh out loud funny and beautifully written. I was hooked from the very first page.
Watership Down.
had always known of the book thru the years but had never bothered to read it before.
Recently picked it up & couldn’t put it down once I started it.
Non-Fiction, *The River of Doubt* about Teddy Roosevelt’s exploration of a river that was believed to connect to the Amazon. He is leading an expedition to map the river, seeking redemption and adventure after losing the 1912 election.
From Amazon: Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
From me: I dreaded turning the page at the end of a chapter as I was fearful of what would happen next, yet I couldn’t stop reading. A fascinating true story.
These Broken Stars
Illuminae
Blind
The Thief Lord
Love Comes Softly
My Sister’s Keeper
Plane Truth
One Of Us Is Lying
This Is Our Story
The coldest winter ever
Red Rising. I rarely read sci-fi or dystopian, but this book grabbed me on page one and never let go.
Kindred by Octavia Butler. The action starts straight away and the stakes are so high you can’t stop reading.
Broken Country by Claire Leslie Hall
Most recently, it was The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Fate of the Fallen
Book of Koli
Servants of War
rectently
Kafka on the Shore
Tender is the Flesh
Blacktop Wasteland, by SA Cosby
In my life, only two books hit me that way…
First Blood by David Morell (the Movie sucked!)
And The Godfather by Mario Puzo
*White Oleander* – Janet Fitch
*The Secret History* – Donna Tartt
*Catcher in the Rye* – JD Salinger
*She’s Come Undone* – Wally Lamb
The Drinker — Hans Fallada
Hunger — Knut Hamsun
The Vegetarian- Han Kang
Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
On Chesil Beach — Ian McEwan
Tess of the Durbervilles — Thomas Hardy
Molly’s Game
The Way of Kings
Every Good Boy Does Fine (Jeremy Denk)
The Heroes (Joe Abercrombie)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
The Rehearsal (Eleanor Catton)
Sounds Like Titanic
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Last Chance to See
Demon Copperhead.
The Way of Kings for sure!