Can't Put it Down

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Looking to building a list of "Can't Put it Down" novels.

Would love your suggestions

[Richardo]

1. I read 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' in one day...

...stated it in the morning while I was between customers cashiering at Barnes & Noble. I read that book every spare minute at work, and finished it up at home after my shift.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. wow. what's it about?

[Richardo]

4. 15 year old autistic boy strives to solve the 'murder' of a neighbor's dog...

...and in the process learns a lot about his family, as well as the outside world. Set in England, written in the first person from the boy's POV. Very funny and poignant.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. thanks for sharing...I'll get it

[Curmudgeoness]

26. That was a really interesting book. I loved it too. nt

[panader0]

3. 'The Given Day' by Dennis Lehane

He's the author of "Mystic River'. 'The Given Day' is an historical novel set in post WWI Boston.

[Richardo]

5. I just finished that one.

Fantastic book.

Pretty topical too, given that the public sector unions just forming in the novel are now under fire from the right.

[japple]

15. I liked it, too. The characters were very likeable--most of them,

anyway.

[monmouth]

6. "The Bretheren"...Grisham... Could. Not. Put. Down...n/t

[Poiuyt]

37. Nice to hear

I picked up The Brethren the other day at a used book store. I can't wait to start.

[raccoon]

7. "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart. I read it within 24 hours. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. yikes....what's it about..if you don't mind sharing

[raccoon]

11. EARTH ABIDES is a post-apocalptic novel.

Ish, a CA college student, is one of a few survivors after a plague engulfs the world, killing off most of the population.

Ish travels around the US, looking for other survivors. Ultimately, he does hook up with some.

The author tells in sort of documentary style, what happens as the years pass by without humankind's intervention. How domesticated animals fare. How buildings gradually deteriorate. And so on.

It's a real good read, especially if you are into post-apocalyptic stuff.

[SheilaT]

18. It's also very interesting in that it was written nor very

long after WWII, and it shows. There's a fascinating aspect to the novel because the technology of that era was so vastly different from the technology of our era. I've read it several times, the first probably around 1965, and it holds up quite well.

[fadedrose]

16. Racoon! Where in the heck you bin? eom

[raccoon]

20. I've been around....maybe not on this forum so much.

:hi:

[jannyk]

23. One of my all time favourite books!

Hi Raccoon! Come back and join us.

:hi:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Would like to add "Manhunt"

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
James L. Swanson (Author)

It reads like a novel and you can't put it down. Amazingly, the author walks a very fine line between both sides, you find yourself actually almost rooting for Wilkes to escape...despite the fact that you abhor what he did...and despite the reality that you know he did get caught.

[sharp_stick]

12. Room by Emma Donoghue

I finished it in about three days but I have 3 kids so that's like finishing it one for a normal person. ;-)

The writing from the perspective of the five year old boy kind of caught me off guard but it was fantastic

http://www.amazon.com/Room-Novel-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0316098337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297176965&sr=8-1

[abluelady]

13. While I Finished It Quickly, Too

I have to say there were times when I had to close the book because it bothered me. Tried to recommend it to a friend last night but the more I told her, the more she said, it probably wasn't for her, yet I'm sure she would find it fantastic!

[sharp_stick]

17. It did have it's moments didn't it

there were parts where I wasn't sure I wanted to continue. You can't give into the temptation to ditch this book half way through if you hope to enjoy it.

[tech9413]

14. My favoirites

Dean Koontz " Dark Rivers of the Heart" and Homer Hickam's "Back to the Moon". They both focus on the darker aspects of a government not under the control of the people and how an individual effort can fight back.

[SheilaT]

19. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The first fifty pages were a little slow, but only a little, and after that I could not put it down. Amazing book.

[pscot]

21. The Baroque Trilogy

by Neal Stephenson. Almost 3000 pages and I read it straight through. I think it's the best thing I've read in the past couple of years, but, as always, it's a question of taste.

[The Roux Comes First]

22. I Have Savored Several Stephenson's:

Including Crypt. Just out of curiosity, how long did that 3,000 pages take you?? And how did it/they compare to Cryptonomicon?

[pscot]

30. I would guess about 3 weeks

but it's been a while. I haven't read Cryptonimicon, but it's on my list.

[YankeyMCC]

24. "River of Gods" "East of Eden"

[japple]

25. Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna and David Bradley's

The Chaneysville Incident.

[JitterbugPerfume]

29. I also reccomend The Lacuna.

It is a womderful book

[Curmudgeoness]

27. As a slow reader, this doesn't happen often. "Salem's Lot"

by Stephen King was the first book I read in one day, and it is still one of the few I could not put down even to eat.

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. A Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood

and Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

[Curmudgeoness]

36. Why didn't I read this book before? The title did not sound interesting.

I have a list of books to read from this thread, and since I loved Poisonwood Bible, I put The Handmaid's Tale at the top. I am reading it now can thank you for the suggestion. What a good book!

[Mz Pip]

31. The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein. The narrator is the family dog.

[krispos42]

32. "World War Z", "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump", "The Eyre Affair",

"The Big Over Easy", the first four books of the "Lost Regiment" series.

[Jim__]

33. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Heidi Durrow.

The book title is both literal and metaphorical.

The girl, she is the daughter of an African American seviceman and a small town Danish woman who meet and marry in Europe and start a family. After they split-up, the woman moves to the United States, to Chicago. She doesn't know that her children are "black", but, she soon learns. The girl of the title is the one that survives.

This is Durrow's debut novel and I thought there were some shortcomings toward the end of the book. But, once I started reading, I read straight through.

[JeffersonChick]

34. Here's a few that come to mind

From my reading over the past year:

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Tomato Rhapsody - Adam Schell
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
American Taliban - Pearl Abraham
We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

[MaineDem]

35. I read "The Andromeda Strain" non-stop overnight

Could not put it down. That was many many years ago but it's the last book I remember literally not being able to put down.

[Paladin]

38. "Deliverance" by James Dickey.

Read the book---even if you saw the movie.........

[donheld]

39. Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series

Start with Postmortem. They're great.