What's the best page turner you ever read?

[Onlooker]

I love page turners, from Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent to Caleb Carr's The Alienist, but my favorite is probably Quincunx, by Charles Palliser. It's over 800 pages of small type, but that's what made it so wonderful. I don't think I ever read a book that kept me up until 4 a.m. night after night, until exhaustion finally set in. Reading that book was a memorable experience.

[BlueIris]

1. "House of Sand and Fog," by Andre Dubus, III.

Finished it in like, three hours.

[blue neen]

2. Lonesome Dave by Larry McMurtry

and Texas by James Michener.

...also loved The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear blue neen.......

Don't you mean "Lonesome Dove"?

:hi:

[blue neen]

11. OMG!

I can't believe I typed "Dave". That's hilarious!

Thanks for the catch, CalPeg! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Onlooker....

I really enjoyed "The DaVinci Code." :hide:

[supernova]

5. Two: The Keep and The Eight

I love LOVED both of those and neither one has been made into a decent movie.

The Keep is a horror novel set in a WWII Romanian castle. The Amis win it from the Nazis, but .... something's been eating the Nazis.... The Amis don't believe them that there's something wrong with the castle. Little do they know...

The Eight is part puzzle book, part murder mystery... part history novel and runs on two tracks... The modern day story is a bank programmer who finds a riddle she must solve. The history part goes all the way back to Charlemagne's chess set.

[hippywife]

12. I read The Eight

many, many years ago and loved it. I might have to read it again. :hi:

[supernova]

24. I was thinking that same thing

I saw a newly published version in the bookstore the other day and it seemed.... slimmer than the original. I remember the original as quite thick. This newer one seemed more slimmed down. I hope they didn't cut a lot out of it. :P

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Every Andrew Vachss. I've picked up the last several at the library as

soon as possible after they came out. The librarian would say that I only have it for a week; I'd always reply, "I don't think that's going to be a problem." Even when the plots went all "Burke vs the World Crime League" Vachss' narrative pull never let up.

[Brigid]

7. "The Da Vinci Code."

A near-perfect page-turner.

[Common Sense Party]

21. Really? I could barely get through it. nt

[Arkham House]

8. Seconded and Thirded...

...for "The Quincunx"...I spent two ecstatic weeks with it, and regard it as one of the supreme reading experiences of my life...always love to hear someone else who's a fan. But I'd still have to say that it's only tied for #1, with "Lord of the Rings"...talk about a page-turner...

[Mz Pip]

9. "Memoirs of an Invisible Man"

Tne movie sucked but the book was terrific. It's very long and I was up late into the night and couldn't put it down during the day.

I read it about 15 years ago and still remember it.

Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent was good, too.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[El Fuego]

29. Yes. Yes. Yes!!!

"Memoirs of an Invisible Man" -- reading that is an experience I will never forget. :)

[Lex]

10. Jonathan Kellerman. All of his

Alex Deleware series are page turners.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Oh, ABSOLUTELY!

Those are wonderful stories!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

30. Jonathan Kellerman is one of my fave page-turner authors!!

Have you read any of Faye Kellerman's books (his wife)? The Peter and Rina Decker series? They are also very good.

[hippywife]

13. I thought

A People's History of the United States was a great page turning read. I just kept saying "Oh my god!" and reading excerpts to my husband all the way through.

[ashling]

14. Congratulations!

you are one of the few people left in this country who has not developed the disgustingly annoying habit of using the word the word READ as a noun. :)

[Southsideirish]

15. "Ripley's Game" or "The Talented Mr. Ripley" - basically anything by

the brilliant author, Patricia Highsmith.

[StellaBlue]

16. The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Excellent. Everyone in the bookstore was ensnared by it simultaneously.

[Xipe Totec]

17. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Also loved the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars epic by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[Va Lefty]

18. "The Stand" by Stephen King

I couldn't wait to find out what happened next, but didn't want the story to end.

[txwhitedove]

27. Agree, at that time The Stand, and The Exorcist...

now Da Vinci Code.  One of favorites is Barbarians at the
Gate.

[Ivan Sputnik]

19. "The Woman in White"

by Wilkie Collins. A classic. Another great one of his is "The Moonstone."

[StellaBlue]

20. Would you believe

I have a masters in English, and my specialization is the Victorian/Modern transition. And I haven't read that.

[Ivan Sputnik]

22. You're really missing something

Collins practically invented the page-turner.

[StellaBlue]

25. Will put that on my list for the trip to the library tomorrow

:)

Thanks for the long-overdue reminder, pun intended.

[Common Sense Party]

23. "The Alienist" was great. nt

[arwalden]

26. I Knew I Gal In High School Named "Page Turner".

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. I'm not embarrassed: Harry Potter...

Either that or any Patricia Cornwell book with Kay Scarpetta.
Duckie

[qnr]

32. Hmmm "The Far Pavilions" by M.M. Kaye - and it turned out to be the only

historical romance I really cared for-I tried others, even by her, and I just wasn't interested.

[alphafemale]

33. The way Stephen King first released "The Green Mile"

A few chapters every month or so...

I'm used to reading a book in a few days and that forced reading over months drove me batty.

I obsessed over that story for what was an unnatural amount of time for me

[In_The_Wind]

34. The Sleeping Beauty Chronicles