10 Books I Couldn’t Put Down

I don’t know what my favourite book is, but the following are books I read at various times of my life that, at the time, I couldn’t put down. Most of them I finished in maybe one sitting – definitely no more than two or three – perhaps whilst lying ill in bed or on holiday.

Some of them I’ve read over and over again, two of them I’ve only read once (one of those because it’s not yet available on Kindle and I don’t buy paper books any more)

Most of them are expertly crafted, one of them is appallingly written. All but two have very good stories, half of them are strongly plotted, three of them are character driven, three of them made me laugh out loud, three of them made me smile, four of them had me on the edge of my seat, none of them made me cry. Maybe three of them would get into my top ten books ever.

In no particular order…

• Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keys
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
• The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Complicity by Iain Banks
• A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• The Rainmaker by John Grisham
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown