Books that are Page Turners

xaeniac

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Any books that you really enjoyed that are true page turners? I will start it off.

NonFiction:
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
in the garden of beasts

Fiction:
Mitch Rapp Series
 

GagHalfrunt

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Dan Brown and John Grisham are the kings of page turners. The books suck, but with a mini-cliffhanger at the end of every 3-page-long chapter they keep their fans lips moving.
 

LookBehindYou

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The Borne Identity
Jurassic Park
Harry Potter series


Came in here to say this one. Still one of the best books I've read as far as not being able to put it down. I think I read it in about 5 days when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Definitely worth reading.
 

SphinxnihpS

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"Page-turner" has a VERY negative connotation.

Here are some books off the top of my head, that I could not put down from page 1:

Demian
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse Five
Snow Crash
Midnight's Children
The Satanic Verses
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Narcissus and Goldmund
Steppenwolf
Breakfast of Champions
Unreal City: Stories
A Confederacy of Dunces
Neuromancer
Misery
The Shining
What is Told
Brave New World
The Catcher in the Rye
Deliverance
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Good Earth
Fight Club
House of Leaves
All the Pretty Horses
Papillon
Nine Stories + Franny and Zooey
Frankenstein
 

Possessed Freak

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Came in here to say this one. Still one of the best books I've read as far as not being able to put it down. I think I read it in about 5 days when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Definitely worth reading.
I read this in one sitting. It was a very bad thing for me as I was a kid at the time and it was a school day. I *could not* put the book down.

Others that hooked me badly:
Starship Troopers
Hunt for Red October
Ender's Game
 

ControlD

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Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard

It may have been a terrible movie but the book is damned near impossible to put down.
 

randomrogue

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Most of Game of Thrones. Book 4 blows.
The Twilight Series
Harry Potter Series
Hunger Games Series
Da Vinci Code
Anne Rice books can be pretty good. I read the books about witches and the some of her vampire books.
Bram Stokers Dracula
Mary Shellys Frankenstein
I liked Jurassic Park. I can't remember if I liked the second one though.