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[Jose]

In short i will be spending some time in the country in the middlemof nowhere with plenty of time to read or get bored...I need to bring along as many books as possible to help me through, in order to avoid dying of boredom... Could you please suggest good books to fill my hours?. I need easy readings, books that one cannot put it down, all genres welcome. But I look for really gripping stories, the ones that force you to keep on reading even when your eyes are about to pop out. I quoted The help because it has been one of the latest UNPUTDOWNABLES for me, but thrillers are also welcome...
Please not books that ard too full of descriptions...
thanks.

[Christina]

Outlander
A Time to Kill
The Secret Life of Bees
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Thorn Birds
Where the Heart Is
The Dead Zone

Those are the first that come to mind for me. Hope you'll like some of them.

[[deleted user]]

I often find many Agatha Christie books to be unputdownable. My favorite of her is And Then There Were None

Also, The Mysterious Benedict Society (though geared more for children) is quite a good read.

I do think that Christina recommended some very good books. You should check them out.

Hope this helps and have fun on your trip!

[Bridgette]

The Girls - Lori Lansens.

A Rural Affair - Catherine Alliot

Any of the Charmaine Harris books - light, fun, entertaining, and usually at least 4 books to a series.

Alex Cross novels usually keep me interested too when my eyes are tired - and again, you can get three or four in a row (I think the series is upwards of 20 books? More even?)

Fault in our Stars - John Green.

[Jeanine]

All of J D Robb's In Death Books

[Betty]

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (excellent, but big get e-book); Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese; Cold Mountain (Charles Frazer); Little Bee (Chris Cleave); The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Ayana Mathis); Where'd You Go Bernadette? (Maria Semple), The Rent Collector (Cameron Wright), anything P.D. James writes (mysteries); Walter Mosley's Detective Easy Rawlins series are quick reads and fun...Start with Devil in a Blue dress; If you like historical fiction try The Secret River, The Lieutenant, Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville the trilogy takes place in early Australia. Tuesdays with Morrie is a tear jerker by Mitch Albom and you probably know the story or have seen the movie, but it is still a great read. One of my all time favorites is Elizabeth George (an American mystery writer that writes like a Brit) start with A Great Deliverance (there are 20 that will keep you busy. Read in order. Michael Connelly is another great mystery writer and his Harry Bosch novels that are now grouped in one book series should keep you gone for a long time and you won't care if you are in the middle of nowhere. At least you won't be disturbed. Safe travels.

[Tasha]

A thousand splendid suns

[Gretchen]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

[Louis]

Book Thief. I read this to my wife and we both loved it.

[Lorna]

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

[Trisha]

The Book Thief, The Help, Gone With the Wind, and Lone Survivor. I couldnt put any of these down once I picked them up.

[Sprout117]

The two books that I definitely couldn't put down were
1) 11/22/63 by Stephen King (it's long enough to keep you busy for a very long time,my first Stephen King novel)
2) Night Film - also very long and unlike any other book that I've ever read (a bit scary)

Also recommended: the will trent series by Karin Slaughter and anything by Tana French or Gillian Flynn.

I just finished The Kitchen House which is very much like The Help, so you might enjoy this as well.

[Caroline]

The Glass Castle for sure, and I second Sprout's suggestion of books by Tana French and Gillian Flynn. (I haven't read the others she mentioned.)

[Gretchen]

I would now like to add Me Before You to my list.

[Laura]

*World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
*A Child Called "It"
*A Dog's Purpose

[[deleted user]]

This is such an amazing book on so many levels. So much I want to say about it but will just ponder a while longer on what and how i wish to say it but it is a "must read" book for its historical, cultural, socio-pyschologal and combined with the events of racial barriers being broken in the early 1960's it is a realistic view of how I saw America in that era.