For this post, we’re celebrating all those books that we can’t put down. We’re addicted, we’re reading til 2am, we are turning pages like we’ve forgotten we have housework, partners and families. Find a comfy spot, because you won’t be moving much! These are the books to read in one sitting.
Books to read in one sitting
First, I’d like to mention Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. If I haven’t forced recommended this book to you yet, please read it! This book got me out of a reading slump late last year. It is just so refreshing to have a main character who doesn’t have it all together. The drive to piece it all together kept me reading, but the wish to be a better person is what keeps me thinking about this story – someone who can befriend an Eleanor Oliphant. Read my review.
I finished The Hating Game by Sally Thorne last week. I thought, when I picked it up, that it would just be a little bit of fun – a romantic comedy about co-workers. But I was surprised that I got really invested in Lucy and Joshua. They are complex characters with interesting motivators. They are competitive to the death and the tension is unbearable!
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson was recommended to me by a friend who read this in a day. It is a little outside of my usual reading, but it is not a bad thing to get out of your comfort zone. It is a YA Fantasy story about a girl, Elisabeth, who grew up in a magical library. She gets caught up in a centuries-old conspiracy and has to kick some serious a$$. This was a book to escape into for a while, an enchanted alternate past where brooding heroes fall in love, where libraries have a special power and where friends fight for each other.
This is the 4th stop on the Autumn Blog Hop.
This is what the other book bloggers had to say…
Alix Maza at https://apintsizedlifeblog.com
No Exit by Taylor Adams or The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter- Both are thrillers and deal with some touchy content, but the writing is so suspenseful! These two books had me furiously turning pages and canceling plans so I could read to see what happens.
Jo Linsdell www.JoLinsdell.com
I was lucky enough to get sent an ARC of The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney, and wow! I couldn’t put this book down! I loved The Girl Before but The Perfect Wife was even better. A psychological thriller with technology blended into the mix.
About the book: When Abbie Cullen met Tim Scott, she was a struggling artist and he was the brilliant British co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful start-ups.
Within six months, they were married. But when she promised him in her wedding vows that she would love him forever, she had no idea just how literally he would take it…
Leslie Conzatti www.upstreamwriter.blogspot.com
Ha! Well, ever since I took a speed-reading course in college, the more invested I get into a book, the faster I’ll read, and the harder it is to stop–even when it’s so late that I can’t keep my eyes open! In my opinion, “any book can be read in a single sitting–provided that sitting is long enough!”
Some books that I’ve read in a single sitting are:
The Forgotten Sisters, the third book in the Princess Academy series by Shannon Hale. Yes, it’s a kid’s novel–I was only going to read a couple chapters one afternoon… but darned if every chapter left me hanging so I just had to keep going into the next one! Before I knew it, I’d finished the entire book!
The Hunger Games, by Susanne Collins, just when it was about to go really big. A friend recommended it to me, and so I got it from the library–and once again, I started reading and I found the concepts so fascinating and the story so intriguing that I just couldn’t stop reading!
Most recently, I read the book Pride, by Ibi Zoboi. It’s a modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, about an Afro-Latino family living in Brooklyn–and I definitely read it in the course of a two-hour car trip! It was brilliant! All the hallmarks of the original novel were there–but shiny and brand-spanking-new and repurposed into modern sensibilities that still managed to align with the story Miss Austen endeavored to tell two centuries ago!
Robin Taylor https://www.robinlovesreading.com
This is a very difficult question for me to answer. The reason why is I read about 90% of my books in one sitting. I gently read a book every morning when I wake up and then I read another book in the afternoon and then maybe half a book before I go to bed. This is my daily routine on most days. However, I deal with bad health and there are days that I don’t read at this rate. Currently I have read 59 books for August so you have an idea that there is no way I can list any books for this question. I will say generally, that any Amish romance that I read is always a one-sitting read. Those books, although I don’t get to read as many as I would like, get me like no other book does. And the stories are so sweet that I just cannot put the book down until I finish it.
Elizabeth Means https://spookysmaze.blogspot.com
Some books you’ll want to read in one sitting:
Puppy Love by Lucy Gilmore
Puppy Christmas by Lucy Gilmore
Justified by Jay Crownover
Sweet Wild Of Mine by Laurel Kerr
Deadly Obsession by April Hunt
Just to name a few and they are all romance!
I hope you can find a book to read in one sitting, or even over a few days. There are heaps of great recommendations here.
Yesterday’s post was all about books that made us cry.
Then tomorrow we are discussing books to read when you really need a laugh.
Have you read any of these? Have you had a book you couldn’t put down recently?