Books so good you just couldn't put down

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For me, a book series that I couldn’t put down is the Hunger Games. From start to finish, these books captured me in a high-stakes, suspenseful story. I dropped everything else just to read these books as fast as I possibly could.
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I couldn't put down Jane Eyre the first time I read it! It's still one of my favorites. It's definitely harder for me to find time to binge a book these days, and it's even harder to find a book that I actually want to binge.
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Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris. Just when you think you have an idea of what is going on in this book, there is another twist that leaves you stunned. Total page turner.
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Just recently I found myself unable to put down a book! I bought a copy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to reread (although it's a play, it was published in book format). It's my favorite of his works--so funny with such great lines--and I couldn't get myself to stop reading.
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Honestly, I couldn’t put down the Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the entire series of it. It really caught my interest, and I have to say, the movie does not do it justice.
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That was the Harry Potter series for me! I started reading it and I used to miss it so much throughout the day that I used to wait for night to come just so I could get back to my book. Although in retrospect, that happens with a lot of books. :lol:
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Yup, there are definitely some books which you just can't put down.
I went through this phase with the Alex Rider series and the Jack Reacher series. I was so captivated and engrossed that I simply could not put it down.
Also recently with Mitch Albom's The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto. I started and finished that book on the plane in one seating! It is one of the best books I've ever read!
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This happens to me all the time. I think the most memorable would have to be "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. But that book was so long that I had split it up into a few over summer vacation for survival's sake.
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The crime fiction series by J.K Rowling under her pen name Robert Gailbraith known as the Cormoran Strike Series are totally unput downable.
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The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger. I read it in two days when I was 17. I felt it spoke directly to my teenager self and it understood me. I found it both funny and sad and so very interesting and daring.
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The crucifix killer had me glued till the end. It is a one time read though.
The liveship trader series was pretty good too.
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When it first came out, I was completely captivated by Thirteen Reasons Why. This was before the Netflix series came out. I would actually walk along while reading (which I'm really bad at) and I would get into trouble for reading during class. I read that book in two days. I couldn't put it down!
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Most of the Agatha Christie and James Patterson books have that effect on me. I also couldn't put the book The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello down while reading.
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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas was 800 pages, but I barely noticed the length because I flew through it so quickly! This also happened with the Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, I was completely enthralled while reading that book and even when I reread it, I hardly realize how dense the book actually is.
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I'll list down some of the books that I just couldn't put down:

1. Harry Potter
2. Rick Riordan's work (he really likes to give his reader a cliffhanger)
3. Inkheart
4. Memory Man
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