Books that consumed you...

[mrshandy]

I'm sure this is pretty common, but it's been a while since it's happened.

What books have you started that you could not put down? Like literally reading every spare moment you get?

I started And the Band Played On and I was not expecting to become so consumed by this book. I usually don't have that much time to read on the weekends chasing around my two-year old. But every minute I could I kept picking it up. It's a little out-dated, but it was fascinating and terribly depressing how the AIDS epidemic started.

[charlatti]

Most recently, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. It has mixed reviews but really resonated with me.

The Night Circus was another one, as was Dave Eggers' Zeitoun.

[mayflowers22]

Divergent trilogy!

[sporklemotion]

Most recently, Gone Girl, because I really wanted to know what was going on.

[mollymoe]

I agree about Gone Girl and the Night Circus. I didn't know who to believe in Gone Girl.

I bought a $2.99 Amazon book about a man and his boarder collie. I think it might be self published but I'm really liking it. It's called The Story of Rose. I don't know why I torture myself with dog stories.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

This past week, The Black Dagger Brotherhood series

Hunger Games trilogy

[kimsy]

Aug 13, 2012 10:38:22 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Most recently, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. It has mixed reviews but really resonated with me.

The Night Circus was another one, as was Dave Eggers' Zeitoun.

Zeitoun was so good. I got really into Born to Run, and also Gone With the Wind.

[MrsAxilla]

11/22/69 by Stephen King. Lu's his Dark Tower series. That one consumed me for years!

[chicacocodrilo]

The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter, Queen of America, all by Luis Alberto Urrea.

Next by James Hynes.

[Pippin]

I was completely hooked on Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. Probably my favorite book I've read this year. Before that the first Game of Thrones book and Hunger Games. I've missing getting completely obsorbed in a book. Maybe I'll give Gone Girl a chance or the rest of the Game of Thrones books.

[whitepicketfence]

The Night Circus, The Maze Runner, The Kingkiller Chronicles (The Name of the Wind and the Wise Man's Fear), Outlander series

[bluelikejazz]

Recently: 11/22/63

In the past: All the HP as soon as they came out (specifically 4-7).

[dvmmama]

I actually am this way with almost every book I read. It drives MH crazy. I stay up until 2am finishing a book a few times a month.

[duckduck]

The Outlander books were probably the most recent for me.

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The first two books in the Hunger Games series - could.not.put.them.down. The third, not so much.

The Crane Dances (about two sisters who are ballerinas in the same company).

The latest book from Something Borrowed's author Emily Giffin - Where We Are. I finished that in about 2 days.

[mrshandy]

Aug 15, 2012 17:08:37 GMT -5 @beachgal said:

The latest book from Something Borrowed's author Emily Giffin - Where We Are. I finished that in about 2 days.

I always read them super fast. I'm on the wait list at the library for the latest one. Can't wait!

[marytini]

I am currently reading These is My Words, and I am consumed by it. I even dreamed about it last night.

[Deleted]

11/22/63 and Water for Elephants. I am trying to make Madame Tussaud be a book like this for me, and I do really enjoy it, but it is not as fast paced as I usually read.

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The Book Thief

I am currently reading 11/22/63 and I am having a hard time putting it down.

[mx27]

outlander series

[flatlan]

The Thornbirds

[lemondrop]

Outlander (I've only read the first) was like crack for me. I.HAD.TO.FINISH. And when I was done, I swear I had the shakes for a week. The story really pulled me in.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the Sookie Stackhouse books really pulled me in. They're just so easy to read.