10 books you just can't stop reading

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Not all books are able to captivate the reader from the first pages and keep them in suspense and ignorance until the very end. But these 10 books will definitely not let you break away from reading for a couple of minutes. They can be "swallowed" literally whole and until the very last line the reader will be in tension and ignorance.

1. The novel "Amsterdam"

writer Ian McEwanClive and Vernon are two bosom friends, successful, quite young and smart. Clive is a very talented composer and Vernon is the editor of a major newspaper. Their friendship seemed indestructible, and after learning about the death of a woman named Molly, who was their common love in the past, they conclude a strange agreement between themselves, which states that if one of them is struck by the same terrible disease that killed Molly, the other will order euthanasia for him. But after several incidents, friendship collapses, people who were once dear to each other become enemies, and wishing to take revenge, they secretly order euthanasia for each other …

2. The novel "The Collector"

writer John FowlesFrederick Clegg is one of those people who are called "gray mouse", he works as an ordinary clerk in a government office and his only hobby is collecting butterflies. He is not interested in the people around him, no one pays attention to him, and especially Miranda, with whom he is secretly in love. But one day fate turns to Frederick "face", making the right bet on the races, he wins a huge amount of money.

He sends all his relatives to rest in another country, and he himself buys a nice house in the wilderness, far from people. He would live in peace, but he decides to kidnap Miranda, which he successfully accomplishes. The second part of the book is written on behalf of the kidnapped girl, who at first is afraid of Clegg, but then realizes how unhappy and insignificant he is, and pity for him awakens in her soul. What awaits her next?..

3. The tale of "Billy Milligan's Multiple Minds"

writer Daniel KeyesBilly Milligan is an unusual person, 24 different personalities coexist in his body, which are radically different from each other. Among them there are adults and children, and creative subtle natures, and villains. Because of them, Billy cannot control his actions, most of the time he is not subject to himself, which is why he goes to prison for rape, but Billy did not do this …

4. Detective "Broken Dolls"

writer James CarolJefferson Winter is the son of one of America's most famous serial killers, and in order to get rid of such a "legacy", Winter becomes a detective, and not just a simple serial murder consultant, helping the police solve complex cases. After all, he knows the logic of serial killers like no one else … A new case - a psychopath catches young girls and lobotomizes them, and Jefferson is obliged to find him as quickly as possible, because not everything that is broken can be repaired …

5. Science fiction "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

writer Douglas AdamsArthur Dent did not even suspect the existence of other civilizations until they decided to demolish his house. He lies on the way of the bulldozer, but at this moment his friend named Ford comes, who reports that he is an alien from another world and very soon the Earth will be destroyed to build an intergalactic road. At the very last moment before the destruction of the Earth, friends manage to get on the ship of other aliens, where they are tortured for illegal entry, and then thrown into space, but even then they manage to escape. Since then, Arthur and Ford's incredible journey across the galaxy begins.

6. Detective "The One Who Has Done"

writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narsejac (Boileau-Narsejac)"The One Who Has Gone" is a classic detective story that attracts with its brevity and ease of writing, and also does not let go until the very end. It happens in life that it seems as if you have found "your" person, you fall in love, start a family, but eventually you realize that this is a completely stranger. And the further - the worse, at first you just hate this creature nearby, and then you wish its speedy death. The same thing happened with the main character of this work, which is why he is plotting the murder of his wife, but life is a difficult thing, and everything turned out to be not as simple as he thought …

7. The story "Remembering my sad sh … x"

writer Gabriel García MárquezThe main character of the book all his life fled from serious feelings, from family and children, it seemed to him more reasonable to pay for quality sex than to give his heart to someone. On the day of his 90th birthday, he summons a young girl with whom he falls in love. At that moment, he remembers and realizes his whole life, analyzes it and regrets that he fell in love on the "threshold of death" …

8. The novel "The Creator of Angels"

writer Stephen BraceThe book "Angel Maker" brings up a very popular topic of cloning, but it cannot be called ordinary. The main character of the work is a little boy with Asperger's Syndrome, an orphan who is brought up in a monastery. No one expected that a genius would grow out of him, but very evil and cruel. He named his three children after the names of the archangels, but their behavior is close to the devil - all the villagers are in fear of them. Who is to blame for this? Brains' work conveys to readers the essence of faith, social and humanitarian responsibility of a person before the whole world.

9. Detective "Snowman"

writer J. NesbeHole Harry is a Norwegian detective who investigates the seemingly ordinary murders of married women. But his tenacious mind finds a connection between these murders with others that happened long before that. All the women were killed when the first snow fell, they were all married, they had children, and there was always a snowman at the scene of the murder. Other detectives could not tie it together, but Hole understands that all these murders are the work of a serial maniac. Since then, he began his "hunt" for the killer, who was given the nickname "Snowman".

10. The novel "The Thirteenth Tale"

writer Diana SetterfieldMargaret Lee is an ordinary seller in a bookstore, sometimes she wrote literary works, she published some of them, but she never stood out in anything and nobody was interested in her work. That is why she was extremely surprised when the popular writer Vida Winters asked her to write her autobiography.

Before meeting Vida, Margaret sincerely considered her works "thoughtless scribbling", but during her stay at her estate, she changes her mind. She finds a book of Vida Winters called "Thirteen Tales" with her father, but the thirteenth is not in it. And Margaret has to learn this tangled, but such an interesting story while writing her autobiography, which turns out to be the very unpublished "fairy tale".