50+ Books That Can Make You Forget About Food and Sleep
Have you ever read a book that was so good at making you interested in the lives of its characters that you forgot about all of your troubles and the only thing you wanted was to find out what would happen next?
Bright Side made a compilation of books like this, that can hook any reader’s attention and even separated them into several categories. Fair warning: They won’t let go until you finish them.
Explore the human soul
1. Nic Pizzolatto. Galveston
2. Fredrik Backman. The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella
3. George Orwell. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
4. Kazuo Ishiguro. An Artist of the Floating World
5. J. M. Coetzee. Life & Times of Michael K
6. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie
7. François Mauriac. Thérèse Desqueyroux
8. Victor Hugo. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
9. André Gide. The Counterfeiters
10. Michael Frayn. Headlong
Travel to a different time
11. Fiona Mozley. Elmet
12. Honoré de Balzac. Cousin Bette
13. Gustave Flaubert. Sentimental Education
14. Doris Lessing. The Memoirs of a Survivor
15. Evelyn Waugh. A Handful of Dust
16. Stefan Zweig. The Post Office Girl
17. Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar
18. Octave Mirbeau. The Diary of a Chambermaid
19. Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil
20. Guy de Maupassant. A Woman’s Life (Une Vie)
See different aspects of love
21. Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry. Five Feet Apart
22. Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince
23. J. M. Ledgard. Submergence
24. John Irving. A Widow for One Year
25. Bianca Marais. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
26. Sara Gruen. Riding Lessons
27. Romain Gary. Promise at Dawn
28. Julian Barnes. Love, etc.
29. Sarah Waters. Fingersmith
30. Karen White. Dreams of Falling
Experience a rush of adrenaline
31. Delphine de Vigan. Based on a True Story
32. Theresa Driscoll. I Am Watching You
33. Rachel Caine. Killman Creek
34. Arthur Hailey. Detective
35. Mary Torjussen. Gone Without a Trace
36. Ryū Murakami. Piercing
37. Elfriede Jelinek. The Piano Teacher
38. Alex Michaelides. The Silent Patient
39. Cara Hunter. In the Dark
40. Samuel Bjørk. The Boy in the Headlights
41. Niccolò Ammaniti. Me and You
Dive into mysticism
42. Stephen King. Carrie
43. Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The Angel’s Game
44. Peter Ackroyd. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
45. Diane Setterfield. Once Upon a River
46. Patrick Modiano. Missing Person
47. John Ajvide Lindqvist. Little Star
48. Christine Lynn Herman. The Devouring Gray
Investigate a mysterious crime
49. Agatha Christie. Murder on the Orient Express
50. Robert Rick McCammon. Swan Song
51. William Wilkie Collins. The Law and the Lady
52. Jean-Christophe Grangé. The Crimson Rivers
53. Kate Atkinson. Case Histories
54. Alan Bradley. A Red Herring Without Mustard
55. Caroline Kepnes. You
Which of these books have you already read?
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