What books kept your attention from page one? #books #reading

[StrangeQuack]

"Memory of Water" by Emmi Itäranta, I've read it yesterday. Just wanted to do 2-3 hours reading and then some housework... Well... Put on "dark fantasy cello music for deep focus" and give it a go! Eerie, poetic, dystopian, catching in it's strange beauty, Emmi writes beautifully. Couldn't stop!

[lizfricker]

Lulu Dean's Little Library of Banned Books which I just finished is one that is going to live in my brain rent free for a while.

[wewillrust]

Recently, The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison and The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

[annirose]

Sayaka Murata - Konbini ningen it is amazing

[juliasokol]

Flowers for Algernon! The narration is intriguing from the start :-)

[Barryislarge]

Sodergren's the Haar really did that for me. Muriel is a queen

[ThePortjumper]

Recently? Dungeon Crawler Carl. A page-turner and just so downright absurd and easily digestible. I had a lot of fun reading that.

[rachel]

For me it was The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher.

[danielaweberdani]

recently it was convenience
store woman, i read it in a day
torn between loving her and
just relating to her to tears,
thanks for the rec, btw. 😊

[AerisVideos]

About a month ago I took Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer from the library, and I started to read it in the car while my partner grabbed something from the grocery store, and I was HOOKED from page one. I could barely put it down in the car so I wouldn’t get motion sickness when we started driving again.

[Rinn]

The picture of Dorian gray, Frenchman’s creek, and the diviners. ❤

[leenakoponen]

The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland ( witchy, dark and one of my favourite reads this year). Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Stevens and Little Thieves by Margaret Owen also. And just finished A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, could not put it down!

[scal]

Older book, but for me it was Dawn by Octavia Butler. The first page alone raised a ton of questions I wanted answered, and as the book went on I was on the edge of my seat to see what would happen.

[berserkley]

Last Call, by Tim Powers
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson

[sarahj]

Its not out yet but i read the first draft. Its called for whom the bell tolls by Jaysea Lynn

[gabbyguevara]

We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer had that grip on me

[Joeyolwagen]

Empire of the Vampire, the first page sets a tone for the world like nothing else I've ever read.

[PumpkinMozie]

I first heard about this book from Emily Fox’s channel. She absolutely loved this book and now you did too…I need to pick it up already haha

[GentleReader]

Clive Barker, Weaveworld. “Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment from which this or any other story springs…” followed immediately by engaging action and characterization. Also, The Damnation Game, with a peculiar bit of gambling amid the ruins in 1945 Germany.

Also, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Diving Universe series, which has kept me moving through more than a dozen novellas and novels, each strongly opening with solid hooks and rewarding my attention each time.

[Keeva-]

Cosmic Banditos, A C Weisbecker. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault. The entire Boudica series, Manda Scott. Pet Sematary, Stephen King. Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte Mcconaghy. The Loop, Nicolas Evans.