Name a book that you bought on sheer impulse and loved reading.
Name a book that you bought on sheer impulse and loved reading.
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Name a book that you bought on sheer impulse and loved reading.
Frozen Charlottes by Alex Bell
Amanda Hocking’s Trylle trilogy; Ember of the Ashes book 1 Sabaa Tahir; Autobiography of Jackie O. The Postcard
Trylle trilogy was a good read…
@Sairis agreed! ☺️ It was complete already so I just picked it up. ?
The one by John Marrs
@Rania I was about to put the exact same! Brilliant book.
Right? I wasn’t expecting much of it, but turned out to be great
I’ve got this on my shekf
@Haley Omg READ IT
The fall of giants. Ken follett.
Good one!
The shadow of the wind
It by Stephen king . Bought it 29 yrs ago and was what got me hooked on king. I like to read it at least once a year
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The Orphan’s tale by pam jenoff.. It’s a must read people.
Yes! A definite must read for everyone!
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
I need to pick that up!
The Prison Book club
Foe by Iain Reid.
The Martian! And Firefly Lane!
I am reading firefly lane right now and I’m kinda waiting for something to happen??
The Notebook…a million years ago.
Paris Architect
The Time Traveler’s Wife.
The Help
Christine Baker Kline
Off the Page by Jodi Picoult
Loved loved loved Off The Page!! and Between The Lines!
I know right! I’m a sucker for fairytales? ?
a court of thorns and roses
Fifty years of fear
Peyton place
AMERICANAH BY CHIMAMANDA
LOVED this one!! I haven’t read book 2 yet though.
“Prince Lestat” by Anne Rice
A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Hunger Games from Suzanne Collins
Robert Falconer by George MacDonald (The original is in broad Scots, so I translated it into English-see picture on the right.)
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard; Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey; Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White.
The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion
Yes that’s a fab read
The first book in the Land of Stories sweeties. One of my all time favorite series.
Evelina
Domain by Steve alten
Wizard of the North
To Catch a Thief by David Dodge.
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler.
Villa Trista by Lucretia Grindle
Following
Twilight I don’t like books that are popular so I put it off for years then I bought it and loved it
My only reads award winners, unless it’s a book I recommend.
The Power of Your Subconscious @Mind
I didn’t buy it so much as randomly grab it off of a shelf in the library. That’s a game for me when I want to try something new. The book was ‘Pied Piper’ by Nevil Shute. It was a really excellent book about World War II. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107315.Pied_Piper
He has a very interesting backlist. Have you read A Town like Alice, In the Wet or On the Beach
The White Queen, I had to read all of Philippa Gregory’s books after that
I was pulled in by The Other Boleyn Sister. I’ve read all her books now.
@Sunny The Other Boleyn Girl is my favorite. I was really surprised as I usually don’t like authors who put out a ton of books but she does it beautifully!!
The Night Circus! I absolutely loved every minute of that book.
Don’t remember the name of the author!
At home in Mittford
This book was only 25 cents.
I decided last minute to get it.
It was soooooo gooood!
The Daisy Children by Sofia Grant
Rosie Colored Glasses by
Brianna Wolfson
http://store.bookbaby.com/book/Eye-of-the-storm3
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory.
Perks of being a Wallflower, it was a impulse library pick.
Year Zero by Rob Reid
Where the Crawdads Sing by Della Owens…….loved it!
the color of justice, the cover got me at the libarary
Confessions of Confused Accountant. Scammed.
We are never meeting in real life
Human race get off your knees by David icke
The Outsider by Stephen @King!
Redemption Road by John Hart!
Written in red
Rhino hunt
The Goldfinch…quick grab by the register at the book shop and I love it!
The Martian Child. It was like eating a piece of candy. Short and sweet.
The Last Policeman… as sad as the story was, it was a great read. It’s the first book of a trilogy, just FYI,
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Six of Crows!
Six of Crows was a great surprise for me too.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Peasant Queen by Cheri Chelsey
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, because of its cover, in translated edition
Perfect justice. By william bernhardt read the entire series aftward!
Pretty much every single book minus a few
The Vagrant by Peter Newman
People of the Book, Witch of Portobello, Lost Recipe for Happiness, Discovery of Witches
Picturemaker. I had a delayed flight and finish all 300+ pages of the book I brought with ? and saw it at the little travel supply shop in the airport.
all the birds in the sky
Soulless by Gail Carriger. Gal at the bookstore said “she’s like Buffy in a corset” so I bought it on the spot without even reading the description. Now one of my favourite series. ??? (also how I discovered I liked Steampunk).
It’s a great series! As are the other series set in the same universe.
Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
The Mistress of Melyn by Victoria Holt
Coldest girl in coldtown
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin. Subject matter is Charles Lindburgh’s wife.
I loved that one too
7 Types of Ambiguty by Elliot Perlman – right up there with Atlas Shrugged and IQ84
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Italo Calvino „If on a Winter‘s night a traveller“
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_traveler
I have this on my shelf..and have tried reading this plenty of times, but failed ..
@Sairis I love this… A book that consists only of beginnings of books
@Walter yes..the plot of whoch interested me a lot, so bought it…and one day i hope i shall finish reading it
Ready Player One
The Greatest Miracle In The World- Og Mandino.
Covenant with the vampire (the whole series)
Crazy rich Aisans
I just bought that book, its next. Was it good
Have you seen the movie yet?
no
@Flo You should watch it, its quite humorous
The Address by Fiona Davis.
Wild Game by Alisa Woods.
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
I’ve got this but haven’t read yet…
@Haley I loved it! Definitely recommend it ?
I couldn’t get into that one at all
Two by two
“Salem’s Lot,” Stephen King
The Heir by Kiera Cass. Ok so I read the initial trilogy and didn’t want to continue but I saw it in Waterstones and it cried “buy me!” So I did and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Left Behind! I went on to read most of the series ?
The Other Boleyn Girl
Orphan Train!
The Cuckoo’s Calling
Magonia
Sarah’s Key
I’m Down. Story of white people living in a black neighborhood
How’s they like it? The family, I mean?
Next Year in Havana
The invention of wings as the cover was pretty lol. But turned out to be such a great book
Gone
Perfume
Author?
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Too many to mention..
I went into the dollar tree and bought broken juliet by Leisa Rayven and when I got home and read it I was like why was this at the dollar tree lol
Tiny Infinities
Shatter me
I haven’t read them yet ?
Ready Player One
Anything by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
I thought this was just so whimsical and great for any age group.
The Saga of Darren Shan.
The first book to the Ghost Files series just because I loved the cover.. now I own the whole series and I love it!!!
This one. And i loved it enough to buy the whole series
Mother Nature is Trying To Kill You by Dan Riskin
The Alienist
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Fear by Bob Woodward.
The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais.
The Great Alone. One of the best book purchases I’ve made this year.
I agree! One of my favorite reads this year!!
Too many to count!
Wendy Webb’s book The Vanishing, and now I wait anxiously for a new book by her. There is one right now I’m about to get,
@Sandra I love Wendy Webb.. Whats her new book title?
Woman in the Window
The War in Heaven (Eternal Warriors – Book I, by Theodore Beale. Wonderful read, and read the others after.