page turners
Can't-stop-reading books
Page turners are books so compelling you can't stop reading—you keep turning pages to find out what happens next.
The term applies especially to thrillers, mysteries, and suspense novels: Her latest novel is a real page turner.
By extension, anything gripping enough to hold attention qualifies: The documentary was a page turner from start to finish.
- thrillersGripping suspense works
- grippingHolding attention completely
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- bestsellersTop-selling books
- unputdownableImpossible to stop reading
can't put down · riveting · novels · cliffhangers · plot twist · compulsive · addictive · hooks · twists · engrossing · edge of seat · chapters · midnight · late night reading · flashlight · guilty pleasure · paperbacks · mysteries
- assistive deviceswheelchair, glasses, wheelchairs, eyeglasses, walkers
- bestsellersbestsellers, bestseller list, bestseller lists, chart-toppers, blockbusters
- book listsbook lists, reading lists, bestsellers, must-reads, reading list
- light readinghumor, comedy, jokes, romance novels, mysteries
- pulp fictionpulp, pulp fiction, pulp magazines, pulp novels, dime novels
- bookstores in literatureused bookstores, shop owners
page turnersslow burns
Gradually escalating narratives
literary fiction · Finnegans Wake · experimental fiction · modernist novels · Ulysses
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