page-turner
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It is newly arrived in paperback, and a perfect summer page-turner.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
She might profitably have removed the scaffolding of the research, avoided extraneous detail and produced more of a page-turner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
This account has no great literary merit, but it’s an undeniable page-turner with utility to anyone contemplating the lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
The story: This epic page-turner is about a family derailing and the secrets they keep.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Tim O’Reilly Publisher and Founder, O’Reilly and Associates Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in it.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Emily was followed by a slew of page-turners in similar, breathy vein: Bella, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
Her true genre is uplifting, forward-thinking, character-driven science fiction: cozy page-turners attuned to diplomacy, tea drinking, alien minds and the urgent power of self-definition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Ackerman juggles literary fiction with speculative detours and military page-turners like “2034,” which imagines a future conflict with China.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
There’s a reason so many of these books are dubbed page-turners.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2020
I love page-turners, especially when they are as unusual as this novel.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
