page-turner

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But I think a lot of times when we talk about page-turner, we don’t really talk about the craft behind that, so I was wondering if you could share a little bit behind the process behind how you decided to structure the novel in this particular way.

From Salon

If you’re looking for a true-crime page-turner, I recommend “We Keep the Dead Close,” by Becky Cooper.

From New York Times

Finally published in six volumes by Oxford University Press in 2005 as “The Oxford History of Western Music,” it is an endlessly informative, often opinionated page-turner — all 4,272 pages of it.

From New York Times

And, as our son pointed out: “The book is still a page-turner.”

From Washington Post

More than 70 years after it became an instant publishing sensation and the first novel by a Black woman to sell more than a million copies, this page-turner is rightfully receiving a new wave of attention.

From New York Times