page-turner

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From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Indeed, even egregious perpetuation of the status quo is rarely a page-turner.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

Chika Unigwe’s touching page-turner “On Black Sisters Street” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s gripping “Americanah” offer different treatments of this subject of movement.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

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 Doctorow, Cory