page-turner
Example Sentences
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“Red Carpet” was a New York Times Editors' Choice, called a "page-turner" by Foreign Affairs, and named one of the best books ever written about Hollywood by Esquire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
The Guardian's Anthony Cummins said the book was "truly wonderful – a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney’s richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements".
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024
Indeed, even egregious perpetuation of the status quo is rarely a page-turner.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024
The sale of Simon & Schuster appears to be nearing a suspenseful conclusion, like the final chapter of a page-turner from one of the country’s largest and most prestigious publishing houses.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 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 Doctorow, Cory
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
