Peter's "influential book thread has been very entertaining but I want to ask a different question.

Since I have to do a lot of 'hospital waiting' these days and am often in some discomfort (chemo ain't fun) I'm really reading up a storm, but I'm falling back on stuff I read ten and twenty years ago. I need new books (just new to me)

What I'd really appreciate is if folks would put down the absolute most exciting "can't put down", "waste a day and don't even know it" books they've read.

Doesn't need to be great literature, can be non-fiction, can be horror, just as long as it's RIVETING!!!

Cheers and thanks

Rick