Readers are two kinds. First, highbrow readers who pursue more classical literature. Second, light readers but pursue page turning books.
Though the quality of literature depends on classical books, page turners are the source which helps to maintain the publishing industry. On the other hand, there are classics that can include into the page turning category.
Hence, every year publishers around the world are more enthusiastic about launching page turners. So, in this year also we have such books, and following are compilation of 10 page turners which are published in this year. The details of the books quote from few literary magazines and supplements, namely Harpers Bazaar, The New York Times and Esquire.
Scoundrel
By Sarah Weinman
Publisher – Harper Collins
One of our finest true crime writers returns with the chilling story of Edgar Smith, a convicted murderer freed from death row by virtue of his connections with various powerful people, including National Review founder William F. Buckley.
Smith’s deceptions set him free and catapulted him to literary fame, but ultimately, he nearly took another innocent woman’s life, leaving blood on the hands of Buckley and his other champions. Exhaustively reported and compassionately told, Scoundrel shows how the justice system is easily manipulated, and how it often fails vulnerable women.
Anthem
By Noah Hawley
Publisher - Grand Central Publishing
In Anthem, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and only teenagers can see the big picture. This epic literary thriller is set in a not-too-distant future, where the nation is hopelessly divided, the political system is broken, and the climate is barreling toward irrevocable disaster. (Familiar, right?)
Crippled with anxiety about the sorrowed world they stand to inherit, high schoolers respond with a disturbing protest movement, mass suicide, “an act of collective surrender.” Three unlikely young heroes resist the movement and journey into the American West, where wildfires rage through the redwoods and homegrown terrorists stoke lethal violence. Together they embark on an epic quest to save a friend from a wizard, a Jeffrey Epstein-like monster, ultimately, they may just save the world. Anthem is a great American novel for these tumultuous times—a provocative work of fiction that sees to the heart of things, cuts through the noise, and asks, “How can we change, before it’s too late?”
The Verifiers
By Jane Pek
Publisher - Vintage
What kind of person would want to work at an online dating detective agency? A hopeless romantic or a consummate cynic?
Twenty-five-year-old Claudia Lin, the protagonist of this funny and touching modern detective story, is a little bit of both. (Her traditional Chinese mother thinks she works at a finance firm—and, uh, is straight—but that’s a problem for another day.) When one of her agency’s clients turns up dead, Claudia takes it upon herself to investigate, but quickly gets in over her head.
To Paradise
By Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher – Doubleday
In this grand and sweeping novel, her first since 2015’s much-lauded “A Little Life”, Yanagihara crafts a symphony from three disparate stories, each one set in an alternate America. In 1893, the scion of a wealthy family resists an arranged marriage as he falls for a penniless music teacher.
In 1993, a young Hawaiian paralegal hides his past from his much-older lover. Finally, in 2093, a woman in totalitarian, pandemic-ridden New York uncovers the mysteries of the men she’s loved. Resounding across these narratives, linked by a Greenwich village townhouse, are themes of family, fate, and national identity. To Paradise is yet another masterwork from a visionary writer who never fails to surprise and astound.
Grounds-keeping
By Lee Cole
Publisher - Knopf Doubleday
Who doesn’t love a campus novel? Grounds-keeping, a stellar addition to the canon, is a tender novel of precise pleasures. At Kentucky’s Ashby College, two young writers collide. Owen, a local ne’er-do-well working as a grounds-keeper in exchange for free creative writing classes, and Alma, a prestigious writer in residence.
Alma, the devoted daughter of Bosnian immigrants seeking her own American dream, struggles to understand Owen’s ambivalence about his Trump-loving family.
When a secret romance blossoms between them, Owen and Alma must navigate both the vicissitudes of love and the growing pains of their own becomings. At once a bittersweet coming-of-age story and a lovely romance, Grounds-keeping shines brightest in the messy in-betweens.
Woman, Eating
By Claire Kohda
Publisher – Harper Via
Woman Eating is a literary vampire novel. We’ve seen sexy vampires, scary vampires and psychic vampires, but never one quite like the one in this ambitious debut. Lydia is a 23-year-old, mixed-race artist whose appetite can only be sated with a tall serving of blood. With wit and a poet’s eye, Kohda examines cravings, desire and emptiness.
The Fervor
By Alma Katsu
Publisher – Putnam
The author of “The Hunger” and “The Deep” — two hair-raising, twisty novels with deceptively simple titles — returns with “The Fervor.”
Having mined the Donner Party and the high seas for suffering and trauma, Katsu sets “The Fervor” in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II.
The conditions there are hellish enough … and then a mysterious disease begins to spread among the imprisoned.
The Hacienda
By Isabel Cañas
Publisher - Berkley
Hacienda San Isidro is the house of your worst nightmares. As we learn on the first page of Cañas’s supernatural suspense story (think “Mexican Gothic” meets “Rebecca”), “white stucco walls rose like the bones of a long-dead beast jutting from dark, cracked earth.” A young bride finds herself pulled into the clutches of this creepy place after being abandoned there by her new husband.
The Lioness
By Chris Bohjalian
Publisher - Doubleday
If you’re getting on a long flight and have no idea what book to bring, Bohjalian’s novels are always a safe bet. If you’re going on a safari, you may want to approach his latest with caution: It’s the story of a lavish expedition in Tanzania in 1964 gone very wrong. The travellers are Hollywood
A-listers; wild beasts and zebras abound; and Bohjalian steers this runaway land rover of a story into some wildly entertaining territory.
The Cherry Robbers
By Sarai Walker
Publisher – Harper Collins
In Walker’s long-awaited follow-up to “Dietland,” a renowned artist living under an assumed identity is contacted by a hungry journalist — and now finds herself face-to-face with her past. This feminist Gothic thriller whisks readers from New Mexico in 2017 to Connecticut in 1950, straight into the bull’s-eye of a firearms dynasty.
Compiled by Ravindra Wijewardhane