Sentence examples for compelling novel from inspiring English sources

Kate Atkinson's Life After Life (Doubleday) is her most challenging, complex and compelling novel yet.

You will turn the last page of this compelling novel almost out of breath.

This compelling novel about a serial killer who preys on lonely women is based on an actual case, from 1931.

All the Birds, Singing, an unusual but compelling novel, explores its themes with an unnervingly consistent clarity and confidence".

This is a compelling novel about the crushing restrictions that class and gender can impose, the burden  of parental expectation, and the stigma attached to mental illness.

An imaginative, clever and compelling novel, it explores and extends the Anne Frank story from the point of view of Peter van Pels.

Crazy is an eloquent and compelling novel-in-verse that tackles complex themes and emphasizes the importance of an open, honest dialogue about mental health.

Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbo, Anne Elliot, Boris Akunin and the irresistible Fred Vargas deliver unusual and compelling novels and are valued as highly as their English-writing contemporaries.

I can think of a few other counterexamples to mess up my neat thesis, and I'm sure you can, too — another of my favorite novelists, Lionel Shriver, writes compelling novels of ideas about social issues — but not many.

In the end, we care about all the characters in this compelling, thoughtful novel.

I'm not even sure that Bart ever read Oliver Twist, Dickens's imperfect but utterly compelling second novel.