Sentence examples for enthralling books from inspiring English sources

One of the many enthralling books I'll never write is called The Politics of Diaspora.

(On that subject, you know how at least once a week you wake up thinking, "Gee, I'm in the mood for a good book on psychopathy and sociopaths?" One of the most enthralling books I've ever read is Hervey Cleckley's "The Mask of Sanity". The woman's case in "The Three Faces of Eve" came from him).

In writing this enthralling book, Miss Seymour has given the forgotten "championne du monde automobile" the tribute she has so long deserved.

Last year our reviewer, Christopher Benfey, said this "enthralling" book "uncovers a buried chapter in the history of science and art, when the two were closely allied, and Galileo's friends turned his telescope around to view the microscopic intricacies of nature".

Of course, books enthral and influence us all our lives but there is a rawness to reading when young, a blissfully entitled sense that the stories we read are ours, a world grownups, least of all parents, can't enter.

On Immunity is the result: an enthralling, deeply personal book that's by turns lyrical and impassioned, lucid and enlightening – one woman's journey to discover the best way forward for her son, herself and the communities of which we are all a part.

Ms. Johnson's enthralling memoir, her first book, is about growing up on the road in a clan of what she calls Holy Rollers.

Not content with that broad swath of material, and looking back to the East St. Louis Riot of 1917, Mr. Lehane also makes racial tensions a major part of his book's enthralling drama.

He manages a terrific set piece on his stint as a junior airman in the British version of the R.O.T.C., but most of the time he simply notes the mile signs on life's less-than-enthralling journey — he lists books read, music listened to, films seen.

It's this disarming candour that makes the book such an enthralling read.

Next, by evaluating their lasting impact: do these books continue to enthral readers and explore our human dilemmas and joys in memorable ways?