page-turner

Example Sentences

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She might profitably have removed the scaffolding of the research, avoided extraneous detail and produced more of a page-turner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This account has no great literary merit, but it’s an undeniable page-turner with utility to anyone contemplating the lifestyle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

The judges said: "A novel about class ascension and a man who is remarkably detached from his desires, and a disquisition on the art of being alive. It is also an absolute page-turner."

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

Cassidy Hutchinson has written the first real page-turner among the Trump administration memoirs.

From Slate • Oct. 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