page-turner

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“Red Carpet” was a New York Times Editors' Choice, called a "page-turner" by Foreign Affairs, and named one of the best books ever written about Hollywood by Esquire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 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

The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Indeed, even egregious perpetuation of the status quo is rarely a page-turner.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

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