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  • compulsive reading
    difficult to stop once you've started
  • enigmatic
    mysterious
  • insight
    the ability to understand what something is really like
  • manual
    a technical book with instructions
  • chilling
    causing great fear
  • wry
    in the face of a bad situation
  • acclaimed
    praised by the public
  • blurb
    a short text, usually printed on the back cover of a book, describing what the book is about and sometimes including quotes from critics
  • chronicle
    description of a sequence of events
  • evocative
    which arose memories or images
  • protagonist
    main character
  • lightweight
    not complex, slightly negative connotation
  • lugubrious
    rather dark, mournful and gloomy (can be used for people too)
  • compelling
    very interesting and engaging
  • ahead of its time
    contained ideas that no one else had yet thought of or discussed at that time
  • get into it
    become involved/engage with
  • logbook
    book that records events and times
  • informative
    providing useful or interesting information
  • bedtime reading
    nice to read in bed
  • eponymous
    who has the same name as the title of the book
  • journal
    a written record of what you have done each day
  • heavy going
    difficult to read
  • readership
    number of people who read them
  • macabre
    often cruel or disgusting, concerned with death
  • engaging
    pleasant and interesting
  • can't put down
    difficult to stop once you've started; informal
  • a product of its time
    a reflection of that time
  • anthology
    a collection of, for example, poems or short stories by different authors
  • gripping
    so interesting or exciting that it holds your attention totally
  • breathtaking
    amazing
  • encyclopedia
    a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
  • page-turner
    a book that you want to keep reading
  • memoirs
    written record of a person's own life, typically by a politician or military figure
  • poignant
    moving and sad
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