Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very interesting, exciting, or suspenseful book, usually a novel.
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- noun A written work, usually a
novel , which is sufficientlyinteresting orsuspenseful to keep the reader 'turning the pages'.
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Examples
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It's that oft-cited but very rare species of novel we call a page-turner, and it brilliantly achieves this because Drvenkar knows how to use all the tools at his disposal, to excellent effect.
NYT > Home Page By OLEN STEINHAUER 2011
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It's that oft-cited but very rare species of novel we call a page-turner, and it brilliantly achieves this because Drvenkar knows how to use all the tools at his disposal, to excellent effect.
NYT > Home Page By OLEN STEINHAUER 2011
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I have to congratulate Ms. Allred - it's one of the few legal documents I can describe as a page-turner.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES B. STEWART 2012
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I have to congratulate Ms. Allred - it's one of the few legal documents I can describe as a page-turner.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES B. STEWART 2012
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Pretty much anybody can write a "page-turner" that has juicy scenes in bedrooms and dark alleys on every other page, but a super predictable plot, one-dimensional characters and names that sound like they came from soap operas or pornos make those books ultimately boring.
Demetria Irwin: 'Urban Fiction' I Actually Like? Demetria Irwin 2012
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A book about two sisters that juggles the present, the past, and a novel within a novel -- and is always a page-turner despite the deliberately fractured storytelling.
Dave Astor: Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels Dave Astor 2011
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‘Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones’ – a real page-turner that will make you very happy.
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A book about two sisters that juggles the present, the past, and a novel within a novel -- and is always a page-turner despite the deliberately fractured storytelling.
Dave Astor: Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels Dave Astor 2011
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But if the story is good enough, it tells itself, and Frankel's in particular could be a page-turner.
Frankel carries hype and hopes of racing in 2,000 Guineas 2011
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The story of a master builder with a dream of building a cathedral in England in the 12th century, it's a riveting page-turner for all of its 997 pages.
Best of 2009 2010
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