needing a really good page turner, i've been looking everywhere, can't find one?

the maximum ride series is really good and it's a james patterson. you can try the sister's grimm if it's not too young for you too.

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is a narrative that tells the story of a tutor for a wealthy family. Alexei Ivanovich is ushered the the roulette tables in Rouletteneburg to play for an elderly woman. She wins big, and Alexei returns to the table on his own behalf and wins an unforseen sum of money. Alexei is also hopelessly in love with a woman that seems to have no interest whatsoever in the tutor.

The Gambler studies in depth the psyche of a gambler, as he lives a poor life, gambling to survive after losing everything.

This is a pretty dark novel, along with other books by Dostoevsky such as:

Notes from the Underground,

The Devils/The Demons (same book, just different name)

and The Brothers Karamazov

They are all great books. The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov are very long though, so if you are getting them from a library, Notes from the Underground and The Gambler are good.

Anything by Michael Crichton. He wrote excellent page turners. You should start with Jurassic Park and go from there. The movie doesn't BEGIN to do the book justice!! Also the Prey series by John Sandford. Start with the first one, (can't recall the title) but they are all excellent. All have Prey in the title.

i dont know about dark books but here are some that had me sucked in:

little women(and others by louisa may alcott)

north of beautiful (not great but i finished yesterday and it was pretty good)

jane eyre

cold mountain

haters

perfect chemistry (took me an afternoon to read that one i was so sucked in)

East (a little young but really good)

The bloody jack series by L.A. Meyer (love these!!! this would be very high on my list of fav books the first one is called bloody jack but my library just got in the most recent one(the 5th one i think) so yours may not have it yet but barnes and noble does- a little pricey though)

the entire anne of green gables series (my school library had this one but not the public library so they may be hard to find, there is somewhere around 15-20 of these)

polyanna but that i think is out of print so it may be hard to find

and thats all i can think of right now

Wuthering Heights is a good classic

The airhead seires (it sounds stupid but its really good!! )

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnin...

and the uglies seires (again sounds stupid but dont judge a book by its cover!)

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnin...

pretty little liars

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnin...

these are all series btw