“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy held me captive, staying up all night immersed in its pages, awakening the next morning with a lingering sense of melancholy. Stephen King’s works, especially “The Shining,” share that unique ability to make you eagerly anticipate the next page, constantly wondering what twist awaits.
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. I could not put them down. I urgently had to study for exams, but all the time I was studying, my head would drift back to the books, and everytime I’d take a 20 minute reading break it would turn into 3 hours.