“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.
As a teenager back in the late 70s, the book Scruples by Krantz. It was about the fashion world, among other things. I was fascinated and could not put it down.