“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.
It was school, not work, but I stayed up all night the first time I read The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Lost track of how many times I laughed out loud.