“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 God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
…aaaaand at the opposite end of the literary spectrum:
Vicious by VE Schwab (the only one of this author’s books I actually enjoyed)