“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 first one for me was Sphere, but I was too young to be working.
I think I was just the perfect age to get sucked into the story, it’s really well told. It was the first time I ever stayed up all night, and it wasn’t intentional - I just couldn’t stop reading and suddenly the sun was up.