“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.
I remember pre ordering ‘Order of the Phoenix’ and staying up to read as many chapters as possible so that no one in class could spoil it for me