What book have you read through the night and day to finish

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I have always loved reading but at times notably pre kids have been quite selfish I remember once I started reading Lord of the Rings on a Friday night and spent pretty much the next 3days or so doing nothing else and I say selfish because it was my DH birthday on the Saturday but I couldn't do anything until I had finished them He sort of understood !!but only twice have I stayed up since then to read a book and one of them was The Kite Runner the other was a book called Princess ,what book has ever made you stay up all night because you were so gripped by it ?

Silence of the lambs. Was most definitely NOT enjoying it, but was first year at uni, living in halls and literally couldn't put it down until I'd read the ending and knew he wouldn't come in in the middle of the night. I read till 6am.

Great question!

I haven't read a book like this in ages. Last one was probably the Martian. Not high brow literature, but I was intrigued.

Really want to hear other recommendations!

I haven't the stamina to stay awake all night reading any more . Can't remember the last one that I did now.

I do remember reading The Silence of the Lambs and hating it so much (was loaned to me by a friend who was desperate to talk about it with someone) that I sped through it in one afternoon in broad daylight.

My daughter did that with The Shining

By Stephen King !!

Most of the Harry Potters as they came out.

Alice Hoffman more recently.

Oh yes, Stephen king, I devoured those during my uni years too, salems lot being the most scary for me I think, but they all petrified me. Especially pet cemetry. Couldn't put them down but they frightened the crap out of me.

Don't think I could reread them now, not sure I could even watch them. Maybe misery at a push as it was life scary rather than supernatural scary. And maybe the shining because I would know what was coming (redrum redrum ...) but cujo

Fortune's Rock by Anita Shrieve - loved it, this thread has inspired me to re-read it.

We were on holiday at the time I read it (over 10 years ago) - my DH left DS and myself at the hotel as he had a business appointment, I left DS in his travel cot all day as I was so engrossed in the book - and it was a beautiful sunny day in the south of France .

I agree with the previous poster who said The Martian. Took me a long time to get in to it but once I did I couldn't put it down and was even reading it whilst drying my hair!

Oh I've done this too many times...
Last was West End Girls.
Love a good Stephen King though.

The Davinci Code...

The davinci code like the poster above and The lovely bones. Both many years ago. Don't have the time now sadly.

Silent Child by Sarah Denzil - I started it last night, finished it this morning.
It's a psychological thriller; a genre I've recently gotten into so recommendations please :)

Brave new world. I loved it.

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser. Which was even better when I got round to re-reading more slowly. When I was a teenager, pretty much anything by Georgette Heyer - a few of which I still re-reread. The Woman in Black. And Gone Girl, and The Girl on the Train, even though I wouldn't want to read them again. Iain Pears and Hilary Mantel have kept me up at night. And Phillip Kerr and C J Sansom.

The Little Stranger by Sarah Walters. So scary and so atmospheric

Inkheart - which is a children's book, but which I got totally immersed in.

(It's book 1 of a trilogy, the second book wasn't great, but I pushed on through it and then enjoyed book 3)

I have no self restraint when it comes to reading, but I ignored my family for a good couple of days on holiday recently to read "the 100 year old man who climbed out of the window". Brilliant book. The Night Circus was another one. And loads more :)

This Present Darkness by Frank Perretti. All about the battle between good and evil.

Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None - too frightened to put it down and go to sleep. Finished it and slept with the light on...

Also, Winter in Madrid by CJ Samson was so gripping towards the end I kept reading through the night to finish it [no spoilers but Sandy!! Omg!!]

I read all of the final Harry Potter book in hospital when I was in for an operation. Apparently I woke up after the procedure babbling about Harry Potter

The Night Circus, The Golem and the Djinni and most recently, The Essex Serpent.
Usually I can put a book down for a while but not those three.

Great thread title- will read up when I can!

Such a great thread!

Love non-fiction myself and have recently read:

All of Bill Bryson's offerings
Love from Boy - letters to his mother, written by Roald Dahl
Going Solo - Roald Dahl's account of becoming a fighter pilot and life after WW2

Couldn't put any of them down

Ooh pomadas87 I forgot and then there were none! Yes me too, couldn't put that down on first reading, eeeeeww the scene with the dangling rope and seaweed!!! I absolutely love Agatha Christie, I reread her books constantly. Not so much that one