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 ?

The goldfinch by Donna Tart!

I remember sitting up all night reading The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve.

The other one that springs to mind is LA Confidential by James Ellroy. I read that one all night too.

It's weird though because although I enjoyed them both, neither of them come close to 'best book I've ever read' standards and yet there was something about them both that kept me reading.

East of Eden - Steinbeck. I'd seen the film, fallen in love with James Dean playing Cal. Started reading it one evening, read until the small hours, fell asleep, woke up the next morning, grabbed it and read until I'd finished it.

Harry Potter
The firebrand from Marion Zimmer Bradley
Interview with a vampire, the vampire Lestat and queen of the damned.
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Most science fiction books by Asimov

Most recently, Mount by Jilly Cooper and Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins

Wild Swans - knocked it off in a day. I read the last c j sanson one over a day and night recently.

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination. A Memoir - Elizabeth McCracken
Novel by Elizabeth McCracken

The Hotel New Hampshire omg! I was 19 though.
Since then though usually I can be sensible and go to sleep even if it's a great book.

Several of Ilona Andrew's Magic Bites etc books.
The St Mary's books by Jodie Taylor
Darynda Jones's Grave books.
Charlaine Harris's Grave Secret books.

I have a thing for fantasy books. :)

But For The Grace of God, by Paul Grzegorzek. A real page- turning crime thriller. His earlier books are good too.

The Help kept me up till about 3am, which is remarkable for me. Don't think I've ever had the stamina to do the full night shift reading.

More recently I've stayed up reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

The Secret History and the Beach

Asta's book by Ruth Rendell. Terrific stuff.
The Magus, John Fowles.

yy to The Goldfinch

Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. I don't think I said anything but 'yeah, in a minute' for about 5 days. Just devoured one after another.

Room

I finished Silence of the Lambs at 5am, and I had work the next day (was young though).
Most recently The Martian was particularly ripping.

(Or gripping, but also ripping)

Anything by Diana Wynne Jones - children's or adult.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Passage by Justin Cronin and then The Twelve same author.
Strangers by Paul Finch
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown ( better than The Da Vinci Code)
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo ( actually anything by him)
And last but not least : Discrace by Jussi Adler Olsen

One more, The lost wife by Alyson Richman

The goldfinch by Donna tartt and with a three month old too.

Yy to The secret history, The little stranger and The Magus. Also Daphne Du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Dodie Smith's I capture the castle when I was a teen reading under the covers by torchlight.

Great thread. Am taking note of several I've not heard of/have yet to try!
Now my DCs are grown up I do have more free reading time but can't manage all night reading any more.

I whizzed through "Heartburn" by Nora Ephron, a favourite. (Recipes to keep in mind, too!).

Daphne Du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Dodie Smith's I capture the castle when I was a teen reading under the covers by torchlight.
Snap!

Dark Angel by Sally Beaumann. Fantastic period read and devoured it on a Sun bed years ago. An all time favourite.