What's the one book that you've stayed up into the early hours to read?

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Despite having to get up early or whatever .. what is the one book that you simply couldn't put down as you needed to know what happened next or you were just thoroughly engrossed?

I loved the shining by Stephen King!

The Neverending Story.

Never have I been more horrified by a film adaptation. When I tell people it's my favourite book, most have never read it, but have seen that embarrassing film, presume the book is similar, and look at me like I'm a philistine. If the film was titled something else, you wouldn't even recognise it was the same story.

I gift the book to everyone, it's a magnificent read. The descriptions and images you conjure as you read are like nothing I've read before, and it's truly frightening.

Handmaids tale - read it when I was 17 and stayed up till 4am 😳😆

More recently -
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Where the Crawdads sing
Lion
Fragile - Nikki Grahames autobiography. I don’t usually read things like that but sort of stumbled
into it and it was so sad and fascinating.

lots, not just one. Maybe most books I liked at all.

I always want to sleep even when the books are great. The exception was Gone with the Wind.

Lots, mostly medical. It's what I do.

The Woman in White

I could not stop turning those pages. What was Sir Percival Glyde's secret?

Septimus heap! Currently reading when I should be sleeping.
But escaping to a magical world in my head is much better than living in my reality

Why did you stay by Rebecca humphries

The only book I have ever done this with was The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Read it in one sitting.

I was up till 2am today reading Flowers for Algeron.

I love classic Sci-Fi anyway, but this really got under my skin for some reason.

Fingersmith

Second Fingersmith. OMG the twists.
Also love Tana French for being unputdownable.

@ rubyross I was going to say gone with the wind too.

Although reread it again as an adult recently and just couldn't love it in the same way.

The Paying Guests. I was thinking at about 1am I really should knock it on the head. And then Something Hsppened and I had to stay up for another couple of hours!

Silence of the lambs.

The Road

I actually read it in one go. I wasn't enjoying it, but I couldn't stop.

The Hunger Games. And its sequels. I was very tired that week!

White Mischief. I chucked meeting a friend for lunch as I was completely gripped.

Another Stephen King one for me - Misery

The Mists of Avalon
Wuthering Heights
Christine (absolutely shitted me up but so good!)

A Little Life. I know some people really hate it, but I couldn't put it down. I read it until 2am and cried.

Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell). Not quite stayed up, but I missed my train stop, almost intentionally. I was so riveted by it, I could not stop reading even tho I was aware I was nearly at my stop. I went two stops further & then had to wait quite a while for another train ti take me back (a commuter service, Dublin, rather than underground or anything like that.)

I've stayed up loads & loads of times, especially with anything by Maggie O'Farrell.

I listened to this book in the car - mostly when doing the school run. I actually screamed out loud at one part.

I read A Little Life in huge gulps over one weekend - luckily I was jetlagged so finding it hard to sleep anyway. To this day I don't understand why I love her books so much (really don't like misery and abuse usually) but she writes like a 21st century Trollope and I am hooked.

I was reading Seamus Deane's Reading In The Dark on my train to work and missed my stop at the Ghost Story chapter.

Harry Potter