Books you finished in a "one-r"

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I can't remember the last time I obsessively read a book in one sitting (obv with breaks for basic bodily needs). I long for that all-consuming desire again. I'm sure it will come again with a book I least expect. Meanwhile, what were the books that wholly consumed your waking hours?

I regrettably don’t have the time these days to read a book in one sitting but Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood are the writers that I find most addictive/compelling. And James Baldwin.

Not exactly high literature but for me it was The Girl on the Train about 3 years ago.

The Road.

I wasn't exactly enjoying it, but it was totally unputdownable and I just wanted to get it over with.

A few months ago - was a cheapo thriller I picked up a in a charity shop - Dead Woman walking by Sharon Bolton. Was perfect escapism.

Karin Slaughter books

I stayed up all night reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall a few weeks ago. I'd never read it and it is just gripping. Not had that happen in years

I read The Handmaid’s Tale in one sitting as a student.
I think I did the last Harry Potter in one go when it came out as well 😳

The Lisa Jewell books I've recently read have been unputdownable.

Ohh! Wuthering Heights I read non-stop!

Jackie Collins....on a sun lounger..basking.

Some of the Harry potters, the Brighton books by Elly Griffiths, some of the Strike books. I also love Sara Paretsky especially the earlier one and devoured these.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters stayed up til the early hours once I had started

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith was book heroin.

The bee sting was the last- way to ping to read in one sitting but I kept going back and back to it every chance I had till it was done!

Pineapple street. Three Society New Yorker sisters not doing very much - rave reviews, schlocky and escapist but funny and sharp, loved it.

I spent the whole of yesterday reading a Golden Age WWII murder mystery-Green for Danger by Christianna Brand. I loved the wartime medical setting and small cast of suspects and it is very well plotted- I usually work the solution out early on but was thoroughly deceived by some excellent red herrings.

The Big Beano Colouring Book, although not exactly a 'one-r'.
I'll admit there was a lull during the process when I sent Mum out to buy me a replacement red, and a yellow crayon.

Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate. Spent a whole day reading it when it came out, desperate to know how it all ended.

And the last Harry Potter when it was first published, because I was going to be travelling the next day and was afraid I might overhear people on the train or in a cafe talking about it, with spoilers. Otherwise I probably would have taken more time.

Ah now see, I couldn't get on with something like that. I do still buy the Beano (a fiver!!) but I'm more of a paint by numbers woman than a colouring in one.

Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood - completely horrifying and compulsive. In my opinion far superior to the Handmaid's Tale (although I do love that book as well!). I like to re-read books, and Oryx & Crake regularly gets pulled out. It's the first in the MadAddam trilogy, and all 3 books are brilliant.

Hope you find another book to get obsessed with from everyone's suggestions on here! There's nothing better than that feeling when you can't put a book down.

I spent the whole of yesterday reading a Golden Age WWII murder mystery-Green for Danger by Christianna Brand.

There was a b&w film of that. Alastair Sim, I think. Used to turn up on tv quite often. Try YouTube, a lot of old films on there.

Each of John Boyne's Elements books (first 3 have been released so far)

In the past, The Colour Purple, A Child Called It and Flowers in the Attic were all one sitting for me!

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.

Frankie by Graham Norton. Read it in one day over this last weekend.