There are books and stories you simply can't let go of your hands until you've read them. Never mind sleep, work or any other hindrances from outside world that might interfere with your reading. Those stories might have been so exciting that you simply HAD to find out what happens at the end or they might have been so masterfully and beautifully written that you kept yearning for more, for that "one more chapter".

I remember reading Stephen King's IT and Shining growing up and had to just read and read through those tomes 'cause they kept me in their grip and I had to know how things turn out.

Later in life Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things managed to totally weave me inside its world and I couldn't leave until there were no pages left to explore. The same thing happened with José Saramago's Blindness. And with Donna Tartt's The Secret History. And Ruth Rendell's A Judgment in Stone. And Majgull Axelsson's April Witch. And Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. And yes, I will stop now. You go on. Please!