Book you read in a day/single sitting

[Maude, Book Boss]

I feel like we’ve all done this… started a book and got so enraptured that the next minute (or entire chunk of the day) has passed as you close the book on the final paragraph.

What book was it for you?

I have a couple:

Enders Game back in 2009. I had just started ‘blogging’ and was doing book reviews, and had never read anything like the psychological scifi this book delivered.

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - although this was more so I wouldn’t get any spoilers. I was competing with my brother and we’d text each other the page number of a death. Initially he was ahead of me and it was devastating when my phone would blip, notifying me of the impending doom. But then I charged through the rest of the book. I believe I started a little after 9am and wrapped up around the 3am mark.

Would love to hear yours!

[Travis]

There were so many fantasy books I did this with as a kid I can't even remember. The first one I remember as an adult was Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly back in 2000.

[Ryan]

There are 2 that come to mind.

#1 is not very original but it’s The Hobbit. I was introduced when I received it as a Christmas gift when I was 9 and proceeded to burn through it the next day. I couldn’t get enough.

#2 is “The Hike” by Drew Magary. The best way to describe it is it’s like an adult, funny version of Alice and Wonderland with a lot of heart unexpectedly. I read this on the beach in Mexico and it hit me at the perfect time.

[Thierry]

The first 8 Dresden Files books and the first 5 Harry Potter. The reason that it’s not all of the series is that the books are getting thicker by the end and takes longer to read.

[Isaac]

a few books I can always read in one sitting and I always go back to every couple of years.

Kitchen confidential I can usually get thru it in half a day

Ready player one, the fist time I read it I was on an 18h flight and read it twice back to back lol

The martian I also first read on a long flight in one sitting and started it right back xD

The Little prince (le petit prince)

[Kris]

I'm a bit of binge reader. I can sit for eight hours or more and read if the story hold me. I have torn through shelves and credits when it comes to a book series.

Mistborn books, Dresden book, Harry Potter for sure at the end of series. The last three Wheel of Time books I'm sure I did in a frantic rush.

When I'm having a hard time I can drown myself in reading too. Replacing my reality for a moment with a different one. That is how I made it through A Seeker's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper books and the Expeditionary Force books. Scifi has a way of making you think differently and I find I need that now and again.

Now if I could binge write like a binge read... then I would feel productive.

-KRIS

[Andre]

It's been a while since I've done this, but I do remember being enthralled by some older tabletop role-playing books. The ones I recall were all in the Rift series: England, Spirit West, Mercenaries, Atlantis, Australia, Africa, Phase World, and Wormwood. These were all sourcebooks to different places on planet Earth, in space, or different dimensions in that universe. I've read each of these books a bunch of times as well.

[Lisa, Upkeeper]

I've read so many books that way, especially the HP books when they released. Nowadays, its usually romance books that i do that with because they are shorter and easy to get through quickly