Have you ever read an entire book in one sitting? If so, which one?
For July 3: Have you ever read an entire book in one sitting? If so, which one?
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For July 3: Have you ever read an entire book in one sitting? If so, which one?
Harry potter and the deathly hallows
Me, also!
The same day it was released
YEP. ?
Same
Me, too!
Started just after midnight when the book was released and read it until I finished.
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
I read David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers one rainy wintry Sunday last winter. It was so captivating I could not put it down that day.
Robert Bloch Psycho books
Embarrassed to say – New Moon (Twilight series). I stayed up all night because I NEEDED TO KNOW what was going on. That was a long time ago lol
Honestly, I read the first one in one day on a sick day. It satisfied my need to read something trashy
.. Amd I loved it.
Same ?
@Melissa I think probably because they were all a fairly easy read is why we were able to zip through them. I don’t think I took longer than a few days with any of them.
I read all 4 of them that way in one week. It was a tough week and I needed to escape my life. And apparently my sleep too ?
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Too many to name.
Rebecca – Daphne Due Maurier
A thousand Splendid Suns – Khaleid Housseini
Yes. The Help. My MIL lent her copy and I started it. It was no turning back
Where she went by gayle forman
Too many to list, have done it a lot. One that sort of sticks out in my mind is Hot Zone. It was a work night and I started reading it late, stayed up super late to finish it and went into work all hyped up babbling about ebola 🙂
Wasn’t that scary? Especially because it is true!
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Night
Too many to list but most recent is Home by Nightfall by Charles Finch.
A Child Called It!
The Gender Game
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Quite a few
Yesterday I read Birdbox in an afternoon 🙂
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Bridges of Madison County
The alchemist
The girl on the Train. I had an international flight and I finished it in one sitting
Lots of times! Most recently — Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen.
I read the last Harry Potter in one sitting ?
Sarah, Plain and Tall (when I was about 10 or so).
Nope. Never.
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Downriver by Will Hobbs. One of the books that re-invigorated my love of reading as a teen.
Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Yes, Nora Roberts, heaven and earth
Go Dog Go
Love that book
Absolutely 🙂 The last I recall reading in one sitting was “The Secret Keeper” by Kate Morton, which I loved. And I didn’t even feel guilty about not doing other things since it was a college asignment 😀 (I needed to write a review on it)
Too many to remember.
The Rosie Project.
I can’t remember the title. ..it was about Christine keeler and Mandy Rice Davies.
Monster calls and I cried too
Too many times to count. Especially when I am off in the summer!
Yes, almost all books I’ve ever read.
Yes, it usually involves reading until sunrise, but yes. Several times.
Yes, it was a book about a female pirate, i can’t remember the title. I’ve read it twice. It was a total escapism, fun read. If I ever see it again I’ll make sure to always have a copy on hand. It was perfect for insomnia, depression, etc. It just got you right out of your head. I think I read it in about 6 hours
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer? About a girl, Jacky, who disguises herself and escapes a dire life in London by going to sea on a pirate ship ?
@Marilee no, it’s a more modern day pirate story. Good try though!
too many …. oh too many
There is never “too many” when it comes to books!
Rarely. Of course, I’ve had occasional marathon reads, especially towards the end of a suspenseful book.
Lots! Most recently Dark Matter, bird box, Circe, the song of Achilles…currently reading This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel…awesome!!
An American Marriage
Lots of times.
A book about Keith Green and The Hiding Place.
occasionally, when I was much younger.
Yes, as an adult, life intrudes. I’d LIKE, no, LOVE to read a whole book non-stop, but alas.
The final Harry Potter book. I basically made myself sick lol
Yes, many of them have been books around the 200 page mark, but the first time I read the Twilight series, I read all 4 books in one week, including the first and second books in one day each
I cant remember every time, but the last time was a few days ago, reading The Dirty Book Club.
Lots of times — most recently was The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan last week ?
The last time I was truly able to do that I was a teenager as it was Firebrand. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Wonder
Me too!
The first time I remember doing that was for Jurassic Park; most recently, it was Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
I was a summer intern out of town. No TV in the apartment, so I went to the library each week for 4-5 books. One night I read both Love Story and Oliver’s Story.
Yesterday on a flight home from San Fran to PgH – I read The Only Story ..
No, I’m too slow
Me too
I just finished The Virgin Suicides, while not exactly in one sitting, it took me 2 days, I couldn’t put it down!
I know I have but can’t remember the name.
Pet Sematary by Stephen King years ago.
Little Women on Christmas Day many years ago.
There’s been so many I don’t remember them all. I worked 3rd shift for 17 years and we could read all night. How I long for those days when I could do that.
Most of the books I read are in one sitting. I never want to wait to find out what happens!
Davinci Code
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson – read in one cross country flight (US)
Toni Morrison “Bless The Child” and “The Fault In Our Stars.”
Ethan Frome
The Art of Racing in the Rain
“One”? Didn’t you mean “which ones”?
Too many to count
Anna Quindlen’s “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”
On Chesil Beach. Hoping for redemption. There wasn’t any.
I know, right?
One on One by Tabitha King. Started it on a Friday after work, took a break to go out to dinner, came home and read it straight through.
I ? that book!
Can you post of the list of questions you are using each day? Thank you.
I remember Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation.
Hundreds of them
Following
Tell No One by Harlan Coben. Stayed up til 2am to finish it!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Me too! It was probably 4am when I finished and I thought to myself, “I’m done?!?! I should have stretched that out a bit!”
I just couldn’t stop. I felt the same sense of disappointment—no new adventures? It was not technically in one sitting, but I didn’t do anything else that day but read!
The Firm
I am Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout
When I was young, many, many times, can’t remember names. The last one I remember reading as an adult was the first Harry Potter book, although I suspect there have been others since.
Yes
More than once! Most recently “Leaving Time”,
Yesterday, a child called it
Too many to list. Most of janet evanovichs books. So many.
Goosebumps: The Shrunken Head…
Yes, multiple
The Harry Potter ones.
Lots.
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, some Cathy Hopkins, a few Cathy glass and a few self helps
repeatedly. as in, yesterday. The Blue Tatoo- Margo Mifflin
Yes, but this was back when I had more time as a preteen, and it was a Judy Bloom coming of age book. I don’t exactly remember the name of it, though.
Child Called It
The closest I have ever gotten was Pride and Prejudice in 2
Yes, but can’t remember what books….
Oh yes
When I was a teenager and would bake my skin I would read Harlequin romance. ??♀️
Many but the most recent was “and every morning the way home gets longer” by Fredrik Backman
The last Harry Potter.
I remember picking up John Grisham’s THE FIRM at an airport store because I had a couple of hours to kill before boarding a late night flight. I started reading right away, continued on the 2.5 hour flight and had to finish it before I going to bed. I finally closed my eyes in the wee hours of the morning. My husband thought I was crazy.
That was his one of his best along with Rainmaker.
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Yes. I usually do that unless it is extremely long. The last one I read like that was The Wanted by Robert Crais.
The first Harry Potter book. My son got it for Christmas and we read it aloud to each other in our pajamas. We began after breakfast. He loved it sooo much he kept begging for one more chapter! I totally indulged him that day and we finished it late that night.
What a wonderful Christmas memory you both have.
@Diana And I couldn’t talk for a few days. ?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Before I Go to Sleep
Room
Most recently, This is How It Ends.
All the time, I can think of a few: The Dry, Room, My Sisters Keeper, HP, Twilight, water for Elephants. I love a lazy day/evening reading and devouring a book
Yes. I read EVIL OBSESSION. Couldn’t put it down.
yes, sometimes i can just not put the book down and read it in one go…
many, many many,
A Man Called Ove
Night by elie wiesel
Summer Sisters
The Notebook.
Robert Bloch’s “Psycho”.
@Barbara — I love these questions. I’ve been looking forward to them every day. Thanks!
I used to often in my youth. It’s been many years since I’ve had that kind of time – or perhaps more accurately since I’ve taken that kind of time. Food for thought… ??
Too many to count.
Yes. A hannah swenson murder mystery
Every potter book ❤️
Janet Evanovich’s stuff
Beowulf!
Tuesdays with Morrie
Walk to remember
Fault in our stars
M&B too many !!
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhooh
Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
Never. How do you all do it!?!?!
Winds of War by Herman Wouk — the first of many.
Really, in one sitting? Good for you. Liked this book when I read it many years ago, but don’t remember if I would be able to get through it in one sitting.?
wow. that very book is on the to be read soon list. i dont spect its a one sit book for me.
I hadn’t planned on it being a one sit reading. Got it from the library one Friday afternoon, started reading not long after I got home and couldn’t put it down. Read through the night and well into the next day. Luckily, my kids were old enough to take care of themselves while I was absorbed.
@Robin i just retired a few weeks ago… my hours are mine now! losts of extended reading time!
@Jeannie Unfortunately, am not retired yet z(though hope to be soon) but am on summer break. Basically, all I’ve done since it started (minus a week of what was pre-pre-planning) is read. Plan to do as much extended reading as I can this week and on our road trip to and from Wisconsin, but will then be reduced to reading when I have time free from getting everything ready for the coming school year.
The wife between us. Not because it was amazing but just because I could. Read it in 3 hours.
Yes but it isn’t a race.
No, you’re right. Just some books really grab you and you have to know how it ends!
The last lecture – randy prausch
Been doing that far too much lately :-). I just discovered several romance series by Grace Burrowes that are wonderfully written, no cliche’d characters, often very funny, and have plot lines that include the social and economic issues of the late 1700s in England. One example is the “Windham Brides” series that starts with “The Trouble with Dukes.”
Plenty of shorter books. Ones I can remember right now are Sandman: the Dream Hunter and The Little Prince.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Never read it when it first came out. Decided to give it a go several years later to see what all the fuss was about. Started it at 11pm one night and finished it about 3am I think!
Holes! I was 11 and my mom told me I could only go see the movie if I read the book first. ?
Wish I had the time to, but alas a 4 y/o and 2 y/o make it difficult. ?
There are only two books I couldn’t put down (very different): Ender’s Game and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Omg Ender’s Game…loved those books by Orson Scott Card
The only way for me not to, is for the book to suck so…
I’m the same
Yes and, then I went after the other two in the trilogy – started reading in the evening and didn’t stop until late the next day – never ever buy all the books in a trilogy at the same – dangerous.
Numerous times, especially when I am on vacation.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin. But it’s little.
Dick and Jane
OMG…..that me laugh so hard
Kill Me if You Can by James Patterson, in 5 hours
Velosity dean koontz
Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres and most of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. Probably others, but it’s hard to remember all of them ?
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I started at 10 AM and finished at 5 next morning.
Too many to count
Lots and lots of times! Station Eleven, Frenchman’s Creek and Jamaica Inn, a couple of books by Susanna Kearsley… I’m pretty sure I read A Desperate Fortune in one sitting. The Woodcutter, The Forgotten Garden, Vinegar Girl…
Yes, the Old Man and the Sea. And Grief Is the Thing With Feathers. (On an airplane not that long ago. But that’s a super short one.)
Nurse here, putting in her 2c, please make certain to change positions often when sitting for long periods reading, especially your legs. Sitting or laying in one position for too long can create dangerous blood clots in your lower extremities. Sorry, just thought of this when discussing reading a book in one sitting.
Thank you!
Christy Beckham so weird, after writing that, I just now read on an Outlander site, that the producer’s wife, who is also the show’s costume designer, is in the hospital with a knee injury and resultant blood clots!
@Wandy oh no!
A few, I don’t keep track. I usually read most in a few days because I am eager to see how they end.
Good in Bed, Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and Crazy Rich Asians are a few that I’ve finished in one sitting.
Earthly Possessions
Anne George—-Murder On ABad Hair Day!!!
Any Harry Potter. ESP The last book. Got at midnight and finished by morning.
Oh yeah! I read the first two books back to back and took a personal day from work. ?♀️ I didn’t dare tell them why!
The pearl, of Mice and Men
Dark Matter
purple hibiscus by chimamanda ngozi adichie
The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Hunger Games.
Harry Potter books.
The Exorcist. Alone. At night… into the wee hours of the morning.
Diamond sand for ahmed mourad.
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Too many to count, but the most memorable was sitting up until I finished “Lord of the Rings” when I first discovered it in high school.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Sat down and read it in one sitting.
Spiderwick Chronicles. I bought them for my kids. They took me 45 minutes to read, so $10 was really steep but the story is amazing. We still talk about it.
Yes! But… I can’t remember the title now ??♀️ it was a free ebook I found on my Kindle.
The Thornbirds
Me too! Tried to go to bed, but couldn’t sleep. Gave up and went back to the book. Finished at 8AM !
All Priya Kumar books.
This is a hard question to answer because it requires a better memory than I have and I know there have been many over the 60 years I’ve been a reader!
Autumn by Ali Smith
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Too many to count, but the most impressive was the last Harry Potter book. No TV, internet, anything – no spoiler possibilities ?
I do this quite often but the last book I read in one sitting was Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
Night by Eli Wiesel