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For me, it was:

Redwall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Life of Pi
Most of the Roald Dahl books

They were just good all over. :]

The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst, Oxygen by John B. Olson & Randall Ingermanson are the only two books I can remember reading straight through without stopping. Excellent, both of them: Dogs is about a grieving widower, Paul Iverson, who is seeking an answer to his wife's "accidental" death. Oxygen is a rare gem of Christian fiction concerning a crew of astronauts on their way to Mars when their mission is hijacked. All the great elements of humor, suspense, and sci-fi make it a great story.

Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Giver and Gathering Blue were both books that I read in almost one sitting.

I'm not really the kind of reader who can read a whole book all at once. The only distinctive time I remember doing so was reading The Shining when I was 14. It was probably the scariest book I ever read. I couldn't tear myself away until I found out how it ended.

"House" by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker was enthralling from beginning to end and I couldn't put it down, but I wouldn't consider it a good book after the fact. "Velocity" by Dean Koontz, on the other hand, was a great thrill ride of a book (if not quite violent) and was very memorable.

Just about anything written by C.S. Lewis.

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Rogie wrote:"House" by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker was enthralling from beginning to end and I couldn't put it down, but I wouldn't consider it a good book after the fact. "Velocity" by Dean Koontz, on the other hand, was a great thrill ride of a book (if not quite violent) and was very memorable.

Now that I remember, my first Dean Koontz book was 'The Face', which I was totally enthralled with from beginning to end.

Oh man. I loooooove Roald Dahl. I totally grew up reading Matilda.

any of the warriors series. i read each book in either a day, or two.

For me, having to focus to put down a book isn't necessarily a good test of how good it is. In fact, there are some books I love because they make me want to put them down and digest what I've just read.

However, there are only two authors who have written anything I have difficulty putting down. They are Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. You'll note that both are humor writers. For me it is very easy to read "just one more" segment for several times.

Legends of the Guardian King by: Karen Hancock, Harry Potter,LOTRS, Anne mccaffrey, and neil gaiman

The Face by Dean Koontz

Oh, boy. Where to start...

Any of the Redwall books by Brian Jaques
The Oath, The Visitation, This Present Darkness, and Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Raising Dragons, The Candlestone, Circles of Seven, and Tears of a Dragon by Bryan Davis
The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids by Stanley Kiesel
The Lord of the Rings--okay, I had to put them down occasionly for annoying things like eating and sleeping, but I would've read them in one sitting if I could've--by J. R. R. Tolkien
Any of the Merlin books by T. A. Barron
Any of the Star Wars books by Timothy Zahn
Growing Wings by Laurel Winter

I won't deny it, I have a problem with putting books down.

Oh la la, this should be fun. Okay, first for the typical ones.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan...up until about book 5 or 6 on this one...after that, it gets dry and way spread out and just...yeah...I still read 'em but it's...predictable at this point.
!!!!!Any book by Patricia A. McKillip!!!!!
Rose Daughter and Beauty(beauty and the best spin-offs...rose daughter is the best) by Robin McKinley
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey...the few I've read so far.
Warriors and Warriors: New Prophecy by the writers under the pseudonym Erin Hunter
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Belgariad and the Mallorean by David Eddings
Anything that falls into the category of tragedy or Shakespeare. Old Grecians tragedies are just FUNNY. My...sense of humor is tickled by really awful ironies...lol.

Anyway, that's a start. I find it to be a medley of everything...oh well lol.

I have a hard time putting down ANY book that I pick up. but for the sake of discussion I will list some of my favorites:
The entire Redwall series (I own them all)
Eragon and Eldest.
LOTR (I think everyone put this down)
Harried plotter (did I spell that wrong?)
Spindles end by Robin McKinley (a great fairy tale spinoff but you have a hard time guessing the fairy tale until the end)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (another fairy tale spinoff)
Howl's moving castle (the movie is based off this excellent book)
Six cousins and Rose in bloom by louisa may alcott
The Theif and The Queen of Attolia (I forget the authors name)
The jungle book (and its little-known sequel)
Flames of Rome
well I guess thats all the books I want to write down for now. but there are more, so many more, mahahahah

Taliesin wrote:The Theif and The Queen of Attolia (I forget the authors name)

MEGAN WHALEN TURNER. She's my favorite living author. I CAN'T BELIEVE I FOUND ANOTHER THIEF FAN! I'M SO HAPPY! *does a happy jig*

She also published a new book in the series this year, called The King of Attolia. The Queen of Attolia is still my favorite, but it's an excellent, EXCELLENT book.

*was actualy coming here to say that XD*

But, ah, yeah, besides the Queen's Thief series, I also couldn't put down Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. Actually, anything I've read of hers is something that sucks me in and stays in my memory for years. (I haven't read her books since I was a young teen. I need to re-read them.)

And I agree, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars books are the best books in the entire expanded universe. No question.

Wil Wheaton's autobiography, Just a Geek.

Also the Silverwing trilogy written by Kenneth Oppel.

A Treasury Of Royal Scandals is one book that I wish were longer but I can't stop reading when I pick it up.The main reason is because a lot of the facts are so durn interesting and even hilarious(George II died on the toilet!).
Presidential Ancedotes(I only have the copy that goes up to Bush,Sr.)another fun
read full of humor and facts.

Red Storm Rising

All of the Star Wars novels by Timothy Zahn. Outbound Flight anyone?

Horror: Down a Dark Hall by Louis Duncan
I know what you did last Summer by (once again) Louis Duncan (<---Heard the movie ruined it though ;-;)

Legal: Best leagal/Family issue books ever! My Sisters Keeper... (ending made me cry... It's not supossed to end like that!! >.< *is gonna be obsessed with the ending for a while*)

Anime Based Novels: .Hack//Another_Birth Fuses well with the first game.

Most recently, that would be Cursor's Fury, by Jim Butcher. If not for sleeping, eating and work, I would have read it non-stop the second time. Further evidence of my addiction is that I read it thrice in a month and a half.

... I still wouldn't mind reading it again.

It's true that addictive books aren't necessarily the ones that are best written, but the last book that thoroughly engrossed me was actually very thought-provoking: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel. There were some aspects of her writing that were just okay and others that I admire very much. She also raises quite a few interesting spiritual issues, although she isn't a Christian.

I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, and I find it hard to lay aside.

I found Dr.Cornelis Vanderwaal's book critiquing Dispensationalism
Hal Lindsey And Biblical Prophecy one book that I found hard to put down because of his well considered arguments.

The Inheritance series! Eragon and Eldest were awesome! The third book hasn't come out yet, but I could NOT put the first two down, except (in the case of Eldest) where it would switch from Eragon to Roran.

The Name of the ROse by Umberto Eco. I can hardly stop reading it. It's fascinating....

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,so good that it was hard to decide what to read and what to leave for another day.

White Night, the latest book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I literally did not stop until I was done. Cleaned it in 3 1/2 hours. Probably one of the best in the series, too.