Collider selects ten books it considers especially difficult to put down, arguing that page-turners can achieve momentum through fast pacing, high stakes, suspenseful chapter endings or persistent narrative tension.

– 'The Handmaid’s Tale' by Margaret Atwood: a dystopian novel combining June Osborne’s intimate perspective with psychological suspense and escalating stakes.
– 'Room' by Emma Donoghue: a tense contemporary thriller narrated by a five-year-old boy held captive with his kidnapped mother.
– 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' by Matt Dinniman: a fast-paced, comic LitRPG fantasy series that began as a self-published digital work.
– The article also cites Stephen King’s 'Misery' and Andy Weir’s 'Project Hail Mary' as examples of highly compulsive reading.