I can't remember the Title, but it was on the life of Amelia Earhart. I knew that as long as I was reading of her life before her last flight, she would remain alive. I had a similar reaction when reading about the Titanic. Kinda dumb, I guess.
I loved so many books and do have a few favorite authors. I always liked Michael Crichton's novels. My favorite book (I couldn't put it down) was Jurassic Park. The book was much more intriguing than the movie. When Stephen Spielberg filmed the book, he toned it down, making many of the nasty characters likeable.
There have been several books that I could not stop reading; but that I didn't want them to end, either. One of them that I really enjoyed was called "Emergence", by David Palmer.
The story was about a pre-teen girl who was trapped in her family's bomb shelter during a nuclear attack, and when she finally was able to get out of the shelter, no one was left, and her whole world had changed.
She traveled across the country, along with her blue Macaw (named Terry Dactyl), looking for other survivors, and overcoming all kinds of obstacles along the way.
As she went, she kept a diary, which was written in kind of a shorthand fashion, and this is how you read the book; so by the time you finish the book , you are also thinking in her form of shorthand.