Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.
Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”
The first book in the Third Body Problem series. I don’t know why but I always read a bit, get distracted by something else (right now I’m reading Loop, the third one in the Ring series) and push it down in the list.
Also the 2nd book of the Dune series, loved the first one but the second was getting a bit too much diplomacy and “you already know what will happen, let me show how” to me.
After the one I’m reading I have more J-horror books to read and also I want to try reading Pontypool Changes Everything (“Zombies” of language sounds amazing to me and I loved the movie) so it’s going farther and farther down the list.