What makes you want to listen

I think suspense and tone make a book or story good because you want to know what the next step in the story is. Like for example stephon king is a good author that does that. Everybody at least knows one of his suspense books like IT OR CHILDREN OF THE CORN. Which both are books that are filled with a scary tone and suspense. Relating it to something in our life makes a book good too because you can break it down more and understand it more since you have already gone through it.