Because There’s Nothing Like a Great Tragedy

Daily writing promptWhat book could you read over and over again?View all responses

I have to be honest, when I first saw this WordPress daily writing prompt, my first impulse was to say:

My books! (Check it ’em out here.)

However, I know me. If I read my books over and over again, I’d be tempted to change the story.

So, if I can’t choose my own books, I’m confident I can name at least three books I can read over and over again because I have.

Here they are:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Peruse my in-depth review of this book in this blog-post series.)

Watership Down by Ricard Adams (I don’t have a review of this book. I will remedy that in the near future, but instead here’s the Wikipedia page.)

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher (A modern classic. Here’s my pathetic excuse of a review over on GoodReads.)

All three are rather tragic stories. I’m drawn to stories where characters face terrible challenges that they may or may not overcome.

What books have you read that made you immediately start over again from page one?