205 books
—
28 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Nostalgia Books
Showing 1-50 of 29,563
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 605 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,891,033 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 440 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,701,558 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 436 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,083,085 ratings — published 1999
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 426 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,581,227 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 407 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,381,794 ratings — published 2000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 401 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,338,730 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 385 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,954,144 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 374 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,801,842 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 366 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,259,182 ratings — published 2007
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by (shelved 311 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,241,664 ratings — published 1950
Matilda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,157,846 ratings — published 1988
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,114,259 ratings — published 1952
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 261 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,365,885 ratings — published 2009
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 256 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,434,758 ratings — published 2006
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,545,277 ratings — published 2005
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 238 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,274,698 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 237 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,902,860 ratings — published 2010
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 233 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,267,788 ratings — published 2008
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 228 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,405,787 ratings — published 1998
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 223 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,199,405 ratings — published 2009
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 215 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.03 — 589,110 ratings — published 1999
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 212 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,163,451 ratings — published 1908
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 211 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917,481 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,345,140 ratings — published 1911
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.02 — 428,024 ratings — published 1997
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,268,346 ratings — published 1964
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,544,752 ratings — published 1974
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,317,743 ratings — published 1962
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 178 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,505,325 ratings — published 2011
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by (shelved 169 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.17 — 955,830 ratings — published 1964
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,092,381 ratings — published 1963
The BFG (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.23 — 543,072 ratings — published 1982
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,907,429 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.28 — 972,384 ratings — published 2010
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.18 — 439,653 ratings — published 1983
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 152 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,190,673 ratings — published 2006
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.07 — 606,100 ratings — published 1977
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,660,123 ratings — published 1937
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 143 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,047,791 ratings — published 2007
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
by (shelved 139 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,994,038 ratings — published 2002
James and the Giant Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.04 — 530,706 ratings — published 1961
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,627,808 ratings — published 1943
Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.93 — 448,691 ratings — published 2003
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,222,523 ratings — published 2007
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 134 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.40 — 692,742 ratings — published 2011
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 134 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,924,281 ratings — published 2008
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,651,233 ratings — published 1995
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 3.88 — 356,055 ratings — published 1960
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,702,110 ratings — published 1967
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as nostalgia)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,555,855 ratings — published 1868
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
