Retro Rereads discussion
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Hola!Sentimental Education by Flaubert
A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
Light in August by Faulkner
Invisible Man by Ellison
Parable of the Sower by Butler
If Beale Street could Talk by Baldwin
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
Death of a Salesman by Miller
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Neale Hurston
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Hello fellow readers-- The Denial of Death -- Becker, Ernest
The Secret History -- Tartt, Donna
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Kundera, Milan
A Little Life -- Yanagihara, Hanya
The Sparrow -- Russell, Mary Doria
A Wrinkle in Time -- L'Engle, Madeleine
A Confederacy of Dunces -- Toole, John Kennedy
The Good Solder -- Ford, Ford, Madox
Resserection -- Tolstoy, Leo
Lolita -- Nabokov, Vladamir
Blindness -- Saramago, José
East of Eden -- Steinbeck, John
These were so hard to pick...
1. The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
2. Magyk, by Angie Sage
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by CS Lewis
4. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
5. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery
7. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
8. The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman
9. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
10. The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
11. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
12. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
1. The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
2. Magyk, by Angie Sage
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by CS Lewis
4. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
5. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery
7. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
8. The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman
9. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
10. The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
11. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
12. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
I only picked nine books instead of twelve. In part because several of my retro reads are rather massive tomes that could take me a while to get through. In addition to the fact that I have an extensive TBR that really needs to be whittled down some what. My list is as follows:1. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
2. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
3. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
6. Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
7. Blindness by Jose Saramago
8. Bleakhouse by Charles Dickens
9. London by Edward Rutherford
Trying to figure out what books I want to reread in 2017 started out easy but became increasingly more difficult. 1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
2. A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin (GRRM hereafter)
3. A Clash of Kings by GRRM
4. A Storm of Swords by GRRM
5. A Feast of Crows by GRRM
6. A Dance of Dragons by GRRM
7. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
8. Scar Night by Alan Campbell
9. Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold
10. 1984 by George Orwell
I must admit, most of my rereads were influenced by books on my TBR shelf or in anticipation of a new book being released in a favorite series. Only books listed at #1, #7, and #10 were selected just for the pure pleasure of rereading an old favorite.
This looks like so much fun! I'm really looking forward to this, I haven't read some of these old favorites in YEARS.
1. Dealing with Dragons
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. Blood and Chocolate
4. The China Garden
5. Bridge to Terabithia
6. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
7. Jewels of the Sun
8. Sabriel
9. The Black Gryphon
10. First Test
11. I Am Mordred
12. Warbreaker
1. Dealing with Dragons
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. Blood and Chocolate
4. The China Garden
5. Bridge to Terabithia
6. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
7. Jewels of the Sun
8. Sabriel
9. The Black Gryphon
10. First Test
11. I Am Mordred
12. Warbreaker
This was really hard! And I'm not sure I picked the right ones.1. Gone With the Wind
2. To Kill A Mockingbird
3. A Wrinkle in Time
4. A Christmas Carol
5. Little Women
6. Tom Sawyer
7. Don Quixote
8. A Confederacy of Dunces
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. The Christ Commission
12. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Here are some of my re-reads. I'm not quite sure of the order but this is the gist.Secret History by Donna Tartt
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
Still Life by Louise Penny
Owen Meany or Garp by John Irving
Summer of the Redeemers by Carolyn Haines
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Wrinkle in Time or Harriet the Spy
Three Musketeers or Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
First Sue Grafton or First Sara Paretsky
Mary Poppins by PL Travers
This list may slightly change but I'm looking forward to seeing whether the re-reads hold up.
This should be fun! In no certain order:Just So Stories
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Scent of Magic
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Scarlet Letter
Bloodhound
Deerskin
The Raging Quiet
The China Garden
Dragonsong
I'm stopping at ten - none of the others left quite the same impression.
I was just thinking about this! No particular order, but these have all been favorites in the past:Caddie Woodlawn
Anne of Green Gables
Go Ask Alice
Arrows of the Queen
Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Dragonsong
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My Side of the Mountain
The Sparrow
Sloppy Firsts
One of the fairytale retellings from Robin McKinley
Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories (because I re-read Weetzie Bat at least once a year but this hasn't been touched in a decade)
I finally have a reason to get through my re-read shelf! I'm not sure of the order yet but this is what I have. Deep Storm
Into the Wild
The Phantom Tollbooth
Blonde
The Diary of a Young Girl
A is for Alibi
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Lord of the Flies
The Witches
The Great Gatsby
The Shining
This is going to be fun! Here's my list, in order.1. Robert Browning's Poetry
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude
4. Shroud for a Nightingale
5. The Professor and the Madman
6. Blake's Poetry and Designs
7. Madame Bovary
8. Agatha Christie (haven't decided which one)
9. Pride and Prejudice
10. Macbeth
11. Frankenstein
12. Jane Eyre
This group is great :) I've been thinking of re-reading a lot of these books for the past months but never gotten around to it!1.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone2.
To Kill a Mockingbird3.
Heidi4.
Animal Farm 5.
Five on a Treasure Island6.
The Complete Maus
Ok- tough to choose but here I go1. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Chaim Potok, I am Asher Lev
3. David Sedatis, Holidays on Ice
4. Dorothy L Sayers, Gaudy Night
5. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
6. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
7. Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
8. Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel
9. Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table
10. Cathie Pelletier, The Funeral Makers
11. Ken Follett, The Eye of the Needle
12. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
6. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
9. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. Candide by Voltaire
11. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This was really hard to narrow down! I have ignored the tiny pool of old favourites that I do reread regularly like Harry Potter or Kate Quinn.1. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
2. Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick
3. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
4. The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas
5. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
6. Tell Me Something by Adele Parks
7. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
8. Confessions of an Stepsister by Gregory McGuire
9. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
10. Viper Wine by Hermione Erie
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick
It will be interesting to see if they all stand the test of time!
Most of the books are the ones I read when I was a teenager. I have been planning to read them back one day.1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
5. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
6. A Good Fall by by Ha Jin
7. Where the Red Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
9. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
10. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
11. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien
12. Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
I see so many titles I love here!Joining in with my in-no-particular-order list:
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry
The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
I love so many of these lists, and I ADORE this idea! Here is my list for this year: 1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Little Women
3. Anne of Green Gables- Re-read in February (listened to Audible version narrated by Rachel McAdams).
4. Jane Eyre
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. The Poisonwood Bible - Re-read in January! I'm still absolutely in love with this book.
7. Gone with the Wind
8. The Night Circus
9. The Secret Life of Bees
10. The Shack
11. The House of the Spirits
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
I had a few runner-ups as well, but didn't add them because I read them pretty recently (in the past couple of years). I may re-read them as well, if I get some time:
The Help
Cutting for Stone
A Man Called Ove
Water for Elephants
I adore this idea! In no particular order: 1.) A Great and Terrible Beauty
2.) Rebel Angels
3.) The Sweet Far Thing
4.) Fahrenheit 451
5.) Little Women
6.) The Golem and the Jinni
7.) To Kill a Mockingbird
8.) I Capture the Castle
9.) Stardust
10.) Jane Eyre
11.) The Bell Jar
12.) The Lovely Bones
The Hobbit by J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
Mine is under 12, but I think it's doable:Wrinkle in Time
Mists of Avalon
Lolita (for the umpteenth time but I love it)
Nightmare in Pink (my fave Travis McGee book)
Dirk Gently duo
and to throw it back to middle school:
Jurassic Park
Needful Things
Northern Lights trilogy - Philip PullmanWuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Behind The Scenes At The Museum - Kate Atkinson
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
Hi everyone, here is my list.1. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
2. The Witch Tree Symbol (Nancy Drew) – Carolyn Keene
3. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
4. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
5. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
6. Hawaii – James Michener
7. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
8. Homeplace – Ann Rivers Siddons
9. Polar Star – Martin Cruz Smith
10. Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
11. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz-Zafron
12. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Mystic RiverMiddlesex
Watership Down
Americanah
Atonement
The Stand
The Kite Runner
Cutting for Stone
The Cider House Rules
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Poisonwood Bible
Radiance of Tomorrow
1. Little House on the Prairie or Sarah, Plain and Tall2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Jane Eyre
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal or Fool
7. The Graveyard Book or Stardust
8. Howl's Moving Castle
9. The End of the Affair
10. The Book Thief
11. The Night Circus
12. The Giver
This has been a hard list to create. These are my picks in no particular order.1. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret – Judy Blume
2. Otherwise Known As Shelia the Great – Judy Blume
3. Lord of the Flies- William Golding
4.Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
5. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
6. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
7. Misery – Stephen King
8. Still Life with Woodpecker – Tom Robbins
9. The Cat Ate My Gym Suit – Paula Danziger
10. Valley of the Dolls- Jacqueline Susann
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
12. Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
* I may replace a current book with Brave New World.
These lists are SO EXCITING. Right now my plan is to start a thread for each month. If we need to branch out we can. And those of you who have overlap books may want to consider doing a thread for a particular book, too.
It was hard to pick only 12! :)Alas, Babylon
Litte House in the Big Woods
Flowers for Algernon
Animal Farm
1984
Lord of the Flies
Beowulf
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Merchant of Venice
The Westing Game
The Secret Garden
Alisha Marie wrote: "I adore this idea! In no particular order: 1.) A Great and Terrible Beauty
2.) Rebel Angels
3.) The Sweet Far Thing
4.) Fahrenheit 451
5.) [..."
I love The Bell Jar. I should add that to my list. :)
Here are my books in the order I'm planning to read them:Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
The Fall (Seventh Tower), by Garth Nix
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements
Holes, by Louis Sachar
City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
Here is my list in no particular order:Relic
Rebecca
Anne of Green Gables
Misery
The Ruins
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
The Handmaid's Tale
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Jurassic Park
I was already planning a reread of The Hunger Games trilogy and I'm excited to add the others to my lists for next year! :)
Hello all :] I made a video talking about my list, which you can view here if you so desire, but my list is as follows.https://youtu.be/QHt-bI4Nmbs
And these are in no particular order!
Pride and Prejudice
Of Mice and Men
Abarat
Othello
Macbeth
Jane Eyre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Things Fall Apart
The Catcher in the Rye
Heart-Shaped Box
The Stand
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Super excited to be participating!
Hi all! Seeing some awesome choices on your lists! Here are mine in month order:January: Coraline
February: Alanna: The First Adventure
March: Owl at Home
April: Transformations
May: Sense and Sensibility
June: Jazz
July: The People of Paper
August: Tales from Outer Suburbia
September: Abarat
October: A Darker Magic
November: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
December: White is for Witching
Looking forward to joining you all in this. Happy reading! ^_^
Is it possible to revise a list if one decides, in the middle of the year, that rereading a particular book is essential?I will wait to post a list but the authors are likely to include Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Wilkie Collins, EF Benson, Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, Joseph Conrad, Barbara Pym, mysteries by Ngaoi Marsh and Agatha Christie and Nicolas Blake. I also want to reread Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" which I have not read since age 14.
Hey Everyone!I've chosen 12 books for this challenge :) Looking forward to 2017!!
Into the Land of the Unicorns
Yuit -Feb 20To Kill a Mockingbird
Lost in the Barrens
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Golden Compass
Dances with Wolves
Dead Until Dark
The Kiss of Deception
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Omens - Jan 15
This was really hard! I am not sure if these are all the right books or not. Certainly they are in no particular order, even if they ARE the right books...Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Dune by Frank Herbert
Harry Potter (might do the whole series) JK Rowling
Outlander (might do this whole series, too) Diana Gabaldon
The White Raven by Diana Paxson
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
How do I choose?? First 12 favorite books that come to mind initially read more than three years ago.1. The Princess Bride
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Jane Eyre
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Outsiders
8. Charlotte's Web
9. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
10. The Shining
11. Seabiscuit
12. The Glass Castle
I tend to never finish any TBR piles ever, so I think I'll go for six books to reread so that I don't overwhelm myself.1. The Little Prince
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3. The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries)
4. The Rune Stone
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm so excited about this. So excited that I couldn't pick just 12! We'll see how far I get into this pile. I'm finding that most of these books I read during an intense personal time for me so while I remember the impact these books had on me, I don't remember why or many of the specifics, so I'm excited to re-read. There are also a couple on this list that I remember reading as a teen/young adult I'm excited to read as an adult. 1) Good Grief, Lolly Winston (Already re-read this one, I cheated and read on break. Just as wonderful as I remember!)
2) The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
3) Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4) Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
5) The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
6) To Kill a Mockingbird
7) Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
8) A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
9) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
10) I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
11) A Fine Balance, Rohitan Mistry
12) When Calls the Heart, Janette Oke
13) The Hiding Place, Connie Ten Boom
14) Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Took me a long time to decide. Here goes:1. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee
3. Music in the Castle of Heaven - John Elliott Gardner
4. Ulysses - James Joyce
5. The Prince - Macchiavelli
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
8. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
9. Essays of Montaigne
10. The Oresteia -Aeschylus
11. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
12. Medea - Euripides
Here's mine! I read most of these when I was in high school, so it will be interesting to see whether I still like them.I only picked eight because by I'm also doing another reading challenge and because I want to tackle some of the books in my tbr pile. Though I might change some of the books listed or add more later.
1. The Light of the Oracle - Victoria Hanley
2. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
3. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
4. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
7. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
In no particular order:1. The Guernsey literary and potato peel society by Mary Ann Shaffer
2. The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
3. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
9. Imperium by Robert Harris
10. La tía Julia y el escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa
11. La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
12. The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
I have some ideas of what I'd like to re-read, but this is just an informal (and incomplete) list:Just Kids by Patti Smith
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Crooked Hearts by Robert Boswell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
In the Woods by Tana French
Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kauffman
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
I had a really hard time with picking 12, so decided to go all out and re-read the books that made me love reading as a kid and some of the ones I hated reading to see if I still have that feeling. There's also a few recent ones on here because they were on my mind...1. Wrinkle in Time (I'm sure I'll end up reading the series)
2. Where the Red Fern Grows
3. Indian in the Cupboard
4. The Outsiders
5. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
6. Night Circus
7. To Kill A Mockingbird
8. Of Mice and Men
9. 13th Tale
10. The Historian
11. Island of the Blue Dolphins
12. My Side of the Mountain
13. Into the Wild
14. Julie of the Wolves
15. Charlotte's Web
16. The Westing Game
17. The Book Thief
18. Beowulf
19. Tuck Everlasting
20. The Great Gatsby
21. Catcher in the Rye
22. The Pigman
23. Call of the Wild
24. White Fang
25. All the Light We Cannot See
Good Afternoon, so looking forward to this:January-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
February-The Kings Speech by Mark Logue & Peter Conradi
March-The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
April-The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
May- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
June-The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen Donaldson
July-My Life with the Saints by James Martin
August-The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
September-Apples Every Day by Grace Richardson
October-The Grounding of Group Six by Julian Thompson
November-11/22/63 by Stephen King
December-14 by Peter Clines
in no particular order--handmaid's tale
-as i lay dying
-it
-bell jar
-long loneliness
-rubyfruit jungle
-beyond god the father
-jane eyre
-the stranger
-second sex
-wrinkle in time
-american gods or neverwhere
I will try to re-read some titles this year. I don’t typically like to reread things because I love trying to figure out a story in advance and I don’t like the déjà vu feeling that comes from reading what I read before. Most of these books are from my childhood and I am curious how my nostalgia bias will hold up:
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (will be counting in my Read Harder 2017 Challenge)
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (I hated the book when I read it as a kid. I want to see if reading it as an adult would change my perception)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Could not finish it as a kid and it ruined my perfect Reading Test Scores. I will finish it this time.)
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Maybe re-read some loved series:
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (All three. Especially when there are talks to bring it to the small screen.)
A Series of Unfortunate Events Box: The Complete Wreckby Lemony Snicket (Will try to re-read a few. I am excited about the Netflix adaptation)
The Pendragon Series (starting with The Merchant of Death) by D J MacHale would be great to also re-read again.
These would be what I wouldn't mind retackling immediately. My mind may change throughout the coming year.
In no particular order: 1. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (and possibly the rest of the series)
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
6. Sabriel by Garth Nix
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
8. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (also possibly the rest of the series)
9. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
11. TBD
12. TBD
Picking the first 10 was easy, but I had a hard time settling on the last 2. So I decided to allow myself 2 “open” picks to decide on later :) I'll most likely do a reread of A Game of Thrones later in the year, especially if a release date for the 6th book is announced!
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Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
I know I shouldn't be surprised how heavy it is on dead white men (that is what we're all raised reading, mostly) but I still hate that. Definitely a reminder of how differently I read now!