Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we're talking about re-reading. I LOVE re-reading, which means that my focus lately on reading things that are new to me means I have missed out on going back and revisiting the books I've loved for years. I do engage in some re-reading via audio, which has proven to be a fun way to experience familiar favorites in a new way, but here are ten books I haven't had the chance to re-read yet but very much want to!
Possession: I found the way this story was told, with the parallel timelines, to be just enthralling and I really feel like it would reward a revisit!
Beloved: Obviously this book is a challenging one, but it is just phenomenal and important and worthy of being re-read often.
There There: This book was so dazzling that it feels like I need at least more run-through (and possibly more) to really catch everything it did.
The Blind Assassin: Such a delicately constructed story-within-a-story, and so wrenching.
Great Expectations: You can definitely tell Dickens got paid by the word, and of his works I've read, this is the only one that I think is going back to again because there's a genuinely compelling story there (even if it's too wordy).
The Lords of Discipline: This was a highly satisfying read and I'd just really like to explore it again.
The Queen of the Night: Reading this book the first time through was just fun as it took turn after turn. I want to read it again and really enjoy the characters and details knowing how the plot goes!
The Devil in the Grove: One of my most-recommended nonfiction books, this incredible true story about corruption and racism in Jim Crow-era Florida is depressing but so fascinating and very well-told.
Vanity Fair: This is another one that's really long, but Becky Sharp was just such an interesting heroine that I want to read it again from the beginning knowing how it'll end.
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Beloved was such a good read.
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Devastating but amazing
DeleteI had to laugh when I saw War and Peace on your list. I've been reading it for the first time this year. I started it in January and I've read a chapter a day all year. It is amazing, but, at 64, I don't see me reading it again in this life!
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely an undertaking, but I just loved it!
DeleteI also want to reread The Blind Assassin, but it’s sooo long. I’d feel guilty for neglecting my TBR shelf. I just bought There There. I’m looking forward to it.
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I hope you love There There! I agree, it feels like it would be a lot of time to devote to revisiting a book when there are still so many to read!
DeleteI haven't actually read any of these yet but I definitely want to read Great Expectations and War and Peace at some point.
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DeleteAfter dithering over whether to read War and Peace for years, I finally got around to it this year and I can totally understand why you'd want to reread it! It's definitely a commitment, but I'm sure it'll be so much richer the second time around.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a fantastic book, I always urge people to read it because it's not actually difficult once you get used to Russian naming conventions it's just LONG.
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