Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is Top Ten Books I Want To Reread. Rereading seems like such a luxury. Like when will I ever have the time to put aside my ever-growing TBR pile and revisit an old book love? But, I want to get better at it in the next year. I doubt I will actually reread all these soon, but maybe in my lifetime. Here’s my list, in no particular order.
1. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
I think I am going to try to reread the trilogy before the second Mockingjay movie comes out next year. I hope it really pulls me into the story again as it did the first time.
2. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
I read this back in high school, and I’m really curious if I would like it as much now as I did then.
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
One of my all-time favorite stories that I really want to revisit via the book.
4. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
I like some of these books more than others, but I think I would like to reread all of them again sometime.
5. Rebecca by Daphene de Maurier
I really enjoyed this one in high school and really want to read it again.
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Another read from high school.
7. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
I wanted to reread this book right after I finished it. That’s pretty rare, especially for a book I gave 4.5 (not 5) stars to.
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I read this back in middle school! I wanted to reread it before the first of the movies came out, but didn’t. But maybe one day…
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
And one last read from high school I feel I really ought to revisit.
10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Because I can never get enough of Rudy.
What books do you want to reread?
The Picture of Dorian Gray Is one of my favorite books of all time. Oscar Wilde knew how to write some amazingly witty dialogue.
Yes he did! I loved The Importance of Being Earnest as well!
Me too. I read a lot of Oscar Wilde in college during my free time. He also wrote some great fairy tales that I plan on reading to my kids someday. “The Selfish Giant” is really nice. You can read almost everything Wilde ever wrote online for free (including Dorian Gray) here: http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
I didn’t know about his fairy tales! I’ll have to check that out!
Like you, a lot of my list is books I read back in my teens that I’d like to see if they hold up…
I’m really interested in reading them with a new perspective after 10 or so years of more life lived.
I also loved reading Rebecca in high school (or early college; I can’t remember!). It’s definitely one I plan to go back to someday soon. Same with To Kill a Mockingbird. And I’m planning a Seraphina re-read prior to the release of Shadow Scale. 🙂
I hope you are able to get to some of these in the near future (and that they live up to your memories)!
Yeah, I’m seriously thinking about rereading Seraphina before Shadow Scale even though I just read it this year.
The Picture of Dorian Gray I read in college and would love to reread. And TKAM also made my list because its brilliant!
Some of the classics we had to read really were pretty good, weren’t they?
Yes to Seraphina! I wanted to re-read it immediately too. I need to buy it and read it again before Shadow Scale.
Yes! I borrowed an e-book from my library but I definitely want to buy it once it’s in paperback and read it before Shadow Scale!
You have some awesome books on this list! I have read- or reread almost all of them. I can’t wait for Mockingjay to come out!
I’m really looking forward to it too!
I agree with so many of these. The very few I haven’t read are books I want to read.
Well whichever of these you haven’t read yet, I recommend!
I have several of these books on my to-read list! Great to know they’re good enough to warrant a reread. 🙂
I think so, at least! 🙂
There’s a ton of classics here! I read To Kill a Mockingbird in middle school just for fun, but I don’t think I understand what was happening, so I should try to reread that one day. And THE BOOK THIEF YAY! That book is simply beautiful 😀
That it is! And yes, these are the classics I enjoyed reading in school! There are others I never intend to read again!
I would love to reread the Hunger Games trilogy as well! Unfortunately, I’m not sure I have the time. BUT, luckily, one of our required reads for school is Mockingjay, so I’ll be rereading it sometime around January. 🙂
I really enjoyed Seraphina, but I don’t know if it’s a book I want to reread. I mean, that would be great since book 2’s taking forever to come out, but it’s not on a must-reread list or anything for me. 🙂
I can’t REread The Book Thief since I haven’t read it yet. 🙁 Yes, I know, I should. ASAP.
That’s interesting that Mockingjay is required reading for your school without the prerequisites of the first two books!
The reason I want to reread Seraphina is because it features some of my favorite characters from this year. I’ve read a lot of great books but very few where I just completely LOVED the characters, and I adore Seraphina and Kiggs so much, I need to read about them again!
Mockingjay was on my list as well! And like you, I loved Rudy in The Book Thief, his character always made me smile. A Walk to Remember was the first and LAST Nicholas Spark book I ever read. It made me feel so good until the end, and then it made me cry! I refuse to read any more of his books again because of that. Only Stephen King is allowed to do that to me. Or John Green I guess. Great list!
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I haven’t read any other Nicholas Sparks either. I actually started two other of his books but couldn’t get into them. I was a teen at the time and I liked that A Walk to Remember was about teens, whereas the other books were about adults.
Yessss, I have The Book Thief and TKaM on mine too!! (I keep typing “To Kill a Mockingjay” lol. I am in a tired way. XD) I think i reread Narnia enough when I was little (like I listened to it on audio absolutely ALL the time) that I’m good for that. One day I’ll hopefully read it to my nephews/nieces though. x)
I definitely want to read The Chronicles of Narnia to any children I might have.
We finally got around to watching the movie version of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe a couple of days ago (only about ten years behind the rest of the world) and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. I love the books so much that I was nervous about seeing them adapted.
I’m about to start reading through A Wrinkle in Time with the kids partially so I can reread it myself. It was always one of my favorites when I was younger.
The Disney adaptations are pretty good! Though in Prince Caspian there is a little romance between Caspian and Susan, which is so dumb. But other than that, pretty good! I was sad they didn’t continue after Dawn Treader.
I read somewhere that there’s an option for someone else to pick up the series in 2017. Not sure if they made enough money a studio to go for it or not, but the possibility is still out there.