Book Blogger Hop
This prompt was submitted by Nicole @ The Christian Fiction Girl:
What are some of your favorite books to re-read?
I really don’t have–rather, don’t make–much time to re-read anymore. This is one of the biggest complaints I have about my reading, honestly. It’s also the thing I keep telling myself I’ll do better at, and then I’ll go months without re-reading a single thing. As great as it is to find a “new friend” or be blown away by a story you hadn’t imagined before, going back to an old favorite has a kind of comfort and familiarity that can’t be beat (and you get to know them so much better). Before I got into blogging–I’d re-read all the time. Especially when I was a kid, I’d usually come home from the library with a book I’d read before along with the new-to-me reads. Now, I might force myself to do some, but not that often. So these lists are not incredibly current, but they kind of are. And you’re not going to find something more current from me.
Non-Fiction
(there should be more here, but I’m drawing a blank)
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Standalones
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle (this is technically the second in a series, but it works better as a standalone)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (I’ve told myself to read this “next month” at least 35 times since I finished Tom Jones in 2021)
Series
(sometimes I’d read them in order as a set, sometimes I’ll just pick up an individual installment)
Everyone’s favorite 5-part Trilogy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Towel Day is this weekend, readers beware)
Most Robert Crais books (nothing against the others, I just haven’t found the time for them yet)
The Fletch and Flynn series by Gregory Mcdonald–at least those written in the 1970s & 80s
The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker–especially the first 20, but I’ve re-read them all.
Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin books by Rex Stout (I’ve probably re-read portions of this series more than anything else on this list, actually, the whole response to this prompt should be about me talking about this series)
How about you, reader? Do you have favorites to revisit?
Carol
I rarely reread! When I do, I choose something from my lifetime favs shelf. Rereading is like visiting an old friend! More fondly treasured as the years go by.