Books you wish you could read for the 1st time again

I’m struggling to get through this and finding it hard to keep the characters straight.

The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy
Street Without a Name, Kapka Kassabova
The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
Wolf Hall etc, Hilary Mantel
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut

Little Man, what now? by Hans Fallada

Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro (very different from Never Let me go, but also beautiful)

Fiesta by Ernest Hemmingway

Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende (Paula is actually my favourite by Isabelle Allende- an utterly beautiful, astounding, heartbreaking book - but I read it before I was a mother, and I'm not sure I could read it now)

Of those already mentioned I love the LOTR and His Dark Materials series, A Town Like Alice and I Capture the Castle.

In addition:

Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Helen Zenna Smith, Not So Quiet
L M Alcott, Little Women
H. D. Bid Me to Live
E M Forster, Howards End
Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
P D James, Devices and Desires
plus Edgar Allan Poe's spooky stories

Get well soon, OP!

Wild, Cheryl Strayed. A very thought provoking book, determination, grief, anger, deep sadness, brave, solitude

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin. Short but utterly gripping. Read nothing about it and be prepared to not be able to put it down. I sat down to read a chapter and read the whole thing!

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng. Such beautiful language.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. A old classic but surprisingly unsettling.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. I heard the first page read on the radio and immediately had to buy it.

Enid Blyton

Rebecca
Revolutionary Road
American dirt - couldn't put it down

Sophie world

Yes yes for the Master and Margarita!

Very different and not original but favourites of all time Roots, Memoirs of a Geisha, Captain Corelli, Kite runner, Wild Swans, Free Country (George Mahood), Round Ireland with a fridge. Enjoyed America Dirt recommended here a few months ago.

Howards End
All my Friends are Superheroes
The Song of Achilles
The Five

Anything by Sarah J Mass - Esp the ACOTAR series
The beekeeper of Aleppo
The Island of Sea Women
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

That last one rocked my world and opened my eyes in ways i cant even describe. If I ever had a genie in a bottle and three wishes, re-reading that would be one of my wishes. Honestly, READ IT!

For those mentioning The Bone Clocks, I would also give mention to Slade House, which is a very dark companion book to The Bone Clocks.

Would I reread it? No, but that's because obe chapter in it really upset me about a girl at a party who isn't the coolest or most attractive, and believes a boy she likes is paying her attention when really it's all going wrong, but in a really creepy way. It really hit a nerve and to be honest I think i would get the same feeling if I read it again.

The Man on a Donkey is a doorstop of a historical novel which would be ideal.

How about reading your way through something like Trollope's Palliser series? Or Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles?

I'd love to be laying on a sun lounger with a big fat new novel by Maeve Binchy.

"We are all completely behind ourselves" is the best book ever, imho

The invisible life of Addie La Rue
The midnight library
The first fifteen lives of Harry August

Hope you feel better soon x

So many brilliant recommendations already and I could add more than I will.

But I'd say David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

I'd love to go back and read the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom, the first one is called Dissolution. I also like Ken Follett books as I think he's a great story teller.

All the Light We Cannot See - can't remember the author sorry
Outlander - Diana Galbadon
The Harsd Way - Lee Child
IT - Stephen King
Empire of the Vampire - Jay Kristoff

Vine Street by Dominic Nolan
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
What A Carve-Up by Jonathan Coe
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
Deathless by Catherynne Valente
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

One Day, never been so bereft at finishing a book

For gentle but non 'cosy' escapism, with some great characters, Elizabeth Pewsey's Mountjoy series. Kindle versions are published as Elizabeth Aston.

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/children-of-chance-book-elizabeth-pewsey-9780340618202

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto for a bit of fun. Just finished reading it for the second time and still didn't want it to end.
Thursday murder club series by Richard Osman.
On earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - poetic and beautiful but quite dark in places so I'd have to be in the right mood to read it again.
Transcendent kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - also quite dark in places so likewise would need to be in the right mood.
The future by Naomi Alderman - quite long and a bit preachy at times but an interesting thought experiment.

Loving this thread! Agree with lots said already especially Terry Pratchett. Would add Good Omens to that too. And many children’s books, like The Children of Green Knowe and Charmed Life and others by Diana Wynne Jones (had lots of fun re-reading them to DS)