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

Books I wish I could read again to have that experience as you read food the first time that you just don’t get with the second

it happened in Boston? By Russell h greenan

the master and margarita by Bulgakov

rebecca by Daphne du maurier

books I will read again because I love his writing- Kurt Vonnegut

I would be going for Narnia and Harry Potter again as I prefere children's books - I may grow older but I'll never grow up!
Also A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley and BeSwitched by Kate Saunders.
This Child of Mine by Sinead Moriarty if I have to choose a grown up one. I also like Katie Ffforde and Patricia Scanlan.
Wishing you a speedy recovery xx

The last lecture-Randy Pausch, my absolute favourite book.

I’ve just read two delightful, funny, clever books that aren’t “literary” but were so satisfying:

‘the wedding people’ by Alison Espach

‘mrs plansky’s revenge’ by Spencer Quinn

Deftly written, witty and fun books!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Sorry that was supposed to be in reply to The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy

This is the one I was going to recommend too. Such a beautiful book and it has always stayed with me.

I've also loved everything I've ever read by Maggie o'farrell.

I see others have recommended the wolf hall trilogy. These are great but audiobook (read by Ben miles) was the way to go for me. Always available for free from your local library on libby or BorrowBox.

Great idea for a thread OP, hope your recovery goes well.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. (I know some people find elements of it problematic but I don't necessarily agree and it is one of my absolute favourite books).

The Midnight Library - Matt Haigh

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Sci-fi / horror wise - The Long Walk - Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) and I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (wish someone would make a proper film version of this)

Guilty pleasures - Fourth Wing / Iron Flame / Onyx Storm, A Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Kate Daniels series.

Dystopian - Wool Trilogy, Divergent Trilogy (although I still wish the ending was different) and Handmaids Tale / The Testaments (but might be a bit too close to home at the minute)

’The Collector’ by John Fowles
’Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami
’How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia’ by Moshin Hamid
’A Week in December’ by Sebastian Faulks

Wolf Hall
Bring up the Bodies
Mirror and light
Followed by Wolf Hall again!
My favourite books of all time.
I also loved Hamnet so much.
For light relief, riders and Rivals by Jilly Cooper.

Do not read Family Politics by John O’Farrell if it hurts to laugh. I couldn’t read it in public.

The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown.
I have read it three times now.

Also, they are children's books but I vividly remember the first time I read Peter Pan as a child, as well as the CS Lewis Chronicles of Narnia books starting with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe.

Also Alan Garner books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and The Owl Service for the same reason.

I'm looking at my Kindle library now...

The Rosie Project - very very funny, I'd love to read it again for the first time.

Lots of books by Jill Mansell or Katie Fforde - sort of advanced chick lit

Still Alice - Lisa Genova

I would have said Persuasion as well, I would read that over and over. And I think it's time to revisit Jane Eyre (first read for my o levels - yes, that long ago).

We need to talk about kevin

To Serve Them All my Days, by Delderfield. Re-read it last year and cried again. Tried a few others of his and just no.

JD Robb Lt Eve Dallas - loved that series for so long. Used to chuckle away on the London commute. Couldnt wait to get the next one. (But very repetitive now)

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - a brilliantly terrifying ghost story wrthy of NR James comparisons

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - I bawled my eyes out and don't want it to have a lesser impact on the next read

A God In Ruins by Kate Akinson - my dad had died the year before, and reading of a man's life, but the last few hours of the life ending, of towers crumbling just caught me and I blubbed away

I'm desperate for the final name of the wind Patrick rothfuss book to come out!!! Come on!!!! I hope he doesn't do a George r r Martin 😭

Anything by Kazuo Ishiro - especially Remains and Klara.

But also some favourite books from my childhood - eg Tom's Midnight Garden.

Lord of the rings. I'm like Christopher Lee now (I read it once a year like he did) but man, the magic of discovering it for the first time as a late teen just before the first film came out was...amazing.

Also the count of monte cristo and the pillars of the earth. I love them all so much.

This was going to be my suggestion. Utterly fabulous book!

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

A town like Alice (Neville Shute)
Trustee from the tool room (Neville Shute)

All Christie and all Tolkien

For modern literature and I'm now a crime thriller fan
I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh
It's incredible twist wise