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

[BusyTraybake]

I am currently in bed recovering from surgery. I can expect to be immobile for 6 weeks and I am already bored out of my mind. I actually had a little cry earlier as I am so claustrophobic already.

I have found reading helps. Please recommend any books you wish you could read again for the first time.

Thanks in advance. In desperate in need of mental stimulation as I have turned to food which is not something I usually obsess over. Probably would be best for my overall recovery if I don’t pile on a pad of weight.

My answer to the question: never let me go, love in a time of cholera and persuasion

@Carriemac I think I might reread Larry now. It’s been a while.

The Secret History. It was like I was in a trance.

Don't read anything about it first (or read any of the blurb on the back of in the front) - let everything be a surprise.

And Julian the professor who rather implausibly fails no notice that Bunny's an idiot (literally my only criticism of this otherwise perfect book).

That's a good one too.
I've read all her novels and eagerly/desperately await a new one...

I came on here to say Never Let Me Go, but you've got that already! Bigly great book.

So, I offer The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Just finished The Satsuma Complex, by Bob Mortimer - a nice, gently funny quick read.

Ones that are amazing if you haven't seen the films (all of which were good films, but semi spoiled my enjoyment of rereading the books, not quiet sure why but the films ate some of the fun)
Ready Player One
The Martian
Hunger Games

ones that haven't been ruined by film adaptations
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice (and the rest of the 10 or so books that follow)
Stephen King 112263

Crime and Punishment. Dostoyevsky
Catch 22. Heller
Bleak House. Dickens
All of Jane Austen
All Agatha Christie
Siddharta. Hesse
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. Bach

Haven't rtft but:
Catch 22

All the Kate Atkinsons already recommended, plus the Jackson Brodie series.

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford.