Books you wish you could read for the first time again

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I'm putting together a rough list of books I want to read in 2015 and decided to put One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on there. I've read it before, countless times, but every time I feel a bit sad that I'll never get the same feeling I had at the end of the novel when things come to a head. I can remember exactly where I was when I finished reading it (back of the school bus going home, must have been my last GCSE year) and the fact that I re-read the last few pages over again because I couldn't believe what had happened.

Anyone else had a book that they wish they could read for the first time again? What would it be?

Time travellers wife, bit cheesy I know but I got really engrossed.
Also The kite runner, it really opened my eyes.

Tell me about the goldfinch please?

I often wish I could read books again for the first time! My list would be:

The Name of the Rose
Slaughterhouse 5
Tender is the Night
Tess of D'urbervilles
And another vote here for Rebecca

Asleep, I have a copy but have never gotten around to reading it. I'll make it my next book after that recommendation!

The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate

Boo hoo, wah wah. You must give it time. Lock yourself away, or go on holiday. Get past the flowery language. Keep going. Please!

Grapes of wrath
Pride & Prejudice
Suitable Boy
Bonfire of the vanities
Brave new world
Birdsong
Crimson Petal

Many many books as a kid, long forgotten.

the bone people
my family and other animals
all roald dahl

The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
The Secret History - Donna Tartt

A Prayer For Owen Meany

The Shadow of the Wind, hadn't been so engrossed in a book since I was a child.

Some great ideas here, will be doing some library requests, thanks!

Never look back by Lesley Pearse. I loved that book, not knowing what would happen next.
There are a few others of hers actually, Belle, Belle's War, The promise and Gypsy.

The World According to Harp
Catch 22
Stark (Ben Elton)
Consider Phlebas (anything by Iain M Banks)
Isaac Asimov short story collection (wish I knew the name so I could get ds to read it.
Harry Potter books in one big binge.

Until you're mine by Samantha Hayes.
1984. George Orwell.

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Brilliant book

Oranges are not the Only Fruit. Such exquisite writing.
This thing of Darkness. I never wanted it to end tbh.

and Dogger [weeps]

marceline was your Asimov book The Black Widow Mysteries perchance?
I loved those.

The Jack the bodiless series by Julian May. I've re read them many times over the years but it's never the same.

Thanks Medoc I'll take a look.

So many. Stand outs:
The Bell Jar
The Secret History (really interesting so many have mentioned this)
Kinflicks by Lisa Alther (seldom met anyone who has read this)
Tess of the D'Urbevilles

Yy Count of Monte Cristo (nearly made an awful typo then! Would have been an entirely different book!) huge book and absolutely engrossing.

Count of Monte Cristo - this is a bit woo, I searched last night for my old copy to read again. A fantastic dark, winter night escape read.
The Hobbit
Lion the witch and the wardrobe
Never let me go. I read it and immediately started to read it again.
The Well of Loneliness kept me reading all day and through the night (I was about 15).

I read Kinflicks - over and over again ! I wonder if it was a book of it's time (a bit like Fear of Flying ?)
I also read The Valley of the Dolls many times.
I was a teenager when the Womens Movement was at it's height.
I recently re-read some of the old Women's Press books. TBH some do seem dated- anyone remember "Murder in the Collective ?" it was pretty terrible.