Does anyone have a book you wish you could read again for the first time? Not sure what my pick would be.
Does anyone have a book you wish you could read again for the first time?
Not sure what my pick would be.
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The Lord of the Rings
Kane & Abel
All of the Harry Potters
The Hunger Games books
Lovely bones
The passage, Justin Cronin
I second the Harry Potter series
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Deathly Hallows and Prisoner of Azkaban i would love to read for first time
@Lynne My favourite Potter
Harry Potter
Secrets of the ya ya sisterhood – off the top of my head.
Eleanor Oliphant ?
Steven Kings pet cemetery
A Thousand Splendid Suns
This – it’s so beautifully written, moving and shocking in equal measures
That’s a perfect description, I think it’s my favorite book
@Michelle thank you
Reading this I’m thinking I should really get round to reading Harry Potter!
The Nightingale
I just posted about the same thing this afternoon. Mine would be Lady Macbeth, by Susan Fraser King.
Lol sorry, i missed it then.
Tales of the city series by Armistead Maupin
Arabella Weir – onwards and upwards
What a great question. I’d pick Rebecca, and The Secret History. Two of the most intense reading experiences of my life. I’d love to have them again.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
@Louise I loved this bug so so sad
@Caroline oh heart breaking i know.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I was about 14 and had never read a book with an ‘unreliable narrator’ before. Shock, horror, admiration – fantastic.
@Jo ooh I had the same experience at about the same age! – utterly loved it. So I told my grandma, who was a massive Christie fan. Her face fell and she said that it was the only one she didn’t like. Apparently when she first read it, she’d guessed the twist on the very first page, and was gutted when it turned out she was right. I’ve never forgotten her look of disappointment…
I felt the same the first time I guessed ‘whodunnit’ in an Agatha Christie novel (when I was a lot older!). But they’re so good while they last and there are so many more fantastic crime novels to read if you feel you’ve ‘done’ Agatha Christie.
Wild Swans by Jung Chang – stunning and a real eye opener to the days of old China and Chairman Mao.
@Carol I’ve literally just got this in a sale….. For 10p!!! ?
Bargain! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did – it’s quite shocking but loved it 😉
Carries War
Ooh yes!
Oh god I need to reread this it’s been years!
Posession by A S Byatt
A thousand splendid suns
@Sandra massively agree. ?
Any Dickens novel except Barnaby Rudge, Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible.
Anne of Green Gables
One of my favourite set of books ever ?
Harry Potters and The Night Circus.
LOTR. I was lost when I finished the third one, I’d wandered round the house for days attached to that book and doing everything one handed
The Red Tent
Birdsong by Sebastian faulks
Harry Potter, and The Long Walk and The Stand by Stephen King.
Harry Potter, The Belles and probably The Fault In Our Stars, only because it’s the book that got me into reading ?
When God Was A Rabbit
Definitely Anne of greengables series, i loved the tv series too, and pride and prejudice, x
Hitchhikers Guide
The book thief.. I stayed 30 mins after my shift in work and hid in the break room to finish it.
A Gentleman in Moscow. So many life lessons within the story narrative.
All the light I cannot see….
Harry Potter
PS I love you or the lovely bones x
Gerald’s Game
Good Omens
Great answwers, everyone! I can’t think of a book I wish I could read again for the first time. All my fave books I’m happy to read again and again…eg anything by Terry Pratchett or David Mitchell and Harry Potter…
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters.
Me too ?
Whole Harry Potter series, The Passage, Pride and Prejudice, clan of cave bear series, damn, so many
Harry Potter, me before you z
The Eight by Katherine Neville. A fantastic journey of historical clues and puzzles the first time around. You can’t bring back that suspence and surprise on a second reading ?
I’ve been thinking about this all night and I definitely wish I could read A Prayer for Owen Meany for the first time again.
A Man Called Ove. I just loved it
Harry Potter ,the shadow hunter series,me before you xx
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
Bleak House.
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
The Harry Potters. Wuthering Heights. Great Expectations. Persuasion.
Harry Potter
Watership Down
The time travellers wife
The Snow Child and The Dovekeepers
Harry potter
The Gargoyle