Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re talking about re-reading. I LOVE re-reading, which means that my focus lately on reading things that are new to me means I have missed out on going back and revisiting the books I’ve loved for years. I do engage in some re-reading via audio, which has proven to be a fun way to experience familiar favorites in a new way, but here are ten books I haven’t had the chance to re-read yet but very much want to!
War and Peace: This one will be a commitment to re-read because it’s super long, but it was so good and so rich that I can’t wait to dive back into its world.
Possession: I found the way this story was told, with the parallel timelines, to be just enthralling and I really feel like it would reward a revisit!
Beloved: Obviously this book is a challenging one, but it is just phenomenal and important and worthy of being re-read often.
There There: This book was so dazzling that it feels like I need at least more run-through (and possibly more) to really catch everything it did.
The Blind Assassin: Such a delicately constructed story-within-a-story, and so wrenching.
Great Expectations: You can definitely tell Dickens got paid by the word, and of his works I’ve read, this is the only one that I think is going back to again because there’s a genuinely compelling story there (even if it’s too wordy).
The Lords of Discipline: This was a highly satisfying read and I’d just really like to explore it again.
The Queen of the Night: Reading this book the first time through was just fun as it took turn after turn. I want to read it again and really enjoy the characters and details knowing how the plot goes!
The Devil in the Grove: One of my most-recommended nonfiction books, this incredible true story about corruption and racism in Jim Crow-era Florida is depressing but so fascinating and very well-told.
Vanity Fair: This is another one that’s really long, but Becky Sharp was just such an interesting heroine that I want to read it again from the beginning knowing how it’ll end.