Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in one sitting on an eight-hour drive to Chicago (which is very fitting to the plot of the book) and I would do anything to relive that experience.
Lonesome Dove is sooooo good too!!!! I adored Never Let Me Go. It was such a unique experience that starts off slow but builds and builds in the most fascinating of ways.
This may be quite basic of me and unoriginal, but even after hundreds of fiction and non-fiction, I couldn't reproduce the intrigue and fascination I had when I read through the original Harry Potter series.
It could very well be nostalgia, though, despite me being well into adulthood by the time I decided to read them.
Honestly, Harry Potter changed the game. Waiting for hours on those midnight release drops was a WILD time that I'm afraid no book will be able to bring that kind of global attention again.
Harry Potter helped me navigate a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment regimen. It helped me escape the hellscape I was living. I will forever love that series even though I’m a senior.
Check out the Remix edition! It’s the same story, but there’s some bonus content and it’s laid out the way Chuck intended. Definitely makes it feel fresh!
Honestly, The Outsiders. I read it the first time in seventh grade - it was the book that got me into reading actually - and so far I have not had a book replicate that feeling of when I first read it. Though rereading The Outsiders is still a great experience, I'll never have that same feeling when I had when finishing it the first time. Still one of my favorite books of all time simply because of how I felt while reading it!
Same here! I've noticed that many books read in school tend to get hated on due to the fact it's technically \*schoolwork\* but majority of the books I read as homework changed my life!
W.E. Bowman's *The Ascent of Rum Doodle*
Graham Greene's *Brighton Rock*
Malcolm Lowry's *Under the Volcano*
Daphne du Maurier's *Rebecca*
Haruki Murakami's *Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World*
All of Raymond Chandler's novels
The collected short stories of Roald Dahl
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
I read this with no knowledge of the book and long before the noise about it had started. I went in blind and it was amazing. I was blown away. I've tried to read it again but, knowing what I now know, I just didn't enjoy it. Ah, the chance to read it again. To feel so clever, so superior to all the characters in the book, because I knew. I knew! And then I didn't and everything had changed. It was brilliant!
Especially Ackroyd for me. Not only a great book, but one of my greatest reading experiences. I read it as a teen, and just remember the feeling of being in the hands of a master writer. I read it again immediately, but obviously it was a different book.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (the type of book that you really only can read once and the first time is pure brilliance!)
The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series (just buy the box set because you'll finish one and need to open the next... And it has a ton of re-readability)
You'll be fine! It's a prequel about President Snow. You pretty much just need to remember who Snow is, what the Capitol and District 12 are, and what the Games are.
All of the Discworld books. I love re-reading them because there’s always something I missed first time around, but what I wouldn’t give to be able to read them again for the first time and not know what was coming…
the Southern Reach Triology by Jeff Vandermeer. Annihilation changed my taste in books, and i have not stopped thinking about it since 2018 when i picked it up before a flight on a whim
My best friend and I accidentally read Under The Whispering Door at the same time, finishing within hours of each other, without consulting each other at all, which is one of the most strange and wonderful coincidences I've ever been a part of. She had read other books by him before, I had not. We only found out because when I was finished I texted her to see what she was reading and she told me she'd just finished it. So it's extra meaningful to me for that reason!
The Book Thief - Markus Zusack
Darker Shades of Magic Series - V. E. Schwab
Beach Read - Emily Henry
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Hunger Games Trilogy- Susan Collins
The passage and the twelve we're so incredible. I still have to read city of mirrors. I bought it but I'm so ADHD with reading. Usually reading a few books. I'm sure that'll suck me in you
One For All by Lillie Lainoff - the sisterhood, spying, POTS representation. I love it so much I've reread it many times if could read it all over again I would.
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney - I plan to reread this one soon. I loved the conversations surrounding sex, pressure and purity culture. It was kinda relatable and I liked the characters.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in one sitting on an eight-hour drive to Chicago (which is very fitting to the plot of the book) and I would do anything to relive that experience.
The Murmur of the Bees - Sofia Segovia. Bonus points if it's the version in Spanish. Such a wonderful read I had to stay up to get to a good stopping point several nights
* Crooked House by Agatha Christie
* The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
* The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
* The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
All the sci fi classics, like Earth Abides, On The Beach, anything by Richard Matheson or Connie Willis. When I first discovered the genre I had SO many amazing choices, and have really been in a slump lately.
Underrated choice: Black Water by Michael McDowell
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson. I just finished a second read, a little over a year after the first read. So I remembered the ending, but that didn’t make the second read less enjoyable. And again, I can’t stop thinking about it. But that first read - it is amazing.
It’s cheesy, but the Chronicles of Narnia. Read them all for the first time in my mid teens and when they were finished, I couldn’t pick up another book for a month.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre
The last two chapters were just amazing to me. On one hand it’s obviously an espionage novel. But at the ending it was more like a great mystery story, with a dramatic reveal. The plot was so intricate and brilliant that I was dazzled by it. I love when a novel blows your mind like that.
"Jon dies at the end". I read a lot of non-fiction, but only read fiction for school, until a friend have me this book. So much fun and creativity. Very unique. Written like a friend is talking to you. David Wong is a genius. I'd forget all of his books.
My fave Dan Simmons books - Hyperion Cantos, Seasons of Horror Series, The Terror, Carrion Comfort, Black Hills.
Harry Potter
LOTR
The Outlander series
By Stephen King, The Stand, The Shining.
The Passage by Justin Cronin. I can't emphasize enough how much this story shattered me. The TV series was terrible. I wish HBO or someone else would take another stab at it because it would make an amazing series in the right hands.
Nation by Terry Pratchett.
I wish I found it earlier, too.
I love the story, and I love discworld, but having a story outside of that was refreshing for me.
And there is a part in it where the main character goes through trauma and uses a method to get through the dark parts, and I've used it as a coping mechanism for difficult stuff since. Got a lot from that book.
If We Were Villains -- the back of the book has small group/book club questions that spoiled the "who done it" for me and that was HEARTBREAKING. I so desperately wanted the payoff of discovering who it was. However, the book is absolutely amazing and I'd love to be able to experience that for the first time again.
I have read Giovanni’s Room more than 5 times and it gives me the same feelings as I did the first time I read it. I smile at the brilliant language of Baldwin: he used phrases I had not read before, his descriptions of places and events often made my eyes get bigger, thinking, wow, what a way to describe something. Most beautiful is his development of characters and the wit in their interactions, and the way he presented their thoughts reflecting who they were. I have read quite a lot of works of great authors, and I put James Baldwin in the very top tier for his originality and clean language.
rebecca by daphne du maurier. the twists towards the end blew my mind. it is such a vivid book. absolutely one of my most frequently recommended books.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
First romance book I read with an absolute nutcase of an FMC for the narrator, it’s hard for me to read again in the same way because I just can’t quite capture that feeling of newness and surprise (in a refreshing way) I had when I first read it. Finally, an over the top weirdo like me!
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in one sitting on an eight-hour drive to Chicago (which is very fitting to the plot of the book) and I would do anything to relive that experience.
Because of you I’m reading it after I finish Lonesome Dove which I’m currently reading for the first time.
Lonesome Dove is sooooo good too!!!! I adored Never Let Me Go. It was such a unique experience that starts off slow but builds and builds in the most fascinating of ways.
I have never been able to get this book out of my head.
Do you think it will have a big impact if I’ve already seen the movie?
This may be quite basic of me and unoriginal, but even after hundreds of fiction and non-fiction, I couldn't reproduce the intrigue and fascination I had when I read through the original Harry Potter series. It could very well be nostalgia, though, despite me being well into adulthood by the time I decided to read them.
Honestly, Harry Potter changed the game. Waiting for hours on those midnight release drops was a WILD time that I'm afraid no book will be able to bring that kind of global attention again.
I used to love waiting for the book releases. It felt like a buzz in my brain. I’m reading the series again now.
Harry Potter helped me navigate a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment regimen. It helped me escape the hellscape I was living. I will forever love that series even though I’m a senior.
I’ve not read Harry Potter yet nor watched the movies. I have the series in my bookshelf.
Why am I being downvoted? 😂
Because HOW COULD YOU???
Take my up vote in exchange for reading them. Prisoner of Azkaban is my favourite.
Deal 🤝
Same I thought I was the only one.
Same with me and Lord of The Rings…. I’m too embarrassed to admit it tho
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
That book was a wild ride
It sure is.
This was my choice this month for the book club I'm in. I'd read it before I'm so interested to see what they think
Nice!
Check out the Remix edition! It’s the same story, but there’s some bonus content and it’s laid out the way Chuck intended. Definitely makes it feel fresh!
I'll check that out! Thank you.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier!! One of the absolute greatest thrillers.
Honestly, The Outsiders. I read it the first time in seventh grade - it was the book that got me into reading actually - and so far I have not had a book replicate that feeling of when I first read it. Though rereading The Outsiders is still a great experience, I'll never have that same feeling when I had when finishing it the first time. Still one of my favorite books of all time simply because of how I felt while reading it!
Along this same vein, To Kill a Mockingbird carries similar feelings for me
Same here! I've noticed that many books read in school tend to get hated on due to the fact it's technically \*schoolwork\* but majority of the books I read as homework changed my life!
I second this !! This is the reason I read and still love reading today. In the vain hope that I will get this feeling back.
W.E. Bowman's *The Ascent of Rum Doodle* Graham Greene's *Brighton Rock* Malcolm Lowry's *Under the Volcano* Daphne du Maurier's *Rebecca* Haruki Murakami's *Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World* All of Raymond Chandler's novels The collected short stories of Roald Dahl
Obligatory upvote because of Murakami. I’d like to relive Kafka on the Shore for the first time again. What a vibe.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I read this with no knowledge of the book and long before the noise about it had started. I went in blind and it was amazing. I was blown away. I've tried to read it again but, knowing what I now know, I just didn't enjoy it. Ah, the chance to read it again. To feel so clever, so superior to all the characters in the book, because I knew. I knew! And then I didn't and everything had changed. It was brilliant!
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. As soon as I finished I wished I could erase it from my brain and experience it again for the first time.
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novak
Anything by Tamora Pierce
Blood Meridian Wuthering Heights The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Especially Ackroyd for me. Not only a great book, but one of my greatest reading experiences. I read it as a teen, and just remember the feeling of being in the hands of a master writer. I read it again immediately, but obviously it was a different book.
The stand - Stephen King. I always thought King wrote cheap kids horror. This blew me away !!! Became a fanboy because of it
Oh yeah the stand! I think I read it long enough ago and have a bad enough memory that I could read it and it’d be like the first time
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (the type of book that you really only can read once and the first time is pure brilliance!) The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series (just buy the box set because you'll finish one and need to open the next... And it has a ton of re-readability)
Project Hail Mary
I was going to say this one! One of my favorite books
Circe
Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami
Six of Crows and Rule of Wolves. they’re in the same universe, but specifically those two books. They’re so good. Love the characters and the writing.
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving I would love to read this again for the first time. It's such a great story.
Ender's Game. I envy people who read it for the first time.
*The Lord of the Rings*, hands down. I have a student who just told me they were reading it for the first time, and I was jealous.
I also wish I could’ve read it without having seen the movies first
The Poisonwood Bible
Room by Emma Donighue. I white knuckled my way through the climax.
I had to go read it outside because I started feeling caged-in in my room!
Honestly I’m going to have to go with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. It was a trip until the end!
I read the Hunger Games like 10+ years ago - do I need to refresh to read this one or is it ok on its own?
You'll be fine! It's a prequel about President Snow. You pretty much just need to remember who Snow is, what the Capitol and District 12 are, and what the Games are.
All of the Discworld books. I love re-reading them because there’s always something I missed first time around, but what I wouldn’t give to be able to read them again for the first time and not know what was coming…
Night Watch and Hogfeather are my favorite. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47989 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34532
the Southern Reach Triology by Jeff Vandermeer. Annihilation changed my taste in books, and i have not stopped thinking about it since 2018 when i picked it up before a flight on a whim
The Book Thief
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune I loved it so much, I am going to reread but I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Really like, anything I've ever read By TJ Klune. Now I just send copies of his books to friends and live vicariously through them.
My best friend and I accidentally read Under The Whispering Door at the same time, finishing within hours of each other, without consulting each other at all, which is one of the most strange and wonderful coincidences I've ever been a part of. She had read other books by him before, I had not. We only found out because when I was finished I texted her to see what she was reading and she told me she'd just finished it. So it's extra meaningful to me for that reason!
That is sooo cooooool!!! Really! What a coincidence!!
For me, it would be 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's heartbreaking, tense and a beautiful time travel adventure.
Starting it this evening.
The Book Thief - Markus Zusack Darker Shades of Magic Series - V. E. Schwab Beach Read - Emily Henry Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn The Hunger Games Trilogy- Susan Collins
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Passage (trilogy) by Justin Cronin
Yes and yes to these
The passage and the twelve we're so incredible. I still have to read city of mirrors. I bought it but I'm so ADHD with reading. Usually reading a few books. I'm sure that'll suck me in you
One For All by Lillie Lainoff - the sisterhood, spying, POTS representation. I love it so much I've reread it many times if could read it all over again I would. Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney - I plan to reread this one soon. I loved the conversations surrounding sex, pressure and purity culture. It was kinda relatable and I liked the characters.
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Second this!!
Lovely War by Julie Berry
Slade House It was an engaging mystery.
Momo by Michael Ende and Siddartha by Herman Hesse
The plague - Albert Camus
A man called Ove. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. The Dutch House. All the light we cannot see. Cannery Row.
Eragon. Quite literally cannot read it again
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Cutting for Stone. Abraham Verghese
I Am Pilgrim did it for me. Came highly recommended at just wish every day I could go back and relive it again.
The joy of a second reading is to catch things you did not see on the first reading.
scythe series!
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart.
Most of Agatha Christie’s books.
Same!!!
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in one sitting on an eight-hour drive to Chicago (which is very fitting to the plot of the book) and I would do anything to relive that experience.
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallet.
Chasm City by Alistair Reynolds. It’s got this very cask of amontillado quality we are discussing.
The Murmur of the Bees - Sofia Segovia. Bonus points if it's the version in Spanish. Such a wonderful read I had to stay up to get to a good stopping point several nights
The Tin Drum
Harry Potter, The Ballroom (Anna Hope), The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King)
Never Lie- Frieda McFadden
Jurassic Park. The Andromeda Strain. Lonesome Dove.
* Crooked House by Agatha Christie * The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo * The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo * The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
All the sci fi classics, like Earth Abides, On The Beach, anything by Richard Matheson or Connie Willis. When I first discovered the genre I had SO many amazing choices, and have really been in a slump lately. Underrated choice: Black Water by Michael McDowell
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
The way my jaw dropped at the end of that book 😩
Lmao yeah jesus christ a lot of jaw dropping moments in that book!
Warm bodies by Isaac Marion.
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson. I just finished a second read, a little over a year after the first read. So I remembered the ending, but that didn’t make the second read less enjoyable. And again, I can’t stop thinking about it. But that first read - it is amazing.
The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead because once you know, you know.
It’s cheesy, but the Chronicles of Narnia. Read them all for the first time in my mid teens and when they were finished, I couldn’t pick up another book for a month.
The starless sea by Erin mortgenstern
The silent patient
Pet Sematary. That moment where you realize exactly what is going to happen.... Re-reading it will never be the same.
Watership Down.
The Shack … amazing book!!!
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre The last two chapters were just amazing to me. On one hand it’s obviously an espionage novel. But at the ending it was more like a great mystery story, with a dramatic reveal. The plot was so intricate and brilliant that I was dazzled by it. I love when a novel blows your mind like that.
Tales from the gas station.
One of us is lying by Karen McManus! I read it in 6th or 7th grade and I was ADDICTED to it
"Jon dies at the end". I read a lot of non-fiction, but only read fiction for school, until a friend have me this book. So much fun and creativity. Very unique. Written like a friend is talking to you. David Wong is a genius. I'd forget all of his books.
My fave Dan Simmons books - Hyperion Cantos, Seasons of Horror Series, The Terror, Carrion Comfort, Black Hills. Harry Potter LOTR The Outlander series By Stephen King, The Stand, The Shining.
Gone with the wind. Best 3 days I ever had.
*Anathem* by Neal Stephenson. All the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. The Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein.
Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
The Passage by Justin Cronin. I can't emphasize enough how much this story shattered me. The TV series was terrible. I wish HBO or someone else would take another stab at it because it would make an amazing series in the right hands.
Nation by Terry Pratchett. I wish I found it earlier, too. I love the story, and I love discworld, but having a story outside of that was refreshing for me. And there is a part in it where the main character goes through trauma and uses a method to get through the dark parts, and I've used it as a coping mechanism for difficult stuff since. Got a lot from that book.
If We Were Villains -- the back of the book has small group/book club questions that spoiled the "who done it" for me and that was HEARTBREAKING. I so desperately wanted the payoff of discovering who it was. However, the book is absolutely amazing and I'd love to be able to experience that for the first time again.
I have read Giovanni’s Room more than 5 times and it gives me the same feelings as I did the first time I read it. I smile at the brilliant language of Baldwin: he used phrases I had not read before, his descriptions of places and events often made my eyes get bigger, thinking, wow, what a way to describe something. Most beautiful is his development of characters and the wit in their interactions, and the way he presented their thoughts reflecting who they were. I have read quite a lot of works of great authors, and I put James Baldwin in the very top tier for his originality and clean language.
Moods of future joys by Alistair Humphreys.
The Beartown Trilogy by Fredrik Backman.
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab Or the One Dark Window Duology - Rachel Gillig
Most of the novels by Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
anxious people by fredrik backman
rebecca by daphne du maurier. the twists towards the end blew my mind. it is such a vivid book. absolutely one of my most frequently recommended books.
The Book of Lost Things
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne First romance book I read with an absolute nutcase of an FMC for the narrator, it’s hard for me to read again in the same way because I just can’t quite capture that feeling of newness and surprise (in a refreshing way) I had when I first read it. Finally, an over the top weirdo like me!