What books have you wanted to reread as soon as you finished them? Inspired by this fascinating prompt from our friend Nora, we decided to dive into this fun topic. We talk about the categories of books that inspire immediate rereads, share a few of our own examples, and discuss when (or if) we’ve ever actually done it. What books have inspired you to turn the last page and immediately go back to the beginning?
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Books
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit
Absolution, by Jeff Vandermeer
Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope
The Wood in Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke
On the Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, by Herman Melville
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein
Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson
The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
The Counterlife, by Philip Roth
Zuckerman Unbound, by Philip Roth
The Anatomy Lesson, by Philip Roth
The Prague Orgy, by Philip Roth
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana
The Walk, by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofsky
Splitting and Order, by Ted Kooser
Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins
James, by Percival Everett
So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell
Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell
The Chateau, by William Maxwell
Felix Holt, by George Eliot
Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee
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