I read Milkman by Anna Burns at the beginning of the year. It really struck a cord with me, and I kept thinking about it, so I am now re-reading it 6 months later. Have you ever done this with a book? Maybe even started again from the beginning as soon as you finished it? What and why?
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The first book I re-read was House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski because I just enjoyed reading it so much, but I’ve been wanting to re-read more but my TBR list is never ending.
For me, “To Kill A Mockingbird” gets reread every summer. It has great values and it’s timeless, a beautiful book.
This is How You Lose the Time War. It’s the only book I’ve ever read back-to-back.
When I finished Station Eleven I started the first page immediately following finishing the last page. Even then i found so much in the second reread that I missed from the first.
Bloodlust by Auryn Hadley (Book 1 in Rise of the Iliri). I was riveted right from the first page. To this day it’s my favorite book.
Dune
Passing by Nella Larsen. I had to pinpoint how she achieved such an amazingly hidden slow burn!
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Deal by Elle Kennedy
Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Closed it after first read. Sat and thought for a while. Briefly contemplated the idea of reading something else. Opened at page 1 and started again literally the same hour. His is a world and a style in which I could happily live forever. I also re-read It by Stephen King at least every few years, because I miss those characters like old friends that moved away when I was younger and grew apart but formed the nexus of my childhood
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. The series requires multiple rereads to understand it.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
It just grabbed me. I didn’t know anything about it prior to reading, and I’m not sure I’ve read anything quite like it, before or since.
Milkman is my favorite book of the last seven years. But I haven’t reread it yet.
I recently finished Moderan, by David R Bunch, an obscure science fiction classic. Now I’m slowly rereading it, maybe a chapter a week.
Milkman was DNF for me; couldn’t get thru it! I regularly reread books I love right after I finish them. Or I’ll enjoy them in a different format: read the whole thing, and then immediately thereafter listen to the audio version (or vice versa) – most recently Rebecca by du Maurier& Greek Lessons by Kang.
I finished Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop and flipped back to the first page to start over.
Mind you, this is the fifth book in a series by an author who is lucky to release one book a year, so I may have had a little anticipation built up.