A book that I absolutely adore is Hate List by Jennifer Brown.
It’s about the aftermath of school shooting and the protagonist she was the girlfriend of the shooter and helped to create the hate list which he used to pick of victims.
I love that this book is filled with so many beautifully flawed people trying to understand or just move on from tragedy but it is such a brutal read that I can’t bring myself to re-read even though I own i
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I thought My Dark Vanessa was pretty good but cannot bring myself to reread or even buy a copy for my shelf because the subject matter and treatment feels so ick
This Present Darkness was so good when I read it in HS. I don’t want to risk those memories by reading it now 20 years later.
I can’t do Moby Dick again. I *loved* it, but i’ve tried and it’s just a mindset I can’t seem to get back into.
The sun grows cold by howard berk
For as much as I’d love to re-read books I’ve already read, and especially with my life experiences between that can greatly alter my perspective, I just can’t do to the size of my TBR piles.
If there was one or two I’d re-read it would be either The Hitchhikers’ Guide by Adams as I’m now 15 years older after reading it, or Catch-22 by Heller, where I read that for fun in high school but after serving in the military myself, I’d definitely have a different connection to it.
**Flowers for Algernon** (short story version, not novel)
The ending makes me sob every time, and I just can’t handle it.
Another mention for me is Bang by Barry Lyga (author of the I Hunt Killers trilogy and Time Will Tell are amazing books) I love his other works but can’t bring myself to read Bang
It’s about a guy dealing with the regret of accidentally killing his sister when they were very young and him looking for fun to kill himself
I ain’t never rereading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.