Episode 93: Books We Wanted to Reread Immediately

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?

Shownotes

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

Other Links

Nora’s Instagram Post

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