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

* One Bright Book

* Episode 49: Rereading

* Episode 76: Author Completionism

* Episode 77: Poetry

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