Top Ten Tuesdays | Books I Want to Read Again

I’m trying out something new this week. I heard about Top Ten Tuesdays at thatartsyreadergirl.com a while ago, and have been meaning to participate. Who doesn’t love a good list?!

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

I was slammed with work last month (ugh, real life, how dare you get in the way of my reading), but had some spare time this week to put together a list. If you’ve never heard of Top Ten Tuesdays, basically Jana suggests a topic and participants make a list of ten titles that fit the theme. Go check out her page for more information!

This week’s theme is Top Ten Books I Want to Read Again.

This is the perfect topic for my first Top Ten Tuesday. I actually started this blog because I kept reading books, loving them, and then completely forgetting their endings. I would find myself starting books and thinking that they felt familiar–and then realizing that I had read them before but couldn’t for the life of me remember what happened in the end. To combat this, I started writing reviews and jotting down a few spoilers to myself as a quick memory refresh for those times when I think, “How did that book end, again?”

Since I’ve started my reviews, I’ve realized that there are a whole bunch of books that I need to re-read and write down the endings for. There are also some that I just want to review to share my love of them with all of you! So here we go, my Top Ten Books I Want to Read Again:


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1. Karin Slaughter’s Grant County/Will Trent series

This series is a whole 16 books, but I’m lumping it into one because it’d be super boring to just list each one. Will Trent is probably my favorite protagonist of all time. I recently read The Silent Wife when it came out in August 2020, and man did it make me want to re-read the series from the beginning. Have you read it? You know what I’m talking about if so. I also read most of the series before I started reviewing books, so it’d be fun to go back and review them all.


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2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

This was my favorite book growing up. It’s been years since I read it, and I’ve been dying to relive that magic again. I also recently found a copy in a thrift store, so it’s perfect timing.


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3. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

I LOVE Ruth Ware. She is one of my auto-buy authors, and I’ve read everything she’s written. It’s been a long time since I read this one, though, so I’d love to re-read it and get a review up on my blog.


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4. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

The same as above goes for this book! It’s been long enough since I read this one that it honestly might be like reading it again for the first time.


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5. The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond

I honestly don’t remember if I’ve read this one. This is exactly what I’m talking about! I’ve marked it as read on Goodreads and the synopsis sounds vaguely familiar, but I can’t for the life of me remember it. I also have a copy of it that looks like it’s never been touched. So this is definitely one I need to re-read to jog my memory.


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6. Looking for Alaska by John Green

A friend lent me this book on an eighth grade class trip to Vermont, and I remember loving it. I recently saw someone talking about it during banned books week, and it made me want to read it again.


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7. Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Okay I literally just “read” this one, but I listened to it as an audiobook and the way it was narrated kind of forced some of my assumptions instead of letting me make them on my own. I want to re-read a physical copy of it and see if I jump to the same conclusions. I know it won’t be the same as reading it for the first time, but it is what it is. I’ll give this one some time to try to forget what happens!


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8. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Also a book I read fairly recently, and also one where I listened to an audiobook instead of physically reading. Huge mistake. This book was so complicated with so many twists and turns and so many different characters, and without the option to flip back and remind myself who was who I ended up lost a lot of the time. I really enjoyed the premise, but an audiobook was not the way to go. I need to re-read a physical copy of this with a highlighter and stack of post-it notes to really do it justice.


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9. Defending Jacob by William Landay

Did anyone else watch the adaptation of this on Apple TV? I know I read this in college, but as I watched the TV show I had zero recollection of the ending. It would be fun to re-read the book now that I’ve seen the show to see how they compare.


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10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are a lot of books that I read in high school because my teachers made me, that I know I didn’t truly appreciate at the time. That, or I skimmed them just enough to get the assignment done and left it at that. Now that I appreciate reading more, I think it’d be worthwhile to go back and read these classics to see what I really think of them when I take my time and read them by choice. The Great Gatsby is just one example–there are a lot that I can think of that fall under this category, including The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.


Many thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl for hosting this Top Ten Tuesday. I had a lot of fun coming up with these titles and many more. It’s made me realize that I need to make a “Books to Re-Read” TBR list on Goodreads to keep track of them all!

What books are on your TBRR (to be re-read) list? Do we have any in common?

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16 Comments

  1. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton – the title has made me so curious! With books like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye, I feel like I’ve missed that window/age when I’d like them – I read them way back in the day, but I don’t know if the experience would be better now that I’m older! Especially with The Catcher, don’t think I could stand a Holden Caulfield today.

    1. That’s a great point about Holden…he annoyed me even in high school!

      Evelyn Hardcastle was a great book if you like complex mysteries. I’d definitely recommend it, but make sure you’re not trying to read it with a lot of distractions. It definitely requires some focus!

  2. Welcome to TTT! It’s such a fun event to participate in. I’m glad you’re giving it a go 🙂

    I’m not a big re-reader, but I’m as forgetful as you are, so sometimes I have to re-read the last book in a series before I can continue on. Otherwise, I’m totally lost!

    I’ve actually read half the books on your list. Looks like we have similar tastes – I’ll have to visit again 🙂

    Happy TTT!

    Susanhttp://www.blogginboutbooks.com

    1. Thanks for the welcome! It’s such a fun idea, who doesn’t love a good list??

      I love finding people with similar tastes…I’ll be sure to check out your blog for recs!

  3. That is exactly why I started actively using Goodreads! I picked up two Stephen King books in a row, thinking that they would each make great next reads before realizing that I had already read them. But these are some great choices. I’d really like to read The Book Thief again, too.

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