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2025 Rereads

themeadowofashtrees Host

29 participants (146 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

A book you hated in your high school English class can read as brilliant when read at 30.  Books that were high literature when you were 21 read now self-important pablum.  The words on the page may not have changed, but how you read them certainly has.

Only requirement for a book to meet this challenge is that the last time you read it is 5+ years ago.

Challenge Books

All books added
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Time Quintet #1

Madeleine L'Engle

245 pages • digital • 1962

fiction fantasy middle grade science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

Madeleine L'Engle

392 pages • hardcover • 2012

fiction fantasy graphic novel middle grade science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Thinner by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

Thinner

Stephen King, Richard Bachman

423 pages • paperback • 1984

fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

670 pages • digital • 1871

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Annotated Northanger Abbey by David M. Shapard, Jane Austen

The Annotated Northanger Abbey

David M. Shapard, Jane Austen

576 pages • paperback • 1817

fiction classics literary romance funny lighthearted medium-paced
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

409 pages • digital • 1811 user-added

fiction classics literary emotional lighthearted slow-paced
Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry

Quest for a Maid

Frances Mary Hendry

273 pages • hardcover • 1988

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous emotional fast-paced
The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger

Albert Camus

123 pages • paperback • 1942

fiction classics literary dark reflective medium-paced
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

Stone Blind

Natalie Haynes

378 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction fantasy historical literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Kensuke's Kingdom

Michael Morpurgo

165 pages • paperback • 1999

fiction middle grade adventurous fast-paced