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
Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life by Grant Naylor

Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life

Red Dwarf #1-2

Grant Naylor

589 pages • paperback • 1989

fiction science fiction funny lighthearted medium-paced
Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

504 pages • paperback • 1940

fiction classics race challenging dark tense medium-paced
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

The African Trilogy #1

Chinua Achebe

197 pages • paperback • 1958

fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

289 pages • paperback • 1969

nonfiction autobiography classics feminism race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

219 pages • paperback • 1937

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner, William Faulkner
Absalom! Absalom!
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William Faulkner, William Faulkner

Absalom! Absalom!

William Faulkner, William Faulkner

385 pages • hardcover • 1936

fiction classics challenging dark emotional slow-paced
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

103 pages • paperback • 1937

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad fast-paced
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

148 pages • paperback • 1975

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous lighthearted reflective fast-paced
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

414 pages • paperback • 1928

fiction classics lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

219 pages • paperback • 1954

fiction classics literary adventurous dark tense medium-paced