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
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

180 pages • paperback • 1967

fiction classics contemporary young adult adventurous emotional sad fast-paced
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Simonverse #1

Becky Albertalli

303 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

336 pages • hardcover • 2012

fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional sad medium-paced
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

272 pages • paperback • 1890

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale #1

Margaret Atwood

324 pages • hardcover • 1985

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

288 pages • paperback • 2005

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay

Kingdom Animalia

Aracelis Girmay

119 pages • paperback • 2011

fiction poetry reflective medium-paced
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

232 pages • paperback • 2006

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

389 pages • hardcover • 2017

fiction lgbtqia+ literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett

356 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced