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2025 Rereads

Hosted by themeadowofashtrees

17 participants, 35 books added

Starts: Wednesday, 01 January 2025

Ends: Wednesday, 31 December 2025

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.

All books added
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 • first pub 1969 (editions)

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

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

219 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

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 • first pub 1936 (editions)

fiction classics challenging dark emotional slow-paced
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell

152 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective fast-paced
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

103 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

That Was Then, This is Now

S.E. Hinton

159 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

fiction classics contemporary young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

148 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

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

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

448 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

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

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

219 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics literary adventurous dark tense medium-paced
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

180 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics contemporary young adult adventurous emotional sad fast-paced