Books I Wish I Could Read for the First Time Again

The joy of holding a new book for the first, taking in the cover before opening the book. Reading the first word, the first line. Meeting the characters and getting to know them. Some books I know I’m going to love every second of from the first couple chapters. Sometimes it’s not until I’ve read every word that I put the book down and just relish in having loved every moment.

If only I could go back and enjoy the experience for the first time again.

I don’t want to read every book for the first time again, but there are definitely ones that stick out. Either because I enjoyed the experience so much of discovering a new gem or wish I could see if the experience would be the same. Here are the books I wish I could read for the first time again.

The Books

• The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O’Malley
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
• All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
• Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Fangs by Sarah Andersen
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
• Beard Science (Winston Brothers #3) by Penny Reid
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

What books do you wish you could read for the first again?