TTT - Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at the Broke and the Bookish, I've been meaning to jump in for a while now, but was waiting for a TTT list that I definitely had answers for!

I could basically put any book I've ever liked on this list; I love to re-read.  I like finding new in the familiar and the feeling of coming home.  When I was a smidgen I basically only read Harry Potter and the Tamora Pierce series.  Just those books, over and over and over again.  Now that I'm older and have less free time, I feel kind of guilty when I re-read... is that weird? I think it's weird.

So anyway, for this list I tried to stick with books that I've really been thinking about re-reading lately...

TOP TEN BOOKS I WANT TO RE-READ:

(in no particular order)

1. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan  

Probably because I've been reading The Blood of Olympus, I've been feeling super nostalgic about the original quintet... especially the big finale. Mostly I just want to relive the big turning points for sixteen year old Percy and see how they differ from the boy at the end of the Heroes series.  Kid can't catch a break.

     2. The Pendragon Series - D.J. MacHale

I loved this series when I was in middle/high school, but I haven't ever re-read it.  I'm pretty sure I still don't fully understand what really happened there at the end, and its probably been too long for me to just jump back in without re-reading the whole series (not that I'm really complaining...)

     3. Soulless - Gail Carriger

This is a really fun romp in Victorian London (plus steampunk and vampires and werewolves).  I wasn't really as into her later books in the Parasol Protectorate - though I adore Carriger's new YA series - but this first novel is one of my favorite steampunk books.

     4. The Truth About Forever - (or really anything by) Sarah Dessen

Oh the angst!  Oh the being sixteen!  I'm pretty sure I won't love the Dessen books as much now as I did when I was sixteen, but when I was a junior in high school, dang.  It was like she was the only author who got what it was like to be a real teenager.  Everyone else was writing about boarding schools and wizards (and god, so many vampires), but she, she understood real teen-aged angst.  Yeah, I know, I was melodramatic.  Still am!

     5. Wolf Tower - Tanith Lee

Again this is more of the entire Claidi Journals series... I know a lot of people don't even know about this little YA gem by Lee; it's like super hard to find outside of libraries, but it's amazing.  I strongly recommend it to anyone who can find it.  Also if you find it, let me know cause I really want to re-read it.

     6. Eona: The Last Dragoneye - Alison Goodman

Mostly because, for the life of me I can't remember how this ended!  Did she go crazy?  Did she get the boy?  These are questions I need answers to.  That I should already have...

     7. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

For one, it's a classic that deserves re-reading whenever the mood strikes.  For another, I have a strong feeling that a lot of this went over my head when I was eight.  It kind of feels like something that a college lit class would eat up.

  

     8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

When I was in middle school, my English teacher told me that there are some books you just need to read every five years to learn new things about yourself.  At the time I think she was talking about Lord of the Flies, but I'm going to apply it to Austen.  Or Bronte.  I could do with a re-read of Jane Eyre too...

 

     9. Grave Mercy & Dark Triumph - Robin LaFevers

I could legitimately re-read these books over and over again and never get bored.  Plus the third book is coming out today and you can bet that I'm spending my lunch money to buy it.  And resenting m friends and roommates for trying to talk to me over the next few days...

    10. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling

What can I say?! Old habits die hard, or well, sometimes they don't die at all.