Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s topic is Books I Could Re-Read Forever. What a topic!!!! I don’t tend to re-read a lot anymore – the overwhelming TBR mountain might have something to do with that! – but there are many books that are always there for me on my shelves that I can happily go back to when the dreaded reading slump strikes. as I often find that going back to an old favourite is the perfect remedy – so prepare for a list of old favourites that never grow old!!
MALLORY TOWERS by ENID BLYTON
My childhood!!! The whole series was wonderful to me and I desperately wanted to go to boarding school so I could have the same kind of adventures as Darrell and her friends!
THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE aged 13 3/4 by SUE TOWNSEND
Adored this when it came out as it felt so different to anything else I’d read and I still love to go back and see how awkward Adrian was!
NARNIA SERIES by C.S.LEWIS
The whole series had me captivated and I have our old local GP to thank, as he used to have a little lending library and he let me borrow these from that!
HARRY POTTER series by J.K. ROWLING
More escapism reading that I always seem to discover something new from everytime I pick it up to relive the magic!
REBECCA by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
This was a fairly recent discovery for me, but it has taken a special place in my heart!
TWILIGHT by STEPHENIE MEYER
The initial book in this series had such an impact on me as a reader that I can always go back to it to get all the vampire feels!
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY by HELEN FIELDING
Because!!! 😉
THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I love all of Middle Earth so can happily read any of these time and time again!
THE BOOK THIEF by MARKUS ZUSAK
One of the first books I think that made me cry and it has done everytime I’ve read it since!!
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by LEWIS CARROLL
No list of re-reads can be complete without this world! Still discovering new things from the stories everytime I read them and they are just as wonderful now as they were back in my childhood!
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Loved this topic today! Had so much fun going back to some of my favourite books! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Any of these on your lists?!
Blimey are we twins separated at birth, I could re read all of those forever📚📚
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haha!! glad to hear it! we just have extremely good taste in books! 😉
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Fantastic! I’d have Narnia on mine as well 😊
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a very wise choice!! 😉
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I’m almost scared to go back to The Book Thief in case it’s not as good as I remember it, but that would definitely go on my list too ☺️
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I was a little apprehensive too but my fears were soon put to rest! thankfully!
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Glad to hear it!!
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Harry Potter is forever gold 😌 I actually got a little bored with The Book Thief, even though I enjoyed the story. Don’t see myself rereading it, sadly.
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Great list! I completely agree about Rebecca and if my list had been longer would’ve also included The Book Thief and Bridget Jones’s Diary. I’m sad I never knew about the Enid Blyton books as an (American) child because I think I would have absolutely loved them.
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Thank you! Thought i’d struggle to come up with a list but once I started I couldn’t stop! never too late to discover enid blyton! 😉
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Good point!
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The Book Thief is still in my ‘to be read’ pile!!
Here’s a link to my TTT for this week: https://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2018/02/top-ten-tuesday-top-20-books-i-want-to.html
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I’m hoping to get to The Hobbit this year – I hope I like it! And I adored Rebecca, it’s definitely one I could reread. I did try rereading Twilight a few years back. I remember reading it two or three times way back in 2008 when I read it for the first time and I loved it, but my reread a few years ago didn’t go great – my reading has changed so much that it just wasn’t in my taste anymore.
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Ooh i hope you like your Hobbit adventure too!! It definitely brings to the front how much your reading tastes change when you re-read some! I think some books are best left read just once! 😉
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Harry Potter and The Book Thief were both on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/top-ten-tuesday-148/
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Rebecca is fantastic – I’d like to reread it soon myself. 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me
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i hope you get the chance to soon then! 🙂
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