I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday, which was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog!
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is “Freebie,” and because I lost a few posts during my blogging issues in October, I’m redoing this one. Also, I don’t think many people saw this when I originally posted it, so hopefully it’s new to you! And if it seems familiar, well, I can’t guarantee that this is the exact list I came up with the first time, lol. In any case, all of these are books that are near and dear to my heart, and reading them again for the first time would be a wonderful gift. Here they are in alphabetical order, and the titles are linked to my reviews:
I would love to be able to experience both Project Hail Mary and The September House for the very first time again too! 🙂
I wish Carissa Orlando would write something else!
I feel the same way about Project Hail Mary.
It was such a great read.
It’s funny, but two of your books you would reread, I wish I would have DNFed…lol. Love how we have such different taste in books. 🙂
LOL you’re not the first one to say that!
So many good ones! I loved Whalefall, Project Hail Mary, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Hollow Kingdom, Sea of Tranquility, Dreambound!! Reading Project Hail Mary again for the first time would be amazing — which may be why the movie trailer annoyed me so much. I feel like Rocky is such a big surprise in the book… and that’s pretty much the first thing they show in the trailer. Sigh…
I thought the same thing with the PHM trailer! I loved the surprise and kept it out of my review, so I’m not sure why they did that.
Hollow Kingdom was a wild book, I loved ST Going back and doing a missed topic is a good idea!
ST was the best!
Great idea of post!
I have only read Weir’s book, nd am waiting for a sequel. Don’t you think it needs one?
Here is mine, I have done that for several years for the December freebie: https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/02/top-ten-2025-books-with-one-word-titles/
I would love a sequel to Project Hail Mary! Or really just any new book by Weir;-)
Remarkably Bright Creatures was such a good read.
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I am so curious about the movie that’s coming out:-)
The only one of these I’ve read is PROJECT HAIL MARY. For a sci-fi book it kept my attention! I saw the movie trailer for it when I went to see Wicked For Good…it looks good!
I want to see the movie too:-)
I have read and loved Remarkably Bright Creatures
It’s such a heartwarming story:-)
Well I’ve only read Daisy Darker and loved it. But some of the others are on my TBR.
I may try to reread Daisy Darker at some point.
I in fact still have to read these (except Project Hail Mary) for the first time 😛
You are lucky! LOL
I think I’m in the minority with Remarkably Bright Creatures. It ended up being a DNF for me.
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Hey, not every popular book works for everyone!
I love this one! There are many books I wish I could read again for the first time, though in some cases it’s possible I’d have to go back in time to that period of my youth for the book to work as well. Some of them include The Lord of the Rings, The Elfstones of Shannara, The Name of the Wind, The Shadow of the Wind, The Book Thief, Revelation Space, It, The Master of the Five Magics, etc, etc, etc. 🙂
I know what you mean, especially the books you read as a child or teen. You never know if a reread will work the same way:-)
I really need to read Daisy Darker!
Yes! It’s got such a great twist.
Yeah, so many on here that I would like to read again. Great list.
Lynn 😀
Thanks Lynn:-)
Always fun to see people’s favorite books. 😀
I love favorites lists too:-)
oh no, I’m sorry to hear you had blog issues in October I didn’t know that but hopefully they’re all resolved now 🙂 I have Hollow Kingdom so it’s good to know that you really loved it! I still gotta pick it up!
So far my blog issues are much better:-) Hollow Kingdom is sooo good!
Sea of Tranquility and Project Hail Mary are still on my TBR! I’ve heard great things about them both, though. I’m not surprised to see either on your list.
They are both worth reading!
I would pick Daisy Darker too!!
It was amazing!
Fun topic and I always think about this as well. One of mine is Written in Red by Anne Bishop. I plan to reread the first three someday and then finish that series. I would love to meet Sam and the weather ponies for the first time all over again. I agree with The September House and of course Hollow Kingdom. Great list!
I have The Heiress but haven’t read it yet! I’m glad to see you enjoyed it.
I haven’t read these, but I have Hollow Kingdom and Whalefall on my TBR. One book I’d like to read again for the first time would be “And Then I Woke Up.”
September House is so good! Interestingly I recently reread this one with a friend in audio and the second time around was actually just as good
Kage Baker’s Company novels; Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series; Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan series in fact, anything written by McMasters Bujold… C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen series… N.K. Jemisin’s Thousand Kingdoms, Lindsay Buroker’s Dragongate series. There’ll be a raft of standalones I would give my left arm to read again – but I can’t recall them atm:)). So many books – so little time!!