Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s prompt was: Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time.
- Little Women by Louise May Alcott
(I know…sooo cliché. But really. I held off on reading this book for years because I thought it just wouldn’t be my thing and then it really was!
2. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
It took me a long time to read this one too and when I got to the beginning of it I wasn’t sure I was going to make it, but I pushed through and fell in love with this group of misfit friends and their journey.
3. On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I loved reading these books when I was a kid and I would love to experience the excitement of finding out what was going to happen next again.
4. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
This became one of my favorite reads of all time and I would love to read it for the first time again. The story is so unique and interesting and the romance so subtle yet swoony!
5. The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts by Lilian Jackson Braun
I love many of the books in The Cat Who series but this one has been my favorite by far. It was written in a very different style from the other books so maybe Lilian didn’t write it. Ha! Either way, I enjoyed this one very much and would love to feel the excitement of solving the mystery again.
6. Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
I truly enjoyed this Sherlock Holmes story told by Horowitz with the endorsement of the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I would love to experience the thrill of reading this mystery again.
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
This one was so much fun and I would love to experience the magic of the story unfolding again and looking forward to figuring out how it was all going to turn out!
8. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
I love these books and I’d love to read the first one for the first time again but I am very glad to get to read it again and again whenever I want.
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
I really enjoyed this one as a kid. I am listening to it on Audible and will probably order a new book so I can read it again. It has been so long since I have read it, that it will probably feel like I am reading it for the first time again.
10. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
This is the first book I ever took out or a library (at school) and read in full. I loved it – now when I read it to my daughter a couple of years ago, I did discover it was much darker than I remembered but it was still very good.
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What a great selection of books! I am currently reading FOTR and listening to Andy Serkis read it alongside 🙂 Here’s my TTT post – https://justreadjessie.blog/2025/10/14/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/
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So many good ones! And King of the Wind! 😀 Oh man, the power of Marguerite Henry’s books … They were also my first library checkouts – but the elementary school wouldn’t let me get Stormy (I’d read my mom’s old copy of Misty of Chincoteague), because I wasn’t in 2nd grade yet. So this little kindergartener went to the public library, got a library card, and checked out her chapter book, LOL! I still love Henry’s novels, and should reread them …
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Some of these books remind me of my childhood, or when I was younger😉
Reading Book Pal Challenge
Choose someone as your book pal and see how many books you all can read by the end of the year. And/Or
Reading Book Buddy Challenge
See how many books you can read to someone 6yrs and under by the end of the year.
Give names of book read.
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That looks like a fun challenge!
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Looks like a good lineup!! Some day..for me, I’ll settle in with a good read…can’t seem to catch up on everything else to get there though!🤪
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I have to be honest and tell you that for a long time I didn’t read anything but reading fiction had become such an important stress reliever and escape for me now that if I don’t find time to read at least for 15 minutes a day I feel out of sorts.
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I could definitely see the benefit of carving out that time to read as a stress reliever!
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Whenever I think of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, I instantly think of third grade. Mrs. Smiley (yes, that was her real name) read several of the books to us. I’m not sure if the one you listed was there or not. I may have to do this one! I don’t know if there are 10 or not, though!
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I read most of the when I was a kid but I read all of them with Little Miss and was a bit shocked at some of it. I must have skimmed over that as a kid.
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What a good list! I add my name to several of these! I fell down on TTT again this week.
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What a fun prompt! I think I’d have to “cheat” a bit and list both The Harry Potter series since I still remember how anxiously I waited for each book to come out as well as The Twilight series. Now that one I never in a million years thought I’d read. I was rolling my eyes at the premise but my sister in law urged me to try and gave me book 1. I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed it. Just something totally and completely different from what I typically read. And yet I’d count each of those series as just 2 books on my list!
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Ha! That’s not how it works but nice try, lady. *wink* Seriously, though, I know what you mean. I actually could have added a couple series too!
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I don’t know all of these, but a few (although I have never been a horse girl, King of the Wind which was passed down to me from my godmother really got to me).
No idea if I could even answer this question, though, as I do re-read quite a bit and don’t even think it makes a different to me if the magic is still right (which it luckily mostly is).
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It was a little hard for me to do this one but once I thought of a couple, it became easier. I could probably add several more to the list.
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I will never forget reading King of the Wind. I was in third grade, and I was sent to the fourth grade classroom to have my own reading class, and that is what I had to read first. King of the Wind.
I have a few of these on my list as well. 🙂
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I was probably about the same age!
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