2025 Rereads

themeadowofashtrees Host

29 participants (82 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

A book you hated in your high school English class can read as brilliant when read at 30.  Books that were high literature when you were 21 read now self-important pablum.  The words on the page may not have changed, but how you read them certainly has.

Only requirement for a book to meet this challenge is that the last time you read it is 5+ years ago.

Challenge Books

All books added
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin

253 pages • paperback • 1924

fiction classics dystopian science fiction challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Foundation

Foundation (Publication Order) #1

Isaac Asimov

231 pages • paperback • 1951

fiction classics science fiction adventurous medium-paced
Educated by Tara Westover

Educated

Tara Westover

12 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2018

nonfiction education memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

A Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult

13 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2018

fiction contemporary literary challenging emotional tense medium-paced
Circle Unbroken: A Story of a Basket and Its People by Margot Theis Raven

Circle Unbroken: A Story of a Basket and Its People

Margot Theis Raven

48 pages • paperback

fiction childrens historical
The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff

The Memory Coat

Elvira Woodruff

32 pages • hardcover • 1999

fiction historical adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
Forbidden Secrets by R.L. Stine

Forbidden Secrets

Fear Street Sagas #3

R.L. Stine

147 pages • paperback • 1996

fiction horror young adult dark emotional fast-paced
The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

The Red Tree

Shaun Tan

32 pages • hardcover • 2001

fiction childrens emotional sad slow-paced
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel

290 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Among the Hidden

Shadow Children #1

Margaret Peterson Haddix

153 pages • paperback • 1998

fiction middle grade science fiction mysterious medium-paced