With the number of unread books out there, I rarely get to re-read the ones I love. This year, I want to change that by turning re-reading into a reading challenge. This is partly because I want to revisit some of my favorite books, but another reason is that, after 2023's Year of Sanderson, I want to refresh my memory of the Cosmere. It will also be a good way for me to prepare myself for the release of Stormlight Archive #5 in December.
My current plan is to re-read a past five-star book during each month of 2024. Some of these will be Cosmere books, and others will be favorites that I want to read again. The biggest problem I foresee will be deciding which of these great books to include since I'm constraining myself to just twelve in 2024 because, after all, there are still a LOT of new books to read. :-)
These are the Cosmere books I'm contemplating:
- Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
- Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
- The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
- The Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson
- The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
- Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson
- Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
- Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson
The other favorites I'm thinking of reading this year are:
- The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- Wool - Hugh Howey
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V.E. Schwab
- Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
- Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor
- Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child
- Find Her - Lisa Gardner
- Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
- The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pakkanen
Since these books are among my favorites, I anticipate that this reading challenge will be one I'm guaranteed to enjoy. Depending on how it inspires me, I can see myself doing the same challenge again in the years to come so that I can re-read the five-star books I couldn't get to this year.
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