You don’t always have to read new books. It is perfectly fine to revisit a novel that you loved. That leads us to the 22 books that you should reread according to The Washington Post. Keep reading to find out which books made their list!
This list is interesting because not everyone has read most of these books. That is one way to find new books to read. These are older novels which is why they were included on this list. You can see their picks below!
22 Books That You Should Reread
- Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
- The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall
- Death of a Citizen by Donald Hamilton
- On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript by Robert K. Merton
- Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
- Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana
- The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
- Life of Rossini by Stendhal
- The New Apocrypha: A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs by John Sladek
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Feasting With Panthers by Rupert Croft-Cooke
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Another Part of the Wood: A Self Portrait by Kenneth Clark
- Four Studies in Loyalty by Christopher Sykes
- A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives by D.W. Robertson Jr.
- The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
- Paris Journal: 1945-1965 by Janet Flanner
- The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
- Collector’s Progress by W.S. Lewis
Conclusion
These are the 22 books that you should reread according to The Washington Post. How many of these have you read? What are your favorite books to reread? Let us know in the comments below!