So this Top Ten Tuesday was a throwback freebie from Broke and Bookish. Since the site hasn’t been around long enough to dredge up ‘old’ books that we loved, we’re taking this in a slightly different direction. This Tuesday we’re talking about the books that we keep going back to. Books that hold an evergreen appeal for us. It doesn’t matter that we’ve re-read them a thousand times (okay, more like five hundred), we will gladly read them again. Some we found in our childhood, some we just recently discovered.
Feel free to chime in with your evergreen reads! We know with everything that has been happening lately (Harvey, Irma, Katie, Jose, wildfires, earthquakes, etc), we all need a comfort read.
10 Books We Keep Going Back To
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
How many times I think I’ve read it: 5
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
How many times I think I’ve read it: 4-5
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) from Dennis E. Taylor
How many times I think I’ve read it: 3
The Martian by Andy Weir
How many times I think I’ve read it: 10
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
How many times I think I’ve read it: 8
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Hell House – Richard Matheson
How many times I think I’ve read it: 6
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
How many times I think I’ve read it: 10
Ghost Story – Peter Straub
How many times i think I’ve read it: 3 – 4
The Shining – Stephen King
How many times I think I’ve read it: 4 – 5
IT – Stephen King
How many times I think I’ve read IT: 2 – 3
We hope you and your loved ones have been safe, and continue to be safe through everything that has already happened and is lined up to happen. We can’t do much, but we have donated to the Red Cross, and now we’re reaching out with the only comfort we know how to offer. Talk of books.
Funny. I’m reading Hill House and It right now. Some books just stand test of time and others are forgotten in a blink.
Isn’t it interesting how it’s not even always the 5 star books that stand the test of the time, either? Sometimes stuff just makes an impression.
I’ve returned to many of these. Never tried Jodi Taylor or Dennis Taylor though. If they’re on your list I better check them out.
You won’t be disappointed, though in both I highly recommend the audio versions.
I really want to read The Chronicles of St. Mary’s and now that you have it on this list, I have to read them. I agree with so many others on this list (especially Ender’s Game) so it looks like this is a must-read for me.
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Oh you definitely have to read them. If you can get the audio, though, I HIGHLY recommend it. Zara Ramm does the MC SOOOOO well
As you know I’m happy to read about horror and sci-fi books on your blog rather than read them myself, but there are still books here that I recognise.
I’m not surprised. Few of them are little known reads. The list is definitely not as heavy on the indie authors as I would have liked 🙁 But it is what it is, right?