I wish I could read Anne of Green Gables & The Secret Garden for the first time! Those books are so full of hope and imagination, they were a wonder to discover 🥰
I feel like 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe' is on the top on my list. Such a classic book that I read as a child, to me it feels like warm covers on a winters day :)
The first book that popped into my mind was the final Harry Potter book. That was the first time I was seriously anxiously awaiting a book release. It was also the first book I wanted to finish so badly but the idea of finishing it actually made me sad because I didnt want the story to be over, i wasnt ready to leave the characters and the world. HP was also the first fantasy books I ever read because i always thought I didnt like them lol
I love to read series books. I think that the HP series was the first series I ever read. It was definitely the start of my love for reading. I also agree, I was so sad that it was ending when the 7th book came out. I could live in the HP world. 🖤📚
I hated that they left out the true ending of the last book (which was the ending for the whole series) from the movie. At the end of the last movie, when Harry, Hermione, and Ron watched the train pull out and the screen faded to black, we should have seen the last three words from the book appear: All is well.
I had to explain this to my 10 yo this year. He read the first 4 Harry Potter books at age 7 and this year finished the series and loved it but I could tell he was full of emotion. He broke down in tears and said he could never read them for the first time again. He has since reread them all❤
One picture related to the Harry Potter books always pops into my head whenever I think about them. It's not any of the art, nor anything from the movies. It's from a news story about the release of one of the later books. The camera man focused on a little 5 year old girl hugging the book as if holding it to her heart. You could see it on her face that she couldn't wait for her mom to buy the book and take her and it home to read it to her. It gives me a warm feeling every time I remember that image. Pretty much like the feeling I get when I see kids excited to be in a bookstore. (This last happy feeling is largely because I'm pleased to see kids who want to experience the joy of reading, but also partly because I used to be an elementary school teacher.)
I read the first Harry Potter book when I was 10. I decided to dedicate the time to reread it again for the first time in over a decade and a half and it feels like I'm reading it for the first time all over again. There are so many little details of the books that I had forgotten after 15+ years so it's like I get to discover and experience the magic with Harry all over again.
I wish I could read Jane Eyre for the first time. I’m so grateful I didn’t have to read it in high school because I don’t think I’d appreciate the story as much as I did as an adult. It was just an immersive experience that I remember trying to feel the same emotions again by listening to it on audio then watching films inspired by the book. Nothing felt like that initial read. It’s also the book I’ve re-read the most. Oof. My heart!
I would love to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again for the first time. I seriously love that book. I also loved We Were Liars and would like to read it for the first time again, as well. Great video!
Oh wow finally someone mentions The Pillars of the earth ❤ I have loved this book since I read it for the first time when I was 14 years old. While it's been a huge success back then, it feels like it's been forgotten these past years. Glad someone finally talks about it.
I accidentally discovered it at the library. I then found the miniseries someplace. I loved the first 2/3, but felt the end was a long time coming. I have a tough time when the character I liked from the start isn't in the end. I couldn't really switch up my loyalty. My disdain for the mean guy stayed constant. I did love the descriptive way the world was told. I might give that a 2nd look.
I also loved this book and was fortunate to be travelling through Europe and touring the great cathedrals while reading it. Amazing. I have recommended this to many people over the years.
Imagine how sad you'd be if you had nothing on your tbr though. A big tbr is actually the best thing because it means you'll always have books to look forward to!
I have very specific nostalgia when thinking about reading Harry Potter as a kid. I read it often outside in the summer under an arbor of honeysuckle or sitting on the front porch. Man, it takes me back to joyful reading as a kid.
Ok, you got me hyped to finally read Pillars of the Earth! On my end, I wish I could read The Martian again for the first time, it was such a page turner! ☕☕☕
The Martian is my all time favorite audiobook. I could listen to it again and again. Wil Wheaton did a wonderful job with the sarcasm and it brought the book to life for me.
I think I would "sell my soul" to go back and read for the first time would be Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It is the book that got me into reading the classics and English literature as well as some American heavy weight authors. She expanded my world and Jane Austen is the penultimate for me. This book touched my soul. I have been having a love affair with Jane Austen ever since. It's nice that there are literally millions of books and genres that compel us to expand our world and escape.
The books that I would like to read for the first time again are: 1) All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 2) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 3) Toyko Ever After by Emiko Jean 4) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 5) The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi 6) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 7) Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
I was hoping that I'll Give You the Sun would make this list of yours! I read this book last year because of one of your recommendation videos, and I have to be honest...it was the only book I read last year that I came close to DNFing. I just did not get it at first. But I stuck with it and then about 1/2-3/4 of the way through the book, things started clicking for me more and I understood the writing style better and....omg....definitely one of my favorite books of all time! It was the most beautiful story and made me laugh and cry and feel all the feels. I wanted to tell everyone about this book! I talked to my husband for hours about it lol. The reading experience was incredible and I would love to go back and read this for the first time again too. And a huge thank you to you for recommending it!
The first book that came to mind for me was Room. I’m not naturally a quick reader at all due to a fairly short attention span, but I read this book in just a few days as I was completely immersed. I really do think it’s my favourite book ever and I wish I could experience reading it for the first time over and over again 🧡
My middle grade daughter and I love watching your videos together. She said she totally gets you and wishes she could reread Percy Jackson all over again haha! ☕️ As for me, I’d love to be able to reread the Little House on the Prairie series and of course HP ❤️
Oh my god I’ll give you the sun was one of the most influential books I read in all of high school- I love it so much and I’m so glad you mentioned it!!
Everytime you mention Lock Every Door, I'm always in desperate need of picking up because the plot sounds scary but I love the cover and this is perfect 😱😱
I wish I could read The Night Circus and The Starless Sea for the first time again. Both books I went into knowing absolutely nothing. The Night Circus I got on a whim when I found it in Target not too long after it was released, and I had the most magical experience of my life while reading it. To this day it's still my favorite book. As for The Starless Sea, I remember the hype I felt leading up to it being released. It had been so long since I anticipated a new release SO much. And the experience I had while reading it was magical in its own sort of way that by the end of it I was crying- couldn't even tell you why but that was the reaction it pulled from me. I would just love to feel that first time "oh-- wow, this speaks to my heart" feeling all over again 🖤🎪✨
I love the starless sea I have never read anything quite like it, I think the starless sea, Harry Potter and a kind of spark and noughts and crosses would be up near the top of my list
I just finished the night circus which is what led me here, after reading the first third or so of the book I wasn't sure about it and put it down for a while but picked it up again recently and my god I'm glad I did. Truly magical, I wish I could reread it again without knowing the plot and its left a lasting impression for sure. You've just convinced me to read her other book as well now! Haha xx
Because of your comment I just looked up the book on Goodreads and I already know it is a good book, because it spelled the Dutch last name correctly :) according to the summary it is Maxim de Winter - > many do not know that the 'de' part is only written with a capital letter 'D' when the first name is completely left out. Because of this, I know the author did her homework. I can recognize abroad authers (mostly Americans) by these mistakes, like thinking 'de' and 'Winter' is one name 'dewinter', ughh so wrong. I am excited now to read the book :)
Loved this! Yes if I could go back and reread To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter, The Steep and Thorny way and The 5 people you meet on heaven, again I totally would!
the books id like to read again for the first time: 1. Ink heart - Cornelia Funke 2. last Harry Potter book 3. these golden years-naomi wood 4. the hobbit- jrr tolkien
House in the Cerulean Sea AND Under the Whispering Door, both by T.J. Klune. I read them both again immediately after I finished them because I loved them so much.
Oh I can explain why it didn't! It's one of my favorite books I've ever read- but the first time I read it my city had just been destroyed by a tornado. Hearing it nearby and then seeing how much it destroyed where I lived was devastating and scary. It was also the very start of the pandemic. It was one of the scariest and most horrible times ever and that book comforted me and found me exactly when I needed a little bit of hope in my life. But 10/10 would notttt want to relive reading that for the first time again hahaha.
I wish I could read The Goldfinch for the first time again. I had that experience where it didn’t grab me at first, but then it was like a switch flipped and I was in love. Donna Tartt’s writing style is so beautiful!
I would love to read The Road and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue for the first time again. I agree with you with Slaughterhouse-Five. I read it years ago, but to read the sci-fi elements again would be amazing. The quotes are magnificent! ☕️
When you said it was a recommendation from your friend cat, I head “my friend’s cat.” And I think of you as such a magical person that it made sense so I went with it. If any booktuber would talk yo animals to get book recommendations it would be you.
Hands-down, the Lord of the Rings. So imaginative, so moral and it created a world I didn’t want to leave. I also felt that way about To Kill a Mockingbird, timeless and immersive.
1.Bunny 2.We were Liars 3.Normal people 4.Slaughterhouse Five 5.I'll give you the Sun 6.piranesi 7.The vanishing half 8.Every heart a doorway 9.The Song of Achilles 10.Lock Every Door 11.The pillars of the Earth
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker… Maybe because my late husband and I read it together The concept felt fresh and new, and we both loved it 👍🏽
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury changed my life as a child. The thought that we could live in a totalitarian society where books are burned cut me to the core. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins is a small but amazing book. Everyone should read at least those two.
I neverrrr see anyone talk about ill give you the sun 😭 I read it when i was 15/16 and it literally is one of my all time favs that i come back to everytime I need to get myself back into reading
Jack Edwards also said the same thing about "Piranesi". I bought it in my latest book haul. Can't wait to read it :) I'm currently reading "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth.
Writing style wise, I'll Give You The Sun might just be the best book I've read in a long, long time. Witty, metaphor-heavy, and imaginative writing like that is not easy to come by, sadly. I realize it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but for me, personally, this book checked all the boxes. Amazing, multi-dimensional characters (they'e not picture perfect, they don't always make laudable decisions, and just none of them are guilt free) combined with amazing writing and some really important themes like family relationships, art, coming-of-age issues, romance) make for an absolutely incredible read. And honestly, I think Jandy Nelson managed to create one of the most loveable characters of all time because if you don't absolutely adore Noah, despite his flaws and mistakes, then did you even read this book amirite 😂 Thank you for including I'll Give You The Sun in your video and saying so many good things about it. I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning it, which is a real shame. If I could, I'd scream about this book everywhere, to everyone -- it definitely deserves much more attention!
Library Science fascinates me. You have a heart of a librarian. I have lost my love of reading but you're helping me get back into it. Thank you. 🥰 I feel I'm in the wrong career. I am a Medical Assistant. But I loved my volunteer job as a librarian assistant. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is mine that I wish I can reread.
With "The Pillars of Earth" I also went into it and thought to myself: "I am SO not going to enjoy this", but then I actually did. But I haven't finished it back then. So eventually I will have to start from page 1 again :D But I was amazed how hooked that book had me.
☕️ The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah would be the number 1 book on my list to go back and reread. I have literally read this book about 5-6 times because it’s that good and I also cried! Can’t recommend it enough! 2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Also can’t recommend this enough!! It’s a mystery/partially a thriller. Does have some of a twist at the end and to me it just blew my mind! 3. The Silent Patient I just finished this one last week and I couldn’t put this book down! That plot twist at the end literally made me gasp out loud in my break room with all my coworkers around eating lunch. You rack your brain of who could’ve done this to Alicia and it was not who you were expecting! Loved it!! 4. I’m currently reading A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham which I think you recommended in one of your more recent videos. I’m about halfway and I love this book so far! Can’t wait to get to the end and find out what happens! Great video as always Lexi and I hope you have a wonderful day filled with great books and delicious coffee and tea ❤️
I think the two books I wish I could go back and read for the first time are The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One made me feel like I was being enveloped in a warm hug, the other was the first book to make me really cry 💗☕️
I also read Piranesi in less than a day. Super great book. I think if I had to "sell my soul" to read a book again for the first time, I might choose Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Such a good book and the twist 3/4 through is so good. Highly recommend it and also highly recommend avoiding spoilers if you ever plan on reading it.
☕️ I have The Pillars of the Earth and The Song of Achilles on my TBR. • Bunny is one that I’ve been wanting to read but still unsure how I would feel about it haha
Pillars of the Earth! I love that book, I’ve probably read it four or five times. I’m old enough to have read it as an adult when it was first published. Gentleman in Moscow; loved the writing and would definitely like to enjoy this again for the first time. The writing is beautiful and lyrical and the characters are alive in my mind.
Slaughter House 5 is my favourite book of all time and I completely agree. I read it for an AP English class when I was 15 or 16 and was not expecting to like it. I now read it at least once a year.
Oh, I almost cried when you showed "Piranesi". Not only that I adore it, but when I first read it I felt from the start that it will be something special. I think about this book every single day.
I love loved loved Pillars of the Earth! Beautifully written. I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five. Wow. I do not re-read books but I would re-read The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. It was sad and thrilling. ☕ thanks for a great list of soul selling worthy books
Mine would probably be Riley sager’s home before dark I absolutely loved it. I also read lock every door because of your recommendation and I loved it as well! 💕
☕☕☕ I'd love to read the Song of Achilles again for the first time cause TEARS!! Also, the Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw - I read this at the beach when it was cold and rainy and if you've read the book you that means it was ~vibes~ and so atmospheric I wanna re-live that!
A novel I wish I could read again for the first time over again is And then there were none by Agatha Christie. Whenever I had to put it down during my first read through, I'd spend all day thinking about it until I could pick it up again. I really thought I had it sussed until I got to the end a realised I hadn't sussed it at all. Now I find pleasure from it recommending it to others and hearing about where they think the plot is going and who or where the U.N. Owen's are?! P.s. I really enjoyed the production value of Your video review
Why did I get teary-eyed when she held up I'll Give You the Sun? That book is everything. I am a girl that gets it and I'm SO HAPPY that she gets it too. My heart. 🥰
I love Slaughterhouse Five and Kurt Vonnegut in general. My favorite is Breakfast of Champions; definitely one of his weirder and less profound works. I've been meaning to read all of his work... but I keep putting off reading all of them because I know once I finish them, that's it; no more Vonnegut. Weird, eh?
I'd do anything to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Shwab again for the first time... I finished it at 3 AM and was SOBBING!! Even now it makes me cry when I read it. I've never had such a strong reaction to a book... until I read Gallant by the same author...
"Gone With The Wind" did it for me. A love story filled with a rollercoaster of emotions, love and love lost, survival, fear, determination, death of loved ones, anguish and despair, heartbreak. It's not what you think, or what you've been made to believe. My first reading was at age 13, by second reading was at age 47. Margaret Mitchell never wrote another book because she put her soul into this one epic story. The setting is pre Civil War and covers the aftermath. It's history at it's finest without any 21st century holier-than-thou critics. This book perfectly describes the 1800's. The movie was the highest grossing in history. Many Academy Awards earned. The movie was released in 1939, long before wokeism began to brainwash ordinarily intelligent people.
Hii Lexi, good to see you. I don't know why I'm scared of picking up Bunny by Mona Awad even though I'm up for every single weird thing but it kind of seems a bit creepy.🙂 And about the book that I would give my soul for would be 'lock every door'😍 lots and lots of love for you❤❤
First, ☕💚 Next, I really enjoyed the writing style of We Were Liars, upon your recommendation 👍Pillars of the Earth sounds great since you raved about it & I've never read Ken Follett💚
I have to tell you, I just finished reading Bunny based on your recommendation and I am pacing around my apartment just so restless because that was SUCH an experience and I cannot thank you enough lol. So glad I happened upon this video.
This is the first video of yours that I've watched, and boy did you sell me those books! They're all on my wishlist now and I can't wait to read them! You're also now my favourite booktuber; the way you described everything just sung to me. Really good video. Thank you 😊
I’ve never read it but so many people have told me they loved The Box Car Children. And I can kind of relate because growing up I was obsessed with Nancy Drew! 😊
Thanks for the suggestions :) Will give some of these a shot. I already read Slaughterhouse 5. Read that when I was 11 or 12. Great book! The first book that comes to mind for me would be Book #2 of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles "The Vampire Lestat". The first four books of that series are great but TVL stands out as one of my all-time favorite books.
Thank you for book recommendation. So far every books that I picked up based on your recommendations, I LOVED, and then proceeded to make my dad to read as well 😁 “the girl who drank the moon”, “the house in the cerulean sea” to name a few. Thank you ☕️
I would like to experience again what I felt in my senior year of high school when my English teacher taught us Shakespeare. At first I was horrified. But as we delved deeply into Macbeth, I became wonderfully delighted. We basically spent half that year dissecting the play. The teacher, Mr. Gafford, had friends in the Atlanta theater community, and he had one of them come to our school to act out one of the scenes from the play, the only bit of comedy in the tragedy. I would like to feel that sense of discovery and wonder again at learning how to truly appreciate a piece of literature that I had previously thought horrible. It's an amazing feeling to have your eyes opened like that.
I would sell my soul to read The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers for the first time again. I read it during the quarantine period of 2020 and it instantly become one of my all-time favorite books.
I absolutely agree with what you said about we were liars. I was so confused for a second when I read those parts of the story, but I like how it all comes together at the end of the book.
Ah I’m so happy you posted. I’m actually heading to Barnes and Noble today so will definitely be looking for many of these!! Your outfit and makeup look so good btw! ☕️
I wish I could read Anne of Green Gables & The Secret Garden for the first time! Those books are so full of hope and imagination, they were a wonder to discover 🥰
I’m reading the secret garden now!
I love thissss 😊❤️🥰
@@tkuhel12 That book is sooo pure❤️
I have The Secret Garden on my TBR to read soon!!!
Anne of green gables😍😍😍😍
I feel like 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe' is on the top on my list. Such a classic book that I read as a child, to me it feels like warm covers on a winters day :)
Agree with you, totally fell in love with this book as a child, so magical, loved the first film as well.
@@Fivetimesthree haha :)
@@layladarby1994 defo! the films r so good
The first book that popped into my mind was the final Harry Potter book. That was the first time I was seriously anxiously awaiting a book release. It was also the first book I wanted to finish so badly but the idea of finishing it actually made me sad because I didnt want the story to be over, i wasnt ready to leave the characters and the world. HP was also the first fantasy books I ever read because i always thought I didnt like them lol
I love to read series books. I think that the HP series was the first series I ever read. It was definitely the start of my love for reading. I also agree, I was so sad that it was ending when the 7th book came out. I could live in the HP world. 🖤📚
I hated that they left out the true ending of the last book (which was the ending for the whole series) from the movie.
At the end of the last movie, when Harry, Hermione, and Ron watched the train pull out and the screen faded to black, we should have seen the last three words from the book appear:
All is well.
I'm here because I just re-read HP and this comment made me cry😭😭 I still feel Hogwart is a Home no matter how many times I read it.
The HP books were amazing. They made me wish it was all real and that I could be the Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. ❤
Me in a nutshell
I had to explain this to my 10 yo this year. He read the first 4 Harry Potter books at age 7 and this year finished the series and loved it but I could tell he was full of emotion. He broke down in tears and said he could never read them for the first time again. He has since reread them all❤
One picture related to the Harry Potter books always pops into my head whenever I think about them. It's not any of the art, nor anything from the movies. It's from a news story about the release of one of the later books.
The camera man focused on a little 5 year old girl hugging the book as if holding it to her heart. You could see it on her face that she couldn't wait for her mom to buy the book and take her and it home to read it to her.
It gives me a warm feeling every time I remember that image.
Pretty much like the feeling I get when I see kids excited to be in a bookstore. (This last happy feeling is largely because I'm pleased to see kids who want to experience the joy of reading, but also partly because I used to be an elementary school teacher.)
I read the first Harry Potter book when I was 10. I decided to dedicate the time to reread it again for the first time in over a decade and a half and it feels like I'm reading it for the first time all over again. There are so many little details of the books that I had forgotten after 15+ years so it's like I get to discover and experience the magic with Harry all over again.
I wish I could read Jane Eyre for the first time. I’m so grateful I didn’t have to read it in high school because I don’t think I’d appreciate the story as much as I did as an adult. It was just an immersive experience that I remember trying to feel the same emotions again by listening to it on audio then watching films inspired by the book. Nothing felt like that initial read. It’s also the book I’ve re-read the most. Oof. My heart!
I had to read it for school and originally did not want to. But it became one of my favorite books.
Yes, wish I had read it before seeing the Timothy daulton movie version… it is one I’ve enjoyed rereading multiple times…
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The Dalton version is THE best of all of them. No contest.
I would love to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue again for the first time. I seriously love that book. I also loved We Were Liars and would like to read it for the first time again, as well. Great video!
Omgsh The Invisible Life of Addie was so beautiful 😊❤️
I'll second Addie Larue! I loved that story 😍
3rd to Addie LaRue
Oh wow finally someone mentions The Pillars of the earth ❤ I have loved this book since I read it for the first time when I was 14 years old. While it's been a huge success back then, it feels like it's been forgotten these past years. Glad someone finally talks about it.
I accidentally discovered it at the library. I then found the miniseries someplace. I loved the first 2/3, but felt the end was a long time coming. I have a tough time when the character I liked from the start isn't in the end. I couldn't really switch up my loyalty. My disdain for the mean guy stayed constant. I did love the descriptive way the world was told. I might give that a 2nd look.
I also loved this book and was fortunate to be travelling through Europe and touring the great cathedrals while reading it. Amazing. I have recommended this to many people over the years.
My favourite book of all times
Read out of print, same premis "the Heaven Tree Trilogy" by Edith Pargeter. Imho it surpasses Pillars
Lexi you're the reason why my TBR is never ending 😭 but ily for it!!💌
hahahaha I'm sorry! lol
Completely agree with Fiza. My TBR just grew more. Adding Pillars of the Earth to my list. ☕️💕
Imagine how sad you'd be if you had nothing on your tbr though. A big tbr is actually the best thing because it means you'll always have books to look forward to!
I have very specific nostalgia when thinking about reading Harry Potter as a kid. I read it often outside in the summer under an arbor of honeysuckle or sitting on the front porch. Man, it takes me back to joyful reading as a kid.
Omg yessss I completely agree
I would love to read Six of Crows & The House in the Cerulean Sea again for the first time! Great video as always 🤎☕
omgsh perfect answers- I loved both of these books so much!!
I’d love to read crooked kingdom again for the first time because of the auction scene alone
Ok, you got me hyped to finally read Pillars of the Earth! On my end, I wish I could read The Martian again for the first time, it was such a page turner! ☕☕☕
I’ve heard such amazing things about that book!!
Pillars of the earth is such a great read I also enjoyed the sequel and the prequel
I absolutely loved The Martian and it is not a genre I usually read. I was riveted the whole time!
The Martian is my all time favorite audiobook. I could listen to it again and again. Wil Wheaton did a wonderful job with the sarcasm and it brought the book to life for me.
@@paigemayer4531 Oh I need to look into this!
This girl has like literally the best videos the happiness and enthusiasm that you have is contagious
I think I would "sell my soul" to go back and read for the first time would be Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It is the book that got me into reading the classics and English literature as well as some American heavy weight authors. She expanded my world and Jane Austen is the penultimate for me. This book touched my soul. I have been having a love affair with Jane Austen ever since. It's nice that there are literally millions of books and genres that compel us to expand our world and escape.
The books that I would like to read for the first time again are:
1) All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
2) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3) Toyko Ever After by Emiko Jean
4) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
5) The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
6) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
7) Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
I read all the bright places in a day and I had such an indescribable feeling afterwards but it was so sad and beautifully important
Your library is gorgeous! It deserves a place on my home library Pinterest board.
aw thank you!!
I was hoping that I'll Give You the Sun would make this list of yours! I read this book last year because of one of your recommendation videos, and I have to be honest...it was the only book I read last year that I came close to DNFing. I just did not get it at first. But I stuck with it and then about 1/2-3/4 of the way through the book, things started clicking for me more and I understood the writing style better and....omg....definitely one of my favorite books of all time! It was the most beautiful story and made me laugh and cry and feel all the feels. I wanted to tell everyone about this book! I talked to my husband for hours about it lol. The reading experience was incredible and I would love to go back and read this for the first time again too. And a huge thank you to you for recommending it!
The first book that came to mind for me was Room. I’m not naturally a quick reader at all due to a fairly short attention span, but I read this book in just a few days as I was completely immersed. I really do think it’s my favourite book ever and I wish I could experience reading it for the first time over and over again 🧡
I've heard good things about that!
I love that you bring recommendations outside the current bestsellers! Your videos are wonderful. ☕️🌸📚
Aw thank you!!
I'll Give You the Sun!! One of my favorites
My middle grade daughter and I love watching your videos together. She said she totally gets you and wishes she could reread Percy Jackson all over again haha! ☕️ As for me, I’d love to be able to reread the Little House on the Prairie series and of course HP ❤️
Omg I love that!! Please tell her she has great taste! And yesss! Nothing quite captured the magic like the first time we all read Harry Potter
Your library is stunning 🤩 I’m reading Where The Crawdads Sing, I can tell it’s gonna be one of those I wish I could read again with a wiped memory 📖
Oh my god I’ll give you the sun was one of the most influential books I read in all of high school- I love it so much and I’m so glad you mentioned it!!
Everytime you mention Lock Every Door, I'm always in desperate need of picking up because the plot sounds scary but I love the cover and this is perfect 😱😱
Oh you should... I have read it twice and I'm not over it yet😍
it’s so good! it’s one of my favorites
It's so good! It's a little scary but not as scary as other thrillers- it's just really well done!!
It’s so good! Home Before Dark is my fav Sager book though :)
I wish I could read The Night Circus and The Starless Sea for the first time again. Both books I went into knowing absolutely nothing. The Night Circus I got on a whim when I found it in Target not too long after it was released, and I had the most magical experience of my life while reading it. To this day it's still my favorite book. As for The Starless Sea, I remember the hype I felt leading up to it being released. It had been so long since I anticipated a new release SO much. And the experience I had while reading it was magical in its own sort of way that by the end of it I was crying- couldn't even tell you why but that was the reaction it pulled from me. I would just love to feel that first time "oh-- wow, this speaks to my heart" feeling all over again 🖤🎪✨
Yesss I remember reading The Night Circus and falling in LOVE with it!! Great choices!!
I love the starless sea I have never read anything quite like it, I think the starless sea, Harry Potter and a kind of spark and noughts and crosses would be up near the top of my list
I just finished the night circus which is what led me here, after reading the first third or so of the book I wasn't sure about it and put it down for a while but picked it up again recently and my god I'm glad I did. Truly magical, I wish I could reread it again without knowing the plot and its left a lasting impression for sure. You've just convinced me to read her other book as well now! Haha xx
Both of those books I hated when they ended! I just wanted them to go on forever
I wish I could re read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier for the first time!! It was so Gothic and mysterious and had me enthralled
Because of your comment I just looked up the book on Goodreads and I already know it is a good book, because it spelled the Dutch last name correctly :) according to the summary it is Maxim de Winter - > many do not know that the 'de' part is only written with a capital letter 'D' when the first name is completely left out. Because of this, I know the author did her homework. I can recognize abroad authers (mostly Americans) by these mistakes, like thinking 'de' and 'Winter' is one name 'dewinter', ughh so wrong. I am excited now to read the book :)
I just ordered that one earlier today! Looking forward to reading it 📖
I read Rebbeca when I was 14 and it opened up the literary world for me. It's very special to me always.
Rebbec is one of my all time favorites. I can never get enough of it. I also liked the old movie of it.
☕️ thank you for the recommendations…I did love your enthusiasm in books which I miss when I talk to people.
Yes - Piranesi totally subverted all my expectations. It was phenomenal!
Loved this! Yes if I could go back and reread To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter, The Steep and Thorny way and The 5 people you meet on heaven, again I totally would!
the books id like to read again for the first time:
1. Ink heart - Cornelia Funke
2. last Harry Potter book
3. these golden years-naomi wood
4. the hobbit- jrr tolkien
I wish I could read The Count of Monte Cristo and The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter for the first time again.
Water for Elephants… I loved reading that so much I wish I could do it again for the first time.
House in the Cerulean Sea AND Under the Whispering Door, both by T.J. Klune. I read them both again immediately after I finished them because I loved them so much.
I'm actually surprised House of the Cerulean sea didn't make your list.
Thank you for another video Lexi.☕
Oh I can explain why it didn't! It's one of my favorite books I've ever read- but the first time I read it my city had just been destroyed by a tornado. Hearing it nearby and then seeing how much it destroyed where I lived was devastating and scary. It was also the very start of the pandemic. It was one of the scariest and most horrible times ever and that book comforted me and found me exactly when I needed a little bit of hope in my life. But 10/10 would notttt want to relive reading that for the first time again hahaha.
I wish I could read The Goldfinch for the first time again. I had that experience where it didn’t grab me at first, but then it was like a switch flipped and I was in love. Donna Tartt’s writing style is so beautiful!
I loved it first time, but The Secret History was the one that had me up until 5 a.m to finish it!
"Something Wicked This Way Comes", "One Past Midnight" and "Beowulf" are two books that I would give anything to read for the first time
I was OBSESSED with Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends. I wish I could reread that over and over.
I would love to read The Road and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue for the first time again. I agree with you with Slaughterhouse-Five. I read it years ago, but to read the sci-fi elements again would be amazing. The quotes are magnificent! ☕️
I love The Invisible Life of Addie too!! :)
When you said it was a recommendation from your friend cat, I head “my friend’s cat.” And I think of you as such a magical person that it made sense so I went with it. If any booktuber would talk yo animals to get book recommendations it would be you.
omg I love this so much hahaha!
I recently got Piranesi and Every Heart A Doorway…. I can’t wait to fall in love with them!! ☕️
omgsh I am so excited for you I LOVE THOSE BOOKS!!
Hands-down, the Lord of the Rings. So imaginative, so moral and it created a world I didn’t want to leave. I also felt that way about To Kill a Mockingbird, timeless and immersive.
A Wrinkle In Time would definitely be on my list.
1.Bunny
2.We were Liars
3.Normal people
4.Slaughterhouse Five
5.I'll give you the Sun
6.piranesi
7.The vanishing half
8.Every heart a doorway
9.The Song of Achilles
10.Lock Every Door
11.The pillars of the Earth
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker… Maybe because my late husband and I read it together
The concept felt fresh and new, and we both loved it 👍🏽
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury changed my life as a child. The thought that we could live in a totalitarian society where books are burned cut me to the core. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins is a small but amazing book. Everyone should read at least those two.
Read and reread Fahrenheit 451 as a child. It was such a scary concept for me as a child that read all the time.
I remember LOVING I'll Give You The Sun when I read it a few years ago! I well over-due for a reread.
I neverrrr see anyone talk about ill give you the sun 😭 I read it when i was 15/16 and it literally is one of my all time favs that i come back to everytime I need to get myself back into reading
I just did this! The exact thing! Finally re read again and it really just works lol. Solidarity
Jack Edwards also said the same thing about "Piranesi". I bought it in my latest book haul. Can't wait to read it :)
I'm currently reading "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth.
This is a much older book, but "The Uninvited" by Dorothy Macardle is one I wish I could experience for the first time again. Awesome ghost story.
ooooo I'll have to look that up!!
OMG I need to subscribe to your channel-I loved The Vanishing Half too!
“Of Human Bondage”, I wish I could read for the first time again. It is such a classic, I have read it 3 times.
Writing style wise, I'll Give You The Sun might just be the best book I've read in a long, long time. Witty, metaphor-heavy, and imaginative writing like that is not easy to come by, sadly. I realize it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but for me, personally, this book checked all the boxes. Amazing, multi-dimensional characters (they'e not picture perfect, they don't always make laudable decisions, and just none of them are guilt free) combined with amazing writing and some really important themes like family relationships, art, coming-of-age issues, romance) make for an absolutely incredible read. And honestly, I think Jandy Nelson managed to create one of the most loveable characters of all time because if you don't absolutely adore Noah, despite his flaws and mistakes, then did you even read this book amirite 😂
Thank you for including I'll Give You The Sun in your video and saying so many good things about it. I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning it, which is a real shame. If I could, I'd scream about this book everywhere, to everyone -- it definitely deserves much more attention!
Library Science fascinates me. You have a heart of a librarian. I have lost my love of reading but you're helping me get back into it. Thank you. 🥰 I feel I'm in the wrong career. I am a Medical Assistant. But I loved my volunteer job as a librarian assistant. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder is mine that I wish I can reread.
With "The Pillars of Earth" I also went into it and thought to myself: "I am SO not going to enjoy this", but then I actually did. But I haven't finished it back then. So eventually I will have to start from page 1 again :D But I was amazed how hooked that book had me.
same!! I didn't think it would be my thing either. I bet if you finished it you would love it- the ending was wonderful!
☕️ The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah would be the number 1 book on my list to go back and reread. I have literally read this book about 5-6 times because it’s that good and I also cried! Can’t recommend it enough!
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Also can’t recommend this enough!! It’s a mystery/partially a thriller. Does have some of a twist at the end and to me it just blew my mind!
3. The Silent Patient
I just finished this one last week and I couldn’t put this book down! That plot twist at the end literally made me gasp out loud in my break room with all my coworkers around eating lunch. You rack your brain of who could’ve done this to Alicia and it was not who you were expecting! Loved it!!
4. I’m currently reading A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham which I think you recommended in one of your more recent videos. I’m about halfway and I love this book so far! Can’t wait to get to the end and find out what happens!
Great video as always Lexi and I hope you have a wonderful day filled with great books and delicious coffee and tea ❤️
I think the two books I wish I could go back and read for the first time are The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One made me feel like I was being enveloped in a warm hug, the other was the first book to make me really cry 💗☕️
Omg the book thief was bloody brilliant.
I also read Piranesi in less than a day. Super great book. I think if I had to "sell my soul" to read a book again for the first time, I might choose Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Such a good book and the twist 3/4 through is so good. Highly recommend it and also highly recommend avoiding spoilers if you ever plan on reading it.
☕️ I have The Pillars of the Earth and The Song of Achilles on my TBR.
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Bunny is one that I’ve been wanting to read but still unsure how I would feel about it haha
The pillars of the earth is a great read I read it years ago I also enjoyed both the sequel and the prequel
Pillars of the Earth! I love that book, I’ve probably read it four or five times. I’m old enough to have read it as an adult when it was first published.
Gentleman in Moscow; loved the writing and would definitely like to enjoy this again for the first time. The writing is beautiful and lyrical and the characters are alive in my mind.
I would love to read the wind in the willows AND pippi longstocking again! 😊 The magic and innocence...😜💙
Yes!! Me too!!
Slaughter House 5 is my favourite book of all time and I completely agree. I read it for an AP English class when I was 15 or 16 and was not expecting to like it. I now read it at least once a year.
Super cute crop top 🤩👍🏾👒 Happy Bookish Thursday Friends! Story of our lives
Aw thank you!
The Help, Fellowship of the Ring, Where the Crawdads Sing, Little House in the Big Woods, A Man Called Ove had me hooked!!!
Oh, I almost cried when you showed "Piranesi". Not only that I adore it, but when I first read it I felt from the start that it will be something special. I think about this book every single day.
me too. I wish i could find something similar to it.
You are seriously my favorite book tuber!!!! 💯
Omg thank you!! 🥺❤️❤️❤️
I love loved loved Pillars of the Earth! Beautifully written. I remember reading Slaughterhouse Five. Wow. I do not re-read books but I would re-read The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. It was sad and thrilling. ☕ thanks for a great list of soul selling worthy books
Mine would probably be Riley sager’s home before dark I absolutely loved it. I also read lock every door because of your recommendation and I loved it as well! 💕
☕☕☕ I'd love to read the Song of Achilles again for the first time cause TEARS!! Also, the Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw - I read this at the beach when it was cold and rainy and if you've read the book you that means it was ~vibes~ and so atmospheric I wanna re-live that!
omgsh I loved The Wicked Deep!!
Loved this video, thanks so much for the recs! ☕
Thanks for this Alexandra 😘😘😘... Gotta share this now...
Thank you for the book rec, I gotta start doing something while I hide from the Arizona heat 🥰🥰🥰
I wish I could re-read for the first time: The Gold Finch, Water for Elephants, The Night Circus…just found your channel…love it! Here’s your ☕️
I was just thinking of you! I'm reading One Italian Summer and I think you're going to adore it! The descriptions of the food are just... Chef's kiss!
which author, same title has multiple authors
@@mariabota9712 Rebecca Serle
@@islandgirl3615 thank you, I just ordered it at Book Depository
A novel I wish I could read again for the first time over again is And then there were none by Agatha Christie. Whenever I had to put it down during my first read through, I'd spend all day thinking about it until I could pick it up again. I really thought I had it sussed until I got to the end a realised I hadn't sussed it at all. Now I find pleasure from it recommending it to others and hearing about where they think the plot is going and who or where the U.N. Owen's are?!
P.s. I really enjoyed the production value of Your video review
I agree 100%!!! And Then There Were None is soooo good! The plot, the setting, the twist!! Psychotic
And The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was so surprising too.
Why did I get teary-eyed when she held up I'll Give You the Sun? That book is everything. I am a girl that gets it and I'm SO HAPPY that she gets it too. My heart. 🥰
I love Slaughterhouse Five and Kurt Vonnegut in general. My favorite is Breakfast of Champions; definitely one of his weirder and less profound works. I've been meaning to read all of his work... but I keep putting off reading all of them because I know once I finish them, that's it; no more Vonnegut. Weird, eh?
I'd do anything to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Shwab again for the first time... I finished it at 3 AM and was SOBBING!! Even now it makes me cry when I read it. I've never had such a strong reaction to a book... until I read Gallant by the same author...
"Gone With The Wind" did it for me. A love story filled with a rollercoaster of emotions, love and love lost, survival, fear, determination, death of loved ones, anguish and despair, heartbreak. It's not what you think, or what you've been made to believe. My first reading was at age 13, by second reading was at age 47. Margaret Mitchell never wrote another book because she put her soul into this one epic story. The setting is pre Civil War and covers the aftermath. It's history at it's finest without any 21st century holier-than-thou critics. This book perfectly describes the 1800's. The movie was the highest grossing in history. Many Academy Awards earned. The movie was released in 1939, long before wokeism began to brainwash ordinarily intelligent people.
Frankly Georia... I don't give a damn!! LOL... Agree 100% best book ever written.
I couldn't finish GWTW; I was so heartbroken at Scarlett's narcissism and selfishness. I think that's why maybe now I only read HEAs
Hii Lexi, good to see you. I don't know why I'm scared of picking up Bunny by Mona Awad even though I'm up for every single weird thing but it kind of seems a bit creepy.🙂
And about the book that I would give my soul for would be 'lock every door'😍
lots and lots of love for you❤❤
It's such a strange book and it's a little scary so I totally understand the hesitation!!
mexican gothic! Such a good spooky creative vibe
Love that one!! So creepy but in the best way❤️
First, ☕💚 Next, I really enjoyed the writing style of We Were Liars, upon your recommendation 👍Pillars of the Earth sounds great since you raved about it & I've never read Ken Follett💚
I have to tell you, I just finished reading Bunny based on your recommendation and I am pacing around my apartment just so restless because that was SUCH an experience and I cannot thank you enough lol. So glad I happened upon this video.
Riley Sager is probably my new favorite author. Home Before Dark was my favorite mystery/thriller that I read at the end of 2021.
Wow! The Pillars of the Earth I read a long time ago and I loved it. Curious about Piranesi.
I was not expecting to see The Pillars of the Earth here 😭 It was my grandpa’s favorite and I haven’t gotten around to reading it. This is a sign ❤️
It’s time❤️ 📖
When I reread books to me it feels like I’m reading them for the first time every time especially if I haven’t read them in a long time ☕️
Love this! I wish I could read A Court of Mist and Fury for the first time again!
I love love love I’ll Give You The Sun, I would also sell my soul to experience reading it for the first time again! Love your take on it!
omggggg your bookshelfffff is to die fooooorrr!!! it may be the prettiest bookshelf ive seen in booktubeee!!! OMGGG IM OBSESSEEEEDDDD.
This is the first video of yours that I've watched, and boy did you sell me those books! They're all on my wishlist now and I can't wait to read them!
You're also now my favourite booktuber; the way you described everything just sung to me. Really good video. Thank you 😊
Omgsh that’s so nice of you to say thank you!! 😊❤️❤️
The Box Car Children. Even after 65years later I still think of this book
I’ve never read it but so many people have told me they loved The Box Car Children. And I can kind of relate because growing up I was obsessed with Nancy Drew! 😊
Thanks for the suggestions :) Will give some of these a shot. I already read Slaughterhouse 5. Read that when I was 11 or 12. Great book! The first book that comes to mind for me would be Book #2 of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles "The Vampire Lestat". The first four books of that series are great but TVL stands out as one of my all-time favorite books.
Thank you for book recommendation. So far every books that I picked up based on your recommendations, I LOVED, and then proceeded to make my dad to read as well 😁 “the girl who drank the moon”, “the house in the cerulean sea” to name a few. Thank you ☕️
The Girl Who Drank the Moon. I would love to read that for the first time. Such a beautiful book
I would like to experience again what I felt in my senior year of high school when my English teacher taught us Shakespeare.
At first I was horrified. But as we delved deeply into Macbeth, I became wonderfully delighted. We basically spent half that year dissecting the play. The teacher, Mr. Gafford, had friends in the Atlanta theater community, and he had one of them come to our school to act out one of the scenes from the play, the only bit of comedy in the tragedy.
I would like to feel that sense of discovery and wonder again at learning how to truly appreciate a piece of literature that I had previously thought horrible. It's an amazing feeling to have your eyes opened like that.
I would sell my soul to read The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers for the first time again. I read it during the quarantine period of 2020 and it instantly become one of my all-time favorite books.
omg I'll have to read it!!
@@alexandraroselyn Yes please! I really think you would love it!!! I am terrible at briefly describing books so please look up a summary online😂
We Were Liars is my #1 book that I wish I could read again for the first time. I just know a reread won't hit the same. Great book.
I wish I could re-listen to the “Off to be a wizard” series on audible. It’s amazing and made me actually laugh out loud
I would reread The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 🧡 I also enjoyed The Vanishing Half very much 💕
I loved The Midnight Library!!
☕️ - thanks for the recs!
I absolutely agree with what you said about we were liars. I was so confused for a second when I read those parts of the story, but I like how it all comes together at the end of the book.
Ah I’m so happy you posted. I’m actually heading to Barnes and Noble today so will definitely be looking for many of these!! Your outfit and makeup look so good btw! ☕️