Books I Want to REREAD in 2023: The Year of the Reading Slow Down (Even More)

I live by the adage (that I honestly believe I made up) "If it isn't worth reading twice, it isn't worth reading once". This is of course not always true, but it is for me 80+% of the time.

2023 will mandate that I slow down even more. Each year I aim to read less books per year. This is the antithesis of the bookish culture's need for more books, more hauls, and higher page counts, but I am seeking the sublime here. I want to stand in awe of what I read 80% of the time.

I've added lighter reads to balance out the stress in my life and I find immense value in that. 

I am however a HUGE proponent of the Rereading Movement. I capitalized the words, but I have no idea if that is a true movement or if I am starting one with this post :)

In the vain of having "comforting reads", I am going back to authors and works who have delighted and fascinated me before. There are some comfort reads that are so sacred to me that I return to them again and again and again- yet they don't lose their hold on my heart.

Here are my rereads for the next 12 months (2023 focused)

Classics I want to read in 2023 can be found here.

Tess of the D'urbervilles by my favorite
Mr. Thomas Hardy

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
 Volume I of In Search of Lost Time

Anna Karenina by Count Leo Tolstoy
I reread this novel every single year

Emma by Jane Austen
It's time for an Emma reread

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Love the Brontës. Adore Anne

I highly encourage you if you don't reread, to give it a shot. Pick a favorite of yours and revisit the world of those characters.

If you're afraid it won't hold up, that's okay. Put your book to the test. It will either reaffirm it as one of your favorites, or clear the space for you to put something better in it's place.

Happy slow and deep reading.