This article in the Guardian about what and why those authors reread got me thinking about my own rereading.

I tend not to reread, because the sheer number of books I have to get through on my own shelves leaves me slightly panicky -- I'm not going to be able to finish everything before I die! Add the titles encountered in day-to-day online explorations and the never-ending excursions to the libraries and bookstores... Is it normal to have anxiety attacks over this?

Sometimes I wonder if I've turned into a person who loves the idea of reading more than the actual activity.

Or I really just need to be online less, and bury my nose in books so action can catch up with desire. Something like that.

Anyhow, there have been books I have given in to revisiting. And I think the whole point of this is, I wanted an excuse to make a list -- just a short, incomplete (faulty memory) one.

American Gods / Neil Gaiman

The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera

The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath

The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand

Revolutionary Road / Richard Yates

The Virgin Suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides

Stardust / Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere / Neil Gaiman

The Sandman / Neil Gaiman

Wasted / Marya Hornbacher

Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami

The Resident Tourist / Troy Chin

One Day / David Nicholls

The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

Great Expectations / Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte

American Gods may or may not count, because my second reading was of the tenth anniversary Gaiman's preferred text edition. Also, The Sandman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Fountainhead are titles I long to thumb through every few years.

Which brings me to the second tiny list in my head, of books I plan to reread when the time is right (or when I've forgotten enough of it).

You or Someone Like You / Chandler Burr

Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides

Bonjour Tristesse / Françoise Sagan

A Visit from the Goon Squad / Jennifer Egan

Atonement / Ian McEwan

Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh

Blue Nights / Joan Didion

The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton

Douglas Coupland

(Yup, it's a very slow day at work. Do you have a reread/ to reread list? Tell me!)