So often, I read a book that I completely adore when I finish it – but a few months or years later, I’ve read so many more books that I’ve forgotten what it was like to be in the moment of reading them for the first time.

How many books have you read that instantly jumped to your favourites list when you read them, but then you forget about what happens in them and you want to reread them? That’s what this post is about.

Here are five books that I loved when I read them, but I really want to reread now that I’m a bit older and I want to remember them properly!

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Unwinding: the process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive. Unwinding is now a common, and accepted, practice in society.

 

Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family’s strict religion.

 

Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their 18th birthday, they can’t be harmed – but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, is wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away…

In case you haven’t heard by now (I may have mentioned it a few times), Neal Shusterman is one of my favourite authors. I own almost all of her books, and there are only a few I haven’t read.

The first series I read by him was the Unwind dystology – made up of four books and one novella, I’ve read them all except the final book. I’ve forgotten so much about these books now though, and once some of my TBR is out the way, I can’t wait to reread them so I can remember them and finally read the last book!

All the Things We Didn’t Say by Sara Shepard

Tragedy came as if so often does: a teenage party, emotions running high, followed by a horrific car crash. A girl is left dead and a boy is forced to leave his hometown, with a secret that he will carry with him forever…

 

Years later, when Summer’s mother disappears one summer, she is left with her father. Obsessed with an accident from years ago, he slowly descends into mental illness. And as he becomes more disorientated, he reveals small fragments of a secret that has been hidden since his youth, a secret that changes everything.

 

Summer supports her father as much as she can but eventually realises that she has to escape. She finds refuge with her great-aunt, Stella. Feisty, fun-loving, and dying of cancer, Stella holds parts of the family secret. Slowly, things fall into place for Summer – or at least so she thinks…

 

This is a story of the importance of family, of the damage a lie can do, and of how nothing is ever what it seems.

This is definitely one I need to reread because I can’t remember a single thing about it. For a while, when I read this at least a few years ago, I said it was one of my favourite books – but now I can’t remember anything at all! I still have the paperback on my shelf so I’ll definitely have to read this again and review it at some point. I might hate it – who knows!

Angels Unlimited by Annie Dalton

Mel isn’t your average angel. How would you feel if you wound up in a posh Angel Academy, learning about halos and teamwork, when all you’re really interested in is shopping and boys? Her angel wardrobe is drop-dead gorgeous, admittedly. But hey, if she’s an angel, she should look divine, right? It’s just all the work that really freaks her out.

 

But when Mel goes on her first angelic assignment to wartime London, she realises that maybe, for the first time, she’s found something she’s actually good at…

I already mentioned this in my World Book Day post and I’m going to mention it here too because it’s one of my favourite childhood series. It’s so cool because it teaches you so much about different points throughout history in a fun way – angels travelling in time?! So cool! I really want to reread these and I think I will soon because they’re so short, so I’ll be able to get through them quickly.

The Mediator by Meg Cabot

Suze is a mediator. Which means she spends a lot of time directing the unhappy dead into the afterlife. And it isn’t easy – not all ghosts want to be guided.

 

Newly arrived in California, Suze has hardly unpacked when her mediator skills are put to the test. A vicious spirit is hell-bent on making her life a complete nightmare. At least she’s sharing her bedroom with Jesse – the most gorgeous ghost ever. But dare she make a move on the sexiest spook in town?

This is another nostalgic series that I’m dying to read again. This was a series aimed at slightly older kids, maybe young teenagers, and I loved it. I can’t remember a lot of the details but I just remember really liking them, and like the rest of these I still own all the books!

Jinx by Meg Cabot

It wasn’t just the power failure the night Jean Honeychurch was born that earned her the nickname Jinx: misfortune seems to follow her wherever she goes. Which is why she’s been shipped off to New York to stay with relatives – including her sophisticated cousin Tory – until the trouble she’s caused back in her small hometown dies down.

 

Tory couldn’t care less about Jinx – until Jinx’s chronic bad luck starts wreaking havoc in Tory’s perfect world. Only then does Jinx learn that beneath Tory’s big-city glamour lies a world of hatred and revenge. And now Jean’s jinx could be the only thing that can save her life…

Another book aimed at teenagers rather than kids, Jinx is one I read a few times whenever I could get it from the library, and it became one of my favourite books – but as with the others, I can barely remember it. I managed to get a pretty hardback of this a couple of years ago so I’ll definitely need to reread it soon.

Have you read any of these books? Do you have any books that used to be your favourite but you’ve forgotten, or you just want to read again?