Rereading Planning

As I’m a highly picky mood reader, I tend to reach for my favorites a lot, but as I also tend to tire/bored of things thanks to my obsessive repetitiveness, I try to space out my reads. I’ve handwritten lists, but this time I added another tab to my books excel file (for my TBR lists, one tab that is interlibrary loan, one for those at my library), to which I added all my favorite books using Goodreads as a guide, the dates I’d read them previously (if I had them) and the dates I could read them next, generally 4-5 years. I ended up with 30 books and authors I could read in 2020.

I have an Evernote workbook dedicated to fun. And I was working on seasonal files (food, activities, movies, books, etc.). I’d already had a general breakdown of books for the seasons, and I used my 2020 reread list to update this for this year (and will add to it each year, unless I get bored and find another system . . . which is also a habit of mine). As it currently stands here is my seasonal rereading possibilities list:

Winter

• Narnia
• Lord Peter Wimsey
• Entwined 
• Wildwood Dancing 
• Middlemarch, Eliot
• Dickens
• Aunt Jane’s Hero
• Scott’s Poetry and Ivanhoe 
• Evelina
• Romeo and Juliet (February)
• Friendship and Folly and all the ones I haven’t read

Spring

• Anne of Green Gables series
• Grandma’s Attic series (towards summer)
• Spring-ish (not main ones) LM Montgomery
• Gail Carson Levine
• Gaskell novels
• Little Women and sequels
• To Have and to Hold 

Summer

• Magic for Marigold 
• Jane of Lantern Hill
• A Tangled Web
• Snicker of Magic 
• Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom
• Key to Extraordinary 
• Sarah’s Journey series
• Annie Henry series
• The Borrowers series
• To Kill a Mockingbird 
• Katherine Patterson books
• Much Ado About Nothing 
• Mother 
• Abby books

Fall

• Blue Castle (end of summer/early fall)
• Emily trilogy
• Pat duo
• Celtic mythology book
• Brontë novels
• Sherlock Holmes
• An Old Fashioned Girl 
• Thirteen Secrets trilogy
• The Screwtape Letters

Christmas needs a little work, but I have plenty of time before that comes around again.