I recently moved and went through my bookshelf as I packed, using the need to box everything up as a reason to reevaluate the state of what I own and if I want to keep it. While doing so, I sold/donated a lot of books I haven’t looked at in several years but realized I also have some childhood favorites that I still just can’t bear to get rid of even I don’t look at them that often.

Which got me wondering if other people have those books and if so, what they are/why you still like them/keep them. Share below! (If you want, I mean!)

Mine are:

• An old Puffin Classics copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It was one of my first sci-fi exposures and it l gives me nostalgia. I don’t reread it often but I can’t part with it either.
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde. It also has nostalgia wrapped around it for me, while still genuinely making me laugh/smile. It’s such a silly book but I do love it.
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. I have a soft spot for Alice in Wonderland retellings and this one has lived rent free in my brain from the first time I read it when I was like ten. This Wonderland is so rich, and this take on it is even more so.

Hi, can you add the companion books in the quest too? Like the demigod files, I mean it is Rick riordan universe too after all, but if there's a reason they're not added, its okay then >.<

Why do older books/authors have a tendency of blocking out parts of a name or a place? For example, here it is "the P— infantry regiment". But in the tale, The Night Before Christmas, there was also a "chief L—ko" and "the T— church". I've definitely seen this in other older books, but no modern ones, so why did authors do this? If they knew enough of the name to have the start (and sometimes end) of it, why not just write out the full word? (I assume it isn't a translation thing.)

I'm gonna try to stick with books I've read, but here goes nothin' 👀

A – Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff D – Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent A – A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab R – Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston K – Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas E – Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas R – Raise the Blood by Nenia Campbell S – She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen H – Heart So Hollow by Emily Nealis A – Addicted to You By Krista & Becca Ritchie D – (The) Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt E – Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco O – Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros F – From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout R – Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods O – One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston S – Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson I – Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon E – Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Woo! I was able to use all books I've read! 🥳