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Have you read a book and felt later, "Why haven't I read it earlier!?" or "Why had I waited so long to read this?"....?

When you are furious at yourself for putting off a certain book until now, when you feel like you should have read it years ago, what you basically experience is a readgret.

So, tell us, what readgrets do you have and why do you feel that way about this certain book.

Letters to the Lost (I’ve probably annoyed everyone at this point )

But I wanted to read that for so long, and I loved it so much when I finally read it!

And the Six of Crows duology. It was so hyped up that I was scared to read it. I’m fact, I was positive I would hate it.

But now it’s one of my fav duologys of all time!

Nay. Every book has it's own time to be read.

Austin wrote: "Nay. Every book has it's own time to be read."

Nicely said.

Here I saw this thread and though readgret would be when you read a book that you wish you had not.

Erica wrote: "Austin wrote: "Nay. Every book has it's own time to be read."

Nicely said.

Here I saw this thread and though readgret would be when you read a book that you wish you had not."

You know, when I found this word even I thought the same, but well it turned out to be something else...

Basically you shouldn't ever feel regret reading because if you're not enjoying a book you can stop reading it. Unless you're like me and feel compelled to finish a book once you start it.

Erica wrote: "Basically you shouldn't ever feel regret reading because if you're not enjoying a book you can stop reading it. Unless you're like me and feel compelled to finish a book once you start it."

That's true but I think some books can be very unbearable.

I regret reading 50 shades of grey. But I was working in a bookshop and people kept asking me about it, so I felt I had to. It was not for me, definitely. Never understood the hype. I read erotica before, but not that one. So yeah, I can regret reading a book lol but it was maybe the only one, I'm quite happy with everything I read in my life.

Books that made me "why didn't I read this before omg" are Notre Dame de Paris, The Dark Tower (I tried and failed, then I tried again and gulped it all down in 19 days), and Six of Crows for me too. Uh maybe also The Cruel Prince, I was sure I wouldn't like it but I loved it fiercely.

I have a readgret for The Folk of the Air series! I was appalled to find out that this was for so long on my Tbr and I was missing out on something so wonderful, I didn't even know that it would turn out to be one of my favourite series ❤️

All that comes to mind right now is Twilight. I owned it for a few years and forgot about it until the movie was coming out. I read it and became obsessed.

I never read Twilight but I watched it and I also became obsessed with it!

Omg the Twilight fever. A friend lend it to me saying I HAD to read it and in Italy at the times no one knew it. So when it boomed I was like "tsk, I knew AGES ago" lol it was a huge shift, YA was not even a genre back then in my country.

Another readgret may be Jane Eyre for me (yeah I'm a sucker for classics), I was completely in love with Pride and Prejudice as a teen, read Wuthering Heights in school and didn't like it, so I never got around to Jane Eyre until much later - which was a grave error since it's my all time favorite classic now.

Wow! You are great with classics I think, because I really tried once reading Persuasion. One of my friends is a sucker for classics too,and she lend me the book. But, I really couldn't complete it. It was sitting on my desk for days and whenever I picked it up, I could only read a chapter or so. I would love to read the famous classics but I don't think it's for me....I am clueless!

I love Jane Austen, but I really don't like Persuasion I don't blame you for dnfing. Rushali I think Emma is the Jane Austen for you. (The movie Clueless is a modern retelling of Emma)
Jane Eyre is definitely on the list of classics to read for me. I tried reading Wuthering Heights but I wasn't in the right mind set so I didn't get through the first chapter.

I love classics, it's amazing to see how literature has evolved and the origin of the contemporary generes back then. I didn't really love Persuasion too and I second Erica's rec for Emma, it's lovely! I think "older" writing styles may often be a put off, it's usually so different to what we are used now, but I think Jane Eyre was very modern so I usually recommend it for that (and Jane is an amazing character).

Wuthering Heights was one of those book where I appreciated the story from a clinic point of view but absolutely loathe the romance and the characters. They were horrible to each other and in general they weren't nice human beings. Still, it's a powerful story.

But I'm going OT!

Well, that's good to hear that it's not me but the book is hard to bear. I'll try reading Jane Eyre and Emma.
I have heard of Wuthering Heights too, and it's on my Tbr. Someday I am going to read these super classics!

Rushali wrote: "Well, that's good to hear that it's not me but the book is hard to bear. I'll try reading Jane Eyre and Emma.
I have heard of Wuthering Heights too, and it's on my Tbr. Someday I am going to read ..."

I can't say I enjoyed Jane Eyre that much, but Wuthering Heights is one of the best books ever written! It's one of my favs :)

Hi! I'm new here. I just wanted to say that I've had Jane Eyre recommended and mentioned to me many, many times. Should I give it a try? I should, shouldn't I?

I also wanted to say that I regret not reading Throne of Glass sooner. It was recommended to me by someone who really knows what I like to read. I didn't get around to reading it until about half a year later. And I loved it!!!! Like, so good. I'm sad I didn't start it earlier.

Jane Eyre is a classic story that gets retold over and over in modern books so it be nice to know the source which is why it's on my tbr. However I have watched a lot of movie and mini series based on these and other classic stories and I just haven't got around to reading them yet.

Cloaked in Shadow : So this is a bit personal but I am asexual and it took years to understand that that's who I am. This series is what opened my eyes to the fact that your romantic attraction can be different than your sexual attraction and I wish that I would've read it sooner so that I could accept who I am sooner.

City of Bones, when I finished, I should have read this like a billion years ago, cause I really enjoyed it!