Challenge: 50 Books discussion

do re-reads and graphic novels count from the 50 books?

Why not? You are reading them. I think it's your choice.

I've counted re-reads. Graphic novels...for me that depends. I never counted the majority of them but when I read Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History I did because it felt very literary.

no because you've already read them its not fair its like cheating

There aren't any rules, and it's completely up to each person to decide what to count. This is a personal challenge. I've certainly counted re-reads, but I'm old enough that several decades have passed since I read some of them the first time. Quite a difference between reading "Great Expectations" at 12 and at 55.

I disagree that it's like cheating. I doubt you skim-read them, or read them any quicker than you otherwise would have had you not read them before, so I don't think there's a problem with including them. I've re-read a number of books this year but have been as thorough as I was when I first read them.

I don't think it's cheating -- because nobody is being cheated. I'm re-reading Little Women -- and it's definitely been quite a while. I was about 9 when I read it the first time. I might have re-read it in college but I don't really remember if it was required in American Lit or not. So, as long as I want to say I count it. I count it.

Rereads should totally count! It's still a book that you're reading - shouldn't matter if you'd already read it before. Especially if you're re-reading something you read when you were younger...you've probably forgotten a lot of it!

I counted a lot of re-reads, except those that I was reading twice this year, and I think Graphic Novels should count.

If you think it should count, it should count!