10 Books We'd Pay to Forget Just So We Could Read Them Again

Some books get better on a second read. Rereading these is closer to a loss, because the twist has already landed, the world has already shown itself, and you already know which character is going to break your heart. If we could erase ten books from memory and come to them cold again, these would be the ten.

1. Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn #1
2. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir #2
3. Piranesi — Susanna Clarke #3
4. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas #4
5. Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro #5
6. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie #6
7. Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes #7
8. The Secret History — Donna Tartt #8
9. The Book Thief — Markus Zusak #9
10. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie #10