Not as a bundle but I bought and read A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter as they came out. It was so exciting to wait for the next book to be written and then translated and published.

The Hobbit movies sucked, they were just money grabs. I didn’t even watch the third one.

Just from an easier to read perspective, I’d suggest reading The Hobbit first, then moving onto the trilogy. The Hobbit is lighthearted and fun, and sets the world up for the darker and more complex trilogy. But you don’t have to read The Hobbit first or at all to be able to understand the trilogy.

If you enjoy these four books, there are more world building books of Tolkien’s, like The Silmarillion.

I read Harry Potters many times as a kid, I can’t remember how many times. Enough to memorise entire paragraphs. Since I was a kid while it was being written and released, and even after the release we needed to wait a little longer for the translation, it made sense to reread the previous books.

Other than that I think my most reread book is Pride and Prejudice. There’s something so comforting about this book that when I’m overwhelmed with life, I find myself having gone back to it. I found a similar comfort in Tenant of Wildfell Hall, so I think that book will also be reread many times in the future.

I don’t like non-fiction. I occasionally pick up non-fiction books. I read like 10 pages and give up. The most I’ve read was Sapiens and I read up until about half of it. I just can’t keep my focus on them, I fall asleep or become too hyper to continue. There are books I’m super interested in but I just know I won’t read more than a third of it tops.

However, anything fiction, from romance to sci-fi to classics, I can read. Very rarely do I dnf any fiction book, and that’s when either it’s written too poorly or the translation is bs.

Well I do buy books I have read before but I want tk read again. Something else I’ve been doing lately is that I have a really nice acquaintance/friend who really likes reading books but she’s in an economic situation where she can’t afford to buy a lot of them. She also has two children who also enjoy reading. So sometimes I buy books, read them and then just gift them to her. I enjoy doing this, she’s such a nice person and since there aren’t any good libraries close by where I live, I will be buying these books anyway (I’m fortunate enough to do so, they’re ridiculously expensive).

Recently I really enjoyed Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. I can definitely recommend it.