All 8 Uses

recollect
in
The Book Thief
(Edited)

When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most.
p. 14.5

recollect = remember
Nobody else mentioned it, but Rudy certainly made up for that, so much that when Liesel came to recollect her story, the Jesse Owens incident was as much a part of it as everything she witnessed firsthand.
p. 56.3
THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION
p. 145.8

recollection = memory
When he saw the upside-down face of a girl above him, there was the fretful moment of unfamiliarity and the grasp for recollection—to decode exactly where and when he was currently sitting.
p. 206.4
Recollections like those merely remind me that he was not deserving of the fate that met him a little under two years later.
p. 242.1 *

recollections = memories
Recollection tells me that there were many wishes in the back of that truck.
p. 389.8

recollection = memory
Perhaps it was the thickness, the heaviness of recollection.
p. 443.4
Recollections of Max's family were also there.
p. 444.4

recollections = memories

Definitions:

(1) (recollect)
to remember -- especially experiences from long ago

Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):

Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
(historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective