I reread many books, so I'll focus on one author that I don't see mentioned much on this subreddit: John Irving's *A Prayer for Owen Meany* helped me get back into reading recreationally. I've reread that one multiple times. I've also reread a few of his other novels, *The World According to Garp*, *The Cider House Rules*, and *A Widow for One Year*. I had probably gone a decade without reading recreationally when I picked up *Owen Meany*, and since then I've been reading every day.
I asked my senior year high school English teacher for a book recommendation once, and he said Owen Meany. I read it and cried so hard at the end. Coincidentally, I am now a high school English teacher myself. Hopefully I share a book with a student someday that changes their life as much as that book changed mine.
Part of it looking back now as a teacher was I was honored that he believed that as a high school senior I was ready for that level of reading. It definitely turned out that I was.
I was lucky to pick up *Owen Meany* at an airport shop, as I was about to take a long flight and forgot to bring anything to entertain myself. I had never read Irving before, and was only aware of him by *The World According to Garp* adaptation starring Robin Williams. It was a literal "can not put this book down" situation. I give Irving all the credit in tuning me on to reading novels again.
I do rereads every summer. I've been doing it for at least 15 years. I usually pick an author that I love, though sometimes a genre. I've had 3 John Irving summers. I've done Pat Conroy twice now, who is the only other author I've picked more than once.
John Irving is phenomenal.
You don't see John Irving's name a lot these days, but his early books especially, including the ones you mentioned, are modern classics in my opinion. Great storyteller, characters that move you, and the humor is laugh out loud funny.
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I bought “The Last Chairlift” after recently attending a book launch event where Irving spoke. He’s as fascinating an oral storyteller as he is a written storyteller.
I just finished reading The Cider House Rules for the first time. I don’t know why I never had read it before but I rewatched the movie recently and decided to pick up the book. I really enjoyed it. I will have to read A Prayer for Owen Meany too.
I've only ever read one of his books but I've read it 3 or 4 times. It's "A Son of the Circus." I never hear it mentioned with his other books but I loved it.
Owen Meany was such a great read. It was recommended by a friend of a friend to help get me out of a genre slump 28 years ago. I was stuck on Fantasy and wanted to branch out but just never found anything that grabbed me. I still love fantasy to this day but I don’t only read it. I’ll be getting Owen Meany off the shelf tonight.
Rereading East of Eden always feels like coming home. I grew up around the Salinas valley and parts of that novel hit me like a freight train every time.
That's the only John Steinbeck book I wasn't able to finish or continue reading I guess. I got about halfway through, right before the time jump I assume, and I was just crushed. My belief in humanity was just down on the floor someplace and it took forever to pick it back up. Steinbeck has been good about that though in my experience. He'll show the worst of humanity and then follow it up with something hopeful. But East of Eden was a little too strong for me.
Stranger in a Strangeland (personal reasons I don't know if I could recommend even one reading) - Vonnegut, I just can come back to him from time to time and its accessible
I feel you... I *loved* Heinlein growing up, but as an adult there are things I find cringe and/or just strongly disagree with now.
Still, I have read several books repeatedly, even recently. I agree The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably his best novel. I also actually really like Starship Troopers, though the ridiculous philosophy lectures are very skippable.
You read the first time because there’s a great story. The second time, you start to realize the depth of the themes. The third through thirtieth times, you keep picking up on references and allusions and jokes you missed the previous time(s). And every single time,
the joy and the craftsmanship sign through.
GNU Terry Pratchett. A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.
I'm so glad I read your comment. I'm newish to his books and I feel like I am missing SO many references and themes but maybe it just takes a couple more reads!
> A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken
GNU Terry Pratchett.
I had an okay childhood, but I will specifically never forget that man. Never, ever, for as long as I live, will I forget him.
Agreed. Every Discworld book rewards the rereading. Though I find the US inexpensive versions a chopped up mess. The UK books are worth the extra. Also find myself rereading L. Bardugo’s Grishverse is a comforting world to slip into. However the place of honor on my bookcase between “Dune” and LOTR is for Guy Gabriel Kay’s “The Lions of Al - Rassan” and Gaiman’s “Sandman”. Someday I will ask my husband to bring me the book. It’s at home presently.
I literally finished Watership Down today. I have almost read it so many times over my decades of reading. I finally pulled the trigger, and it was so amazing.
I first read Watership down when I was eight, not long after it came out. It was the first 'proper' book I read, and it took me a year. I read it for the second time straight after, though that only took me a couple of weeks. I have read it many times since.
I tried reading Watership Down like three different times across YEARS and kept coming back to it! I heard how good it was and found the backstory of its publication endearing and hilarious (the publisher wrote a letter to one of his confidants or something saying "I'm considering publishing a book about rabbits and one of them has extra-sensory perception. Am I mad?" I laugh every time I read that). Finally I must have heard Sawyer talk about the book on an episode of Lost and was reminded I should try again and it stuck for whatever reason that time and it's now one of my favorite books. Go figure.
More than I can remember, but I'm old. Some by accident! Here's a list of what's on my shelf that I've read at least twice:
* Tolkien, naturally - specifically the Hobbit and LotR, multiple times Silmarillion, three times.
* Richard Adam's Watership Down
* Random selection of Alan Garner's work
* Earthsea Quartet by UKLeG
* A random selection of Discworld and others by Pratchett
* Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy
* Gormenghast books by Peake
* Dune, Dune Messiah
* A random selection of Iain M Bank's Culture novels
* Neuromancer by Gibson
* Julian May's Saga of the Exiles, Intervention and the rest
* Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon - man. Only other book I read twice in succession. The other one is entirely different!
* A random selection of Larry Niven's works.
* The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
* Halloween Tree, Something Wicked... by Ray Bradbury - these are great for Hallowe'en.
* Possession by AS Byatt - I've clocked up a few reads on this. Started again as soon as I'd finished it the first time.
* Mary Renault - The King Must Die
* Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
* Random selection of John Le Carré books
* Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials
* MK Wren's Phoenix Legacy (hey, I was young, but it is good)
* David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
What do I want to re-read?
* Mars Trilogy - KS Robinson - so good.
* The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch - some books stay with you.
* Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy - ditto.
* More David Mitchell - brilliant stuff.
* More Mary Renault
* More Alan Garner - one of my favourite authors from my part of the world. Sees the mystery, the numinous in the everyday.
* More Pratchett - like balm for the mind. Like a hug from my mum. Like a pint with my dad.
* A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - first time I read it, it put me into a fugue state for hours.
* Dark is Rising Sequence again, but Dark is Rising itself for Christmas. It's such a treat.
I appreciate all of these books, but I'm so glad that you particularly mentioned both Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. I love their books. The King Must Die is one of my favourite books.
Dune comes to mind for me. Brought my childhood copy with me for the times I experienced houselessness and have held on to the same copy now years later.
Have read it 8 times and ready for a re-read. Because I love this book it totally hurt my feelings to have Paul call his father Dad in the latest movie. Blasphemy.
YO DUNE GOT ME THROUGH THE SAME SITUATION
One of my favorite things to do was chill in the library rereading the series
I was just reading the library’s copy’s, but around the time I started my current job they released the 2019 collectors edition. Definitely one of my prized possessions now.
Lol I just thought yesterday "man I wish I could re-read pride and prejudice for the first time". As I recalled the beautiful moment when I realized my own prejudice and how everything is not always so easy to judge from the outside.
Have re-read the book a few times, and it is always a good read, but I am always a tad disappointed that it doesn't really hit home as well at that first time 😊
I'm currently reading the 'border' trilogy by McCarthy, for the second time, just to get in the mood to read blood meridian for the second time!
I love his style, and the second go around with 'all the pretty Horses' and 'the crossing' gave me so much more than the first reading. I loved them both times.
This was the first book I read and said holy crap I need to reread this ASAP... then I looked up a YT video about the ending and was like OMG WTF I MUST REREAD IT. (don't do that btw, read it first then YT the ending it'll blow your mind if you're as simple as me)
Yeah, I've watched so many video essays about it at this point. It's one of my favorite books. I love The Crossing more, but I can totally understand if people say Blood Meridian is his best.
It’s a really great book and I find it amazing that despite Cormac McCarthy being so economical with his prose, to the extent that even Hemingway would call him terse, his work is incredibly rich and dense. An analysis of the last few sentences of Blood Meridian could fill a book.
I'm currently listening to the audiobook and can only handle a little at a time. Although I'm enjoying it, I'm apparently going around with a horrified or disgusted look on my face while listening. In between, I'm reading reference materials about it to help me sort it all out. Even though the subject matter is brutal, the writing is some of the best I've ever experienced.
I found the audiobook helped with the dialog, as he used different voices for different characters, solving one major issue in reading Blood Meridian. The flowing way he read scenes helped paint the work more boldly, too. Particularly the extended scene where the kid is invading Mexico through the Comanche attack, and the final scene with the judge.
Its tone and setting are different, but I enjoyed it greatly. I still like the first book more; but then again, there are few things I love quite like LoLL. The second book has some very interesting and enjoyable new characters.
I rather surprised myself as to how much I loved Locke Lamora - the character as well as the book itself. I think that when you love something that much, you don't want anything to sully it, and sequels are notorious for being disappointing. I do keep thinking that I really need to read the second book (I don't have the third one yet) but I keep putting it off in favour of something else instead...
Excession is great, have you read any other Iain M Banks? They're all fantastic, my favourites are probably 'the player of games' and 'use of weapons', with a notable mention for 'surface detail' as it's not very _culture_, but it still kind of _is_.
Ha, I came here to say Locke Lamora. Just finished my third read of it and I’m half way through Red Seas.
I’ll be skipping the flashbacks in Republic of Thieves though. Too long and I didn’t think they added much to the story.
Chronic re-reader here. I re-read the majority of books I’ve consumed. Probably has had a significant impact on the overall quantity of what I’ve read. I’ve noticed I do it less and less the older I get though.
I’ve read The Picture of Dorian Gray… possibly a dozen times. Frankenstein twice. Hamlet twice as well. Crime & Punishment and the Iliad twice because I wasn’t keen on the translations the first time around. Then there are books I keep delving in and out of whenever the mood suits: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Horace’s Satires, Ovid and Catullus and Martial, Albert Camus’ letters… The next book on my re-read list is Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism, but it won’t be tackled for a Long time. There are too many untouched books on my TBR pile, so I take my re-reads Very seriously.
I’ve read the Silmarillion like 7 times now and The Sun Also Rises like 12. I try to read them at least once a year but life gets in the way and other books seem more interesting at times
East of Eden. Every time I read it I’m at a different point in my life and I see the characters and their thoughts/words/actions differently as I grow… which is fun because it’s a story that grows with the characters as well. I’ve got a copy I’ve been toting around for about 15ish years now that I loan out with a unique color pen/highlighter and tell folks to mark and make notes. It’s great to see what people I care(d) about think of the book. Great fun.
The wheel of time series. I have read it so many times over my life that Rand Matt and Perrin felt like friends. I was a lonely child. I didn't finish a re-read recently because it felt too familiar. Also almost all of the legend of drizzt. I stopped at the orc hero guy cause the flavor changed imo. What was happening to some favorite characters hurt and I couldn't process that with my irl pain at the time.
I read *Neverwhere* in some form every January since 2016. I've got the graphic novel, illustrated novel, Audible, BBC Radio full-cast, and had the regular old paperback for the longest time. It holds up every year.
I've read LD once a year for 30 years now and watch the miniseries at least once a year as well. I couldn't agree more. Slipping into a warm bath is such a great way to describe it.
I don't tend to read a lot of new books these days, hard to find time with all my other hobbies, children, work etc, but I tend to reread the following fairly regularly (especially when I can cheat and listen to an audiobook while doing something else)
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Belgariad and Mallorean series as well as Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress by David and Leigh Eddings
The Anita Blake series by Laurel K. Hamilton up till Blue Moon, after that it basically becomes bad porn
The Amelia Peabody Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Mertz
The Roger Rabbit Mysteries by Gary K. Wolf
The R. Daneel Olivaw Mysteries by Isaac Asimov (as well as quite a few of his other books)
Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere and Congo by Michael Crichton
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green (read and reread a lot of the Drood series too, but I need to catch up on the last few books at some point)
The Wizard of 4th Street series by Simon Hawke
Relic and Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (currently trying to get into the rest of the series, love those first 2, but last time I tried I just couldn't get into Cabinet of Curiosities)
Make Way for Dragons Trilogy by Thorarinn Gunnerson
Chronicles Trilogy by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester
The Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler up until the twins show up
Definately the Harry Potter series, read each of the books when they were originally released, then again in my 20s and just finished all the books for a third time towards the end of 2022 in my 30s. No doubt I shall read them again in my 40s, 50s and 60s and be buried with a copy too...
Since I read them a few times growing up, now I am just locked into re-reading them for language learning, since I can pick them up with less fluency and still get a lot out of them in other languages.
I've read Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude more times than I can remember since the first time, 25 years ago. A close second is Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Twain's Tom Sawyer. It doesn't matter if it's the 2nd or the 22nd time. These books are always satisfying to read, and impossible to put down.
Any Discworld books, any Redwall books, Dresden Files, most books really. It’s nice to have something reliable to return to that I know well and know I will enjoy.
I’ve read each of these at least twice:
Dracula
The Maltese Falcone
The Caine Mutiny
The Three Musketeers
Starship Troopers
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Sahara
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fight Club
American Psycho
Soon I Will Be Invincible
—
I’ve read each of these so many times you I no longer know the number.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Aunt Phillis’s Cabin
Moby Dick
House of the Seven Gables
Pillars of the Earth, A Christmas Carol, LotR, do androids dream of electric sheep.
I think rothfuss is so misogynistic that I can’t take it. He writes women as objects and it’s so gross
I've reread Moby Dick a few times and appreciated the meditative quality of it more each time
my partner just completed her annual re-read of Infinite Jest, think she's at 6 or 7 times now
Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchett, may he rest in peace, and Neil Gaiman, is my all time favorite book and I got Amazon Prime JUST to watch the show.
I've read it 6-7 times by now.
I'll give you series and books I've read multiple times
Dune
EarthSea (nightmares as a child)
Stephen King (more nightmares wtf were my parents thinking!)
LoTR and associated books
1984 and Animal Farm (I actually own a 1st edition of 1984. Also a paperback version)
That was as a kid.
As an adult with kindle unlimited:
Dungeon Crawler Carl (sounds dumb, but give it a shot, it's amazing.)
Mongoliad (the whole series is great)
Anything by Neal Stephenson
Anything by Neil Gaiman but Neverwhere and American Gods are the best.
RIP Terry Pratchett. Any book but especially Discworld.
The Robot & Foundation novels by Asimov.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Robinson.
The Bounty Lands by Ellis.
Watchmen by Moore & Gibbons.
The Game of X by Sheckley.
I have two, actually, that I keep coming back to.
MCA Hogarth's Pelted/Paradox world--Mindhealer series is cozy sci-fi asexual romance. The other books in that universe are still very good, but need trigger warnings all over them. But Mindtouch and the rest of the Mindhealer series is... a comfortable fireplace and my favorite cocoa on a day that's been raw to me.
Murderbot, Martha Wells. I made the "mistake" of gifting myself the ebooks after rereading them in chunks from the library, and the ability to start over at the beginning after finishing the last one.. since buying them at the tail end of March, I've reread all of the novellas/novels three times.
Dune. It shaped my teenage years and how I molded myself.
The Vorkosigan Series (specifically Komarr and A Civil Campaign). They took the ideas I got from Dune and reapplied them in new ways.
Redwall. It’s just such a fun series, the descriptions of food are incredible even though if I take a step back and actually pay attention to what is being described I’d never actually eat it.
Just have to say that Rudy Dee’s performance reading Their Eyes… was the greatest audiobook experience I’ve ever had.
Edit: It’s written in heavy dialect, and as a non-american, listening *while reading along* was extremely helpful, really recommend this approach to anyone finding the writing hard to follow.
Sometime after 2010 I finally internalized the fact that my time on earth was limited. Even so, I decided later to make 2020 a year of re-reading.
Orfeo, Richard Powers
* White Noise, Don Delillo
* The Names, Don Delillo
* The Sellout, Paul Beatty
* The Book of Evidence, John Banville
* Compass, Mathias Enard
* Beartown, Fredrik Backman
* Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
* The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
* Extraordinary Adventures, Daniel Wallace
* Tiger Rag, Nicholas Christopher
* Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster
* Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
* Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
* The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
*Dune Trilogy, Frank Herbert
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Chronicles of ancient darkness by Michelle Paver
Vampire empire by clay Griffith
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
The reckoners by Brandon Sanderson
"14" and "the fold" by peter clines
I have read Dahlgren by Samuel R. Delaney like 9 times. The Well of Souls series by Jack Chalker twice. But that's it. Everything else is once and done.
The Imperial Radch trilogy. I love it. I love most that the protagonist learns how she has value as more than a tool for others, but a a sentient being.
Every Game of Thrones book or novella, most Hemingway novels and short stories, Slaughterhouse Five, The hobbit and the LOTR books, A Wizard of Earthsea. Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, The Dark Tower Books, To Kill A Mockingbird, many Steinbeck, Twain and Dickens Books, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Butning Chrome, Devil in the White City, The Alchemist, Dune… I just realized the list is too long for a post.. 😂
I've revisted The Forgotten Realms series by R.A. Salvatore multiple times. Some of the books are better than others but overall an exciting adventure.
I have too many. All my comfort books (books I read when I want to read but don’t want to think too hard):
- Heinlein
- Asimov
- Jordan’s Wheel of Time
- LoTR
- Dune
- anything by Michael Crichton
- Inheritance Series
- The Hero and the Crown
I’m sure there are others but these are the ones that come to mind.
I only regularly reread the Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings series. Harry Potter is almost yearly for the past twenty years. I read the Twilight series twice, and the first two books of the Dark Tower series twice. I've really loved a lot of books, but for the most part I don't ever feel like I want to read them again.
I only buy books (and specific editions) I will re-read, but I haven't re-read The Name of the Wind yet or decided to purchase it. Remember Rothfuss wrote in the preface that his father told him to take his time doing things well that were worth doing. I'm just saying that's setting expectations...
I'm ok with any and all Rothfuss takes, personally I just find it sad.
That said, ymmv but to me a re-read of the books is rewarding, at the very least in the "you may have heard of me" portion at the beginning of book 1.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
The Cartel by Don Winslow
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
The series starting with Magician, by Raymond E. Feist, several times. That's how I got into the fantasy genre. Tolkien, too. Michael Ende's Momo, and The Neverending Story. Frank Herbert's Dune. Lots of others at least twice.
A land remembered. Good read about post civil war life in Florida. Engaging story with killer character development.
I was made to read it as a punishment as a youngster and have since reread it multiple times.
I'm "lucky" enough to have a TBI, and I have found that if I don't touch a book for 7 years, that I can re-read it as if it were new all over again without there being things that seem familiar.
I now have a system of colour coded spot stickers on the spine of books to tell me how long ago I last read them.
There are diminishing returns though. Books I read before my injury, or books I re-read a lot need a longer cooling off period. My Discworld novels now need at least 12 years ;)
I read the complete Dresden Files 3 times, and once in audiobook.
I read Harry Potter so many times I can't even count it.
I read the Lord of the Rings at least three times, first 24 years ago when I was 8, even before Harry Potter.
I read the Mistborn series two times.
I'm absolutely sure I will read these books again and again.
I re-read the Eragon series when I learned the last book arrived, and I can imagine I'll pick it up again.
I read the Witcher series twice, being a huge fan of the games and I couldn't find why people love the books either time. This is one I'll probably never re-read.
Stormlight Archive, Hitchhikers Guide, Mort and Reaper man are on the top of my re-read list. I'm also considering reading A Song of Ice and Fire again, but my motivation is on the same level as Martin's for writing them.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind (I discovered these books right around the time all of my friends were reading Harry Potter), and I do an annual re-read of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Howls Moving Castle!
Loved reading it in highschool and will re-read it every few years because the story is so fun and unique, but also the nostalgia ❤️
Howl’s Moving Castle - I read it because I saw the Studio Ghibli movie and loved it!
I love the book just as much or even more - they both have the magical, cozy feeling down.
It’s so good, in my mind, because it doesn’t really explain itself, from what I remember. It just allows the person reading/watching to read along and come to their own understanding, which can be hard to find sometimes.
The entire Discworld series, many times over (GNU Sir Terry)
The Outsiders, by S E Hinton
The Harry Potter series
The Lord of the Rings
Most of Matthew Reilly's books
So many oh my gosh. I love re-reading books and whenever I feel like I didn't fully absorb one, I always want to re-read it. Often the second time through I feel like my enjoyment for it increases. And the third time, even more, as I pick up more details and gain a better understanding of the story and characters!
Some books that I've re-read A LOT are Ghostwritten and Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, After Dark and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Little Prince, Slaughterhouse 5 (though havent reread those two in a bit), certain Patrick Ness books and Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Giver series (again, need to reread these as these I reread last a while back). More recent rereads of mine include Vita Nostra and Station Eleven and Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Bell Jar, Sweet Bean Paste, Number9dream.... ok that's just a very small part of them haha. Recently I find myself wanting to reread very long books: my brain is constantly looking for distractions from reality...
Only mostly devastated by Sophie Gonzales. It's a book about two gay guys but ones closeted so they have to sneak around. Genuinely a fantastic book, I 100% recommend it.
I reread many books, so I'll focus on one author that I don't see mentioned much on this subreddit: John Irving's *A Prayer for Owen Meany* helped me get back into reading recreationally. I've reread that one multiple times. I've also reread a few of his other novels, *The World According to Garp*, *The Cider House Rules*, and *A Widow for One Year*. I had probably gone a decade without reading recreationally when I picked up *Owen Meany*, and since then I've been reading every day.
I asked my senior year high school English teacher for a book recommendation once, and he said Owen Meany. I read it and cried so hard at the end. Coincidentally, I am now a high school English teacher myself. Hopefully I share a book with a student someday that changes their life as much as that book changed mine. Part of it looking back now as a teacher was I was honored that he believed that as a high school senior I was ready for that level of reading. It definitely turned out that I was.
I was lucky to pick up *Owen Meany* at an airport shop, as I was about to take a long flight and forgot to bring anything to entertain myself. I had never read Irving before, and was only aware of him by *The World According to Garp* adaptation starring Robin Williams. It was a literal "can not put this book down" situation. I give Irving all the credit in tuning me on to reading novels again.
I love this! Such kismet!
I hope you read Garp too!
I used to read Owen Meany every year on winter break (former English teacher). Such a great book.
I do rereads every summer. I've been doing it for at least 15 years. I usually pick an author that I love, though sometimes a genre. I've had 3 John Irving summers. I've done Pat Conroy twice now, who is the only other author I've picked more than once. John Irving is phenomenal.
I just had a John Irving winter -- I re-read both Owen Meany and Cider House Rules. I love both of those books so much.
Owen Meany is a great one
The Hotel New Hampshire is a personal favorite of mine - it's harder to leave that world every time I finish his book
You don't see John Irving's name a lot these days, but his early books especially, including the ones you mentioned, are modern classics in my opinion. Great storyteller, characters that move you, and the humor is laugh out loud funny.
Always loved his off beat stories...unique characters & situations. Terrific writer.
Great suggestion!i forgot until now how awesome his stories are!
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I bought “The Last Chairlift” after recently attending a book launch event where Irving spoke. He’s as fascinating an oral storyteller as he is a written storyteller.
Garp & Widow for One Year are two of my faves of all time. So sad I can’t remember who I leant Garp to as I would love to read it again
Love A Prayer For Owen Meany, I have reread it probably 15 times.
The World According to Garp blew me away, I will have to give Meany a read!
YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO READ A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY! You'll understand this after you do.
I just finished reading The Cider House Rules for the first time. I don’t know why I never had read it before but I rewatched the movie recently and decided to pick up the book. I really enjoyed it. I will have to read A Prayer for Owen Meany too.
I've only ever read one of his books but I've read it 3 or 4 times. It's "A Son of the Circus." I never hear it mentioned with his other books but I loved it.
Me too. Great book
A Prayer For Owen Meany will always be one of my favorite books. My current band is called "Pinch Walker Meany.
Owen Meany was such a great read. It was recommended by a friend of a friend to help get me out of a genre slump 28 years ago. I was stuck on Fantasy and wanted to branch out but just never found anything that grabbed me. I still love fantasy to this day but I don’t only read it. I’ll be getting Owen Meany off the shelf tonight.
-East of Eden -Breakfast of Champions -Lord of the Rings trilogy -Suttree -Blood Meridian
Rereading East of Eden always feels like coming home. I grew up around the Salinas valley and parts of that novel hit me like a freight train every time.
After reading it the second time I took a trip there! Even went to Steinbeck’s house. Would take that trip again in a minute.
That's the only John Steinbeck book I wasn't able to finish or continue reading I guess. I got about halfway through, right before the time jump I assume, and I was just crushed. My belief in humanity was just down on the floor someplace and it took forever to pick it back up. Steinbeck has been good about that though in my experience. He'll show the worst of humanity and then follow it up with something hopeful. But East of Eden was a little too strong for me.
All I'd add to this list for myself would be lonesome dove
Suttree and Blood Meridian are rereads for sure, I love them. Have you read Child of God? It's excellent as well.
Stranger in a Strangeland (personal reasons I don't know if I could recommend even one reading) - Vonnegut, I just can come back to him from time to time and its accessible
Stranger is a good Heinlein read, my favorite is the Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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I feel you... I *loved* Heinlein growing up, but as an adult there are things I find cringe and/or just strongly disagree with now. Still, I have read several books repeatedly, even recently. I agree The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is probably his best novel. I also actually really like Starship Troopers, though the ridiculous philosophy lectures are very skippable.
TANSTAAFL! Great book; been a long time since I've read that one.
Came here to say SIASL too!
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've read it more times than I can remember, I know some parts of it off by heart but that's part of the enjoyment!
You're a hoopy frood.
Once every few years for me and it stays fresh. The first 3 books are very consumable.
I re-read that one occasionally, but the Gently books every winter.
Terry pratchett.
You read the first time because there’s a great story. The second time, you start to realize the depth of the themes. The third through thirtieth times, you keep picking up on references and allusions and jokes you missed the previous time(s). And every single time, the joy and the craftsmanship sign through. GNU Terry Pratchett. A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.
I'm so glad I read your comment. I'm newish to his books and I feel like I am missing SO many references and themes but maybe it just takes a couple more reads!
The lspace pages for each book points out a ton of them, a lot of which I would have never picked up on my own https://www.lspace.org/main.html
> A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken GNU Terry Pratchett. I had an okay childhood, but I will specifically never forget that man. Never, ever, for as long as I live, will I forget him.
What are the best Pratchett books? I've only read Guards! Guards!
I have lost count of how many times I've read Nightwatch
Agreed. Every Discworld book rewards the rereading. Though I find the US inexpensive versions a chopped up mess. The UK books are worth the extra. Also find myself rereading L. Bardugo’s Grishverse is a comforting world to slip into. However the place of honor on my bookcase between “Dune” and LOTR is for Guy Gabriel Kay’s “The Lions of Al - Rassan” and Gaiman’s “Sandman”. Someday I will ask my husband to bring me the book. It’s at home presently.
Watership Down, the Hobbit, the Death of Ivan Ilyich
I literally finished Watership Down today. I have almost read it so many times over my decades of reading. I finally pulled the trigger, and it was so amazing.
I first read Watership down when I was eight, not long after it came out. It was the first 'proper' book I read, and it took me a year. I read it for the second time straight after, though that only took me a couple of weeks. I have read it many times since.
I tried reading Watership Down like three different times across YEARS and kept coming back to it! I heard how good it was and found the backstory of its publication endearing and hilarious (the publisher wrote a letter to one of his confidants or something saying "I'm considering publishing a book about rabbits and one of them has extra-sensory perception. Am I mad?" I laugh every time I read that). Finally I must have heard Sawyer talk about the book on an episode of Lost and was reminded I should try again and it stuck for whatever reason that time and it's now one of my favorite books. Go figure.
More than I can remember, but I'm old. Some by accident! Here's a list of what's on my shelf that I've read at least twice: * Tolkien, naturally - specifically the Hobbit and LotR, multiple times Silmarillion, three times. * Richard Adam's Watership Down * Random selection of Alan Garner's work * Earthsea Quartet by UKLeG * A random selection of Discworld and others by Pratchett * Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy * Gormenghast books by Peake * Dune, Dune Messiah * A random selection of Iain M Bank's Culture novels * Neuromancer by Gibson * Julian May's Saga of the Exiles, Intervention and the rest * Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon - man. Only other book I read twice in succession. The other one is entirely different! * A random selection of Larry Niven's works. * The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper * Halloween Tree, Something Wicked... by Ray Bradbury - these are great for Hallowe'en. * Possession by AS Byatt - I've clocked up a few reads on this. Started again as soon as I'd finished it the first time. * Mary Renault - The King Must Die * Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco * Random selection of John Le Carré books * Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials * MK Wren's Phoenix Legacy (hey, I was young, but it is good) * David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas What do I want to re-read? * Mars Trilogy - KS Robinson - so good. * The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch - some books stay with you. * Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy - ditto. * More David Mitchell - brilliant stuff. * More Mary Renault * More Alan Garner - one of my favourite authors from my part of the world. Sees the mystery, the numinous in the everyday. * More Pratchett - like balm for the mind. Like a hug from my mum. Like a pint with my dad. * A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - first time I read it, it put me into a fugue state for hours. * Dark is Rising Sequence again, but Dark is Rising itself for Christmas. It's such a treat.
I came here looking for "His Dark Materials"; those are the books I've reread the most times!
I appreciate all of these books, but I'm so glad that you particularly mentioned both Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. I love their books. The King Must Die is one of my favourite books.
Dune comes to mind for me. Brought my childhood copy with me for the times I experienced houselessness and have held on to the same copy now years later.
Have read it 8 times and ready for a re-read. Because I love this book it totally hurt my feelings to have Paul call his father Dad in the latest movie. Blasphemy.
1000% yes, I was so so so disappointed they did that
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That part irked me too ! Also, the bag pipes guy. Lol.
I just bought Dune last week. Once I finish my current book and next book on the list, I will read Dune after that. Cannot wait.
We' re just internet strangers but I'm really excited for you in reading Dune for the first time !
YO DUNE GOT ME THROUGH THE SAME SITUATION One of my favorite things to do was chill in the library rereading the series I was just reading the library’s copy’s, but around the time I started my current job they released the 2019 collectors edition. Definitely one of my prized possessions now.
Dune + the 5 additional F. Herbert books. Really a great reread set with huge variation and subtextual interest
Lord of the Rings, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie
I've read Persuasion several times and love it so much, but it's one of those I wish I could read for the first time again, if that makes any sense
Lol I just thought yesterday "man I wish I could re-read pride and prejudice for the first time". As I recalled the beautiful moment when I realized my own prejudice and how everything is not always so easy to judge from the outside. Have re-read the book a few times, and it is always a good read, but I am always a tad disappointed that it doesn't really hit home as well at that first time 😊
Have you tried Pride Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith for a good time?
After I read Jane Austen at home by Lucy Worsley, it opened the books up even more. The details about why certain things happened....amazing
Seems like I read LOTR once every ten years or so.
Every year for me
I read Blood Meridian twice in a row. The first reading went mostly over my head, but I loved it regardless. I got a lot more out of it on the reread.
I'm currently reading the 'border' trilogy by McCarthy, for the second time, just to get in the mood to read blood meridian for the second time! I love his style, and the second go around with 'all the pretty Horses' and 'the crossing' gave me so much more than the first reading. I loved them both times.
The trilogy is probably my favorite piece of literature ever. The Crossing is my favorite book.
Same - I’m torn on which is my favorite, but the trilogy as a whole has some of the best writing I’ve ever encountered.
All the Pretty Horses is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. I need to read that again.
He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.
This was the first book I read and said holy crap I need to reread this ASAP... then I looked up a YT video about the ending and was like OMG WTF I MUST REREAD IT. (don't do that btw, read it first then YT the ending it'll blow your mind if you're as simple as me)
Yeah, I've watched so many video essays about it at this point. It's one of my favorite books. I love The Crossing more, but I can totally understand if people say Blood Meridian is his best.
It’s a really great book and I find it amazing that despite Cormac McCarthy being so economical with his prose, to the extent that even Hemingway would call him terse, his work is incredibly rich and dense. An analysis of the last few sentences of Blood Meridian could fill a book.
I've been working on Blood Meridian for about four months now. I get so lost sometimes! I'm about halfway through.
I'm currently listening to the audiobook and can only handle a little at a time. Although I'm enjoying it, I'm apparently going around with a horrified or disgusted look on my face while listening. In between, I'm reading reference materials about it to help me sort it all out. Even though the subject matter is brutal, the writing is some of the best I've ever experienced.
I found the audiobook helped with the dialog, as he used different voices for different characters, solving one major issue in reading Blood Meridian. The flowing way he read scenes helped paint the work more boldly, too. Particularly the extended scene where the kid is invading Mexico through the Comanche attack, and the final scene with the judge.
The Martian, Excession and Lies of Locke Lamora
Lies of locke lamora is so good !
I'm almost finished with it and I love it! I bought the other two but I've heard they aren't as good...
I loved Lies of Locke Lamora! I really want to read the second book but I'm a bit reluctant to in case it doesn't live up to the first.
Nah, all three are absolute bangers.
Its tone and setting are different, but I enjoyed it greatly. I still like the first book more; but then again, there are few things I love quite like LoLL. The second book has some very interesting and enjoyable new characters.
I rather surprised myself as to how much I loved Locke Lamora - the character as well as the book itself. I think that when you love something that much, you don't want anything to sully it, and sequels are notorious for being disappointing. I do keep thinking that I really need to read the second book (I don't have the third one yet) but I keep putting it off in favour of something else instead...
Excession is great, have you read any other Iain M Banks? They're all fantastic, my favourites are probably 'the player of games' and 'use of weapons', with a notable mention for 'surface detail' as it's not very _culture_, but it still kind of _is_.
I’ve read all the Culture books. Keep meaning to read the rest, but it was really the Culture as much as the stories themselves that I liked
'Against a dark background' and 'the algebraist' are also really good standalone books
Ha, I came here to say Locke Lamora. Just finished my third read of it and I’m half way through Red Seas. I’ll be skipping the flashbacks in Republic of Thieves though. Too long and I didn’t think they added much to the story.
I’ve seen the movie but really enjoyed project Hail Mary. Is the book a good read still?
Chronic re-reader here. I re-read the majority of books I’ve consumed. Probably has had a significant impact on the overall quantity of what I’ve read. I’ve noticed I do it less and less the older I get though.
Same. If I enjoyed a book, I almost always reread it a year or two later. I only buy books that I plan to reread often (seems wasteful otherwise).
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The trilogy in 5 parts
The 4th book is my favorite in that trilogy.
is that the one with the rain-god scene ? that was my fave
I read "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand about once a year. French Alexandrin are exquisite.
I’ve read The Picture of Dorian Gray… possibly a dozen times. Frankenstein twice. Hamlet twice as well. Crime & Punishment and the Iliad twice because I wasn’t keen on the translations the first time around. Then there are books I keep delving in and out of whenever the mood suits: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Horace’s Satires, Ovid and Catullus and Martial, Albert Camus’ letters… The next book on my re-read list is Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism, but it won’t be tackled for a Long time. There are too many untouched books on my TBR pile, so I take my re-reads Very seriously.
The Hobbit whenever I need a bit of comfort.
I have reread Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons 4 times.
Feast is so underrated.
I’ve read the Silmarillion like 7 times now and The Sun Also Rises like 12. I try to read them at least once a year but life gets in the way and other books seem more interesting at times
I've started The Silmarillion 7 times :P (I did finally complete it).
Same
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. I can read that book once a year and fall in love it over and over
It’s the only book that I’ve read that made me laugh out loud and fall in love with the Sci fi genre.
A Confederacy of Dunces. It’ my favorite book and I’ve read it 3 times
East of Eden. Every time I read it I’m at a different point in my life and I see the characters and their thoughts/words/actions differently as I grow… which is fun because it’s a story that grows with the characters as well. I’ve got a copy I’ve been toting around for about 15ish years now that I loan out with a unique color pen/highlighter and tell folks to mark and make notes. It’s great to see what people I care(d) about think of the book. Great fun.
The wheel of time series. I have read it so many times over my life that Rand Matt and Perrin felt like friends. I was a lonely child. I didn't finish a re-read recently because it felt too familiar. Also almost all of the legend of drizzt. I stopped at the orc hero guy cause the flavor changed imo. What was happening to some favorite characters hurt and I couldn't process that with my irl pain at the time.
I read *Neverwhere* in some form every January since 2016. I've got the graphic novel, illustrated novel, Audible, BBC Radio full-cast, and had the regular old paperback for the longest time. It holds up every year.
Slaughterhouse five
Definitely. And a few other Vonnegut novels. Breakfast of Champions audio is excellent. Read by John Malkovich.
I think I could reread most Vonnegut with no issue but especially slaughterhouse and cats cradle
Yes, I could too. Breakfast of Champions wasn't my favorite but Malkovich made it really enjoyable. It became a favorite.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I'm reading it now for about the tenth time.
Lonesome Dove, it’s like slipping into a warm bath
I've read LD once a year for 30 years now and watch the miniseries at least once a year as well. I couldn't agree more. Slipping into a warm bath is such a great way to describe it.
Sandman series by Neil Gaiman The Bluest Eye The Great Gatsby Dracula Frankenstein
I don't tend to read a lot of new books these days, hard to find time with all my other hobbies, children, work etc, but I tend to reread the following fairly regularly (especially when I can cheat and listen to an audiobook while doing something else) Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling The Belgariad and Mallorean series as well as Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress by David and Leigh Eddings The Anita Blake series by Laurel K. Hamilton up till Blue Moon, after that it basically becomes bad porn The Amelia Peabody Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Mertz The Roger Rabbit Mysteries by Gary K. Wolf The R. Daneel Olivaw Mysteries by Isaac Asimov (as well as quite a few of his other books) Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere and Congo by Michael Crichton Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle The Nightside series by Simon R. Green (read and reread a lot of the Drood series too, but I need to catch up on the last few books at some point) The Wizard of 4th Street series by Simon Hawke Relic and Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (currently trying to get into the rest of the series, love those first 2, but last time I tried I just couldn't get into Cabinet of Curiosities) Make Way for Dragons Trilogy by Thorarinn Gunnerson Chronicles Trilogy by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester The Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler up until the twins show up
Definately the Harry Potter series, read each of the books when they were originally released, then again in my 20s and just finished all the books for a third time towards the end of 2022 in my 30s. No doubt I shall read them again in my 40s, 50s and 60s and be buried with a copy too...
Since I read them a few times growing up, now I am just locked into re-reading them for language learning, since I can pick them up with less fluency and still get a lot out of them in other languages.
Same here! It's so much less frustrating when you know what's going on in the plot, even if you miss a bigger chunk of the sentence.
Me too. Reading them is like slipping on a warm sweater by the fire. Excellent escapism.
I've read Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude more times than I can remember since the first time, 25 years ago. A close second is Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Twain's Tom Sawyer. It doesn't matter if it's the 2nd or the 22nd time. These books are always satisfying to read, and impossible to put down.
Need to reread One Hundred Years of Solitude again. Magical realism is my favorite genre. Will look into Kafka.
Poisonwood Bible and Time Traveler's Wife.
I second Poisonwood!
Pride and Prejudice, Time and Again, Wuthering Heights, The Dooms Day Book Edited to add commas
Any Discworld books, any Redwall books, Dresden Files, most books really. It’s nice to have something reliable to return to that I know well and know I will enjoy.
All of Anthony Bourdains work.
I’ve read each of these at least twice: Dracula The Maltese Falcone The Caine Mutiny The Three Musketeers Starship Troopers Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Sahara Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Fight Club American Psycho Soon I Will Be Invincible — I’ve read each of these so many times you I no longer know the number. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Aunt Phillis’s Cabin Moby Dick House of the Seven Gables
Pillars of the Earth, A Christmas Carol, LotR, do androids dream of electric sheep. I think rothfuss is so misogynistic that I can’t take it. He writes women as objects and it’s so gross
The Prague Cementery, the Karamazov brothers
The Brothers Karamazov is excellent. Anything Dostoevsky really. I’ve read Crime and Punishment a handful of times and The Idiot twice.
I reread The Trial by Kafka three times in a row
I've reread Moby Dick a few times and appreciated the meditative quality of it more each time my partner just completed her annual re-read of Infinite Jest, think she's at 6 or 7 times now
Good Omens and Coraline by Neil Gaiman I will keep rereading and repurchasing both these books until I die
Good Omens by Sir Terry Pratchett, may he rest in peace, and Neil Gaiman, is my all time favorite book and I got Amazon Prime JUST to watch the show. I've read it 6-7 times by now.
I'll give you series and books I've read multiple times Dune EarthSea (nightmares as a child) Stephen King (more nightmares wtf were my parents thinking!) LoTR and associated books 1984 and Animal Farm (I actually own a 1st edition of 1984. Also a paperback version) That was as a kid. As an adult with kindle unlimited: Dungeon Crawler Carl (sounds dumb, but give it a shot, it's amazing.) Mongoliad (the whole series is great) Anything by Neal Stephenson Anything by Neil Gaiman but Neverwhere and American Gods are the best. RIP Terry Pratchett. Any book but especially Discworld.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
The Robot & Foundation novels by Asimov. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Robinson. The Bounty Lands by Ellis. Watchmen by Moore & Gibbons. The Game of X by Sheckley.
I have two, actually, that I keep coming back to. MCA Hogarth's Pelted/Paradox world--Mindhealer series is cozy sci-fi asexual romance. The other books in that universe are still very good, but need trigger warnings all over them. But Mindtouch and the rest of the Mindhealer series is... a comfortable fireplace and my favorite cocoa on a day that's been raw to me. Murderbot, Martha Wells. I made the "mistake" of gifting myself the ebooks after rereading them in chunks from the library, and the ability to start over at the beginning after finishing the last one.. since buying them at the tail end of March, I've reread all of the novellas/novels three times.
Dune. It shaped my teenage years and how I molded myself. The Vorkosigan Series (specifically Komarr and A Civil Campaign). They took the ideas I got from Dune and reapplied them in new ways. Redwall. It’s just such a fun series, the descriptions of food are incredible even though if I take a step back and actually pay attention to what is being described I’d never actually eat it.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Forever by Judy Blume
Just have to say that Rudy Dee’s performance reading Their Eyes… was the greatest audiobook experience I’ve ever had. Edit: It’s written in heavy dialect, and as a non-american, listening *while reading along* was extremely helpful, really recommend this approach to anyone finding the writing hard to follow.
Sometime after 2010 I finally internalized the fact that my time on earth was limited. Even so, I decided later to make 2020 a year of re-reading. Orfeo, Richard Powers * White Noise, Don Delillo * The Names, Don Delillo * The Sellout, Paul Beatty * The Book of Evidence, John Banville * Compass, Mathias Enard * Beartown, Fredrik Backman * Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury * The Little Friend, Donna Tartt * Extraordinary Adventures, Daniel Wallace * Tiger Rag, Nicholas Christopher * Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster * Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn * Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey * The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy *Dune Trilogy, Frank Herbert
Dune. My parents copy as a child, my copy in college, my wife's families' copy when we got together, and my Kindle copy
LOTR, The Martian, lots of Lovecraft
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Chronicles of ancient darkness by Michelle Paver Vampire empire by clay Griffith The Rook by Daniel O'Malley The reckoners by Brandon Sanderson "14" and "the fold" by peter clines
Mostly the works by Tolkien, not much else.
Dune and The Hobbit
I have read Dahlgren by Samuel R. Delaney like 9 times. The Well of Souls series by Jack Chalker twice. But that's it. Everything else is once and done.
The Imperial Radch trilogy. I love it. I love most that the protagonist learns how she has value as more than a tool for others, but a a sentient being.
Every Game of Thrones book or novella, most Hemingway novels and short stories, Slaughterhouse Five, The hobbit and the LOTR books, A Wizard of Earthsea. Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, The Dark Tower Books, To Kill A Mockingbird, many Steinbeck, Twain and Dickens Books, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Butning Chrome, Devil in the White City, The Alchemist, Dune… I just realized the list is too long for a post.. 😂
I've revisted The Forgotten Realms series by R.A. Salvatore multiple times. Some of the books are better than others but overall an exciting adventure.
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Jurassic Park. Because I can't get enough and it's better than the movie. And the movie is amazing.
The sound & the fury Macbeth Harry Potter Lolita The stranger
I have too many. All my comfort books (books I read when I want to read but don’t want to think too hard): - Heinlein - Asimov - Jordan’s Wheel of Time - LoTR - Dune - anything by Michael Crichton - Inheritance Series - The Hero and the Crown I’m sure there are others but these are the ones that come to mind.
I only regularly reread the Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings series. Harry Potter is almost yearly for the past twenty years. I read the Twilight series twice, and the first two books of the Dark Tower series twice. I've really loved a lot of books, but for the most part I don't ever feel like I want to read them again.
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I only buy books (and specific editions) I will re-read, but I haven't re-read The Name of the Wind yet or decided to purchase it. Remember Rothfuss wrote in the preface that his father told him to take his time doing things well that were worth doing. I'm just saying that's setting expectations...
I'm ok with any and all Rothfuss takes, personally I just find it sad. That said, ymmv but to me a re-read of the books is rewarding, at the very least in the "you may have heard of me" portion at the beginning of book 1.
Name of the Wind - Rothfuss Project Hail Mary and the Martian - Andy Weir Replay - Ken Grimwood
Georges Pérec, Life a user's manual
This book has been sitting on my shelf for 30 years - i absolutely need to get reading it!
Magician by Raymond E Feist. The whole Assassin series by Robin Hobb.
Micro by Michael Crichton
I have been through The Andromeda Strain a few times, also heard Congo is a good read
*The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings*.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo The Dog Stars by Peter Heller The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow The Cartel by Don Winslow The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
The series starting with Magician, by Raymond E. Feist, several times. That's how I got into the fantasy genre. Tolkien, too. Michael Ende's Momo, and The Neverending Story. Frank Herbert's Dune. Lots of others at least twice.
A land remembered. Good read about post civil war life in Florida. Engaging story with killer character development. I was made to read it as a punishment as a youngster and have since reread it multiple times.
I'm "lucky" enough to have a TBI, and I have found that if I don't touch a book for 7 years, that I can re-read it as if it were new all over again without there being things that seem familiar. I now have a system of colour coded spot stickers on the spine of books to tell me how long ago I last read them. There are diminishing returns though. Books I read before my injury, or books I re-read a lot need a longer cooling off period. My Discworld novels now need at least 12 years ;)
Siddhartha. I try to read it every year
Swan song by Robert mccammon
Asimov’s foundation Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files Anything by John Scalzi
I read the complete Dresden Files 3 times, and once in audiobook. I read Harry Potter so many times I can't even count it. I read the Lord of the Rings at least three times, first 24 years ago when I was 8, even before Harry Potter. I read the Mistborn series two times. I'm absolutely sure I will read these books again and again. I re-read the Eragon series when I learned the last book arrived, and I can imagine I'll pick it up again. I read the Witcher series twice, being a huge fan of the games and I couldn't find why people love the books either time. This is one I'll probably never re-read. Stormlight Archive, Hitchhikers Guide, Mort and Reaper man are on the top of my re-read list. I'm also considering reading A Song of Ice and Fire again, but my motivation is on the same level as Martin's for writing them.
Several books come to mind. The Stand, The Dune series, The Honor Harrington series, The Childe Cycle series, Death Star, and Shogun.
The Stand. Although not since covid hit, that might freak me out a bit now.
Tom Clancy novels. Not the ghostwriter stuff…
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind (I discovered these books right around the time all of my friends were reading Harry Potter), and I do an annual re-read of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Howls Moving Castle! Loved reading it in highschool and will re-read it every few years because the story is so fun and unique, but also the nostalgia ❤️
The Hunger Games, Anna Karenina, The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, The Arabian Nights
The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy! Always fun.
All creatures great and small. Really the whole series. It's something I can read over and over. It's just so sweet and comforting to me.
Hitchhiker's Guide Good Omens Foundation
Shogun.
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I read it once, when I was in high school, and I recently re-read it, 20+ years later.
Howl’s Moving Castle - I read it because I saw the Studio Ghibli movie and loved it! I love the book just as much or even more - they both have the magical, cozy feeling down. It’s so good, in my mind, because it doesn’t really explain itself, from what I remember. It just allows the person reading/watching to read along and come to their own understanding, which can be hard to find sometimes.
The entire Discworld series, many times over (GNU Sir Terry) The Outsiders, by S E Hinton The Harry Potter series The Lord of the Rings Most of Matthew Reilly's books
So many oh my gosh. I love re-reading books and whenever I feel like I didn't fully absorb one, I always want to re-read it. Often the second time through I feel like my enjoyment for it increases. And the third time, even more, as I pick up more details and gain a better understanding of the story and characters! Some books that I've re-read A LOT are Ghostwritten and Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, After Dark and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Little Prince, Slaughterhouse 5 (though havent reread those two in a bit), certain Patrick Ness books and Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Giver series (again, need to reread these as these I reread last a while back). More recent rereads of mine include Vita Nostra and Station Eleven and Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Bell Jar, Sweet Bean Paste, Number9dream.... ok that's just a very small part of them haha. Recently I find myself wanting to reread very long books: my brain is constantly looking for distractions from reality...
Only mostly devastated by Sophie Gonzales. It's a book about two gay guys but ones closeted so they have to sneak around. Genuinely a fantastic book, I 100% recommend it.