What book(s) do you reread over the years?

[bif]

I used to reread Winnie the Pooh and Catcher in the Rye pretty much once a year. Haven't reread them in a while. How about you?

[playaseeker]

1. Anything from Peter Heller

The Dog Stars and The Painter

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Novels of Dickens, the Brontes, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen...

[Runningdawg]

3. Every year in the week leading up to Halloween....Frankenstein

[yellerpup]

4. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

I get the best dreams from reading it.

[trev]

23. I have his Red Book

a private journal in which he discusses and illustrates his dreams. Awesome.

[yellerpup]

24. I don't have that one.

I'm sure it would speak to me too.

[area51]

5. Dune by Frank Herbert,

and Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler books.

[yellowdogintexas]

45. I love Carole Nelson Douglas! We live in the same part of Fort Worth

and I have gotten to know her. We lunch together with the Liberal Ladies Who Lunch group.

She is a very staunch Democrat! At last year's big fundraiser for Tarrant County Democratic Woman's Club, she donated a Book Club basket and she is willing to attend the meeting with the winner.

She also has a zillion feral cats and the local TNR folks have finally gotten them all TNRd

I adore Midnight Louie!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Although it's been quite a while since I've read them.

Replay by Ken Grimwood.

Time and Again and From Time to Time by Jack Finney.

Time on My Hands by Peter delaCorte

[bif]

7. I love Time and Again!

One of my favorite books of all time. Everything he wrote was great!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Have you read the sequel,

From Time to Time? In case you're not familiar with it, it was written some 25 years later and picks up 25 years later in the main character's life.

[bif]

14. Yep. I think I've read just about everything he's written.

[More_Cowbell]

19. I never heard of the sequel, so thanks!

I love Time After Time

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Do find and read

From Time to Time. It is truly a worthy sequel, which isn't always the case.

And if you don't know the other books I named above, check them out also.

[yellowdogintexas]

46. totally with you on TIme and Again. nt

[dameatball]

9. All I can think of is Catch-22, Watership Down and a couple of Carl Hiassen's novels.

[Ohiogal]

16. Yes to Watership Down!

I’ve also re-read every one of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mysteries.

I re-read “No Ordinary Time” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I found it fascinating.

[dameatball]

17. Good for you! When my kids were early and pre-teen I talked them into reading Watership Down. They

were unenthusiastic at first, but all of them loved it. I haven't read your list, but will check them out. Have a great evening...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Watership Down, yes!

I've only read it once, but I just loved it.

Some years later my younger son discovered it and called me up to tell me what a great book it is.

[mahina]

10. The Red Tent

[Thyla]

11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

is a easy re-read, it's probably my most read book along with the Red Dwarf series and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy lot of 4.

[wasterpinky]

50. Fear and Loathing Infographic

By far one of my favorite books. I have re read it three time now and always find gems I missed from the last time. Course Hero has a really awesome infographic on the book. Thinking about printing it

[sinkingfeeling]

12. All the Harry Potter books, 'Wind in the Willows', and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

[SeattleVet]

13. A Confederacy of Dunces, Hitchhikers Guide...

Love those, and come back to them every few years.

[shenmue]

15. Lord of the Rings

[Cuthbert Allgood]

18. Ulysses

I start reading it on Bloomsday (June 16) each year. Generally do a chapter a day. Love that book.

Someday I hope to get to Dublin for Bloomsday. The goal then would be to read the whole book on the 15th in different portions of the city.

[More_Cowbell]

20. Every year at Christmas I read the Domesday Book

By Connie Willis. She has another one in the same universe that I also really love, called To Say Nothing of the Dog (the title comes from the subtitle of Three Men in a Boat) and that one's more lighthearted, but this one really stuck with me.

(There are other books in the series, but these two are the best in my opinion)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. It's The Doomsday Book.

And I've read it any number of times myself.

It's become the book I recommend to people who think they don't like science fiction.

Currently she's working on a novel about Roswell.

[bobbieinok]

36. Very, very depressing. Extremely well-written, but I could barely finish it.

[shanny]

26. LOTR, all of Douglas Adams,

all of John McPhee

[Clash City Rocker]

30. Yes! I've read every Douglas Adams book many times

He was such a gifted writer.

[Freelancer]

27. All the books by Carlos Castaneda -- mostly early and middle -n/t

[Bayard]

28. M-O-O-N

That spells, "The Stand", by Steven King.

Hey, its not sophisticated, but I love it.

[Glorfindel]

32. Me, too. My favorite book by Mr. King.

It actually has characters you can care about. 2nd place: Salem's Lot. *shiver*

[happybird]

53. Me, too

and I'm about due for another re-read. It's been a couple years.

[Irishxs]

29. Charring Cross Road

[Atticus]

31. The Prophet, by Gibran; Justice, by Sandel; Black Boy, by Wright. nt

[bobbieinok]

37. I read Native Son in HS. Yrs later I read Black Boy--it totally freaked me out.

In the 90s I asked a black male colleague from MS if it was true-to-life. He said yes.

[Deb]

33. I rotate my James Michener novels every year

Hawaii, Chesapeake, Texas, Space, South Pacific, Caribbean and so on.

[Atticus]

41. Have read all those at least twice. Now reading Texas for 3rd time. Michener

was a treasure we'll not soon replace.

[Skittles]

34. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

and the James Herriot books

[Cousin Dupree]

39. The Haunting of Hill House is the ultimate book of its genre. Scared me half to death!

And so well written.

[Skittles]

42. heh

when I watched the commentary on the movie The Haunting (based on the book), the director Robert Wise commented that when he was reading that book, someone tapped him on the shoulder and he about jumped out of his skin! He did a great job.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. I read it when I was about 15, upstairs in my aunt's

old Victorian farmhouse during a very windy storm.
Tree branches scratching the wooden siding, etc.

Scared the beJesus out of me.

[bobbieinok]

35. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Politics of the Prussian Army by Gordon Craig

Craig's book is an extensive history and explains a great deal about the background of WWI and WWII.

I took several courses from Craig in grad school in the 60s.

[democrank]

38. Anything by Richard Russo.

Also Grapes of Wrath, Beans of Egypt Maine.

[FBaggins]

40. Anything by Tolkien

Of course.

But most of Heinlein as well.

[solara]

43. There are a few that I will always read

The Stand - Stephen King
Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dragon Riders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Princess Bride - William Goldman
Temple of Gold - William Goldman
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robins

I can't seem to read all of these every year any more, but they are my go to fiction feasts for sure.

[MuseRider]

49. These!

Your first 4 plus It for me.

Maybe one a year LOTR
Maybe a few a year of Game of Thrones
The Belgariad series, I love the characters

I love other McCaffrey books, The Ship that Sings (?) comes to mind but I loved the Dragon Riders from long ago.

[Polly Hennessey]

44. Wuthering Heights and The Andromeda Strain.

Others:
The Secret Garden
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Stranger in a Strange Land

[yellowdogintexas]

48. I am not inclined to read books a second time as a general rule but here are the few I have reread

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 1 2 and 3 Three times each. Book 4 Two times Book 5 only once. When I can finally preorder Book Six, I will start my reread again

Auntie Mame, Around the World With Auntie Mame and The Joyous Season (my favorite) by Patrick Dennis. I would dearly love to see The Joyous Season made into a movie or short series. It is so funny. I have mentally cast it several times over the years


To KIll A Mockingbird (hasn't everyone&gt

Jane Eyre Gone With the Wind.

Tolkien

Tom Sawyer

The Godfather

Two from Shirley Jackson that are completely different from all her other work:
Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons. These are about her very large family who live in a large drafty old farmhouse in Vermont. I have probably read them 4 or 5 times each. Absolutely hysterical and another potentially great series.

Non fiction: A History of the Plantagenets includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets. Thomas B Costain who also wrote some great fiction set in the Medieval and Early Renaissance eras

[dhol82]

51. The Harry Potter series.

Still love the wizarding world.
Although the movies are faster.

[happybird]

54. I got sucked into the HP fanfic world a few years ago

There is a lot of horrid garbage and straight up porn, but if you take the time to look (and avert your eyes when necessary- and it's necessary, a lot. Lol!), there are some wonderful writers and stories out there. I like the ones that focus on the Marauders' time at Hogwarts and the first war.

[dhol82]

57. Have not read any of those ancillary tales. Might be a thought to look them up.

Did get to see ‘Cursed Child’ though. Cool special effects!

[Cartoonist]

52. Raymond Chandler and Jack Vance

Mystery and Science Fiction

[The Blue Flower]

55. Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy

Never fails to make me laugh

[Kurt V.]

56. american capitalism by galbraith. read it every 3 o4 years. also notes from underground.

[Thunderbeast]

58. Tom Robbins

"Even Cowgirls Get The Blues"
"Another Roadside Attraction"

Best read while enjoying something from a neighborhood cannabis emporium (six within 15 minute walking distance).

Perfect way to revisit my "lost youth"!

[randr]

59. Everything Robbins

"Jitterbug Perfume" my fav. I have read it out loud for at least three friends.

[Tikki]

60. First book husband and I read together "The Butterfly Kid" Chester Anderson (1967)

We have reread it nearly every year since.


The Tikkis

[LuvNewcastle]

61. I used to read "Light In August" by William Faulkner every August,

but I haven't done that in many years. I can read anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Robert Anton Wilson over and over again.

[mainstreetonce]

62. Dr Seuss

And the poetry of Shel Silverstein