Right now I’m in a phase of rereading some of my all-time favorites (currently enjoying Middlemarch for only the second time).
What book have you reread the most, and why? Do your thoughts about it change with each reread or do they remain consistent? Have you ever reread a fave and thought, “jeez, why did I ever like that?”
by chicolegume
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A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Proud Highway: the Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967.
Jurassic Park, every summer. Something about the weather turning warm and humid, reminds me it’s time for a re-read.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear
*The Hobbit.*
Just my favorite book ever. It’s cozy.
I sometimes like to read it while listening to the music from the old Bass & Rankin animated film. My mom had a massive picture-book version of the book which included art from the movie.
Magician by Raymond E Fiest
For some reason I still can’t quite fathom I think I read Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising 5 or 6 times between the ages of 12 and 17
Old man’s War series.
Dune and Ender’s Game. Over a dozen times each. I haven’t been able to read them in at least ten years, too much of the books memorized, I end up just flipping through the pages.
Grit hy angela duckworth. Twice.
Deed of Paksenarian by Elizabeth Moon. Read it every 5 years.
I’ve read Lord of the Rings about a dozen times and it never gets old as I always discover something new. Even moreso if I take a few years off in between.
Middlemarch is great. I’ll have to read it again sometime.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe & VALIS by Philip K Dick.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Currently on my third reread since I’m doing a read along with a friend
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I notice a new little detail every time, but my overall opinion hasn’t changed. It’s a book I like to read when I’m depressed.
the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, especially Network Effects
I have read the Hobbit and Lord of Rings 26 times beginning in the Fall of 1967. I often revisit books I’ve read. They are, in their own way, my old friends.
Watchmen
The Goat Brothers By Larry Colton,
Great Book, should be required reading for all highschool seniors.
The Wizard of Oz, it’s just a comfort read for me.
Also 1984 and Misery
Hold Still by Nina LaCour. I read it my sophomore year in high school and it’s still one of my favorites, twelve years later ♥️
Her other novel, We Are Okay, is also really good, though I haven’t had a chance to reread it yet because I finished it for the first time a few weeks ago. Devoured it in two nights, so good! And I hear they’re making it into a movie! Wish they would do that for Hold Still.
Little Blue Truck
*The Bad Beginning* by Lemony Snicket. I own nine different editions of it, and I’ve read it at least that number of times.
Other books I’ve read many times include *Artemis Fowl*, the *Bromeliad* trilogy and *The Wee Free Men*. Most of the books I’ve reread many times are my childhood favourites – as an adult, I have less time to read in general, so I tend to have a lot of unread books that I want to get to instead of re-reading. I’ll be returning to the Discworld books for the rest of my life, though.
Pride and Prejudice. I reread it at least once a year and constantly listen to the audiobook
Cats cradle, I read it almost every year usually just over a couple days. It’s so entertaining and comforting despite the events it describes.
East of Eden. Get something new out of it every time.
Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s like visiting an old friend.
Watership Down. I inherited a copy from my Dad and read it constantly as a 10+ year old, and still pick it up every few years. Although im long overdue a reread atm. I think i understand some of it better now, especially since ive actually been to England amd can better visualise the environment (which before my mental inages were based on my own country).
Go, Dog, Go!
Sometimes I read it three times in one day. I try not to think about it anymore, I just dissociate.
I like to read my childhood favourites a lot, like Harry Potter, Roald Dahl’s books, Gail Carson Levine’s books, etc. But I always feel like I gotta hide in my house to do it so I’m not judged reading children’s books (I know, probably no one cares). I do still enjoy them but I suspect a lot of it is nostalgia.
The Giving Tree
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
Parable of the Sower at least twice a year, Parable of the Talents at least once
I’ve read The Chrysalids by John Wyndham about 5 times. Anne Frank’s diary at different ages and took something different from it each time. And a trilogy by R R Haywood called Extracted which is just a fantastic, roaring, time travelling trilogy that cheers me up every time I’ve read it (twice now)
The Battle of the Fang
Probably The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
But a close second is probably the entire works of James Heriot.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I’ve read it like seven or eight times
The Name of the Wind, or Flowers for Algernon
Probably Wind in the Willows as I reread it every spring… other than that probably Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint