Give me the list of books which you have read them multiple times. Does not matter which genre.
For me currently it is few only
– Letter from a Stoic by Seneca – because of the time less wisdom.
– To Kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee. – because of the ending and Atticus Finch.
Give a one liner why do you re read them.
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Any and all Osamu Dazai books, each book, detailed, tabs and everything. It just, clicks weirdly enough it just dived deep and refuses to leave my soul.
Pride and Prejudice, (and all of Jane Austen’s books ngl), Jane Eyre and Emily of New Moon. Also all of Louisa May Alcott’s books. All of these are quite frankly comfort reads, I’ve read em since I was young so I go back to them by pure instinct. I’ll probably also be including Discworld in a bit but I only finished the entire series a few months ago so haven’t felt the urge quite yet.
Technically Lord of the Rings too but that’s only cause every few years I try to read all the books (from the beginning) and lose interest midway. I’ve read the Hobbit like three times at this point, the first book twice, and the second once 😭😭😭
A Moveable Feast by Hemingway – the writing is excellent, and it’s in Paris
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – you wouldn’t think it, but action packed and very atmospheric
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy – like a cup of tea
Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout
Lott …epic
Lonesome Dove…goat
The Stand. Post apocalyptic is a favorite genre for me.
Replay… a fantastic quasi time travel.
Robinson crusoe, inspired this longing to homestead in a remote island and run away from modern life
**The Secret History** by Donna Tarte
**I am legend** by Richard Matheson
**The beach** by Alex Garland
**Station Eleven** by Emily St. John Mandel
Slaughterhouse 5, Bluebeard, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Cats Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I love the way Kurt writes and his take on pretty much everything.
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. Top tier fantasy that I have to reread every few years and always catch something new.
There are tons of books I have read twice (and will read again at some point), but I am such a slow reader that it takes me ages to get back to a book, even though I love it. That being said, books I have read multiple times (as in 3+) are:
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
Matilda/Witches/BFG by Roald Dahl
Needful Things/Insomnia/Carrie/Misery by Stephen King
Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. i read it every other year or so. it’s…incredible.
also A Wizard of Earthsea by LeGuin. it’s a book grows up with you; just as relevant to my life in my 30s as it was when i was 10.
The Cynic – Danny Ray Novan
The Hobbit + LOTR every fall
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger); House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski); East of Eden (John Steinbeck); Headhunter (by Timothy Findlay); Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (PKD).
I don’t usually re-read books, but those ones I do because they give me all the feels.
I’m about to read 11/22/63 by Stephen King again after reading it for the first time 6 months ago.
And I’m someone who pretty much never rereads books
*Bleak House* by Charles Dickens. I love Dickens, and this is my favorite!
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy because it was a confounding read and I needed to sort it out!
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Most of Cormac McCarthy at least twice.
The Stand multiple times although not in years.
Just Kids by Patti Smith because it’s just such a beautiful book
*The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald – beautiful language
Most Agatha Christie mysteries – easy comfort reads for airplanes and late at night
*A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens – a personal tradition every year at the holidays
and many childhood favorites, most especially *The Enchanted Forest Chronicles* by Patricia C. Wrede, much of Diana Wynne Jones’ work, and the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. The Moomins especially hold a lot for adults that I didn’t pick up as a kid, particularly *Moominvalley in November*.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman , “ All your questions can answered if that is what you want. But once you learned the answers, you can never unlearn them”. I think of this quote often when he and his sins are brought up .
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey – The first book that I’ve read more than once, I like to read it in winter.
Currently re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The first time I read it I didn’t really enjoy/appreciate it because I kept reading the notes and getting taken out of the story. This time I’m just sticking to the story without reading about bits that were removed or what an old-worldy word means, and enjoying it more second time round!
*Red star over the third world* by Vijay Prashad, because of the poetic language and inspiring history.
Art of War – Sun Tzu. The best textbook on making things happen.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams. Easy read, funny, inspiring.
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein. Trippy, deep.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein. Neat ideas.
The Hunger Games Trilogy (will eventually also include rereads of BOSAS but probably not SOTR) – love these books and they taught me about privilege (before knowing it was called Privilege)
and the Harry Potter series – love these books also and they’re just a phenomenon around the world always so always on my mind and I often need a refresher of what they’re like because my memory sucks.
Edited to add my “one liner why”
Catch 22…for the humor and language
Sound and Fury…for the joy of great writing
Great Gatsby…each reading is different….only Luhrmann’s film comes close to capturing the large and small parts
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying…for balance
American Psycho
Kitchen Confidential
Most of these are comfort reads when I’m tucked up in bed not well:
Anything by Terry Pratchett.
Klingon for the Galactic Traveller
Tour of the Universe – Robert Holdstock.