This would be a long list! Lord of the Rings, the Brother Cadfael books, Jane Eyre, Dicken’s Bleak House, Diane Duane Wizards series, various of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Chalet School series, Susan Cooper Dark is Rising, Kathleen Norris The Cloister Walk, CS Lewis Narnia and Screwtape Letters ……
Wolf’s Hour by Robert McCammon, A Secret History by Donna Tartt , Pride and Prejudice, Exodus by Leon Uris. I have read a lot more than once, but these come to mind for more than twice.
Gone with the Wind, Outlander, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Harry Potter series, Anna Karenina and several others I can’t remember ?
Never mind, got it. Thanks to the next person’s comment. I have to admit, I always have to look these thinks up. I think I asked my son what brb was ten times before it sunk in. ??? yeah I know, I’m showing my age…….
So many…but faves are East of Eden by Steinbeck, The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johanssen, The Lord of the Flies by Golding, and Kiss the Girls by Patterson.
…and so many children’s books. Currently; Bob, Not Bob! ??? Check out Bob, Not Bob!: *to be read as though you have the worst cold ever by Audrey Vernick https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30206048
Gosh… this is nowhere near complete. I am a rereader, a book hoarder, an author collector…
I adore rereading all/ bits of books- probably preferred to new books… and then they join my reread piles..
All the Harry Potters, The Hobbit, Gone with the Wind & Scarlett, Twilight series, The Host, 50 Shades, Any children’s book I have ever read – has always happened at least x2! My Cathy Kelly/ Marian Keyes/ Jane Greene are my go to reread for bath time… The Iliad & The Odyssey whist sailing through Greece, Fairy Tales by as many authors and re writes as I can, dissect them and teach them..
Just to name a few off the top of my head: ATree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little House Books, James Harriot Books. Re-read books are just comfort books – when you need to read a book you KNOW you will love.
None… my thinking is that there are way too many books out there that I WANT to read and not enough time to read them all. I’d rather read something new and unknown than go back and read something that I already know.
East of Eden, Madame Bovary, Catcher in the Rye, Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Kill a Mockingbird, The Stand, Interview with a Vampire, to name a few. I am a re-reader!!!☺
Rebecca Jane Eyre The Once & Future King Great Expectations LOTR The Accidental Tourist and other Anne Tylers All of Barbara Pym To Kill a Mockingbird All the Dogs of my Life. Etc.
Harry Potter (all of them), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Susan Coopers Dark is Rising series, Greene Knowe series by LM Boston (I revisit favorite kiss books when anxious). Jennifer Crusie, Janet Evanovitch, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Graham Joyce (pretty much all of theirs) because they make me laugh and maybe think as well.
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (YA novel.) A couple of Maeve Binchy novels. When I was young, I was enamored with a book called Three Women at the Water’s Edge by Nancy Thayer and read it many times. The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Gone with the Wind. Re-reading is the sign of a true book lover!
Harry Potter. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. Daughers of Darkness and The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith. Demon Trapper’s Daughter by Jana Oliver. Where the Red Fern Grows. Twilight. 50 Shades of Grey (dunno why really). A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. And plenty of others. ?
LOTR, Hunger Games, Hunger Games, Pat Conroy’s Beach Music, Celia Garth, Jubilee Trail, Alas Babylon, Down to a Sunless Sea, the original Dragonriders of Pern books, several of Georgette Heyer’s Recency romances, the first three Prey books, several of Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series, Strangers & Watchers by Dean Koontz and scores of others. I’m in my mid-60s so I’ve done a lot of reading and rereading.
My go to books for feel good, read multiple times; JV Jones – A Barbed Coil (standalone High Fantasy), Patricia Briggs – Alpha & Omega (Urban Fantasy).
Harry Potter Series, 1984, The Magus, Handmaid’s Tale, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase To Kill a Mockingbird Little Women Dark is Rising series by Susan Edie Cooper Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander EVERY PICTURE BOOK IN MY DAUGHTERS’ BOOKCASE plus many of the Chapter books and middle grade readers, Every Nancy Drew , Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twin book in our book case growing up, plus all of the books we owned including numerous Golden Books ( and we have a very large book case)
@Naomi Have you read My Cousin Rachel by the same author? It is also good. I’ve also read it more than once. I think it was remade into another movie recently but I have seen neither.
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, all of the Harry Potter books, all of the Earth’s Children series by Jean M. Auel, House of Leaves, and the list goes on and on. Haha.
Mr Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater, The Redwall series by Brian Jacques and George, don’t do that… (my mum was always saying this to me!) by Joyce Grenfell.
I’m seeing lots more books that I’ve reread in the comments (Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Madeleine L’Engle….) and I’ve realised that I keep fiction books on the basis that they feel rereadable. (Gerald Durrell, Miss Read, Jane Duncan, Elizabeth Goudge, Arthur Ransome, Austen, Peter O’Donnell (Modesty Blaise) etc …) At least I now have a test if/when I have to dispose of books!
Too many to list but Gone With The Wind is probably in the 30’s. For the 4 to 5 range The Stand, The Harry Potter’s, Lonesome Dove. So many in the 2 & 3 range that I can’t even start
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The Stand and The Shining, both by Stephen King. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, and The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes. And 20 others!
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Carlos Castaneda’s first six books, The House of Belonging – Poems by David Whyte, and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and Charlotte’s Web
The first time was for an excellent Science Teaching course at a Texas university, then I read it twice with Texas teachers studying place-based teaching in a program that was a collaboration between two Texas organizations and a school in Wyoming. The last time, I chose it as the first book to be read by a Nature Book Club I facilitated. Everyone loved it and it gets better with every reading.
Ken Follett’s “Eye of the Needle.” I have read the book, seen the movie, and listened to the audiobook and each form, *multiple* times. It has to have the best and most prolonged suspense scene ever written. Follett is a masterful at squeezing out every drop of fearful anticipation through your pores.
@Robin omg, yes!!! It is absolutely amazing! By far, the best book I have read but I am biased because I love magical realism and there is nobody better than Garcia Marquez. It’s a little hard to follow because of the repeating names through the whole story but if you can get past that, the pay off is worth it! I’ve read it 4 times.
@Susan If you haven’t read it since high school or whenever, borrow it from the library and give it a try. I will be reading it again before the end of the year. I am a poet and short story writer, and will be creating at least a poem about Hester and maybe a short story involving Hester and Pearl’s imaginary descendants.
Ok now I get it. I never read The Scarlet Letter at all. Your post confused me at the time I first read it. “The Scarlet Mary Letterman” didn’t compute – guess I was slow on the uptake that evening.
I can’t re-read a book while I’ve got a whole lot on my tbr….I’m awfully sorry..but there’s so little time to re-read books in my opinion. I just try as much as possible to grasp EVERYTHING while reading.
Between Sisters, Magic Hour and Summer Island by Kristin Hannah; Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Beach Trees and The Sound of Glass by Karen White; Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky
I typically do not read books more than once…..too many to read the first time. The only exception to that is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which I have read several times.
Me too! I read it at age 12 for the first time, a paperback my brother found which I still have. I then have read it about 5-10 more times. It’s held together with rubber bands and I will always keep it. It made a huge impression on my at age 12 and I’m 66 now.
@Carol, I’ve had the same experience. I read it the first time in junior high and have read it every few years since then. I also love the movie and watch it from time to time. I keep the DVD handy!
I read the series so often that I memorised the starting poem! ‘When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back. Three from the circle, three from the track. Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone. Five shall return and one go alone ….’
The five people you meet in heaven- Mitch Albom
The Thorn Birds, Lonesome Dove. The Handmaids Tale.
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. ?
Napoleon Hills book, Anne Frank, Robinson Crusoe
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ?
Harry Potter
Lord of the rings
Neverwhere
Good Omens
All of the Harry Potter books!
And The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy
LotR, The Hobbit, HP, Gravity’s Rainbow, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Mythago Wood, Fritz Lieber’s “Swords” series,….
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Jane Eyre
1984.
Harry Potter series, The Belgariad series, Outlander series.
The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
Jane Eyre
Brideshead Revisited, Howard’s End
The Historian
Narnian Chronicles. Once as a child, once as an adult, then read them to my children, and now I read a couple of them to my class at school.
The Thornbirds by Colleen McCollugh.
This would be a long list! Lord of the Rings, the Brother Cadfael books, Jane Eyre, Dicken’s Bleak House, Diane Duane Wizards series, various of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Chalet School series, Susan Cooper Dark is Rising, Kathleen Norris The Cloister Walk, CS Lewis Narnia and Screwtape Letters ……
Jane Eyre, some Dickens, The Bell Jar, The Catcher in the Rye, A Bird in the House
Bless the child
Pride and Prejudice
_____________.
Jane Eyre. 9 times
Barb, have you read “Wide Sargasso Sea” by Jean Rhys? Tells the “madwoman in the attic” story from her perspective.
@Lisa yes I did. Wasn’t crazy about it.
The Chris Farley Show
life is short and there are millions of books.. don’t have enough time.
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Fellowship of the Ring
The Brothers K, David James Duncan; The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver; Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier. All excellent. 😀
Many Lives Many Masters
Pride and Prejudice
WuThering Heights and as I lay dying
Wolf’s Hour by Robert McCammon, A Secret History by Donna Tartt , Pride and Prejudice, Exodus by Leon Uris. I have read a lot more than once, but these come to mind for more than twice.
Harry potter
Still Alice…Left Neglected…Harry Potter…all of Hen Lancaster’s books…many of Jodi Picoult’s books…so many more but I can’t think of them right now
the shell seekers, ‘salem’s lot
A walk to remember (6 times)
Heartburn.
The World According To Garp, Lord Of The Rings….
Ready player one ?
Jane Eyre
Sabriel
Cold Sassy Tree (need to read again), and Lonesome Dove
Gone with the Wind, Outlander, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Harry Potter series, Anna Karenina and several others I can’t remember ?
A Confederacy of Dunces
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Harry Potter series
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Mike
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Harry Potter Series, The Scarlet Letter, Bunnicula, & The Witches
Un mundo para Julius by Alfreso Bryce Echenique
The Little House on the Prairie Series
Harry Potter, lonesome dove
The alchemist
Yes!!!!
Christmas Carol. Reading it is an annual holiday tradition for me.
Lord of the Rings
The Shack, To Kill A Mockingbird
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Lord of the silver bow by David Gemmell
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, by Lawrence Block
A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson.
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), my children’s favorite
TKAM
I have tried….what is this??
Never mind, got it. Thanks to the next person’s comment. I have to admit, I always have to look these thinks up. I think I asked my son what brb was ten times before it sunk in. ??? yeah I know, I’m showing my age…….
@Naomi Oh I always have to look up text abbreviation or ask my daughter, lol
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone with the Wind
The Road
Palimino
Hawaii
None I have so many books I still want to read that I don’t have time to reread
Me too, only ever reread one in my life i think
So many…but faves are East of Eden by Steinbeck, The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johanssen, The Lord of the Flies by Golding, and Kiss the Girls by Patterson.
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Anne of Green Gables
…and so many children’s books. Currently; Bob, Not Bob! ???
Check out Bob, Not Bob!: *to be read as though you have the worst cold ever by Audrey Vernick
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30206048
The Thirteenth Tale
What dreams may come
Pride and Prejudice
The Shack
Radix by A.A. Attanasio
Gosh… this is nowhere near complete. I am a rereader, a book hoarder, an author collector…
I adore rereading all/ bits of books- probably preferred to new books… and then they join my reread piles..
All the Harry Potters, The Hobbit, Gone with the Wind & Scarlett, Twilight series, The Host, 50 Shades, Any children’s book I have ever read – has always happened at least x2! My Cathy Kelly/ Marian Keyes/ Jane Greene are my go to reread for bath time… The Iliad & The Odyssey whist sailing through Greece, Fairy Tales by as many authors and re writes as I can, dissect them and teach them..
And many more…
Gone with the Wind, The Summer We Read Gatsby, The Great Gatsby and more.
Anne of green gables, the Harry Potter series, the twilight series
Skating Shoes
Streatfield! I only know it from You’ve Got Mail.
White oleander
Esperanza raising. I know it’s YA but I just loved it since the first time I read it
Me too!!!
All, or most, of James Patterson’s books
The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Beach Trees; Between Sisters; Coast Road; many books in the Bible.
Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti. One of my first forays into steampunk and I loved it!
Jurassic Park
Elizabeth Moon’s The Sheepfarmers Daughter trilogy.
LOTR
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22
History of Love by Nicole Krauss
None ?
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. My favorite book.
The Stand
I’m reading that now (for the first time) and I’m loving it so far.
Bitten by @Kelley
Dragonriders of Pern books, LOTR, Atlas Shrugged, Travis McGee mysteries, Stranger in a Strange Land
Kent family chronicles, Harry Potter, The Stand
Just to name a few off the top of my head: ATree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little House Books, James Harriot Books. Re-read books are just comfort books – when you need to read a book you KNOW you will love.
Les miserables
Not one.
Gonna die long before I’ll finish every book I wish to read. Even reading a book a second time is a very BIG DEAL
A Big Ball Of String, approximately 29,432 times!!!! Both of my children loved this book! If you told them to go get a book this is what you read.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
None… my thinking is that there are way too many books out there that I WANT to read and not enough time to read them all. I’d rather read something new and unknown than go back and read something that I already know.
I’m so glad I’m not alone.
I totally agree! It’s hard for me to re-read books knowing there is a new one I could be enjoying instead.
Little Women. Anna Karenina.
All my childhood horse books !
Like Walter Frawley?
@Fran Yes! The whole series. And Marguerite Henry
Me too! And all the dog stories too…..Old Yeller, Big Red, BeautifulJoe, The Call of the Wild, White Fang
Loved those Black Stallion books, and all the others…
@Debbie Loved the Terhune books about collies: Lad, a Dog, etc. Read them all!
Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour!
Harry potter
Fallen Collection, and there are some others
The Good Earth
1984..
Adrian mole..
East of Eden, Madame Bovary, Catcher in the Rye, Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Kill a Mockingbird, The Stand, Interview with a Vampire, to name a few. I am a re-reader!!!☺
Me, too! A great book is always great!
The Giant’s House
Many. Currently rereading (again, lol!) Pride and Prejudice…
The Stand
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bell Jar
The Name of the Rose
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Once & Future King
Great Expectations
LOTR
The Accidental Tourist and other Anne Tylers
All of Barbara Pym
To Kill a Mockingbird
All the Dogs of my Life. Etc.
The Outsiders
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
I haven’t re-read any BUT I am seriously thinking of re-reading The 50 Shades Trilogy and Luna.
The Bible, The Outsiders, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager.
Gone With The Wind
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs and The Twilight series (like, 5 times) ?
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter and Twilight.
Harry Potter (all of them), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Susan Coopers Dark is Rising series, Greene Knowe series by LM Boston (I revisit favorite kiss books when anxious). Jennifer Crusie, Janet Evanovitch, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Graham Joyce (pretty much all of theirs) because they make me laugh and maybe think as well.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Goldfinch
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Azul,
My Antonia by Willa Cather, the old man who liked stinky cheese by Garrison keelor, read it to my granddaughter a hundred times. It is very good.
All the Outlander books..
Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book Thief, John Sandford’s Prey series, Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series…
Neverwhere, the Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (YA novel.) A couple of Maeve Binchy novels. When I was young, I was enamored with a book called Three Women at the Water’s Edge by Nancy Thayer and read it many times. The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Gone with the Wind. Re-reading is the sign of a true book lover!
Harry Potter.
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.
Daughers of Darkness and The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith.
Demon Trapper’s Daughter by Jana Oliver.
Where the Red Fern Grows.
Twilight.
50 Shades of Grey (dunno why really).
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks.
And plenty of others. ?
The Eight – Katherine Neville
“Wuthering Heights”
Jane Eyre
It is one of my favorite
The Mitford Series by Jan Karon! ?
Persuasion; Anne of Green Gables; Little Women; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Pride and Prejudice (the only one)
The Stand and many others
All the Circle of Ceridwen Saga books.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, a wonderful fairytale-like story.
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.
Redeeming Love by Francine @Rivers
Pride & Prejudice and A Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Twelve Caesars, Dolores Claibourne, most of the Aunt Dimity series.
The Harry Potter Series
Donna Andrews’ Msg Langslow series, and Joanne Flukes Hannah Swensen series
Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Alchemist, The Count of Monte Cristo
LOTR, Hunger Games, Hunger Games, Pat Conroy’s Beach Music, Celia Garth, Jubilee Trail, Alas Babylon, Down to a Sunless Sea, the original Dragonriders of Pern books, several of Georgette Heyer’s Recency romances, the first three Prey books, several of Linda Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series, Strangers & Watchers by Dean Koontz and scores of others. I’m in my mid-60s so I’ve done a lot of reading and rereading.
Horatio Hornblower series
Invitation to a Beheading, Candide, The Black Tulip, Franny and Zooey
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
My go to books for feel good, read multiple times; JV Jones – A Barbed Coil (standalone High Fantasy), Patricia Briggs – Alpha & Omega (Urban Fantasy).
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Neverwhere, Sandman series (graphic), Nine Princes of Amber, The Odyssey, Cetaganda, The Thirteen Problems (Christie)
A Prayer for Owen Meany & Linden Hills
Watership Down
Pride and Prejudice
Colleen Hoover books, shel
Silverstein, black stallion series, Jemma J (oddly
I loved this book)
Harry Potter Series,
1984,
The Magus,
Handmaid’s Tale,
Catcher in the Rye,
The Great Gatsby,
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
To Kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Dark is Rising series by Susan Edie Cooper
Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
EVERY PICTURE BOOK IN MY DAUGHTERS’ BOOKCASE plus many of the Chapter books and middle grade readers,
Every Nancy Drew , Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twin book in our book case growing up, plus all of the books we owned including numerous Golden Books ( and we have a very large book case)
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz
The Outsiders, Harry Potter series, The Notebook
Gone with the Wind
none….why would you do that when there is so many more to read?
That’s like saying “why visit an old friend when there are people you haven’t met?”
not unless my friend has dimentia and tells me the same story every time 😉
@Jane LOL good one! I still love re-reading, I seem to find something new every time.
Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, A Discovery of Witches, Deanna Raybourn’s Lady Julia series
The Catcher in the Rye
Harry Potter, the blue sword, the night circus, percyJackson, basically all of them at some point. It’s like visiting old friends.
The Color Purple
Water for elephants
Flowers in the attic
All of the Harry potters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I’m about to read this for the first time when I fly to LAX from KY next week and this comment just made me so much more excited to read it.
Oh I love this one so much I need to buy it I keep borrowing it from the library ?
The Good Earth
Ooooh I want to re read that one.
The Fifth Sacred Thing, Kushiel’s Dart
The entire Mitford series by Jan Karon
Rebecca
Oh I forgot this one,I have read this more than twice.
It’s wonderful.
@Sharron it really is. So beautifully written.
@Naomi
Have you read My Cousin Rachel by the same author? It is also good. I’ve also read it more than once. I think it was remade into another movie recently but I have seen neither.
@Sharron I did, years ago. And you are right, they remade the movie.
Angela’s Ashes
kissing is the easy part. on wattpad and Othello and Romeo and Juliet
Forsyte Saga
Vows by Margaret Moore
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, all of the Harry Potter books, all of the Earth’s Children series by Jean M. Auel, House of Leaves, and the list goes on and on. Haha.
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Shining.
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Coldest winter ever,m
Asterix and obelix comics.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird…read it every year.
Lovely Bones
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.
Semiramis – Awakened By Maya Daniels…
The earth children series by jean m auel, Harry Potter and eragon
The Good Earth (at least 10 times!), Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Stand and It.
Crime and punishment
The Alexandrian Quartet by Lawerence Durrell, 4 books, 3 times.
Mr Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater, The Redwall series by Brian Jacques and George, don’t do that… (my mum was always saying this to me!) by Joyce Grenfell.
The Mists of Avalon
the sea the sea by iris murdoch
A tree grows in Brooklyn.
Pieces of Dreams. By Charlotte Vale Allen.
The catcher in the Rye, the Handsmaid Tale, The Giver.
Wuthering Heights
A Town Like Alice and To Kill a Mockingbird
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
To Kill a Mockingbird and The Outsiders
I finally thought of one: Charlotte’s Web. I read it to my 3rd grade class a number of times.
All the Harry Potters, Gone With the Wind, A Wrinkle in Time, The Prince of Tides… There are so many.
I’m seeing lots more books that I’ve reread in the comments (Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Madeleine L’Engle….) and I’ve realised that I keep fiction books on the basis that they feel rereadable. (Gerald Durrell, Miss Read, Jane Duncan, Elizabeth Goudge, Arthur Ransome, Austen, Peter O’Donnell (Modesty Blaise) etc …) At least I now have a test if/when I have to dispose of books!
Sans familie hector malot
Pride and Prejudice, Henry V
Bram stoker’s Dracula
Gone With The Wind, Little Women, To Kill A Mockingbird
I have re-read GWtW several times, but now I stop once Bonnie learns to ride. I don’t need the heartache!
When I was in grade school, I read Beautiful Joe several times. Loved that book! Now I don’t reread any book.
none
Jane Eyre… I’ve read it at least 4 times
Me, too!
The Phantom of the Opera
None
All the Harry Potter books. Kane and Abel. As the crow flies. The kite runner. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Hunger Games series
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Siddartha
Alice in Wonderland
Forever, many, many, many, often with scheduled intent.. and with impulse..
My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell
Bible.
Winter Solstice Rosamond Pilcher
The eye of the world series by robert jordan.
Toni Morrison Beloved and Paradise.
Story teller read at least 4 times and would read again
The Giver by Lois Lowery. IT by Stephen King. And tons of picture books/children’s books (I’m a teacher!)
A Prayer For Owen Meany ❤️
All of David Eddings , Robin Hobb, Robert Jordan all absolute legends.
All books by Maeve Binchy. Books by Jan Karon.
Gone with the wind, most of Stephen Kings books, Mists of Avalon. I know there are more but these are the first that come to mind
The Mists of Avalon…love it.
Yes, Gone with the Wind for me also. Did NOT like the movie because I read the book first.
I thought of another one, Watchers by Dean Koontz
A discovery of Witches, all of Jane Austen,
Endurance
The Bible
All books by Jane Austen, Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Vanity Fair.
The Stand, Are you there God, It’s Me @Margaret
Too many new books to even think about re-reading.
Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Harriet the Spy, TKAM, everything by Madeleine L’Engle.
Bible every year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
To Kill a Mockingbird
East of Eden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Ready Player One
All of Jane Austen, all of Narnia, all of Harry Potter, all of Canopus in Argos.
Blue horizon bu wilbur smith
All the John D. McDonald Travis McGee books…
The Thorn Birds. 5 times. 5 different decades. Related to
Someone different each age.
jane austen, charlotte bronte, wilkie Collins, Dorothy sayers, and many more
The Martian Chronicles
I re-read everything by Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl every few years.
I probably re-read most of Anne Rice’s work when I was young.
Roald Dahl’s adult Novels (short story collections) not the children’s stories
Diary of Anne Frank
Harry Potter, The Phantom Tollbooth and The House of Mirth
Rebecca
The Bell Jar
Wuthering Heights, Tuck Everlasting, Walk Two Moons, Bud, Not Buddy, Anne of Green Gables, Wind in the Willows! Spirit Bear
Too many to list but Gone With The Wind is probably in the 30’s. For the 4 to 5 range The Stand, The Harry Potter’s, Lonesome Dove. So many in the 2 & 3 range that I can’t even start
None. There are too many books to re-read them. There is always another adventure or story. One to the next one!
Hidden Fires, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Jane Austen books, etc.
Good Grief
By Lolly Winston
Gone with the Wind
Outsiders and all the harry potters.
Angelina Amelia, a Doll. My fave as a child and as a 75 y.o.
I’ve read Wicked the most
American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scot ODell
A Three Dog Life, Jane Eyre, The Year of Magical Thinking
The BFG by Roald Dahl.
The Phantom Tollbooth, Battle Cry of Freedom
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Also, Pride and Prejudice – but only because I never remember that I’ve read it before.
The drowning girl
God Calling
Mama Day and God’s bits of wood.
The perks of being a wall flower!
The nightingale.
All the Harry Potter books.
Marley and me.
Into the Land of Unicorns by Bruce Coville
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The Stand and The Shining, both by Stephen King. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, and The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes. And 20 others!
The Lord of the Rings
See, I can’t get through that even once. Nor the Inheritance Series. Isn’t it grand we’re all so different?
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Pride and Prejudice every year since I was 12. (I’m 59)
Outlander.
Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Goodbye Columbus. A Confederacy of Dunces. The good earth. The bell jar. A Fine Balance.
Ah! I was also going to cite A Fine Balance. Such a lovely, heartbreaking book.
My favorite book of all time.
Franny and Zooey, The Bean Trees, and Gone with the Wind.
Here if you need me, by Kate Braestrup
Holes, The Tale of Despereaux (with kids), Harry Potters, Charlotte’s Web, The Jane Austen Book Club, Practical Magic
Ready Player One
Acheron by sherrilyn kenyon
I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe about a million times when I was a kid. I bet I could still recite parts of it lol
The Great Gatsby ❤️
Me, too ☺️
I was an English teacher and reread every book I taught every time I taught it!
Deerskin by Robin McKinley.
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Carlos Castaneda’s first six books, The House of Belonging – Poems by David Whyte, and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, and Charlotte’s Web
I usually only see Iowans reading Leopold. How nice to know he is read elsewhere
The first time was for an excellent Science Teaching course at a Texas university, then I read it twice with Texas teachers studying place-based teaching in a program that was a collaboration between two Texas organizations and a school in Wyoming. The last time, I chose it as the first book to be read by a Nature Book Club I facilitated. Everyone loved it and it gets better with every reading.
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Gone with the Wind, Little Women
Les Misérables
A song of ice n fire (more than 4x, the name of the wind and a wise mans fear more that 5x)
Beyond positive thinking by Dr. Robert Anthony.
Mrs Mike
The Road
Marrow
The Wolf Road
Misery
All of chronicles f narnia by cs Lewis
quite a few over the years incl bone collecter series by jeffrey deaver, steve berry and many others
Gone with the Wind, American Wife, several Margaret Atwood’s, Kate Atkinson
Wuthering Heights. Lily Beach
The fountainhead ❤️
The Handmaid’s Tale – first read it when it was published by Virago in the UK and have read it maybe 5 Times since
Beauty by Robin McKinley
DONA FLOR & HER TWO HUSBANDS by Jorge Amado. (read it 3 times) ?
Then I’ll give it a whirl!
Ken Follett’s “Eye of the Needle.” I have read the book, seen the movie, and listened to the audiobook and each form, *multiple* times. It has to have the best and most prolonged suspense scene ever written. Follett is a masterful at squeezing out every drop of fearful anticipation through your pores.
Stranger Trilogy by Navoneel Chakarborthy
White oleander
Tony Hillerman series, The Cat Who series.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. My all time favorite!!!
I started this and couldn’t get into it. Should I try again?
@Robin omg, yes!!! It is absolutely amazing! By far, the best book I have read but I am biased because I love magical realism and there is nobody better than Garcia Marquez. It’s a little hard to follow because of the repeating names through the whole story but if you can get past that, the pay off is worth it! I’ve read it 4 times.
@Karina I’ll try again. I tried right after I had surgery and I didn’t have as much patience or concentration then.
Jude the Obscure
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit oh and all the Agatha Christies and Nagio Marsh abd Dorothy Sayers
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.
Grapes of Wrath
The Stand, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Passage by Justin Cronin . . .
Ooh, Dark Tower Series was awesome!!!
The Westing Game, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Agatha Christie’s Nemesis, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet @Mary
Nemesis is fun. For the other, mmmmmm?
@Susan If you haven’t read it since high school or whenever, borrow it from the library and give it a try. I will be reading it again before the end of the year. I am a poet and short story writer, and will be creating at least a poem about Hester and maybe a short story involving Hester and Pearl’s imaginary descendants.
Ok now I get it. I never read The Scarlet Letter at all. Your post confused me at the time I first read it. “The Scarlet Mary Letterman” didn’t compute – guess I was slow on the uptake that evening.
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters.
Have you ever listened to them? Amazing!
Will put that on my list!
I forgot Rosamund Pilcher’s Coming Home.
Go Ask Alice, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Lisa – Dark and Light.
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli; The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; Fear & Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard.
Fear and trembling is a classic. You might like the concept of anxiety as well.
I can’t re-read a book while I’ve got a whole lot on my tbr….I’m awfully sorry..but there’s so little time to re-read books in my opinion.
I just try as much as possible to grasp EVERYTHING while reading.
The Gamble, by LaVyrle Spencer. Domina, by Barbara Wood.
The Southern Comfort sisters series by Anne George carried me through several years when my husband was ill.
All Jane Austen, all the literary classics I studied for school, my small library (I was bored)?.
Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell
Child of the Pheonix by Barbara Erskine
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Between Sisters, Magic Hour and Summer Island by Kristin Hannah; Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Beach Trees and The Sound of Glass by Karen White; Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky
I typically do not read books more than once…..too many to read the first time. The only exception to that is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which I have read several times.
Me too! I read it at age 12 for the first time, a paperback my brother found which I still have. I then have read it about 5-10 more times. It’s held together with rubber bands and I will always keep it. It made a huge impression on my at age 12 and I’m 66 now.
@Carol, I’ve had the same experience. I read it the first time in junior high and have read it every few years since then. I also love the movie and watch it from time to time. I keep the DVD handy!
Kristen Lavransdatter…
The Great Gatsby
Me too. We read that in school, right? I read it again as an adult and had much more appreciation for it.
Little Women, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion.
I’ve read The Dark is Rising sequence several times and feel like I’m due for another reading.
I read the series so often that I memorised the starting poem! ‘When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back. Three from the circle, three from the track. Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone. Five shall return and one go alone ….’