What is your go to book the one you’ve read a dozen times and just can’t get sick of? Mine is Watership Down.
What is your go to book…the one you’ve read a dozen times and just can’t get sick of?
Mine is Watership Down.
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Synchrodestiny by Deepak Chopra
My wife just saw him speak last week…..said it was life changing
Oh luuuuv Watership Down! I so wanna go hang out with these rabbits, maybe go on a date with Hazel ?
I name the rabbits in my yard after the characters….?
Rightfully so ?
Gone with the wind and Scarlett
Jane Eyre
I also love Watership Down. I will never get tired of re-reading.
I have several books that I go to just to read specific parts. One is Roads by Larry McMurtry. His chapter Short Roads to a Deep Place has special meaning for me as I have grown older.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Hmmm. To reread or not to reread. That is the question
@Debbie To thine own reading be true
@Lori Shakespeare was a smart man especially when we Ad lib his quotes
Garp!
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter
Harry Potter, yes!
East of Eden John Steinbeck
I don’t have one I read and read again. I think I worry about not discovering new books in the time it would take to read again – or maybe I just don’t like repetition (I never walk the same route twice and am generally random, lol). Not sure why.
It seems that since I know the book so we’ll. I can read it in a day or less….loo
I can certainly see the attraction of re-reading, but don’t want to do it myself – I think I’ve re-read a couple of the books we did at school, to get something different out of them. Perhaps it’s because I was a book editor and stayed for a long time with the books I was working on, so prefer to move around when reading for leisure. I’m not sure!
A widow for one year by John Irving. Thank you for the reminder I haven’t read it in a while
Margaret Upham oh man a prayer for Owen meany was so good too! I haven’t read a son of the circus so I guess that’s going on my library request list
Homer’s Odyssey. A mad story with mermaids, serpents, women that turn you into animals, adultery, debauchery. It’s almost like a teenager came up with the story. But it’s beautifully written and it’s a classic so you get to appear cultured by reading it ?
On Walden Pond
Stoner
I know this is corny, but mine are the Harry Potter and Kinsey Millhone series. They are tried and true friends that I never tire of reading.
The outsiders
Used to read Wuthering Heights every winter, but I did eventually wear it out lol
None. There are too many books that I haven’t read, so I always reach for something new. However, unread books in a favorite comfort series would be my version of that.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Centennial.
I don’t have one. Life is too short to reread or rewatch things you already know the outcome to lol
“No book is worth reading that isn’t worth rereading” ~ Susan Sontag
Knowing the ending isn’t the same thing as knowing the book unless it’s a mystery novel. (And plenty of those are worth rereading for the prose.) Comfort-rereading isn’t about discovery; it’s turning to an old friend when you’re sad, or a worn-soft quilt on a rainy day.
If I had to pick a book, probably R. A. Salvatore’s Homeland. I love Drizzt and think about rereading that often. There are SO many awesome books out there though, I am always craving the next great adventure. I’ve been a prolific reader all my life.
knowing the outcome is the least interesting part of reading for me
On my TBR list!
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama. Read it every New Year’s Day.
Any of Georgette Heyer’s regency romances
Harry Potter series, Perks of being a wallflower, pride and prejudice, the breathing series.
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.
Wheel of Time, but not recently. Probably read that whole series 5 times 😮
The Good Earth & The Stand…I’ve read them both countless times…and will again! ???
So many..
Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey..
I love Watership Down! I re-read Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown; it’s like a comfort food, but in book form. Or Dragonriders of Pern.
Loved all the titles you mentioned. Such good books!
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Talisman by Stephen King
The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.
The Glamourist Histories series
Tea with the Black Dragon [R. A. MacAvoy]
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian.
Pride and Prejudice.
A Farm Under a Lake, by Martha Bergland – I love how she captures the slow, steamy feeling of a Midwest summer day, that book is like a drug to me.
Christmas at Tiffany’s by Karen Swan
Anything by Penny Vincenzi and Gervase Phinn.
Jane Eyre and Dracula.
I love Jane Eyre.
Pride & Prejudice
My Antonia!
Just finished it! Loved it!
Ransom by Julie Garwood
Hawaii
When I have the flu and really can’t function too well, I read Harry Potter.
Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge
Tailchaser’s Song
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
tamora pierce’s tortall series
Millenium Trilogy
Jane Eyre and Emma.
Lord of the Rings
Delirium trilogy
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Twenty times so far. It’s everyday devotional and for the past twenty years I’ve followed it daily. Am still learning and see deeper meaning of Bible and God.
I’m with you on Watership Down.
Wuthering Heights
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 🙂
Emma, Northanger Abbey, all 7 Harry Potter books.
Rebecca???
The best book I ever read, bar none.
The Book Thief and The Gargoyle
The Never Ending Story or Harry Potter with The Prisoner of Azkaban at the top of the list.
I could never read the same book a dozen times.
The Fellowship of the Ring…I have a paperback in shreds. But the forward is by Tolkien so I can’t part with it ❤
Matilda. I love rereading it since it was my favorite book growing up, plus the copy that I now own was given to be by my SO
there are a lot of books I have read more than a dozen times, but my most read book of all is probably Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Now that’s a funny book! 😀
Dracula. I own multiple copies, just to have them.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
I don’t know what is wrong with me, but I have never re-read a book other than a child’s picture book?
Nothing wrong with you! I have this issue with movies and a lot of books. I inherited it from a relative who always used to make a big deal about rereading things or rewatching things or making the same craft item twice. I realized what I was doing and why (your mileage may vary) and have found that I sometimes enjoy going back over something. There can be comfort in it.
I don’t reread books or rewatch movies or television series. Not saying anything is wrong with it, but it’s just not for me. I’m always anxious to get to something new.
@Jason That’s usually my feeling as well!
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay ❤️ every time.
Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. Can open up to any page and enjoy what’s going on.