What’s your favorite book(s) to reread every few years and why?
What’s your favorite book(s) to reread every few years and why?
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What’s your favorite book(s) to reread every few years and why?
Illusions by Richard Bach because I change and therefore it changes.
one of my favorites!
I like traveling with this one. Seen other people on planes reading it as well.
@Sherri, love Illusions by Richard Bach for the same reasons as you do. Also, I re-read his book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Many people don’t like that book, but it talks to me and gives me encouragement.
Sometimes when I need cheering up, I reread Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, or something by Agatha Christie.
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
Gone With the Wind, because it’s just a favorite of mine and I always notice something new when I read it! ❤️
I usually re read Harry Potter every so often. And have re read the hunger games series as well.
Yess! I read the HP series every year
When the music changed by Reno
Outlander because I want to visit Claire & Jamie again. There is so much rich detail there!
Pat Conroy’s Beach Music—it really brings back the 60s!
Harry Potter and Sister Frevisse mysteries by Margaret Frazer.
Gift from the sea
The power of now
Pillars of the Earth.
Reading now for the first time.
I usually reread the Harry Potter series every summer.
“The Mirror” by Marlys Millhiser ©1978. It’s about a young lady on the eve of her wedding day receiving a gift of an old mirror from her grandma. While looking into it, magic happens and she is transported back into the late 1800’s into the body of her young grandma. I just love this book. I discovered it 22 years ago at the library when my son was a baby. I was thrilled to find it at the thrift store a few years ago.
Heathery Lynne That’s great!! I think you’ll like it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Harry Potter and The Hobbit and the Lord of the Ring trilogy.
Little women…i just love the story, and the simpler time, the family relationships…the house…all of it!!!
The Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter series and Pride and Prejudice! I just can’t get enough of either, and end up rereading both ever every few years!
Twilight saga
The Summer We Read Gatsby and Here On Earth. Two entirely different books ?.
Pride and Prejudice
Outlander
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Now there are too many others waiting for me.
Harry Potter, most definitely. Currently rereading the series. I told myself I wanted to read it this summer and I’m already on Goblet of Fire (and I started the series around the beginning of June)
Little Women. It’s such a comforting book.
Chronicles of Narnia are my comfort and refresher books. Read CS Lewis’ books all the time. The four Loves. The Great Divorce. Til We Have Faces. That Hideous Strength. He is so versatile, so wise, so funny, so serious.
Treasure Island. I love the adventure.
Jane Austin’s novels, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Rebecca, Patrick O’Briens Aubrey and Maturin collection.
The Brothers Karamazov, The Grand Inquisitor chapter, for the philosophy.
I just finished rereading Persuasion
The HP series✨
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Pillars of the Earth
AND the sequels… Column of Fire and World Without End ? love those books!
@Clarice same here!!
His Century trilogy was excellent also!
When I was younger I reread The Thorn Birds every summer. As I kept reading I discovered there were too many books to reread any one annually.
Death Comes for the Archbishop and Stranger in a Strange Land
Rebecca, The Great Gatsby.
I love Practical Magic, the bond between sister through it all.
I loved the movie, but I haven’t read the book. I will look for it.
I read all of my favorites every year. These include the Oz books, Harry Potter (save that for the fall), Matilda, The Little Prince, Persepolis, and countless others.
Gatsby
I rarely reread a book in exactly the same way. I’ll read the book normally and then revisit it on audiobook or vice versa. I also like to get several translations of a book originally in a different language so I can feel like i’m getting something slightly different out of it each time
Living, Loving and Learning by Leo Buscaglia, when I need some encouragement and I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb.
Beach music…
Harry Potter, Outlander, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Eat, Pray, Love, and any Marian Keyes books ?
Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
Country of the pointed firs by sarah tone Jewett
Little Women, first adult book I read when I was 9 or 10.
I remember finally rereading it as an adult, and it was a completely different book. I Ioved it at both ages.
I haven’t reread anything in awhile, but my two favorite rereads are The Stand and The Clan of the Cave Bear. They just completely take me away and submerge me in those worlds— post-apocalypse and pre-historic. I love the characters, the action, the stories, the settings. And this club makes me want to reread them yet again, although I’ve made it a goal this summer to read ones on the list that are new to me. ?
The Stand is one I also go back to every few years
Beauty by Robin McKinley. My favorite book. I find it beautiful, and Beauty and the Beast is my favorite fairy tale. So…
On the Road
Pat Conroy’s Prince of Tides. His writing is poetic. I can feel the heavy humidity and smell the decaying swamps of the Carolinas thanks to his details. The story spans decades and tells of human triumph over tragedy.
I have never read this but have heard it’s excellent! (I saw the movie years ago.) Adding yet another book to my TBR list.
Oh, good! Pat Conroy’s writing has been a gift to me. Taught me lots about the ability of the human spirit to confront and overcome the ugly demons of my past.
The Great Gatsby
The Shack
The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter
Of Mice and Men because Steinbeck’s simply, descriptive storytelling is brilliant. And because that story is a beautiful story of friendship in a rough world.
To Kill a Mockingbird because it reminds me that there are good people out there and that they are raising good kids. It gives me hope for our society even in dark times.
And the, conversely, The Handmaid’s Tale because I can see how close our country has come to this terrible dystopian future.
And the All Souls Trilogy because there is a great love story surrounded by magic and steeped in history.
Steinbeck is one of my all time favorite authors. Of Mice and Men is poetic and heartbreaking. To Kill a Mockingbird needs no explanation. One of the greatest novels of all time. Our world desperately needs more Atticus Finches. I reread The Handmaid’s Tale (and also 1984 and Fahrenheit 451) after the 2016 election. Terrifying possibilities.
Harry potter
I do an annual harry potter program at the library and listen to a book each summer to get me in the magical mood.
We’re on year 4
But I’ve reread, listened way more than that
Dandelion Wine
The Shack
Too many to mention. I’m always re-reading favorites.
The All Souls Trilogy ( starts with A Discovery Of Witches). I also love The Lord of the Rings and Elizabeth Hunter has a series that I go back to every few years. For me, it is visiting with old friends.
The Godfather by Mario Puzo. I reread it every summer.
The House of the Spirits
Allende is an amazing writer and I love the magical realism
The Alchemist
Plain and Simple. I need it to reset my values.
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons. A spare and elegant book worthy of a read and reread.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Animal Farm, Maus, A Little Princess, Fur Person, A Year in Provence, and Fifteen.
To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Anne of Green Gables, Diary of Anne Frank….just because they are timeless classics and relevant to today’s world in different ways.
I don’t re-read books.
Me either. There are too many out there!
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Outlander Series… I re-read it every time a new book is released (she is writing book 9) and am re-reading Book 4 before season 4 of the series is released in November . Always find something new and also it is like visiting with old friends.
I’ve not read Outlander, but visiting with old friends is the perfect way to describe why we reread. ?
The Lord of the Flies
1984
The Stand, The Robber Bride, East of Eden, Geek Love, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, HP Series, anything by Alice Hoffman.
The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter series, All Souls Trilogy, Game of Thrones.
1984, The Giving Tree and Phantom Tollbooth. Weird selection I know 🙂
Outlander! Because I miss my “friends “
Siddhartha. The story follows him along through life. I find that I see the story a little differently as I grow through my own life.
My take (which everyone thinks is totally weird) is that I constantly re-read books. To me, to say I only read a book once is to say I hated it (“The Stranger,” “Catcher in the Rye”). Having said that, my go-to re-reads are the ones with characters I love who have happy endings. “Anne of Green Gables.” “David Copperfield.” “The Princess Bride.”
To those of my friends who don’t re-read books, I ask what they remember about books they read only once.
A book called “Son” by Jack Olsen. I’m a fan of true crime but this book in particular was written about a serial rapist in my own city who terrorized us for years. I know the people and places and even some of the victims. Helps remind me how great our PD was then to capture and commit the rapist to serve life behind bars.
Eat Pray Love
The Hobbit And Lord of the Rings: currently reading 1984 again.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn because I read it when I was a teenager and it had such affected me deeply, and made me want to keep reading more and more.
I read The Mystery of Cabin Island every year. It is the only Hardy Boys book that takes place in winter. I read it during the Christmas season. It takes me back to my childhood.
Maisie Dobbs mysteries
Also The Deep End of the Ocean, White Oleander, and Backroads.
Lord of the Rings
The Terror by Dan Simmons. I read it every year during winter.
Gift from the Sea Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tale of Two Cities
I would love to read this. Just can’t get through it.
Thomas Merton Seven Storey Mountain – refreshes and renews the soul❤️❤️❤️
HP It was a magical world that my son and I would visit with each new book. I read them all aloud to him.
“The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio, “The Good Soldier Švejk” by Jaroslav Hašek, “Metamorphoses” by Ovid, “The Iliad” by Homer, “The Twelve Caesars” by Suetonius, “History of the Peloponnesian War” by Thucydides, the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare (I just bought an individual volume of the sonnets a week ago to aid rereading, because my “Norton Shakespeare” is a bit cumbersome to carry around), “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin, “Persuasion” by Jane Austen, P. G. Wodehouse’s comic novels and stories, and “Master and Commander” by Patrick O’Brian and other favorite novels in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
My reasons for rereading are as individual as the works themselves. They’re funny, interesting, tragic, moving, exciting, and so on. Whatever I’m in the mood for, there’s almost always a favorite book that is perfect for it. And when there isn’t, that’s what reading new books is for.
Shoemakers Wife
The Diary of Anne Frank, it reminds me to be grateful, to have strength, to endure, to be human.
Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury’s prose is so poetic, it’s more like reading a piece of art than a book.
And Dandelion Wine. ?
Nora Roberts Trilogies because they make me smile!
The Outsiders because it’s had a lifelong impact on me. The Dragonriders of Pern trilogy because girl power and underdogs win. Daughters of a Coral Dawn because lesbian love.
Harry Potter & Anne of Green Gables series, anything by Marguerite Duras or Shakespeare; I always go back to A Midsummer Night’s Dream!
The Lover has my favorite opening line in all of literature.
Duras writes beautifully!
A town called Alice by Nevil Shute
Anything by Charles De Lint. His books never fail in taking me away to other places!!
The Dark Tower… I try to go down the path of the beam once a year.
I also like to revisit The Lord of the Rings and I’ll probably start doing the same with the Harry Potter books now that my youngest has gotten into it
I reread A Christmas Carole every year. I reread Jane Austen every few years. And in October I will reread Sue Grafton’s alphabet books.
I also reread A Christmas Carole, most years around Christmas.
Harry Potter Series, LotR series & Hobbit, & GWTW. Oh and Christmas Carol every December.
James Michener. Any of his historical fiction books. My favorite is The Source.
Loved The Source
The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
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Snowflower and the Secret Fan. It reminds me how unclear communication can ruin relationships. The Fruit of Her Hands. It reminds me to step back and look at the big picture of being a married couple in ministry.
Shes Come Undone….reminder of how Perseverance is the answer….for the laughs and I love rereading a favorite, get more out it each time….
Alexandra Stoddard Living a Beautiful Life
The Source by Michener
The Bell Jar
I dont reread. So many books so little time
Before my TBR pile became so overwhelmingly massive I reread the Star of the Gaurdians series and some of the Sword of Truth series once a year, sometimes more. I would really love to reread those again as well as Harry Potter and the Wheel of Time, but it haven’t had time to do any rereads in maybe 15 years. Too many books, so little time. I miss my old friends though.
Confederacy of Dunces-no explanation needed❤️
The Dreaming Place by Charles deLint
The Giver
Rebecca, And Then There Were None, Harry Potter, The Westing Game.
Outlander
Pride and Prejudice because it never fails to make me smile. It always brings me a sense of peace, happiness and contentment when I read it no matter what is going on in my life.
I read it every year also!
Tolkien’s trilogy and the Harry Potter series. Because I’m a book nerd.
Swan Song.
I have never re-read a book. I’m a slow reader which makes me feel I absorb a lot in that process, but now I’m wondering if I should re-read something just to try it out!
I’m a slow reader also, but I find rereading gives a different perspective on the novel with the understand and knowledge of how it all unfolds. 🙂
I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. It is about an elderly man living in a senior home. Since I live in A Senior Living I can relate to him. This book tells his story of how he was employed at a circus. Good reading and educational. Rooster bar a new book by John Grisham. Having worked for attorneys for forty years this book caught my attention. Young law students decide to practice law without a license. I found it to be hilarious and the ending to be a surprise. I read all of the books I own several times
You go, @Vivian mom. ♥
I’ve re-listened to Ready Player One 4 times. Not sure why I love the audiobook so much. My confort “re-reads” are the Ranger’s Apprentice series – when I am stressed or tired I can pick one up and just get lost in the story and characters again.
I’ve a hunch why you might love the RPO audiobook: b/c Wil Wheaton is awesome? 😉 (Also, the book is great fun, of course)
@Diana Hwil Hweaton is excellent
Wrinkle in Time series, Lord of the Rings, Prydain series — these three in a regular rotation. Bleak House, Harry Potter series, and i know that i am forgetting somebody — less frequently but still in the rota.
I read this book every year in October. I love it and I can’t tell you why without spoilers. It leaves me with a sense of giddiness and joy (I’m weird). The best way to read it is a chapter a day (Chapter one is October 1st, chapter 2 is October 2nd, etc.). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62005.A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October?ac=1&from_search=true
My favorite October book is Tangled Webs, by Anne Bishop. Just like with yours, there would be spoilers.
Adding it to my to-read list
Mitford series by Jan Karon — so comforting!
It’s time for me to reread this series.
@Elizabeth Hope you enjoy it!
Pride and Prejudice, Phantom of the Opera, A Wrinkle in Time, and A Christmas Carol
Angela you should read Phantom by Susan Kay Google it, there is a free pdf
Outlander series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Pride and Prejudice
So many…
Rebecca
The Hobbit because it’s about adventure, eating and good friends
I’m reading this for the first time now! Love it!
So many – esp. John Steinbeck’s books
The Robe – I reread it at Easter. It is about the centurion who took the robe from Jesus. Very good book
Pride and Prejudice
The Little House series
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho and “Leo the Africanus” by Amin Maalouf beautiful soulful books. First one with great life lessons and the second is a mix of historical and fiction in a beautiful way.
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Lamont books! Help Thanks Wow or Hallelujah Anyway or Bird by Bird etc
Or Shauna Niequist
has anyone read The Bluest Eye? i have some questions. it was kind of a difficult read twards the end
It’s funny you mention this one. I rarely reread books but this was one that I have.
its sort of tricky!!
Which part? Pecola?
the end!! i dont understand who that man was… and how he related to anything… well not anything.. but why he had such a detailed passage in the book.. the one who “granted” her the blue eyes… ugh!! its beating me up
Soaphead Church – I’m not really sure. To me, he was just another person that failed Pecola. His backstory was interesting so I didn’t mind her adding him to the mix.
okay yes. i can agree with that
I rarely re read a book.
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor, funny, sad , well written
And Ladies of the Club
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Replay by Ken Grimwood. I love the premise and he does such a good job with it.
I’m not a rereader because it’s not the same. However, I’ve reread segments of books. The Watchers by Koontz.
The older I get the more I can reread. Lol
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
I love to reread Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Twilight, Pride and Prejudice, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond to name a few!
Any series that has a new book coming out.
I do the same thing.
I reread To Kill a Mockingbird every few years. I have read A Tree Grows in Brooklynn many times. Also Gone With the Wind. And the In Death series.
The entire Outlander series…all eight books..i’ve read 4 or 5 times. Lost count
Gone With the Wind. I’ve read it three times so far ?
Far From the Madding Crowd, Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, any Shakespeare play and his sonnets, Tale of Two Cities, and many more.
As a teen, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” “Little Women,” and “The Mists of Avalon” nearly every summer. I’m a bit angry at Marion Zimmer Bradley now, so I’ll probably never read that last one again.
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@Elizabeth https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/27/sff-community-marion-zimmer-bradley-daughter-accuses-abuse
Anything written by Mary Balogh
Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. It’s the best adult fairytale I’ve ever read. The story arc in the series is amazing. It’s dark and original enough that you can’t predict what’s coming.
Number the stars and catcher in the rye
Dragonriders of Pern
I reread all of Charlaine Harris’s series whenever stress makes reading difficult.
Little Women and the Little House series, to destress
The Outsiders
Harry Potter series because they were so much fun the first time. Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny because the characters feel like old friends
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It’s such a rich story and I just enjoy it.
I hardly ever reread. There are too many great books I haven’t read yet.
Every September 22nd for over a decade, (in honor of Bilbo and Frodo’s birthdays), I read Lord of the Rings. It’s a drawn out way of Gandalf reminding me that, “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”.
I used that quote in a yearbook message to my daughter when she graduated high school. ❤️
Little women.
Sunne in Splendor… By Sharon Kay Penman
Pride and Prejudice. Every year.
Pride and Prejudice & LOTR
Alchemist.
I don’t reread my books…once I’m done goodbye to them.
The Postmistress, All the Light we Cannot See, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Why? They are my favorites, like a favorite book, a favorite lake to kayak, a favorite vacation. Something that is comforting.
The Stranger
Mine too!
The Celestine Prophecy. Every time I read it I take away deeper nuances than before. Love the idea that every person and circumstance comes into our life for a reason. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our lives we miss it.
Jane Eyre
Gone With the Wind, The Shining, Mine. They’re like favorite friends I need to revisit now and then.
I haven’t reread anything in a long while but I just ordered Heidi,a book I’ve read a hundred times and think I’m going to revisit her and Grandfather again soon!
Now I want to reread it too.
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
The Grapes of Wrath❤️
Two From Galilee.
Jane Eyre. I first read Jane Eyre in middle school. As I’ve aged, I find new things to admire in the plot.
Jan Karon’s Mitford books are great for re-reading. Not much happensbut you can’t wait to read the next chapter.
Rebecca, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Alchemist and It. I love to read some of my favorites every so often.
To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men. I don’t read them every year, but re-read them often.
The Giver by Lois Lowry, and Revival by Stephen King. I like reading them both over because they are thought provoking and I have a different experience every time. I plan on adding The Catcher in the Rye to this as well because it left me speechless and in love with Salinger.
The Great Divorce. Count Of Monte Cristo. It took three times (in three decades) to finally enjoy Jane Eyre, but because so many of my ‘like’ friends have loved it I kept trying. I read Outlander years ago and still hated it two years ago when everyone was insisting, I don’t plan on reading it again. Valley of Indecision. Little Women and Little Men. Ben Franklin’s Autobiography. Passions Of The Mind. I get something different with each reading, because I am different at each reading. Rereading a book is like realizing your great grandma was a circus act. You knew her as a stiff old thing and suddenly she is flexible, full of life, quick minded, limber in body and soul; egads! An actual human.
I had a similar experience with Jane Eyre, & I <3 your simile "Rereading a book is like realizing your great grandma was a circus act. ..." -- so true!
The arch of triumph by Erich Maria Remarque because I’m in love with the main character Ravic
The razors edge Because you never know where life will take you
None, too many to be read
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Used to love Tom Robbins. What was the name of the book about the pyramids?
@Janice , maybe jitterbug perfume?
The Sheltering Sky – I can never absorb it all
Such an interesting book.
I re-read “Shepherds Abiding”, the Christmas Book in the Mitford Series, every Christmas. It’s just so homey, and comforting, and warm and fuzzy, and…
The Outlander series. I always discover something new, every single time.
The Little House Series and the Little Women Triology. I find things I have missed or forgotten and my view point/understanding changes as I age.
I do read The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith every year. (She is well know for Appalachian literature—Fair and Tender Ladies!
pride & prejudice
Little Women and Gone With The Wind.
anything and everything by Maeve Binchy ~
Einstein’s Dreams, Good Omens, Neverwhere.
May Sarton’s Journals, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. Distant Mirrors, by Barbara Tuchman, any journals, books by Octavio Paz ..
Loved May Sarton. Read everything by her
Frank Delaney’s Ireland is one of my favorites. It forces you to slow down and just *enjoy* the story, and the ending is perfect.
“Gaudy Night” – I love Dorothy L. Sayers’ descriptions of Oxford; I love the way she takes the reader down Harriet’s path to self-determination, individuality, and independence, and to her realization that love can co-exist with those things. Published in 1935, it works well today as a feminist novel.
yes, her books are wonderful.
Yes to this one
Wow, interesting reply. Thank you
Christy by Catherine Marshall – it’s what made me want to be a teacher.
My daughter in law is named Christy for the character in the book
That book held a strong powerful message for me because I’ll never forget the feelings , not so much the exact details.
I love that book.
Jane Eyre because my perspective of the story seems to change every time I read it. Pride and Prejudice because my father read it every summer vacation!
The Great Gatsby
Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice
A Prayer for Owen Meany, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Poisonwood Bible.
Who moved my cheese, every new years day
Tuesday’s with Morrie
I rarely read books more than once. But I read The French Lieutenant’s Woman again after maybe 30 years. I still like the writing, John Fowles also wrote The Magus, Daniel Martin. His description of a minute in time was a marvel to me, how much he captured and portrayed.
TKAM
Outlander, discovery of witches, pride and prejudice
To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
I reread Rebecca and The Handmaid’s Tale at least once a year.
I look forward to Christmas each year when we re-read How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It goes so well with the Birth story and changing hearts. Grinch is reborn as he realizes the true meaning of Christmas. Have used this teaching the meaning of Christmas to my adult Sunday School class. They loved it!!
East of Eden . I also read A Christmas Carol every year.
East of Eden
The World of Pooh.
I used to reread The Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller, every few years though not recently
West with the Night by Beryl Markham- beautiful writing and an inspirational story
Shogan and Lord of the Rings are my all time go-tos
I love Beryl Markam’s writing!
Loved The Outlander
The Red Tent
I read Skipping Christmas every year ??
Discovery of Witches trilogy
A Tale of Two Cities, The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart, and all the Harry Potter books, in serial order (1-7.)
I don’t reread books. I’ve reread tkmb once. Too many new ones.
Colony
Harry Potter ??♀️ I try at least every other summer.
City of Joy… Makes me feel good about people. ?
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Love in the Time of Cholera.
Awesome book??
Flowers for Algernon made me cry. I didn’t like the movie adaptatation “Charly”. Mawkish.
Harry Potter
Gone With the Wind , @Rebecca, Jane Eyre
I have several, but the one I’m thinking of at the moment, is John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. I have always been fascinated by human psychology and the main antagonist, Cathy, is a study of the coldest of psychopaths and her character is spellbinding to me. Furthermore, Steinbeck felt this book was the pinnacle of his career, but the critics panned it so much so that Steinbeck stopped writing fiction.
Outlander series. I always reread the last book before the new one comes out (it is always a few years between books). And now I reread the one for the upcoming tv season too.
Jane Eyre. I just love it.
Dandelion Wine By Ray Bradbury. Perfect way to start summer
Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen.
The King’s General by Daphne De Maurier. It brings me to my knees every time I read it. Not in prayer, but in the sacrifice of love. It will always be my book.
Anna Karenina, The Other Boleyn Girl, everything by Marge Piercy, the William Monk series, Station Eleven, anything by Sharon Kay Penman, Clan of the Cave Bear
Can’t help it.Every December I get the blues and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen fixes me right up!
I know why the caged Bird sings
Love it ❤️
The Lymond Chronicles Dorothy Dunnet
Band of Brothers, usually around Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Just to remember what those young men endured for the freedoms we have in this country today ❤️??
Anne Bishop Black Jewels books
I have to many new ones to reread ones I have already read. Some day maybe I’ll have more time to read and can. I Chronicles of Narnia was a serious I loved as a child and again reading with my kids and grandchildren.
All three of these. 🙂 \
Pride and Prejudice every year. It just grabbed me, how strong of a character Elizabeth Bennet is, and she was not without her flaws, obviously. But it’s all about the title. Assuming someone is so terrible (Darcy) or so good (Wickham) and then discovering you were completely wrong and finding forgiveness.
Summer is time for Harry Potter on audio.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer.
The Stand. Stephen King
Yes
I rarely reread, but when I have it has always been rewarding. Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, The Giver, All Quiet on the Western Front, Lord of the Flies, Romeo & Juliet, Animal Farm, 1984, Cyrano de Bergerac, Holes, & To Kill a Mockingbird (among others) all come under the banner of “I’ve reread (and appreciated) them, in part or whole, as a tutor with my students.” F451, TGG, & TKAM especially are masterful (each for different reasons) and will never get old.
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings I’ve had read to me as a child (1st), read to myself as a young adult (2nd), and read aloud back-and-forth with my partner (I was aghast that he’d never read them ? ) before each of the movies were released (3rd). I <3 Tolkien's words (& Middle Earth) b/c they feel like home.
Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre were both books I grudgingly slogged through in high school. Then, when I went back to them in my late-20s (b/c I was curious what the heck so many people I loved and respected *saw* in them), I felt like they were brand new novels. I found Austen hilarious & gripping and Jane's character so jaw-droppingly strong. I've reread P&P at least once more since (when [user slug="u1711000342" first_name="The" last_name="Diaries"] YouTube series was coming out in such cliff-hangery installments that I needed my source material fix? ).
⚡Harry Potter⚡, as many have mentioned: I reread each book before the much-anticipated next-in-the-series came out because the world was enchanting (& enchanted 😉 ); it was such fun to be wrapped-up in all that excitement (the midnight bookstore parties, the film opening nights...).
A couple of books I've closed, upon reading the final sentence... and (after a mind-blown pause or sigh of contentment) opened back up to the first page to start to reread there and then because they fed something deep in me at that time in my life -- Cloud Atlas (Mitchell) and Tell Me Three Things (Buxbaum).
This comment has gone on too long, I know, but I also wanted to say, if anyone reads this far, that I really appreciate everyone in this thread who has fully answered the original question & explained *why* you reread your chosen books regularly (so interesting) -- I enjoyed reading your feelings/reasons!
This is such a wonderful response. Thank you.
Thanks for the great question!
Green Dolphin Street. Just love it. Also The Great Gatsby. Easy, familiar read.
Outlander series and Harry Potter and some Edward Rutherfurd
Jane Eyre. Also I read Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott every holiday season.
Jane Eyre is the ONLY book that I reread every few years. And have you read Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love Chase?? It is so good!
No! I will have to check it out!
Pride and prejudice, Harry Potter, Twilight!!!
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg.
The Giving Tree and Freddy The Leaf
Voyager by diana gabaldon
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Just a beautifully written story and fascinating study of marriage and friendships.
I will be re-reading children’s classics this summer. I just finished Charlotte’s Web. The Secret Garden and The Little Princess are next on my list.
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Lord of the Rings…
So many books, so little time!
Dry by Augusten Burroughs, I’m not even an addict but he’s such a good writer and gives you perspective on life, I’ve read it 5 times so far.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle. It’s a quick read….can be done in one day. Reading this book fills me with wonder, tears and happiness. It’s like visiting an old dear friend. I first read it as a young child and many, many times since and as recently as a few months ago. I love it!
I think I cry more every time time I read AWiT <3 That brother-sister bond is so good!
Good Bye to All That by Robert Graves. It was the first time that I understood the impact of WWI.
Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose, Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, Before I Grow Too Old by Pat Jilks, Heidi by Joanna Spyri, and Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. Also I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres.
Texas Women by Jane Windless Woods
I love to revisit some of Fannie Flagg’s books.Reading them is like visiting home but better than it ever was.
Jan Karon’s Mitford Series. The first is “At Home In Mitford”.
Great Expectations
Breath of Snow and Ashes….???
A Christmas Carol sometime the first of December every year…to remind me not to be selfish, to make me remember what to do, what to feel…anything to reduce the commercialism and the hype, and the marketing. Besides the book packs a punch in a novella-sized book. Dickens is such a wordsmith, which I adore. A bucket list item is to read as much Dickens as possible before our next trip to London. I’ll go to his house again and understand more than the last visit. It’s sorta, kinda like reading The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving (I think) before going to Italy and seeing some of Michelangelo’s work.
That’s one of my favorite stories in almost any form – printed book, traditional movie, cartoon, satire (Scrooged), Muppetized. I probably read/watch at least 5 different versions each December!
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, and Little, Big and Engine Summer by John Crowley. They each “tell” me when it’s time to reread them; the book will start popping into my head randomly until I give in and read it. Each satisfies a different need, though I’d be hard-pressed to try to explain what that need is, and I always find something new that I hadn’t noticed before, or has special meaning to me at that time.
Misty of Chincoteague, takes me back to Christmas when I was 9. The first new hardback book with color illustrations I received.
Pillars of the Earth
Rebecca. Probably the first few paragraphs .
I love love this book . I just finished this and just love love Manderley..
I like to reread The Odyssey of Homer each time I teach it.
There are several – The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye, because it’s such a wonderful, epic story. The Harry Potter books because even after multiple readings, I still don’t feel like I have a good grasp on the intricacies of the story (and plus, The Illustrated Editions!! Need anything else be said??). Some books from my childhood (now long behind me) because nostalgia (especially Noel Streatfeild). The Bible, because it’s Truth and spiritual nourishment.
One hundred years of solitude. Read as a college student back in 1979. Then again 1987. Then 1996. Then in 2007. Every ten years or so. It seems like as I get older it gets better with new insights and understanding.
Exactly my thoughts…
To Kill a Mockingbird, These is My Words, the Dragonriders of Pern series.
I don’t reread books…don’t see the point in it…it would just prevent me reading something new…
At my age,it’s unknown books only. Not enough time.
@Cathy – I understand that is why I limit it to LOTR every few years. Also I never read more than 100 pages of a book. If it hasn’t hooked me by then it’s history. Too many books, not enough time left!
Lord of the Rings. I always find something undiscovered no matter how many times I read it.
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Never read this one, bit LOVE the title. Will have to check it out.
Gifts from the sea by Anne MorrowLindburgh
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Mitford Series.
all the books by the Irish author Marian Keyes. They still make me laugh.
A Wrinkle in Time, because I need to be reminded that only love can conquer darkness.
Did you see the movie? If so, did you like it? I reread the book often for the same reason you do.
@Beth I love the book and have read it many times. Very disappointed in the movie. Like the actors but the focus and story line seemed off
@Janet I agree. It was beautifully photographed but the focus on the story was off.
Garden Spells, The Secret Garden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Chronicles of Narnia, Possession, Welcome to the World Baby Girl, The Thorn Birds, Thale’s Folly, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Prodigal Summer, The Velvet Room and Greenwillow (to name a few). I love all of these and read them at different times of the year – part is the writing, part is the story, part is the escape from stress, part is wanting to lose myself in a familiar tale – like coming home…
Phantom by Susan Kay, the story from birth about Erik aka the phantom: detailed, complex, thrilling, romantic all the great elements.
New to me. Sounds like a good book.
@Diana out if print but pdf is available. Google it
@Annemarie thank you
Loved this book! Still have my first edition/print hard cover; only book I ever put a jacket protector on! Legacy my same author was good too.
@Diana kindle version available. Book club read it a couple months ago, members found inexpensive used PB copies on amazon too.
When I need a good laugh I read The Great Brain books- so funny!
Books by Fred Chappell-
Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You -and
I Am One of You Forever
The Outlander series.
I’ve read the entire series, but I’ve read Outlander several times.
I used to read To Kill a Mockingbird every autumn for years. Haven’t done it in a while. Maybe this autumn….
I’ve read Pride and Prejudice so many times, I know so many parts by heart.
What Happens When Women Pray by Evelyn Christenson.
Too many books, too little time…
Jane Eyre – I love how she does the right thing even though it breaks her heart. She doesn’t let it break her spirit.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I was happy when my 17 yr old granddaughter told me she does the same thing.
Animal Farm. It’s quick, it’s disturbing, and Orwell was just ahead of his time!
I read that in high school in the early 60’s. Orwell was sooo ahead of his time! This is one I definitely need to read again!
Oh and I listen to Stephen King’s Night Shift stories via Audible every few months, especially October.
DJ…… Memories of a Geisha , Narnia, Harry Potter, and All I can read of Percy Shelly <3
Gone With The Wind, Jane Eyre, Anne Of Green Gables, Rebecca, Pride And Prejudice, a Louisa May Alcott and a Thomas Hardy
Around the holidays, I re-read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Me too!
@Sheri I used to go to a wonderful Dickens’ Fair in San Francisco. It was so much fun!
@Donna That’s the one I go to. It’s wonderful! ?
Sheri Medina I live in Utah now. ? I can find an excuse to visit The City! Ha! Ha!