Books you read over and over (and over) again

I haven't read The Empire Trilogy because everything else after the first four riftwar books were pretty dismal. Perhaps I should give them a try.

 

I have read the book "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman about 28 times. I haven't read anything else those many times. The second on my list is a graphic novel series "The Sandman," written by the same man.

 

Oh, I forgot about those, they should have been on my list as well. I also like American Gods/Anansi Boys.

 

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, and any audiobooks by Anthony Bourdain.

 

I read "A Prayer For Owen Meany" three times before picking up another book.
I've never done that with another book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany

Perhaps I should read "The Tin Drum".

 

This is the first time I've seen somebody else has read the Gap series by Donaldson. I found these to be incredible. Morn Hyland and Angus Thermopyle being a pair of characters that really stand out. If you liked these then you may really get into Peter Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy.

- Reality Dysfunction
- Neutron Alchemist
- The Naked God.

These are all good - especially Al Capone's character.

 

I first read Lord of the Rings in the mid seventies and have reread it many times since.
All the fantasy novels written by Michael Moorcock - especially the Eternal Champion series - get a regular reread.
The evil, heartless cruelty aspect of the Elric character seems to resonate with me for some reason.
His wimpy, crybaby, woe is me, I've-lost-the-woman-I-love aspect, not so much.

 

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle*; Slapstick
George Orwell, 1984*
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body*
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Susan Cooper, Seaward
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

*three of my all-time favorite books

The collection of books I own that I've been meaning to read is far longer than any list of books I have read, at least recently. I need to read more.

 

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Orwell - 1984
Steven King - The Stand
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth

That I can remember...

 

Oh, I'm so glad to see someone mentioning Susan Cooper!!! I liked Seaward a lot, but I loved The Dark Is Rising pentalogy. Those are some of my all-time favorite books. I go back and re-read them every year, and they are still amazing-- "young adult literature," my ass!

 

yes, you should. These three books are probably some of his (their) best work.
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I've just started reading the Hobbit with my children (as their bedtime story). We have just reached Rivendell

 

I missed the obvious one - The uncut version of the Stand. I read that every few years at the very least.

 

I will second the Phantom Tollbooth and Chronicles of Narnia, and also add L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and another book from that saga: An Acceptable Time.

 

Love the L'Engle books. If I had them here with me, I'd probably be re-reading them repeatedly. I find myself sucked into them every time I visit my parents' house and wander into their attic.

 

Stephen Donaldson -- The Gap Series
William Gibson --- The Sprawl Series

 

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Shade's Children by Garth Nix have both been torn through several times. The first I'm especially fond of. Call me a sicko, but when he kills the kid in the park and then pretends to be a doctor cracks me up every time.

 

Oooh, good one. That one's about due for a reread on my part. I remember the first time I read it, I was 14 or 15, on vacation at the beach. My grandpa was worried that it was "too mature" for me.

Another good one! My mom got me the huge all-in-one treasury for Christmas one year... I have most of the strips memorized by now, but they STILL make me laugh when I go back to them.

I think I need to add A Dog's Purpose to my list. I only read it for the first time this summer, but I've already reread about three times now. The way Toby/Bailey/Ellie/Buddy talks about his people and fellow pets cracks me up---and it makes me cry, too.

 

Neuromancer
Any 007 books
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Watchmen
Battle Royale

 

I'm on the Hitchhiker's bandwagon. I have the first five of the trilogy (with bonus Young Zaphod Plays it Safe) in a hard-bound omnibus. Can't get enough of it; I get something new out of it every time. Adams had a narrative style unlike anything else I have read. Two more-or-less related points: 1)the new work by Eoin Colfer is not bad. Kudos for carrying on the work, even if it's just not quite the same. And 2) I lost my Dirk Gently books somewhere in the dust of time and can't find replacements, otherwise they'd be on my Douglas Adams epic-reread list.