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I often re-read favorites and I have so many favorites that I picked the reread "many" books choice. I've reread Tolkien's LotR and Hobbit maybe 5-6 times, Dunnett's two series twice, most of Wodehouse twice, Dumas's 5 books that involve the Three Musketeers about three times, Cherryh's Chanur series 3 or 4 times, Jordan's Wheel of Time I reread all of them each time a new book came out up until about the 7th book, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Doyle's White Company, Niven's Mote, Goodkind's Sword, McCaffrey's Pern, most of Dickens and Sayers and Haggard and E.R. Burroughs Tarzan and Kipling's novels, M. Connelly's Harry Bosch, Donaldson's original Covenant trilogy and Geo R R Martin's books all more than twice -- Claire Bee's Chip Hilton series and Louis L'Amour's westerns long ago and.. Reread all the Pratchett Discworld books at least twice, some more often. Brin's 6 Uplift books twice.

I have reread Patrick O'Brian's 20 book series of Aubrey/Maturin 3 times at least, maybe 4. It's so good I just feel the need to wallow in it about once every couple years. I think Jane Austin readers would like it if they can stand some action. It's very much a social commentary and history of the period.

And I'd say maybe another 35-50 books I've reread at least once completely, like The Stand, Dracula, The Iliad, Jurassic Park, some Wouk, some Clavell, some Costain, some Mary Stewart, etc. This doesn't count rereads where I've reread most of the book but not completely.

Very few non-fiction I've reread completely. Obviously you use them for reference but I'd say I've reread completely for pleasure Roger Caras's Dangerous to Man, William Manchester's The Glory and The Dream, Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Arleigh Burke's biography (author name escapes me), maybe a few more.

In fact I'm coming up on a need to reread the Patrick O'Brian again quite soon. I feel it building. I sure wish it was in ebook. It's okay though, I have 3 different complete printed sets of them, lol...

And worth mentioning. I think I've only read McMurtry's glorious Lonesome Dove once and really loved it, but I've rewatched the mini-series about half a dozen times. Hands down the best tv movie/mini-series adaptation ever made. If it had been a theater thing, there would have been Oscars all over the place.