Books worth re-reading

[Ricky D'Angelo]

What books have you re-read multiple times?

I've re-read Dune countless times. . . well about six or seven times I think and also listened to the audiobook version a couple times.

[4691mls]

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[Ricky D'Angelo]

Originally Posted by 4691mls

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=274583

Looks like you don't like re-reading multiple threads on the same subject, no?

[4691mls]

Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

Looks like you don't like re-reading multiple threads on the same subject, no?

I started to type an answer, then thought, wait a minute, this feels familiar, so I did a search and sure enough, I had answered this question in the past!

[Ricky D'Angelo]

Originally Posted by michaeltoye

Herbert's God Emperor Dune . .

One of the reasons I stopped re-reading Dune since about two years ago is that I had to re-read the entire series and not just a single book. . Thus I'd start with Dune, Dune Messiah, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, then Chapterhouse Dune. Then if you through the prequels and the sequels into the mix it makes re-reading the series even more quixotic.

[Tikker]

Wheel of Time is one of the few series that gets better with each re-read

[Rbneader]

Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion and Paladin's Legacy
Andre Norton's Witch World
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels and Blackcollar series
Tamora Pierce's Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Georgette Heyer and P.G. Wodehouse when I want silly fluffy reads
Dorothy Sayers
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series
C.S. Lewis, Narnia and his theological works
Lord of the Rings, Hobbit and Silmarilion
Scriptures
Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber and Lord of Light
Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment - not all of Discworld holds up rereading, but this one does
Ivanhoe
#1 Ladies Detective Agency series
Rowling's Harry Potter series
Ursula Le Guin is usually good for a reread
Steven Brust's Draegaera novels
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Machiavelli
the various classics Art of War

For comics:
Order of the Stick
Carla Speed McNeil's Finder
Usagi Yojimbo

[pwalker8]

Not trying to be pedantic, but didn't Patricia Wrede write the Enchanted Forest? Tamora Pierce wrote the The Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small series. Both are authors I really like and will re-read. (I agree with a number of your other selections as well. )

[Ravensknight]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Not trying to be pedantic, but didn't Patricia Wrede write the Enchanted Forest? Tamora Pierce wrote the The Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small series. Both are authors I really like and will re-read. (I agree with a number of your other selections as well. )

Ding Ding Ding!

Give that man a lollipop for the correct answer :-)

[rawling]

i could reread any steinbeck and have done

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

What books have you re-read multiple times?

I've re-read Dune countless times. . . well about six or seven times I think and also listened to the audiobook version a couple times.

Godstalk by P.C. Hodgell
The Goblin Trilogy by Jaq D. Hawkins
some of the Darkover books by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I'm planning to re-read the the first two trilogies of the Pern series soon.

[spindlegirl]

I've read and re-read Anne of Green Gables
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Nineteen Eighty Four
Fahrenheit 451

When I was a teenager in the early 80s I read "Go Ask Alice" and used to be kept awake at night over the fate of the "diarist". Fast forward another 20 years when I get the memo that it wasn't a real diary.

[Cinisajoy]

Cheaper by the dozen and Belles on their toes by Ernestine Gilberth Carey and Frank Gilberth, Jr.
The movies are hilarious too.
Note the Clifton Webb/Myrna Loy version, not the Steve Martin version.

[Deskisamess]

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I've read it at least 3 times through, and will do again. The second book in the trilogy didn't hold my interest as much, and I've put the third book aside for a bit.

The Accidental Tourist is a favorite reread also, as is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Something about a favorite book can be very grounding for me. Especially when the characters are well drawn, and you understand them, what drives them, and you "get it."

[Victoria]

I'm a rereader, so there are way too many to list. However, regular favourites are Dorothy Sayers' mysteries, and lately I've done a full reread of the Liaden series and really enjoyed it.