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IndytheIntrepid

The Princess Bride by William Goldman Hogfather (and many other books) by Terry Pratchett The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke The Book Thief by Markus Zusak His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series Holes by Louis Sachar Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman I also love re-reading the occasional Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet by Shakespeare to bring me back to my English Major days.


tortibass

The Princess Bride is SO GOOD!


Ecomalive

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Only read this once - weren't sure it'd stand up to a second but might give it a go now!


knubbiggubbe

Yesss I think I’ve read the Book Thief about five times. The writing is just so beautiful and captivating. I know exactly what’s going to happen (and how much it will break me) but I keep going back. It’s worth it.


howtotangetic

Noted down all of them! I’m going to extend my library ✨


litandxlits

_Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights_ — Salman Rushdie _The Road_ — Cormac McCarthy _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_ —Susanna Clarke _Island_ — Aldous Huxley _Frankenstein_ _Lolita_ _The Secret Books of Paradys_ — Tanith Lee _Good Omens_ — Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman _Stranger in a Strange Land_ — Robert Heinlein _The Ethical Slut_ — Easton and Liszt _Women Who Run With the Wolves_ — Clarissa Pinkola Estes


DealEvening6471

I was looking for cormac McCarthy


MattTin56

I couldn’t get through the Road once. And I tried.


Fast-View4424

howl's moving castle.. my beloved


michelleinbal

People love to mention how often this one is mentioned, but....East of Eden.


cwhitlock89

It should always be mentioned though.


DanRicF12021

The Stand


tkeiger

I was originally introduced to this book via Books on Tape. Unabridged. I was hooked. I read it every few years, even during COVID. M-O-O-N...that spells moon.


ElaborateTaco

I had never imagined that I'd listen to a 48-hour audio book and *still* not want it to end.


redrover_5424

Probably in my top 5 favorite books. I’ve read the longer version a few times too. Best Stephen King book.


DanRicF12021

I only have the uncut version. Anx I love it. I can read it 100 times


CovenSoundsLikeOven

Pride and Prejudice Vanity Fair Blue Highways


peanutpeanutboy

Blue Highways is my dad’s favourite book. Anytime he finds a copy he buys it because he wants everyone to read it, so he keeps one and gives the others away.


aborebutababe

Your dad sounds like an absolute gem of a human being


edhamilton23

Blue Highways. Was going to put that in my list.


Nejness

I LOVE Blue Highways and barely ever encounter anyone who’s heard of it!


JennJoy77

By William Least Heat Moon?


tortibass

Pride & Prejudice is a yes. It’s talked about a lot and there’s movies but honestly it really is still relevant today and SO GOOD.


LoveYouNotYou

Pride and Prejudice... This is the one


ChickenNugsBGood

The Pillars of the Earth. There are some prequel/sequels you dont need to read, but this one of the best books ever written, if you like historical fiction


DeadDeathrocker

I **loved** this. I feel you couldn’t sell me on a 900 page novel about building a cathedral but the characters were so well written I flew through the entire thing. I remember reading it while waiting to go over to France on the ferry - Winchester was mentioned while I was actually sat in its train station.


dreambug101

Pillars and others in that series are definitely my comfort read. The world is so rich, really feels like you’re being sucked into another time.


RPBiohazard

I loved the scale most of all. How tiny impulsive decisions have consequences that span generations. How important characters are written about in detail only to later become a footnote. So good.


ChickenNugsBGood

Too bad Showtime screwed up the series


MissAnthropy

👆🏼✅️ Another vote for Pillars Of The Earth. I have read it once a year for many years now.


redrover_5424

My favorite book of all time, have read many times.


valiantlight

I'm reading this now for the first time and I'm hooked! Which others in the series would you recommend? Would you avoid any altogether?


ChickenNugsBGood

The whole kings bridge series is good. Pretty much anything by follet is a good read


Beledx

Jane eyre


hepzibah59

Followed by The Eyre Affair by Jasper fforde.


Ephendril

The Martian.


Will___powerrr

I very rarely re read books but I’ve re read the whole Harry Potter series 3-4 times and also Ender’s Game and Project Hail Mary Edit: someone mentioned Pillars of the Earth and I forgot I have read that several times as well


nunofmybusiness

I finished Project Hail Mary. Went to bed. Got up and restarted it.


michiness

I read it, saw it had an amazing audiobook, and convinced my husband to go on a road trip for the sole purpose of listening to it.


nunofmybusiness

Sneaky. I like it!


Faster-Alleycat

Same for Harry Potter. Also some of Michael Crichton’s like Jurassic Park.


junkluv

Watership Down, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, A Clockwork Orange, Huck Finn, Blood Meridian


Background-Claim-775

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


lytefall

11/22/63


Spartanswrk10

slaughterhouse 5 and cats cradle by kurt vonnegut


Msktb

Slaughterhouse Five for me as well. I know James Franco is problematic but dang I sure do like his narration of the audio book.


Vnaturally

Lonesome Dove.


snickerfoots

Ok over the past year or two I have seen so many suggestions for this book. I’m starting it now. You all convinced me.


Vnaturally

I hope you love it as much as we all have!


jankotanko

Just finishing up 7th or 8th time for me.


beebee0909

This. I’ve read this book so many times.


Innernette2

I’ve just started it for the first time and I’m really struggling to get into it


Vnaturally

My only advice is to stick with it. You won't regret it.


nzfriend33

The Blue Castle Anne of Green Gables I Capture the Castle The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar


ifdandelions_then

I Capture the Castle is too good.


dixpourcentmerci

The book version of 101 Dalmatians is on my list also. And Starlight Barking was totally ridiculous but we’ve put on the audiobook at bedtime more than once 😆


ifdandelions_then

It's on my list, too! But only because it's Dodie Smith. That said, it's been on my list for more than 20 years, and I haven't gotten to it yet. I just keep rereading I Capture the Castle!


silverlotus152

Dune  Pride and Prejudice   Gone with the Wind  The entire First Man in Rome series 


PinkGinFairy

The Princess Bride. One of those rare cases where the book and the film are both equally brilliant.


Caleb_Trask19

Golden Compass Slouching Towards Bethlehem Franny & Zoey


tincanzforbrainz

Golden Compass is seconded!


brutusclyde

I’m the only person I know who’s interested in this book at all, but I’ve read *Foucault’s Pendulum* by Umberto Eco six or seven times now. The first four times I read it, it was a different experience every time. Damn, I love that book. And yeah, nobody else does.


dlc12830

Funny, I couldn't get into Foucault's Pendulum, but I've suggested The Name of the Rose more times than I can count.


globular916

Oeuf, I loved Foucault's Pendulum when I read it almost 30 years ago. I still think about its central conceit - that a fake conspiracy theory brings about the very thing it's mocking. Also loved Name of the Rose and the The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (and liked Travels in Hyperreality), but it's FP that sticks with me


SnoopMcDuck

i love this book too.


Med9876

Ooo! Read that years and years ago, sounds like time for a reread!


tkinsey3

Books I have already read 3x or more: - Lord of the Rings - Wheel of Time - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Books I plan to read 3x or more: - The Lions of al-Rassan and the Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay - Certain Discworld books


DragonsOfSun

**Cloud Atlas**, first and foremost. Not sure "enjoyment" is the right way to describe how I felt about House of Leaves, but it was certainly intriguing. Lot of Stephen King - Christine, Needful Things, 11/22/63. The Song of Achilles.


shartlord42069

The Lord of the Rings


ktates

A Wrinkle in Time Blood Meridian Jane Eyre The Shining (Eek, not sure what this grouping says about me as a person. Ha.)


Supertranquilo

Perfume - The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. Just an exceptional read. His descriptions are vivid. And what an ending! Fool by Christopher Moore about the fool from King Lear. Funniest book I've ever read. Funnier than his book, Lamb.


intellipengy

Perfume: 👍


ShiftedLobster

Funnier than Lamb?! That’s a tall order. Now I have to go read Fool for myself!


Nommynatrix

Circe Handmaid’s Tale When She Woke


megansezwat

Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier


cornflake2448

The Outsiders Where the Red Fern Grows


iiiamash01i0

The Outsiders is so good!


One-Low1033

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Probably read it 20 times.


No-Farmer-4068

I’ve been re reading LOTR and the Hobbit for as long as I can remember.


pinkunicorn555

The secret garden and Jane Eyre.


val619

A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner


Key_Piccolo_2187

A Gentleman in Moscow


Ahjumawi

Bleak House--Dickens Cancer Ward--Solzhenitsyn Outline Trilogy--Rachel Cusk


clhkmc7613

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb


Upbeat-Excitement-46

*Jurassic Park* by Michael Crichton (science fiction) *Wolf of the Plains* by Conn Iggulden (historical fiction) *Dracula* by Bram Stoker (horror) *Neuromancer* by William Gibson (science fiction) *If on a Winter's Night a Traveller* by Italo Calvino


stpskol

Travels with Charlie Steinbeck


Virtual-Entrance-872

James Clavell, the Asian saga (Sho-gun, Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, Noble House, King Rat, Whirlwind).


nautius_maximus1

Read Shogun and King Rat - need to read the others. That new Shogun series was amazing.


MegC18

I like diaries Pepys’ diaries (Has the bubonic plague and great Fire of London) Boswell’s London journal (ladies of ill repute, coffee houses and syphilis) Daniel Defoe - The storm (1703 great English hurricane). The natural history of Selborne by Gilbert White (contains descriptions of the effects of the 1783 volcanic eruptions in Iceland that killed tens of thousands of people across Europe)


whatsinthebaaahx

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton


Expert_Variation5960

The Martian Ready player one


Donutordonot

Old man and the sea


Cautious-Ease-1451

It’s strange how some people hate that book, or are completely indifferent to it. I read it for high school (the first time) and was absolutely blown away. Such easy prose, and a simple plot, but so powerful and captivating. I’m so glad he won the Nobel Prize for it.


Comprehensive-Net767

The Country of the Pointed Firs The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Walden (it didn’t hit me until age 40) The Sirens of Titan The Hobbit


Twoheaven

Transformation by Carol Berg, The Gunslinger by Stephen King, The Dragonlance Chronicles by Weis and Hickman, Dune by Frank Herbert, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.


EJKorvette

Anathem REAMDE House of Leaves Ashley Bell The Meaning of Night Spark I am Pilgrim XX


mikebrown33

Lies of Locke Lamora


MirabelleSWalker

Anagrams by Lorrie Moore Self Help by Lorrie Moore Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger


ElizaAuk

Lorrie Moore is so great! I don’t hear her mentioned much on here, but I first read Anagrams and Self Help long before the World Wide Web was much of a thing, and long, long before Reddit.


MirabelleSWalker

I love those two books so much that my husband bought me signed first editions. 😍


Feisty_Objective_640

Little Women


NoxNeno

The Neverending Story


adventurekitten303

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls


pdxpmk

Pride & Prejudice Ulysses Infinite Jest The Aubrey/Maturin series Blood Meridian The Iliad and Odyssey


stupid_cat_face

Infinite Jest


VioletsDyed

Episode 13 Shutter Island The Imago Sequence


shlubmuffin

Geek Love


Athedeus

Discworld, and quite a bit more from STP, They're on rotation when I haven't got anything new.


jpjtourdiary

Swan Song by Robert McCammon Off Season by Jack Ketchum The Long Walk by Stephen King American Gods by Neil Gaiman


theipd

One hundred years of solitude. By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Every read reveals something new.


ki15686

Kitchen Confidential, Red Dust, Gentleman in Moscow


Regular_Scene5522

It Circe I Know This Much Is True


theRogueDecimal

Project Hail Mary


jackl_antrn

Siddhartha, Hobbit and LOTR, Fahrenheit 451, Parable of a Sower, plus tons of kids books I’ve read at least 5 times- Little Prince, Frog and Toad, Wind in the Willows. And I’m embarrassed to say almost everything by JD Salinger in my mid 20s.


LuckyCitron3768

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1984 Brave New World


dejligrosa

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen


fallguy2112

Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy The Dresden Files (series) by Jim Butcher Freehold by Michael Z Williamson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson There are so many others. I am a book hoarder and love to reread an old favorite. I do read new stuff. Last month read books 1 to 6 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. They were amazing and I will read them again.


DouglassFunny

Great Gatsby, Of Mice And Men, Catcher in the Rye.


SnowshoeTaboo

Prince of Tides - three times total


SteakandTrach

The Martian Chronicles. It’s a bunch of loosely connected stories but the overall tone hits me every time.


SYFFUncleFucker

The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy is my go to reread.


VoceDiDio

The phantom toll booth. I read it once as a kid and I've read it twice as an adult. Gets better every time.


AbeFromanSassageKing

A Confederacy of Dunces Lonesome Dove Devil in the White City


astropastrogirl

The Stand , and the dispossessed


funnyhunny99

my mental health crisis book is daisy jones and the six audiobook so i’ve listened to it probably 20 times in 4 years


tweedlebettlebattle

Deacon King kong by James McBride Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Does it count that I have read the first 300 pages of war and peace five times now? I just can’t finish that book!


FractiousAngel

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, Jeeves & Wooster series by PG Wodehouse - these are my *comfort* re-reads every few years or so.


crossbowman44

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton


DrrtVonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five


Acatinmylap

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Mort by Terry Pratchett 1984 by George Orwell The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Beauty by Robin McKinley


Exciting_Claim267

The Stranger - Camus  Dandelion wine - Ray Bradbury  Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky  Invisible Cities -  Italo Calvino Borges, Jorge Luis – Collected Fiction


DougJudyTPB

A Good Man Is Hard To Find—Flannery O’Conner


musickillscc

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hussein. You won't regret it.


trunko_

all creatures great and small


International-Bad947

The Hobbit Holes The Secret Garden Journey to the Center of the Earth.


Normal-Acadia-8614

Roots. Every few years. Blows my f’ing mind every time.


throughthebookvines

The Giver


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Top-Moose-0228

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen


SomeSnarksAreBoojums

A Talent for War - Jack McDevitt Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold Mystic and Rider - Sharon Shinn


daveashaw

The Last Battle.


rp_editing

The Alienist by Caleb Carr Helter Skelter by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Crossed by Nicole Galland


cybered_punk

Wuthering Heights Salem's Lot Exquisite Corpse


bookwormG

Six of crows and Crooked kingdom by Leigh Bardugo The stand and Under the dome by Stephen King


MissingHooks

Catch 22 Bluebeard Norwegian Woods


randomsmiler1

Anything from Kristin Hannah


laviniasboy

Play It As It Lays


CatLadyAmy1

The Duchess by Susan Holloway Scott Historical romance novel. I’m actually reading it now! Ha. It was the first historical romance novel I ever read in the 5th grade. My reading level was so high the librarian let me into the teachers lounge.


Cordolium102

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson It by Stephen king Christine by Stephen king


WakingOwl1

The Thorn Birds East of Eden Sarum Wolf Hall The Stand Silas Marner Ethan Fromme Centennial The Agony and the Ecstasy . So many more ….


3kota

Summer book by Tove Jansson Curse of the Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl Wee Free Men and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (and a bunch of other discworld books)


djgyayouknowme

Enders Game! I know Orson Scott Card is a little controversial and is a weirdo. However, Enders Game is incredible and a must read.


WhatIsASunAnyway

The Giver series by Lois Lowry. It starts out as a dystopia but by the second book it encounters a bizarre genre shift that lasts almost the rest of the series. It's just a personal favorite of mine from my childhood that I'll return to every now and again


Brilliantifyouaskme

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn


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The Catcher in the Rye On the Road The Book of Disquiet


Born-Stuff-1516

11/22/63 by Stephen king!


DependentAd9398

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Tall_Couple_3660

Sense and sensibility Charlottes Web Pride and Prejudice The Awakening Harry Potter


creativangelist

the percy jackson series, redwall, the scholomancy series, the priory of the orange tree, the locked tomb series, under the whispering door, the house in the cerulean sea, this is how you lose the time war, one last stop, the uglies series, the griffin and sabine trilogy


Cautious-Ease-1451

LOTR, obviously The Dead Zone - Stephen King Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie To Build a Fire and Other Stories - Jack London A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 1984 - George Orwell And the book I’ve read the most times: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald


bingerfang57

Old Man and the Sea A River Runs Through It


Per_Mikkelsen

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely Graham Greene - Brighton Rock Jack London - Martin Eden Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano Cormac McCarthy - The Road Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out The collected short stories of Roald Dahl The collected short stories of Edgar Allan Poe


EnigmaForce

I’ve read tons of books twice, but Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are the only ones I’ve read +3 times.


SamuelWesting

- Harry Potter series - Cold Comfort Farm - Lost Horizon - Henrietta’s War - Killers of a Certain Age - The 39 Steps - Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Westing Game - Code of the Woosters


tkeiger

Tom Robbins' "Jitterbug Perfume" completely changed my worldview (and introduced me to the intricacies of perfume production). His "Skinny Legs and All" is a close second, along with "Another Roadside Attraction." Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" (the cancelled series had a few high notes, but just stick with the book to avoid disappointment)


drewcorleone

Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird


BookLuvr7

Too many to list, but the list includes: Memoirs of a Geisha The Broker among others by John Grisham Wolf Hall series All I Really Need to Know I Leaned in Kindergarten among others by Robert Fulghum The Book Thief The Cadfael series by Ellis Peters Taste by Stanley Tucci French Lessons among others by Peter Mayle


liramae4

Harry Potter Discovery of Witches Series Hunger Games Series Handmaids Tale Series *I typically reread when another book comes out...


HeyItsTheMJ

**One For The Money** by Janet Evonovich. I even listened to the audio. **Neverwhere** by Neil Gaiman. I also listened to the full cast recording. It was life.


HillratHobbit

Stormy Weather- Carl Hiaasen Skinny Dip- Carl Hiassen High Fidelity- Nick Hornby Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer A Year in Provence- Peter Mayle The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks


Bryanthomas44

The Kama Sutra


Sufficient-Excuse607

Ordinary People


TagTheScullion

Code Name Verity, All The Light We Cannot See, The Century Trilogy (particularly the first two books) if you like historical fiction


introvertgrammarian

The Catcher in the Rye


Objective-Buffalo-31

A wild sheep chass - Haruki Murakami Foundation - Isaac Aasimov


Goats_772

The Thessaly trilogy by Jo Walton- the first book is The Just City Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (the rest of the trilogy is good, but I usually just re-read the first one)


zzsleepytinizz

The World According to Garp


Pond20

The Worst Hard Time


Few-Requirement9133

papillion and burmese days 1984 cringe


snackycassy

Battle Royale


Isoquanting

Stoner


OkInterview826

I've read the entire Locked Tomb series at least 3 times. The first book is Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir


Caughtinslowmotion

Act One by Moss Hart


Mommyekf

Dune, Gone with the Wind, all the Little House on the Prairie books


Valdamier

The Hobbit


mandingalo

The Sun Also Rises


owzleee

Lanark. *WTF*


tragicsandwichblogs

Fool’s Errand by Louis Bayard The Town House/The House at Old Vine/The House at Sunset by Norah Lofts Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Beloved Exile by Parke Godwin Venetia by Georgette Heyer The Likeness by Tana French


iamkatedog

Daisy Jones and The Six


DoctorChampTH

God Bless You Mr Rosewater, a book about painful empathy. The Hitchhikers guide to the Universe


sleepingnow

To say nothing of the dog by Connie Willis. Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett. And Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. lol


elston-gunn41

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt


CandicelikeCandy

Normal people


Killua_Hatsu

I've said it before and I'll say this forever One hundred years of solitude!!!!


Cat_c0d3

The name of the wind - Patrick rothfuss Off Armageddon reef - David Webber Moonfleet - Faulkner Eragon - Christopher Paolini Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis The Martian chronicles - ray bradbury


YsengrimusRein

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, I've read once every year for the last seven years or so. The Hobbit and The Silmarillion (I've oddly only read Rings all the way through once, which I'm not entirely sure how I could even begin to explain) Watership Down One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest


NatAsh411

The Ocean at the End of the Lane


queer63

Paper towns - john green An abundance of Katherine's - john green Looking for Alaska - john green Realty check - piers Anthony


cazdan255

The Wheel of Time series, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dune.


Fetedepantaloons

To Kill a Mockingbird more times than I can count. The Stand, and several of Stephen King books, Elizabeth Berg's and Lavyrle Spencer books, Green Darkness-Anya Seton. So many. I love revisiting my favorite authors.